Harmby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Harmby, a village and a township in Spennithorne parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 1 mile from Leyburn station on the N.E.R. There is a post office under Bedale, money order and telegraph office, Leyburn. Acreage, 1111; population, 171. Lord Bolton is lord of the manor, and chief landowner. 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.
| Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
| Civil parish | Spennithorn | |
| Poor Law union | Leyburn | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Hang-West |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Harmby 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 Harmby 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: