North Yorkshire History

This follows the post  Stokesley 1823-1834: the flax-spinning mill behind the High Street 1960s aerial view looking towards the New M...

This follows the post  The linen mills of Stokesley & Hutton Rudby: 1823-1908 1823 was the year in which the spinning factory of Mess...

The next posts will tell the story of five mills: the two flax-spinning mills of Stokesley, and the flax-spinning mill and two sailcloth mi...

Here I have done my best to convert Jim Watson's family trees into content that can make sense and be searchable on the internet. The...

With many thanks to Jim Watson for this information.  We hope that publishing it here will be helpful to people trying to disentangle the...

The new "retail and leisure destination" to be built on the site of the former prison in Northallerton is to be called "the ...

In July 2000, having discovered that the famous Canon Atkinson of Danby had written a series of articles in the years 1890 to 1893 for the ...