Stapleton, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Stapleton, a township in Croft and Barton parishes, N.R. Yorkshire, on the river Tees, 2 miles SW of Darlington station on the N.E.R. It has a post office under Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Darlington. Acreage, 1002, of which 24 are water; population, 146.

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 Stapleton from the following:

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

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:

• York Herald
• Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough
• Yorkshire Gazette
• Yorkshire Evening Press
• Whitby Gazette