Romanby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Romanby, a village and a township in Northallerton parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the Roman road from Stamford Bridge, and on the N.E.R., half a mile SW of Northallerton railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Northallerton. Acreage, 2060; population, 421. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. There is a church, erected in 1882 in the Gothic style, with chancel and nave. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Northallerton.
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 | Northallerton | |
| Poor Law union | Northallerton | |
| Riding | North | |
| Wapentake | Allertonshire |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Romanby 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 Romanby are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: