Burtersett, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Burtersett, a hamlet in Hawes parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 1 mile E of Hawes, which is the railway station. Hawes is also the post town, and the money order and telegraph office (R.S.O.) There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels, and stone quarries.
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.
Maps
Online maps of Burtersett 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: