Norton Conyers, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Norton Conyers, a township in Wath parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the river Ouse, 1 mile from Melmerby station on the N.E.R., and 4 miles N by E of Ripon. Post town, Ripon; money order and telegraph office, Melmerby. Acreage, 1041, of which 30 are water; population, 104. Sir R. H. Graham, Bart., is lord of the manor and sole landowner. His seat dates from the Tudor period, and stands in a well-wooded and extensive park.

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 Norton Conyers from the following:

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

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 Norton Conyers 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