Hudswell, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Hudswell, a township-chapelry in Catterick and Easby parishes, N.R. Yorkshire, on the river Swale, 1½ mile WSW of Richmond railway station. It includes the hamlets of Thorpe-under-Stone and Brokes, and its post town and money order and telegraph office is Richmond, Yorkshire. Acreage, 3017; population, 223. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £122 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is in the Early English style, and was erected in 1885 in place of an ancient one. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a school with a small endowment, and some charities.

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

Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Hudswell:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hudswell from the following:

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

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 Hudswell 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