Kettleness, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Kettleness, a hamlet in Lythe township and parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the coast, at the SE side of Rnnswick Bay,. with a station on the Whitby and Loftus branch of the N.E.R. Post town, Lythe, under Whitby. There were formerly alum works belonging to the Marquis of Normanby, and also fossiliferous cliffs. On December, 1829, part of the cliff gave way, and the whole hamlet glided down to the sea. The people found shelter on a vessel then lying off for alum.
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 Kettleness 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: