West Ayton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Ayton, West, a village and a township in Hutton-Bushell parish, N.R. Yorkshire, on the Derwent river, 5 miles WSW of Scarborough. It has a station called Forge Valley, on a branch of the N.E.R. Acreage, 2335; population, 391. York is the post town. Remains exist of an ancient castle which belonged to the Evers or Eures and the Cliffords. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 West Ayton 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: