Dale Town, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Dale Town, a village and a township in Hawnby parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 9½ miles NE by E of Thirsk station on the N.E.R. Acreage, 1773; population, 39.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Hawnby | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Birdforth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Dale Town from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Dale-Town)
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 Dale Town 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: