The Swale, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Swale, The, a river of the N.R. Yorkshire, rising on the mountains at the boundary with Westmorland, 4 miles SE of Kirkby Stephen, and running eastward and south-eastward, past Muker, Reeth, Richmond, Catterick, Maunby, Topcliffe, and Brafferton, to the Ure, 1 mile E of Aldborough. Its length is about 60 miles, its basin down to the vicinity of Richmond is a romantic upland vale called Swaledale, its tributaries there are numerous but all small, and its chief tributary afterwards is the Wiske.
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: