Amotherby, North Riding

Description
Amotherby, a township and a village in Appleton-le-Street parish, N. R. Yorkshire, with a station on the Thirsk and Malton section of the N.E.R., near the river Rye, under the Cleveland moors, 4 miles WNW of Malton. Acreage, 1831; population, 270. It has a post office under Malton. The parish church is at All Saints, Appleton. There is a chapel of ease at St Helens, Amotherby. The Thellusson-Thellusson family, of Brodsworth Hal], are lords of the manor. The township comprises the hamlets of Newsham, Sleights, Swinton and Broughton.