Danby Wiske, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Danby-Wiske, a village, a township, and a parish in N.R. Yorkshire. The township lies 3½ miles NNW of Northallerton, has a station on the N.E.E., and a post office under Northallerton; money order and telegraph office, Northallerton; and includes the hamlet of Streetlam. Acreage, 3368; population of the civil parish, 302; of the ecclesiastical, 453. The parish contains also the chapelry of Yafforth. Danby Hill is the seat of the Venerable Archdeacon Cust. The living is a rectory, united with Yafforth, in the diocese of Ripon; value, about £400 with residence. The church is good, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Church Records

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Danby Wiske from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Danby-Wiske)

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 Danby Wiske 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