ROMANBY is a village and township in the parish and union of Northallerton and wapentake and petty sessional division of Allertonshire: it is half a mile south-west of Northallerton. The Northallerton railway station is within the township. The church of St. James was erected at a cost of £2,876, from designs by Mr. Charles Hodgson Fowler, architect, of Durham, and consecrated May 30, 1882; it is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel and nave only, under an externally continuous open-timbered roof covered with red tile: the chancel is decorated in colour and the reredos is painted in imitation of mosaic work: there are 170 sittings. The impropriate tithe amounts to £151. The principal landowners are John Hutton esq. who is lay rector, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who are lords of the manor, Major John E. Hutton-Squire, Capt. M. W. W. P. Consett E.N. and Lady Isabella Battie-Wrightson. The acreage is 2,061; rateable value in 1912, £11,456; the population in 1911 was 537.

Public Elementary school (mixed), erected in 1874, for 88 children; average attendance, 54.