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Lythe, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.
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LYTHE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.
"LYTHE, a parish in the eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Barnby, Borrowby, Ellerby, Hutton-Mulgrave, Lythe, Nickleby, Newton- Mulgrave, and Ugthorpe, and containing 2194 inhabitants, of which number, 1134 are in the township of Lythe, 3 miles W.N.W. from Whitby. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £10. 12. 6., endowed with £1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York. The church is dedicated to St. Oswald, and, although of modern appearance, is an ancient structure. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Peter de Mauley obtained a weekly market to be held here, and a fair on the eve of the festival of St. Oswald, in the reign of Henry III., but both have been long disused."
"BARNBY, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles N.W. from Whitby, containing 270 inhabitants."
"BORROWBY, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 11 miles W.N.W. from Whitby, containing 64 inhabitants."
"ELLERBY, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles W.N.W. from Whitby, containing 80 inhabitants."
"HUTTON MULGRAVE, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles W. from Whitby, containing 90 inhabitants."
"NEWTON MULGRAVE, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 9 miles W.N.W. from Whitby, containing 134 inhabitants."
"NICKLEBY, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles N.W. from Whitby, containing 147 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Independents."
"UGTHORPE, a township in the parish of LYTHE, eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH, North riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles W. from Whitby, containing 275 inhabitants. A Roman Catholic chapel was erected here about 1812."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]