Place:


Redmire  North Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Redmire like this:

REDMIRE, a township-chapelry, with a small village, in Wensley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Ure, 4¾ miles W of Leyburn r. station. Post-town, Leyburn, under Bedale. Acres, 2, 219. Real property, £2, 668; of which £50 are in mines. Pop., 440. Houses, 83. The property is much subdivided. ...


The manor belongs to Lord Bolton. Coal is found; lead was formerly mined; and there is a strong sulphurous spring. The living is ap. curacy, united with the chapelry of Bolton, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £115. Patron, the Rector ofwensley. The church has a Norman doorway. There is an endowed school with £19 a year.

Redmire through time

Redmire is now part of Richmondshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how Richmondshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Redmire itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Redmire, in Richmondshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14120

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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