Nawton, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Nawton, a village and a township in Kirkdale parish, N.R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2½ miles ENE of Helmsley, with a station on the N.E.R., and a post and money order office (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Helmsley. The township comprises 1191 acres; population, 336. The manor belongs to the Frank family. Nawton Tower is a castellated mansion, stands on a rising ground, commands extensive views, is the property of the Earl of Feversham, and is now used as a shooting box. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels and an endowed school.

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 Nawton from the following:

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

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 Nawton 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