DIBEC'l'OIY I] NORTH RIDING YORKSHIRE. .AYSG.ABTH. Whaley Rev. John Blomfield [curate Lambert John, farmer, Nappa Scar Trotter Richard, farmer, Nappa Scar in charge of Stallingbusk] LambertThos. David,druggist&news agt Webster John, farmer & landowner, Winn William Edward Metcalfe Little Miles, farmer, Low Lands Nappa Scar Winn Mrs. Winnville LittleSimpson,frmr.&cattle dlr.Flax ml Angling Association (Wm. Wood Miss Mason Richard, boarding house Balderston, sec) Yelland J ames t Mason William, farmer, ·wood hall Wetherald Alice (Miss), dress maker Metcalfe Graham, farmer & sexton W etherald Thomas, builder & timber COMMERCIAL. Metcalfe James, farmer merchant, Yoredale house Baker Alfred L. R.C.P.Edin. surgeon, tMetcalfe James, farmer, Wood hall Wilson William, veterinary surgeon medical officer & public vaccinator to Metcalfe Peter, farmer, Thwaiteholme Winn "'· E. M. solicitor, commissioner nnion & medical officer to MetcalfeThos. frmr .&butchr _N a pp a hall for oaths & acknowledgments of workhouse & medical officer of health Metcalfe Thomas, blacksmith married women, clerk to the Ays­ to Aysgarth rural sanitary authority; Metcalfe William, shopkeeper garth union & the highway & at Aysgarth Middletonlsabella(Mrs. )&John, farmers board; & at Banks Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper tMiller Thomas, farmer, Wood hall Wood Jar.nes, farmer Bell George, farmer, Nappa house Moore James, farmer, Nappa Scar Yore Dale WoolCo. (Benj.Walker,mgr) Hell Geo.F.assistant overseer, Nappa ho Otley Dennis, tailor, Wood hall Blades Thomas, fruiterer Preston James, farmer & cattle dealer Burton William H. saw mills & rake tRaw William, farmer, Wood hall . manufacturer, West mill Rhodes J a ne (Mrs.), shopkeeper Airey James, farmer, New Park CalvertWilliam, Crown inn,&blacksmith Robinson Thomas, King's Arms com- Airey James, farmer, lngleby lodge Caygill Alexander, farmer, Heugh mercial & family hotel & posting Ash John, farmer, New Park Caygill Thomas, farmer, Newbiggin house; excellent trout & grayling Ashton Arthur, farmer, Skelgill Chapman Azariah, butcher & farmer fishing in the neighbourhood Atkinson John, farmer, Breconber Chapman James, shoe maker Skidmore John, watch maker Atkinson Samuel, farmer, Shaw cote Cbapman John, farmer & cattle dealer tSpensley Timothy, farmer &c. Wood Atkinson William,joiner & wheelwright, Cloughton Thomas & James, farmers Hall park Bow bridge Cloughton Robert, farmer, Borrow bnk Storey Christiana (Miss), dress maker Bell Isabella (Miss), farmer, Shaw cote Cloughton Thomas, bacon curer Storey John, farmer, Thwaiteholme Blakey Joshua, farmer, Shaw cote Conservative Association (John J. G. Sunter Jacob, farmer, Warren house Bowe Joseph, farmer, Luke's house Lodge, sec) Sykes Samuel, grocer & draper, & tem- Chapman John, farmer, Grange Conservative & Unionist Club (John perance hotel · Hogg John, farmer, Helm W. Spensley, sec) Terry James, farmer & landowner Kettlewell Ann (Mrs.) & William Lam­ Daykin John Dixon, butcher & farmer, TerryJohn, farmer & landowner,Leas ho bert, farmers, Grange Elm hill Thistlewaite George, shoe maker Kettle well John & Richard Thomas. Daykin Jonathan, farmer, Nappa Scar Thistlewaite.John,stationer,& post office farmers, Gillgate - Daykin Ralph, farmer, Ballowfield Thompson Margaret (Mrs.), farmer Lee Joseph, station master Dinsdale George, farmer, Granada bo Thompson Mary M. W. (Miss),boarding Moore John, farme~, Yore's cottage . Dinsdale James, farmer, N ewbiggin & day school Robins on Robert, farmer, Luggas house · Gill Thomas & Sons, grocers & drapers Thompson Stockdale, clogger Scarr George, farmer, Helm

Handley .John1 coach builder & Thwaite Anthony, farmer, Newbiggin Scarr George, farmer, Low house wheelwright; lorries & spring carts ThwaiteCecily(Mrs.),farmer,West view Scarr J ames, farmer, Colby hall built to order Thwaite William, bacon factor Scarr James, farmer, Shaw cote Handley William, shopkeeper Tiplady William, fruiterer Spencer John, farmer, Skelgill Hunter Robert, shoe maker Trotter James, farmer ThompsonClement, farmer&landowner, tKirkbride Peter, farmer, Wood hall Trotter Margaret Ann (Mrs.), Queen's Spen house Knowles John, shopkeeper Arms P.H. & butcher Thompson John, farmer, Skelgill AYSGARTH is a parir.h, township, village and the head J.P. and VVilliam Robinson King esq. are the principalland­ of a union, pleasantly situated on the south side of the river owners. The soil is very good; subsoil, limestone. The Ure, or Yore, in Wensleydale, with a station I mile north­ land is chiefly in pasture. The parish of Aysgarth is very east on the N orthallerton and Ha wes branch of the North extensive, containing the twelve townships of AYsGABTH, Eastern railway, 8} miles west-south-west from , 9 HIGH and Low ABBOTSIDE, ASKBIGG, BAINBRIDGE, BISHOP­

east from Hawes and 4 south-east from Askrigg; it is in DALE, BURTON-CUM-WALDEN 1 CARPERBY-CUM-THORESBY 1 the Richmond division of the Hiding, wapentake and petty NEWBIGGIN, THORALBY, and HAWES; it sessional division of Hang West, county court district of covers an area of 8I,OI2 acres, a great part of which consists Leyborn, rural deanery of West Catterick, archdeaconry of of high moorland. The population of the township in 1891 Richmond and diocese of Ripon. The church of Saint was 235, and the area I, 173 acres ; rateable value, {,2,o5o. Andrew is an ancient stone building in the Perpendicular Parish Clerk, Anthony Brockell. style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and south porch, Sexton, Dccimus Durham. and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, 6 bells : the elaborately-carved rood-loft and reading desk Aysgarth.-Edward Lawson, sub-postmaster. Letters ar­ were brought from J ervaulx Abbey : the reredos of Caen rive from Aysgarth Station R.S. 0. at 6.25 a.m. ; sundays stone, which is adorned with a representation of " The 9.50 a.m. from Bedale by mail cart ; dispatched at 5.30 Last Supper," after Leonardo da Vinci, was given some p.m. summer & 4.30 p.m.winter; sundays at 3· 10 p.m. by years ago by the daughters of the late H. T. Robinson, of mail cart Edgley and The Cliff, Leyburn : there is a brass eagle WALL LETTER Box, Palmer Flatt, cleared at s.so p.m. lectern and elegant brass coronre, and several of the week days only windows are stained: the whole church has been RAILWAY STATION PosT & T. 0. (Railway Sub-Office. restored at a cost of about £6,ooo, and afford's 620 Letters should have R.S.O. Yorks added).-Frederick sittings. The register dates from about the year I700. Kitching, sub-postmaster. Delivery, 6 a.m. ; dispatch, The living is a discharged vicarage, gross yearly value 6_ 30 p.m. No delivery or dispatch on sunday. Asygarth {,I92, including 38 acres of glebe, in the gift of Trinity is the nearest money order office College, Cambridge, and held since I873 by the Rev. National School, erected for 127 children ; average attend­ Fenwick William Stow M.A. of that college, and ancll, 53 ; George Stephenson, master surrogate. The tithes belong to Trinity College, Cambridge. Railway StatiOn, Frederick Kitching, station master There IS a W esleyan Methodist chapel here. A fair for sheep AYSGARTH UNION. and cattle is held here on October 3oth. The is crossed near the church by a bridge built in 1539, consisting Aysgarth poor law union compri<;es the following twelve of a single arch, with a span of seventy-one feet; near to it townships, viz. :-High Abbotside, Low Abbotside, Ask­ is Aysgarth Force, a waterfall descending from three suc­ rigg, Aysgarth, Bainbridge, Bishopdale, Burton-cum­ cessive ledges of rock: the principal fall is about a quarter 'Valden, Carperby-cum-Thoresby, Hawes, Newbiggin, of a mile below the bridge. Palmer Flatt, within 100 yards Thoralby and Thornton Rust. The area of the union is of the church, and a quarter of a mile from the Force, 8r,or2 acres; rateable value in 1892,£51,736; the popu­ affords a most extensive view of the delightful scenery of the lation in 1891 was 4,746. district, with Bolton Castle in the distance. The hotel at Board day, monday, fortnightly, at the Board room, Palmer Flatt, which has been rebuilt and enlarged, is the Bainbridge, at 2 p.m. central house in Wensleydale : it stands but a short distance Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, W. E. M. from the station, and will be found a desirable residence for Winn, Askrigg commercial travellers and tourists. The trustees of the late Treasurer, Edward Paul Gibson, Hawes Henry Thomas Robinson esq. who are lords of the manor, Collector to the Guardians, Relieving & Vaccination Officer William Hunter Totnlinson esq. James Clarkson Winn esq. for the Union, E. Chapman, Worton