Swainby, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Swainby, a village in Whorlton township, N.R. Yorkshire, near the Cleveland Hills, 5½ miles SW of Stokesley, and 2 from Potto station on the N.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Northallerton; telegraph office, Hutton Rudby. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels, and ironstone mines which are not at present worked.

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 Swainby from the following:

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

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 Swainby 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