HISTORY, DIRECTORY & GAZETTEER

of the

COUNTY OF YORK

Edward Baines, 1823

(Courtesy of the Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes)

 

"AYSGARTH, (P.) in the wap. of Hang West, and liberty of Richmondshire; 4 miles ESE. of Askrigg. This parish is very extensive, and contains three market-towns, viz. Hawes,, Askrigg, and Burton in Bishop's Dale...The church dedicated to St. Andrew, is a handsome edifice, and the living, which is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of Trinity College, Cambridge, is enjoyed by the Rev. John Brasse; the Rev. John Winn is the curate...In addition to the parish church there are two meeting houses, one for the Society of Friends, and another for the Methodists." (p.408)

 

 

 

BISHOP'S DALE, in the parish of Aysgarth, and wap. of Hang West; 6 miles SE. of Askrigg. A township consisting of farm houses scattered at irregular distances from each other; in this picturesque and fertile dale there are several cascades of prodigious height and vast rocky sides intermixed with a variety of foliage, rich and beautiful. Population, 95.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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BURTON-cum-WALDEN, (in Bishopdale,) in the parish of Aysgarth, wap. of Hang West, and liberty of Richmondshire; 6 miles E.S.E.  of Askrigg. The town consists chiefly of one open street of irregular buildings. At the northern extremity stands a good stone building, erected in the year 1748, for a free school, by John Sadler, late of this place, who endowed it with the annual sum of 60l. to be paid out of a certain estate, but unfortunately, the charitable intentions of that gentleman is now frustrated, the tenant of the estate having refused to pay the rent, on some legal quibble, and the school house having been appropriated by an inhabitant to his own use, and now claimed as his property. The only manufactory here is the combing of wool, and the only place of worship is a Methodist chapel, built about ten tears ago. The town is surrounded by picturesque scenery, and the river abounds with Salmon and other fish. - Population, 478.

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Post-town, Bedale - John Ibbotson, post man.

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Letters arrive every Mon. Wed. Thur. and

Sat. at 12'o'clock noon, and despatched 

at 2 aft.

 

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Newbiggin, in the parish of Aysgarth, wap. of Hang West, and liberty of Richmondshire; 5 miles SE. of Askrigg; a small hamlet, chiefly inhabited by farmers. Pop. 128. (p.493)

 

 

 

 

 

 

THORALBY, in the parish of Aysgarth, wap. of Hang West, and liberty of Richmondshire; 4½ miles SE. of Askrigg. Pop. 342.