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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bewerley like this:
BEWERLEY, a township in Ripon parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Nidd, adjacent to Pateley-Bridge, 11 miles NW of Ripley. It includes part of the village of Greenhow-Hill. Acres, 5,872. Real property, £4,973; of which £1,051 are in mines. Pop., 1,297. Houses, 288. The inhabitants are chiefly employed in lead mines. Bewerley House is the seat of the Yorkes.
Bewerley is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bewerley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bewerley, in North Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11570
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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