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West Witton, North Yorkshire

West Witton photos

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West Witton, the Village c1960 photo

West Witton, the Village c1960

West Witton, Heifer Inn 1911 photo

West Witton, Heifer Inn 1911

West Witton, 1911 photo

West Witton, 1911

West Witton photos
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West Witton maps

Historic maps of West Witton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all West Witton maps

West Witton map

Historic map of West Witton

North Yorkshire map

Illustrated Victorian map of North Yorkshire

West Witton map

Historic Map of any West Witton postcode

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West Witton books

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Yorkshire Coastal Memories Photographic Memories
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Ilkley Town and City Memories
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North Yorkshire Photographic Memories
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West Witton books
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Memories of West Witton

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North Yorkshire memories

redmire children

My great great grandparents arrived in Redmire in the 1840s or thereabouts.  
This photo was taken in 1929 when my mother would have been about nine or ten.  She was born in Redmire in 1921 to George and Ellenor Miller who had five more children William, Ethel, Lillian, John and Mary.  The family were all stonemasons through the census years.  My interest is in this photo.  The girl with the longest hair resembles my eldest daughter.  Can anyone name her or her family?   I would be very grateful.  I myself spent quite a few times up there in the summer holidays and stayed with my grandad and uncle John at the Railway Cottages where they lived.  Has anyone got any old photos they could let me see, school ones maybe?  The view from the Railway Cottages is breathtaking over the village.  I love the place like a passion. I was up there last summer and it has not changed a bit from what I can remember.  The Railway Cottages is now one house, there used to be two and there is not a way through the field now.  There is a road up to the house.   Thank you. Josephine.

Shared on 10 April 2007 by Josiephine Bell.

Autons of Leyburn

My gggggrandfather,lived At Hammer Gate in 1841.
His son James moved with his family to Grove Square.1851
James's brother William lived at 24 Market place in 1861
The family of James Autons then moved to 74 Commercial Square1861
Only my gggg Uncle William stayed in Leyburn .He was a Solicitors Clerk.
He and his wife.ran the Stamp office at 43 High St, they were also Glass and China Dealers. 1891.In 1901 uncle William moved to 6 Commerial Sq
Some of my cousins lived at Grove Square.

Shared on 30 December 2007

Norman Barber - watchmaker and jeweller

The jaguar on the right belonged to Norman Barber and was parked outside his shop in Leyburn. At this time my husband, Cedric Barber, was probably in class at Leyburn County Primary School (now an old peoples' home). Cedric's second cousin, Janet Green, lives a short distance from the scene of this photograph.

Shared on 17 January 2007 by Jean Barber.

This picture is Middleham Suspension Bridge.

Shared on 28 April 2009

Extracts From West Witton & North Yorkshire books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about West Witton, inspired by Frith photos.

North Yorkshire Living Memories

A herd of Shorthorn cattle is driven down the main street of West Witton, which stands at the eastern entrance to Wensleydale. West Witton lies in the shadow of Pen Hill on the southern side of the dale. In the distance on the extreme right we can just see the 16th-century tower of the parish church of St Bartholomew.

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Richmond Photographic Memories

Some women artists paint the view of Richmond from across the River Swale. In the left distance can be seen smoke rising from the gasworks beside the falls. Richmond had one of the earliest gasworks in Europe, built in 1820 to provide street lighting for the fashionable Georgian town.

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Richmond Photographic Memories

The Terrace, another Georgian promenade, offers a spectacular panorama of the town. On the right is St Mary’s parish church, in the centre the Grammar School, and to the left Church Mill, demolished in 1969, the last of many Richmond watermills once powered by the River Swale.

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