Ugthorpe, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Ugthorpe, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Lythe parish, N.R. Yorkshire. The township lies 7½ miles W of Whitby, and 3½ from Lealholm station on the N.E.R. It has a post office under Whitby; money order and telegraph office, Lythe. Acreage, 2417; population, 230. The Marquis of Normanby is lord of the manor. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1869, and comprises the townships of Borrowby, Ellerby, Hutton Mulgrave, Mickleby, and Newton Mulgrave. Population, 701. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £183 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop. The church is in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, N porch, and a small spire. There is a Roman Catholic church in the Gothic style, with chancel, nave, N and S aisles, embattled western tower, and several memorial windows.

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 Ugthorpe from the following:

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

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 Ugthorpe 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