Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YARM

YARM, a small town, a parish, and a sub-district, in the district of Stockton and N. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Tees and on the Northallerton and Stockton railway, 4½ miles SSW of Stockton; occupies low ground, subject to inundation by the river; had a black friary, founded in the early part of the 13th century, and now giving name to the seat of E. Meynell, Esq., on its site; rose to some consequence as a place of trade and commerce, but declined on account of its proximity to Stockton; possesses many granaries and warehouses, erected for its commerce, and now chiefly unoccupied; still carries on exportation of agricultural produce, and partakes with Stockton in the salmon-fishery of the Tees; is a seat of petty-sessions; consists chiefly of one long spacious street; is flanked, nearly along its entire length, by a railway viaduct of 43 arches; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station, a banking office, a good inn, a police station, a town hall and market place, a stone bridge partly of the year 1400, a church rebuilt in 1730, three dissenting chapels, a handsome Roman Catholic chapel of 1860, an endowed grammar-school with £21 a year, a national school, an infant school, a mechanics' institute, charities £37, a paper mill, and four annual fairs.—The parish comprises 1,135 acres. Real property, £4,907; of which £24 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 1,647; in 1861, 1,401. Houses, 353. The decrease of pop. arose from removal of labourers employed in railway works. The manor belongs to E. Meynell, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York.—The sub-district contains 6 parishes and 2 parts. Acres, 33,842. Pop., 25,079. Houses, 4,420.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Yarm Ch/AP/CP       Yarm SubD       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Yarm

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