Newby Wiske, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Newby Wiske, a village and a township in Kirby Wiske parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the river Wiske, with a station on a branch of the N.E.R., 4 miles S by W of Northallerton. There are a five-arched bridge over the river Wiske and a post office under Northallerton; money order and telegraph office, South Otterington. Acreage, 1430; population, 187. Newby Wiske Hall is the seat of the Rutson family.
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 Newby Wiske 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: