ALDWARK is a township, chapelry and pleasant village, in the civil parish of Alne, on the eastern bank of the river Ouse, which is crossed one mile from the village by a bridge of 22 arches and culverts of brick, the centre portion connecting it with the parish of Ousebum, in the West Riding, being constructed of iron and supported by six iron pillars: it is 3 miles south-west from Alne station on the main line of the North Eastern railway and 6 south-west from Easingwold. The river is here navigable, and previous to the opening of the York and Newcastle railway a good business was carried on in coal and lime. The church of St. Stephen, erected by the late Lady Frankland-Russell about 1846, from designs by Mr. E. B. Lambe, is a structure of pebbles, rubble and brick, in the late Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave, north and south transepts, porch and a tower with spire, containing 2 bells: the roof is of open oak timber framing, with arched trusses springing from moulded stone corbels: there is one stained window, the gift of the late Mr. John Bretherton, of Aldwark: the church affords 100 sittings. The living is annexed to Alne, and has an endowment of 30 yearly, given by the late Lady Frankland-Russell. Aldwark Manor, now (1913) unoccupied, is a fine structure of brick, pleasantly situated in a park of about 70 acres. Lord Wolsingham is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is light sandy; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are rye, oats and barley. The area is 2,314 acres of land and 23 of water; rateable value, £2,500; the population in 1911 was 179.

Village school, reorganised in 1877, for 60 children; average attendance, 34.