East Ayton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Ayton, East, a township and chapelry in Scainer parish, N.R. Yorkshire, near the river Derwent, ½ mile from Forge Valley station on the N.E.R., and 4 SW of Scarborough. Post town, York; money order office, Brompton; telegraph office, Scarborough. Acreage, 2492; population, 353. Ironstone occurs. There are a chapel of ease and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The Earl of Londesborough is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The insurrection of 1548 began here.
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 East Ayton 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: