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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Fylingdales like this:
FYLINGDALES, a parish in Whitby district, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 4½ miles SSE of Whitby town and r. station. It contains the village of Robin Hood's Bay, which has a post office under Whitby; also the hamlets of Fylingthorpe, Normanby, Ramsdale, Rowe, Parkgate, Stow-Brow, Bay-Ness, and Stoupe-Brow. ...
Acres, 18, 458; of which 521 are water. Real property, £7, 869. Pop., 1, 721. Houses, 412. The property is much subdivided. Alum works were here, but were stopped, prior to 1851. Much fishing is carried on. Hubba the Dane, in 867, planted his standard, bearing the raven, on a hill in this parish, hence called to this day Raven hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300.* Patron, the Arch-bishop of York. The church is very good; and there are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £16.
Fylingdales 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 Fylingdales itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Fylingdales, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12651
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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