Helperby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Helperby, a village and a township in Brafferton parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the river Swale, Similes NE of Borough-bridge, and half a mile from Brafferton station on the N.E.R. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under York. Acreage, 1894; population, 565.
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 | Brafferton | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Bulmer |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Helperby 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 Helperby 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: