Deighton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Deighton, a township and a chapelry in Northallerton parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 1½ mile SW of Welbury railway station, and 5 miles NNE of Northallerton. Post town and money order office, Northallerton; telegraph office, Great Smeaton. Acreage, 2036; population, 121. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of York.
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 | Northallerton | |
| Poor Law union | Northallerton | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Allertonshire |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Deighton from the following:
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 Deighton 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: