North Yorkshire History

In the 1990s Peter Meadows was working on an article on the subject of a lost Cleveland house called Angrove (also Anngrove or Ann-grove) Ha...

The connection between Hutton Rudby and the Bathursts began in the first half of the 17th century with the founder of the family fortunes, D...

This follows on from the preceding post, The Atkinsons of Scaling Dam in the 17th & 18th centuries Thomas Atkinson was born on Friday 13...

This is the sort of thing that one always hopes for – in 2013 I posted the Whaling Journal 1774 of Thomas Atkinson of Kirkleatham and articl...

Local stories tell of the ghost known as the White Lady of Skutterskelfe.  I was told that she’s more likely to be a trick of the light, f...