Carthorpe, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Carthorpe, a village and a township in Burneston parish, N.R. Yorkshire, near the river Swale, 4½ miles SE of Bedale, and 2½ from Sinderby station on the N.E.R., with a post office under Bedale; Kirklington is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2112; population, 810. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
| Civil parish | Burneston | |
| Poor Law union | Thirsk | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Hallikeld |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Carthorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Carthorpe)
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 Carthorpe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online: