Scawton, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Scawton, a parish in the N.R. Yorkshire, 6 miles N of Coxwold station on the N.E.R., and 5 W of Helmsley. Post town, Thirsk; money order and telegraph office, Helmsley. Acreage of parish, 2876; population, 119; of the ecclesiastical parish, 262. The manor belongs to the Bolckow family. The living is a rectory, with Cold Kirby annexed, in the diocese of York; net value, £100 with residence. The church was built in 1146 as a chapel of ease to Byland Abbey, and is in a dilapidated condition.

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.

Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Scawton:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Scawton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scawton (St. Mary))

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 Scawton 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