In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Lastingham like this:
LASTINGHAM, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Severn, near Spaunton-Moor, 6 miles W of Levisham r. station, and 7 NW of Pickering; is picturesquely situated; and has a post-office under York.—The township comprises 690 acres. ...
Real property, £643. Pop., 216. Houses, 54.—The parish contains also the townships of Spaunton, Rosedale-West-Side, Appleton-le-Moors, Hutton-le-Hole, and Farndale-East-Side; the last three of which are in Helmsley district. Acres, 24,663. Real property, with all Farndale, £10,020; of which £252 are in mines, and £22 in quarries. Pop. in 1851,1,380; in 1861,1,597. Houses, 315. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Crown of Northumbria; was given by King Ethelwald to Bishop Cedd, for an ecclesiastical establishment similar to that of Lindisfarne; and belongs now to H. B. Darley, Esq. Bishop Cedd's establishment suffered demolition by the Danes; underwent incipient restoration in the time of William the Conqueror; and was soon afterwards removed to York. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church stands over a vaulted crypt, of very fine work, either Saxon or early Norman; is itself a highly interesting Norman structure, with a tower; has been injured by the introduction of a lantern light to the chancel-roof, and by the blocking up of the apse with a modern painting; contains a font which appears to be Saxon; and had formerly a rich screen of carved oak. The modern painting represents Christ in the garden; and was one of the best works, and a gift, of the painter John Jackson, a native of the village, who died in 1830. There are a chapel of ease, and a day-school, in Farndale; a recently erected memorial church, and a Wesleyan chapel, at Appleton-le-Moors; chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, at Hutton-le-Hole; and a Wesleyan chapel, a national school with £15 from endowment, and charities £6, at Lastingham.—The sub-district contains three townships of L. parish, three of Middleton parish, and an extra-parochial tract; and is in Pickering district. Acres, 23,780. Pop. 1,659. Houses, 328.
Lastingham through time
Lastingham is now part of Ryedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Ryedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Lastingham itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Lastingham, in Ryedale and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13265
Date accessed: 14th May 2024
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