Aske, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Aske, a township in Easby parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 2½ miles N of Richmond, which is the post town and money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1764; population, 145. Aske Hall, situated in a beautiful park, is the seat of the Marquis of Zetland, who is lord of the manor and sole landowner, belonged formerly to the Darcys, and commands a fine prospect up and down the Swale.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Easby | |
Poor Law union | Richmond | |
Riding | North | |
Wapentake | Gilling-West |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Aske from the following:
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 Aske 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 North Riding newspapers online: