Nether Silton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Silton, Nether, a township-chapelry in Leake parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 6½ miles E of Northallerton railway station. Post town, Northallerton; money order and telegraph office, Osmotherley. Acreage, 1538; population, 156. The living is annexed to Leake. The church is a plain building, restored in 1878, consisting of chancel, nave, and bell-turret. There is a Wesleyan chapel
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 Nether Silton 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: