Oldstead, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Oldstead, a village and a township in Kilburn parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 8 miles N of Easingwold, and 2 from Cox-wold station on the N.E.R. Post town, Oswald Kirk; money order and telegraph office, Coxwold. Acreage, 1380; population, 93. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and an observatory built on an eminence in 1838, in commemoration of Her Majesty's coronation.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Kilburn | |
Riding | North | |
Wapentake | Birdforth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Oldstead from the following:
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 Oldstead are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online: