Moorsholme, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Moorsholme, a township in Skelton parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 5½ miles E by S of Guisbrough, and 4 from Danby station on the N.E.R. It has a post office at Great Moorsholme under Guisbrough; money order office, Lingdale Lane; telegraph office, Loftus. Acreage, including Gil-rick, 4357; population, 427. There are a chapel of ease, erected in 1892, and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Moorsholme from the following:

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

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

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