Brandsby or Bransby with Stearsby, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Brandsby or Bransby-with-Stearsby, a parish in N.R. Yorkshire, 4¼ miles from Gilling railway station, and 5 ENE of Easingwold. It has a post office, of the name of Brandsby, under Easingwold, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Stillington. Acreage, 3077; population, 296. Brandsby Hall is a seat in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £446 with residence. The church is good; there is also a Roman Catholic chapel.

Administration

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

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Brandsby or Bransby with Stearsby from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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