Yafforth, North Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Yafforth, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Danby Wiske parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 1½ mile W of Northallerton station on the N.E.R. Post town, Northallerton; money order and telegraph office, Northallerton. Acreage, 1327; population, 151. The chapelry belongs to the rectory of Danby Wiske. The church was rebuilt in 1870, is in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, S porch, and western tower. There is a Free Methodist chapel.

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.

Church Records

Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Yafforth:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Yafforth from the following:

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

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 Yafforth 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