Moulton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Moulton, a village and a township in Middleton Tyas parish, N.R. Yorkshire, with a station on the Richmond and Darlington branch of the N.E.E., 5 miles NE by E of Richmond. There is a post office under Richmond; money order and telegraph office, Middleton Tyas. The township contains the hamlets of High Gatherley and Low Gatherley. Acreage, 3042; population, 235. Gatherley Castle is the seat of Lady de Burgh-Lawson. Moulton Hall and Morris Grange are chief residences; the former is a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture, and contains a carved oak staircase. There are a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel.
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 Moulton 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: