Sessay

Other current and historical names

Sezay

Parish/Community: Sessay
District/Borough: Hambleton
County: North Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and The Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 54°10'22"N 1°18'12"W
Eastings/Northings: 445560, 475464
OS Grid: SE455754
Mapcode Local: GBR MNB5.KV
Mapcode Global: WHD8W.YCDR

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

Sessay in historic gazetteers

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

Sessay, par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., North-Riding Yorkshire - par., 3773 ac., pop. 456; township, 3034 ac., pop. 325; vil., 4½ miles SE. of Thirsk; P.O.; the par. contains Hutton Sessay, township, 739 ac., pop. 131.

Sessay in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Bishop of Durham St Cuthbert
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Durham
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Bishop of Durham
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £3 in 1066; £1 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers
- Plough Teams: 3 men's ploughs (3 plough lands)

British Place Names

Sessay, North Yorkshire

Sessay is a village in North Yorkshire

Sessay in historic gazetteers

Sessay in the Domesday Book