East Layton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Layton, East, a township and a chapelry, partly in Stanwick St John parish and partly in Melsonby parish, N.R. Yorkshire, 5¼ miles N of Richmond. Post town, Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Aldbrough. Acreage, 1061; population, 128. There is a handsome chapel of ease erected in 1894.
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 East Layton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- 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: