Rainton, North Yorkshire

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Rainton is a village in North Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Rainton within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Rainton in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Rainton with Newby, township, Topcliffe par., North-Riding Yorkshire, 4 miles NE. of Ripon, 1576 ac., pop. 394.

Rainton in the Domesday Book

A village in Yarlestre hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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