Rylstone, North Yorkshire

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Rylstone is a village in North Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

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

Rylstone in historic gazetteers

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

Rilston, (or Rylstone), eccl. dist., township, and vil., Burnsall par., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - dist. (Rilston with Collision), pop. 578; township, 3197 ac., pop. 130; the vil. is 5 miles N. of Skipton; it was from Rylstone (where there are slight traces of the old manor house of the Nortons) that Wordsworth's "White Doe" travelled to Bolton Abbey.

Rylstone in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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