Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described West Ayton like this:

AYTON (West), a township in Hutton-Bushell parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on a tributary of the Derwent river, 3½ miles W of Seamer r. station, and 5 WSW of Scarborough. Acres, 2,160. Real property, £2,704. Pop., 385. Houses, 78. Remains exist of an ancient castle which belonged to the Evers or Eures and the Cliffords.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to West Ayton by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to West Ayton within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Yorkshire: East and North Ridings	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Hutton Buscel	0	2
Forge Valley	0	2
East Ayton	1	3
Seamer	0	2
Irton	0	2
Ruston	0	2
Everley	0	1
Sawdon	0	2
Throxenby	0	2
Brompton	0	2
Suffield	0	2
Falsgrave	0	2
Newby	0	2
Scarborough	13	3
Wykeham	0	2
Deepdale	0	2
Snainton	0	2
Scalby	1	2
Troutsdale	0	2
Langdale End	0	2