Bainbridge, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Bainbridge, a village and a township in Aysgarth parish, N.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Ure, 1½ mile SW of Askrigg, and has a post office under Bedale; money order and telegraph office, Askrigg. Here are a three-arched bridge, two dissenting chapels, a Friends' meeting house, an endowed grammar-school, founded in 1601, and the Aysgarth Union Workhouse. There is also a good inn, dating from the fifteenth century. Here was the Roman station Bracchium. Traces of the rampart of the Roman camp, enclosing an area of about 5 acres, may be seen on the In-Brough in the vicinity. As well as the winter camp on In-Brough, there are also evident traces of the summer camp on the high hill called Adiebrough. Some substructions of buildings occur at the foot of the same hill, and a statue of the Emperor Commodus was found in the neighbourhood. An ancient custom of blowing a "forest liom" at ten o'clock every night from 27th September to Shrovetide, for the benefit of travellers crossing the fells, is still kept up. The ancient stocks still stand on the village green. The township includes also the hamlets of Cubeck, Worton, Countersett, Marsett, Carr-End, Raydale, Stalling-Busk, High and Low Blean. Acreage, 15,306 of land and 128 of water; population, 595.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Bainbridge from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bainbridge)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Bainbridge are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online:

• York Herald
• Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
• Yorkshire Gazette
• Yorkshire Evening Press
• Whitby Gazette