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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cawthorn like this:
CAWTHORN, a township in Middleton parish, N. R Yorkshire; 3½ miles NNW of Pickering. Acres, 1,540Pop., 33. Houses, 3. Here are four Roman camps, in good preservation; one of them square and double-ditched; another, nearly oval, 850 feet long and 320 broad. Some British tumuli are near.
Cawthorn 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 Cawthorn itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cawthorn, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11996
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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