Sowerby, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Sowerby, a township and an ecclesiastical parish, with a village, in Thirsk parish, N.R. Yorkshire, suburban to Thirsk, and adjacent on the SE to Thirsk railway station. The village is a seat of petty sessions, and has a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Thirsk; telegraph office, Thirsk. Acreage of township, 2614; population, 1876. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £260 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is a cruciform building, in the Norman style, and was restored in 1883. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some charities.

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 Sowerby from the following:

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

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 Sowerby 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