Sowerby under Cotcliffe, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Sowerby-under-Cotcliffe, a township in Kirby Sigston parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 3 miles E by S of Northallerton. Post office, Sigston Smithy; money order and telegraph office, Northallerton. Acreage, 812; population, 49.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Kirby Sigston | |
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 Sowerby under Cotcliffe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sowerby-Under-Cotcliffe)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following North Riding newspapers online: