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Lythe
Historical and geographical information
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Introduction
Dates are in red.
Hyperlinks to other pages are in dark blue.
Headlines of the history of the Lythe
are in brown.
References and citations are in turquoise.
Contextual history is in purple.
This webpage about the Lythe has the following
section headings:
- The
Farndales of Lythe
- Lythe,
an overview
- Timeline
of Lythe
- Links, texts and
books
The Farndales of Lythe
Those
associated with Lythe, near Whitby were: Thomas fyndaille (FAR00057)
(about 1484 to 1554) who was referred to in the Lay Subsidy for Lythe in 1524; Mary
Farndale (FAR00142)
who married William Broderick at Lythe Parish Church in 1743; William Farndale
(FAR00152)
who married Hannah Toes at Lythe Parish Church in 1761 and then moved to Loftus; Ann Farndale (FAR00165) who
married John Butcher in Lythe Parish Church in 1769; Hannah Farndale (FAR00174) who married
James Jackson in Lythe Parish Church in 1775; Mary Farndale (FAR00186) who was
baptised in Lythe Parish Church in 1763 and was buried there the following year;
Mary Farndale (FAR00190)
who was baptised at Lythe in 1765 and then moved to Loftus; Elizabeth Farndale
(FAR00193)
who witnessed a marriage in Lythe in 1808; Hannah Farndale (FAR00211) who
married Adam Temple in Lythe in 1812; and Wilson Farndale (FAR00227) who
was an agriucultural labourer in Lythe by 1841.
Lythe
Lythe is
a small village and large civil parish, in
the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, near Whitby and North
York Moors. The name of the village derives from Old Norse and
means hill or slope. It was in the old North Riding and in
the wapentake of Langbaurgh East.
St
Oswald’s Church is a plain stone building in the Early
English style. The stained glass east
window is a memorial to the Rev. William Long, who was vicar from 1813 to 1858.
Inside the church are memorials to the Phipps family, and to the Marquess
of Normanby. The register dates from 1634. There is also a Wesleyan
Methodist chapel.
Mulgrave
Castle is the seat of the Marquess of Normanby. The estate also
contains the ruins of a former residence known locally as Mulgrave Old Castle,
which was an earthwork motte and bailey fortress. It
was built by Robert de Turnham in 1200 and converted to a Hunting Lodge in
1600. Mulgrave Castle has a varied history, in 1858 it was leased to Dalip
Singh Sukerchakia the Last Maharajah of the Punjab,
rumour has it that he had the Sandsend to Whitby road contructed because his elephants didn’t like sand between
their toes. Charles Dickens has holidayed there, as have members of the present
royal family.
Within
the parish are the villages of Mickleby, Ugthorpe and Sandsend,
and the hamlets of Barnby, Ellerby, Goldsborough, Hutton
Mulgrave, Kettleness and Newton
Mulgrave.
Timeline of Lythe
1086
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Lythe, 1923: The
'manor' and 2 carucates at Lythe belonged to Swen before the Conquest,
and were in 1086 held of the Count of Mortain
by Niel Fossard, who is said to have been a tenant
'before the Conquest.
1253
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Lythe, 1923: The
king granted Peter de Mauley the second in February 1253–4 a weekly market on
Wednesday at his manor of Lythe and a yearly fair there on the eve and feast of
St. Oswald and for six days following.
The church of St Oswald stands at a
little distance to the east of the village about 350
ft. above sea level on the edge of the high ground, where it begins to fall
rapidly towards the coast. The east end of the chancel is of 13th-century date,
together possibly with some portions of the north aisle wall. The churchyard
was enlarged in 1887 at the west end and a lych-gate erected on the south side.
With the exception of the north wall and the east end
of the chancel the church was entirely rebuilt in 1910–11. The registers begin
in 1637.
St
Oswald’s after its restoration
1625
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Lythe, 1923: Alum
mines at Mulgrave (probably Kettleness) and Sandsend
were leased by the Crown with those of Guisborough to Sir Paul Pindar and
others in 1625, but all rents from the lessees of the alum and all mines and
quarries were in 1634 granted to the Earl of Mulgrave with Mulgrave Manor.
1831
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Lythe, 1923: In
1831 there were 120 men employed in the alum works, but this manufacture,
almost disused in 1874.
1857
1923
The
Victoria County History – Yorkshire, A History of
the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 Parishes: Lythe, 1923:
The
village of Lythe, which has a station on the Whitby and Saltburn branch of the North Eastern railway, is about a mile inland on the High
Street, a road from Guisborough to Sandsend.
Jet,
the great object of Whitby industry, is found all along the coast, and there
are cement works and a cement mill at Sandsend and near East Row Bridge.
Links, texts and books
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