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...

"There are those yet in Cleveland who can remember coals being conveyed into the country across the backs of donkeys." wrote John ...

In 1903 Richard Blakeborough  (1850-1918), celebrated collector of North Riding folklore, wrote an article for a cheery weekly family newspa...

The Northern Weekly Gazette was a cheery weekly newspaper with editions published in Middlesbrough, Guisborough, South Bank, Stockton, Darl...

A short account of the Cary family, for visitors to All Saints' Church, Hutton Rudby who see the memorials on the chancel walls and wond...

I'm revisiting The People behind the Plaques: memorials in All Saints', Hutton Rudby  to add my most recent research.  This is a sli...

 I've just made a correction and added extra information to the entry on the Elands in People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Easby to Em...

In Spring 1880, this advertisement appeared repeatedly in the Yorkshire newspapers: The Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough, 15 April 1880  Desi...