In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Crakehall like this:
CRAKEHALL, a township in Bedale parish, and a chapelry in Bedale and Patrick-Brompton parishes, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Swale, and on the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, 2¼ miles NW by W of Bedale; and has a station on the railway, and a post office under Bedale. ...
Acres, 1, 752. Real property, £4, 405. Pop., 583. Houses, 144. The chapelry was constituted in 1840. Pop., 817. Houses, 195. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rector of Bedale. The church is Gothic; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
Crakehall through time
Crakehall is now part of Hambleton district. Click here for graphs and data of how Hambleton has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Crakehall itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Crakehall, in Hambleton and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12242
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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