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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Deighton like this:
DEIGHTON, a chapelry in Northallerton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 1¾ mile SW of Welbury r. station, and 5 NNE of Northallerton. Post town, Appleton-Wiske, under Northallerton. Acres, 2, 052. Real property, £1, 965. Pop., 141. Houses, 26. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Northallerton, in the diocese of York.
Deighton 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 Deighton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Deighton, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12287
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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