Rokeby Parish

Transcript of the entry of 'professions and trades'
for ROKEBY in Baines's Directory of 1823.

• Bowness Rev. George, curate
• John B. S. Morritt, Esq. Rokeby hall

• Bustin Thomas,
• Fletcher John
• Proctor John
• Proctor Thomas
• Thompson George

• Binks Ann, shopkeeper.
• Binks John, carpenter
• Kitching James, agent to J. B. S. Morritt, Esq.
• Trewitt Benjamin, blacksmith
• Whitehead William, gardener

Transcript of the entry of 'professions and trades'
for EGGLESTON ABBEY in Baines's Directory of 1823.

• Cook Henry, paper manufacturer
• Harker Joseph, farmer
• Layton Sarah, farmer
• Miller Jonathan, farmer

Transcript of the entry of 'professions and trades'
for GRETA BRIDGE in Baines's Directory of 1823.

• Post, Post Master, RALPH CHAMBERS.

  Places from whence       Distance.    Postage
  Letter Bags are rec'd.
  Appleton                   27          6d.
  Barnard Castle              4          4d.
  Boroughbridge              37          7d.
  Brough                     19          5d.
  Carlisle                   59          8d.
  Catterick                  15          4d.
  London                    240      1s. 0d.
  Penrith                    11          7d.
  Thirsk                     00          7d.
  Wetherby                   49          8d.
  York                       54          8d.
  

• Bags from the South at 20 minutes past two o'clock A.M. by the Glasgow Mail, which takes letters to the offices North of this place. Bags from the North by the same mail, at three o'clock P. M. when letters are forwarded to the South.
• There is a Riding Post to Barnard Castle, at six o'clock A.M. which returns 40 minutes past two o'clock P. M.

• Chambers Ralph, George Inn & Post office.
• Martin George, Morritt's Arms, where the Magistrates meet the first Tuesday in every month.