The Barn, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Barn, The, a stream of Aysgarth parish, N.R. Yorkshire. It rises in Raydaleside, among high mountains, and runs 8 miles northward to the river Ure at Bainbridge. It expands into Semmer water 3 miles above Bainbridge, and makes two fine waterfalls. Semmer water is a lakelet of about 105 acres, a resort of water-fowl, and abounding with fish, and borrows picturesqueness from surrounding scenery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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