Aysgarth is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale, in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, about sixteen miles south-west from Richmond. The village is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 197. The village gives its name to the nearby Aysgarth Falls. In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ... Wensleydale is a dale, or valley, of the east side of the Pennines in the North Riding of Yorkshire, in England. ... Richmondshire is a local government district of North Yorkshire in England. ... Bolton Abbey North Yorkshire is a Shire county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ... The town of Richmond as seen from the top of the keep of Richmond Castle Richmond is a market town on the River Swale in North Yorkshire, UK. Situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, it is a popular tourist destination. ... A village in the Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales lie in an area of high ground in North and West Yorkshire, England. ... Aysgarth Falls are triple flight of waterfalls, carved out by the River Ure over an almost a one-mile stretch on its descent to mid-Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales of England. ...
George Staveley was born in East Witton in 1774 to William Staveley and Mary Firby.
George's occupation was that of millwright at Yore Mill in Aysgarth, and married Dorothy Wray, in St. Andrew's church on January 13th 1806.
They are not present in the 1841 census for Aysgarth or the surrounding villages, and the last register entry for a Staveley from this family in the registers of St. Andrew was for the christening of George's grandson William in 1833.
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