Bishopdale, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Bishopdale, a township in Aysgarth parish, in the N.R. Yorkshire, 1 mile from Aysgarth station on the N.E.R., and H miles SE of Askrigg. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Bedale. Acreage, 4735; population, 91 It is situated in an upland dale, traversed by a rivulet of 8 miles, a tributary to the Ure. The dale is picturesque, and the rivulet makes a fine fall, called Foss Gill.

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 Bishopdale from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bishop's-Dale)

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 Bishopdale 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