Hinderwell, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Hinderwell, a village, a township, and a parish in N.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the coast, 7¼ miles NNW of Grosmont, 8½ NW by N of Whitby, and has a station on the N.E.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) The township comprises the village of Runswick, and has 1655 acres of land and 236 of foreshore; population, 2021. It has also extensive iron mines, and is governed by a local board of twelve members. The parish contains also the township ofRoxby, and comprises 4906 acres; population, 2189. The manor belongs to the Palmer family. Most of the inhabitants are engaged in fisheries. A Turkish vessel, infected with the plague, was stranded on the coast in 1603 and communicated the plague to the villagers. The living is a rectory, united with the chapelry of Roxby, in the diocese of York; gross value, £500 with residence. The parish church was partly rebuilt in 1817. A spring of pure water, called St Hilda's Well, is in the churchyard, and a retreat of St Hilda is supposed to have been near. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, a cemetery formed in 1884, and almshonses. There is a chapel of ease in Roxby, and Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels at Runswick. Charities, £5.

Administration

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

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hinderwell from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hinderwell (St. Hilda))

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 Hinderwell 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