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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  LITTLE AYTON	Manor	GREAT AYTON Tn/CP (Parish-level Unit)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "LITTLE AYTON":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Abernethy	Fife Perthshire	little Farg, forms an oblong some 4 miles long by 1½ mile broad, and is not exceeded in beauty, fertility, and cultivation by any tract of equal extent in Scotland. Its soil and sub-soil, down to a depth of 25 feet, consist of strata of clay and sand, overlying a stratum of moss, from 1 foot to 3 feet thick, which comprises remains of oak, alder, hazel, and birch. Fine rich haughs, protected by embankments from inundation, extend along the windings of the Earn and Tay: the latter is here from ½ to ¾ mile broad	Groome
  AYTON	Yorkshire	AYTON , two townships and a parish in Stokesley district, N. R. Yorkshire. The townships are distinguished from each other as Great and Little	Imperial
  Ayton, Great and Little	Yorkshire	Ayton, Great and Little , 2 townships, Ayton par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 3 m. NE. of Stokesley -- G. A., 3589 ac., pop. 1754; P.O.; L. A., 1378 ac., pop. 101.	Bartholomew
  Chirnside	Berwickshire	Ayton and 1 mile E by S of Chirnside station, on the Berwickshire branch (1863) of the North British, this being 26¾ miles NE of St Boswells, 4¾ NE of Dunse, 4 SSW of Reston Junction, and 50½ ESE of Edinburgh. It consists of two streets, straggling for nearly a mile along the brow of Chirnside Hill, and commands a wide prospect, from the sea to the Cheviots and the heights of Teviotdale; but it lies withal somewhat exposed, and suffered severely from the gale of 14 Oct. 1881. At it are a post office, with money	Groome
  Coldingham	Berwickshire	Coldingham ( Urbs Coludi of Bede, c. 700), a village and a coast parish of NE Berwickshire. The former by road	Groome
  Dunse or Duns	Berwickshire	Dunse or Duns (the spelling till 1740, revived in 1882), a town and a parish of central Berwickshire. Standing, 420	Groome
  Eyemouth	Berwickshire	little. Take a sail after dinner. Fishing of all kinds pays tithes at Eyemouth.' The entry in the lodge books shows that he was admitted gratis, on the score of his ` remarkable poetical genius.' In 1597, by a charter from James VI. in favour of Sir George Home of Wedderburn, Eyemouth was erected into a free burgh of barony, with the privilege of a free port; but having adopted the General Police and Improvement Act (Scotland) in 1866, it now is governed by a body of nine commissioners. Its municipal constituency numbered 568 in 1882, when the annual value	Groome
  Foulden	Berwickshire	Ayton station, 4 E by S of Chirnside, and 5 WNW of Berwick-upon-Tweed, under which it has a post office. A pretty little	Groome
  Mordington	Berwickshire	Ayton parish The North British railway skirts the brink of the cliffs; and beyond it the surface rises westward to 614 feet at Lam. berton Moor, 712 at Hab or Habchester near the meeting-point with Foulden and Ayton, and 649 at the Witches' Knowe-heights that command a magnificent view of the Eildons, the Lammermuirs, the Ocean, and Bambrough Castle. Sandstone and poorish limestone are plentiful; coal has been worked; and ironstone occurs in small veins. The soil for some distance from the Whitadder is a stiff clay, yielding good crops of wheat and beans, and thence	Groome
  TUNSTALL	Yorkshire	TUNSTALL , a hamlet in Little Ayton township, N. R. Yorkshire; 4¼ miles ENE of Stokesley.	Imperial

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