Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ESTON

ESTON, a village and a chapelry in Ormsby parish, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the ascent of Barnaby-Moor or Eston-Nab, near the Middlesborough and Saltburn railway, 2 miles S of the estuary of the Tees, and 5½ NW by W of Guisborough; and has a post office‡ under Middlesborough, and a station with telegraph on the railway. The chapelry comprises 1, 919 acres of land and 835 of water. Real property, £23, 508; of which £18, 450 are in iron-works. Pop. in 1851, 465; in 1861, 2, 835. Houses, 518. The increase of population arose mainly from the opening of extensive ironstone works, and the establishment of blast furnaces. The property is much subdivided. Eston-Nab is a detached hill, 784 feet high; has remains of an ancient camp; commands a fine prospect; and possesses interest in great modern quarries and ironstone pits. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Ormsby, in the diocese of York. The church is good.


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

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Feature Description: "a village and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Eston

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