Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

AMOTHERBY, a township in Appleton-le-Street parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the Thirsk and Driffield railway, near the river Rye, under the Cleveland moors, 4¼ miles WNW of Malton. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 1,250. Real property, £2,779. Pop., 256. Houses, 54. A church was built in 1868.

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Travel writing

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