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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hawsker like this:
HAWSKER-WITH-STAINSACRE, a township in Whitby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 2½ miles SSE of Whitby. Acres, 4,396; of which 694 are water. Real property, £7,361; of which £166 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 786; in 1861, 914. Houses, 162. A Wesleyan chapel and the Whitby workhouse are here; and the latter, at the Census of 1861, had 105 inmates. Two upright stones are said to mark the spots where two arrows fell, shot by Robin Hood and Little John from Whitby abbey.
Hawsker 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 Hawsker itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hawsker, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12869
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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