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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hartwith like this:
HARTWITH, a village and a parochial chapelry in Kirkby-Malzeard parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Nidd, adjacent to the Nidd Valley railway, near Daere-Banks r. station, 5 miles W of Ripley. The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Brimham, Braisty-Woods, and Winsley; and bears the name of Hartwith-with-Winsley. ...
Post town, Ripley, under Leeds. Acres, 5, 470. Real property, £5, 651; of which £50 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1, 162; in 1861, 1, 227. Houses, 225. There are three chief landowners. Brimham Rocks, noticed in our article BRIMHAM, are very curious. Flax spinning is carried on. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120.* Patron, alternately the Rev. D. R. Roundell and S. Swire, Esq. The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1831. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a free school, and charities £20.
Hartwith 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 Hartwith itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hartwith, in North Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12851
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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