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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sowerby like this:
SOWERBY, a township-chapelry, with a village, in Thirsk parish, N. R. Yorkshire; within Thirsk borongh, and adjacent on the SE to Thirsk r. station. It has a post-office under Thirsk. Acres, 2,528. Real property, £7,044. Pop. in 1851, 1,079; in 1861, 1,248. Houses, 296. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £331.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is partly Norman. There are a national school, and charities £8.
Sowerby 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 Sowerby itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sowerby, in North Yorkshire and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14252
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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