Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RUSWARP

RUSWARP, a township in Whitby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Esk and the Whitby railway, 2¼ miles S W of Whitby. It has a station on the railway, a suspension bridge, a dissenting chapel, and two Lancasterian schools; and it includes the hamlet of Stakesby. Real property, £18, 818; of which £950 are in quarries, and £25 in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 2, 163: in 1861, 2, 995. Houses, 620.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ruswarp CP/Tn       Whitby AP/Tn/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Ruswarp

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