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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Eskdaleside from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "ESKDALESIDE, or Sleights, a township-chapelry in Whitby parish, [North Riding of] Yorkshire; on the river Esk, and on the Pickering and Whitby railway, 4 miles SW by W of Whitby. It has a station on the railway, and a post office under Whitby, both of the name of Sleights. Acres: 3,740. Real property, £3, 060; of which £420 are in quarries. Population: 814. Houses: 164. Building-stone is worked; mineral springs occur; and alum is found. There was anciently a small cell here to Whitby abbey. The living is a [perpetual] curacy, united with the [perpetual] curacy of Ugglebarnby, in the diocese of York. Value: £329. Patron: the Rev. T. Walker. The church was built in 1767. Charities, £55."
Both Eskdaleside and Ugglebarnby were part of Whitby ecclesiastical parish. In 1885 the two townships became the civil parish of Eskdaleside and Ugglebarnby.
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