North Yorkshire History

In the 19th century, the usual yearly epidemics of frequently fatal infectious diseases in Britain were eclipsed by successive waves of a fr...

 If anybody has any information on the origins of the George Bewick who settled in Hutton Rudby in the mid-18th century, do let me know.   I...

 In a post from 2012 entitled Changing Guisborough market day: 1813 , there is a picture of the priory and this is a message to Ben G, who a...

Each one of these cases brings us a little glimpse of the past.  I think the information might also prove useful to family historians. Th...

This is something I meant to write before, but it got lost in other work.  I'm afraid the alignment of text in this is a little haphazar...

In the Cleveland market town of Stokesley at the beginning of the 19th century, festivities were lively and raucous.  As the decades went b...

The story that follows was reported in the Yorkshire Gazette and the York Herald on 10 April 1841 – two rather confusing and sometimes c...