Sproxton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Sproxton, a township in Helmsley parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 1¼ mile S of Helmsley station on the N.E.R. Post town,and money order and telegraph office, Helmsley. Acreage, 2869; population, 141. Earl Feversham is lord of the manor. There is a chapel of ease, and the Wesleyans hold services in the schoolroom.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 Sproxton 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: