Middlethorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Middlethorpe, a township in Bishopthorpe and St Mary-Bishophill-Senior parishes, in the W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Ouse, 3½ miles S of York. Post town and money order and telegraph office, York. Part of the township, containing no houses or population, is situated in the county borough of York. Acreage, 653; population, 128. Middlethorpe Manor, Middlethorpe Lodge, and Middlethorpe Hall are chief residences.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Middlethorpe are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: