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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described St Martin like this:
MARTIN (ST.), an extra-parochial tract in Richmond district, N. R. Yorkshire; 1 mile S of Riclhmond. Pop., 53. Houses, 11. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Yorrk abbey, was fonnded here about 1100 by Wyomar of Aske.
This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to St Martin by doing a full-text search here.
Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Easby | 0 | 2 |
Hipswell | 0 | 2 |
Richmond | 17 | 2 |
Colburn | 0 | 2 |
Aske | 0 | 2 |
Scotton | 0 | 2 |
Hudswell | 0 | 2 |
Skeeby | 0 | 2 |
Brompton on Swale | 0 | 2 |
Brough | 0 | 2 |
Catterick | 8 | 2 |
Gilling | 3 | 4 |
Tunstall | 0 | 2 |
Whashton | 0 | 2 |
Barden | 0 | 2 |
Hauxwell | 0 | 2 |
Hunton | 0 | 2 |
Arrathorne | 0 | 1 |
Walburn | 0 | 2 |
Middleton Tyas | 0 | 2 |