MELMERBY is a township and village in the parish of Wath, a quarter of a mile east from the Melmerby Junction station on the North Eastern railway and is the junction for Northallerton and Masham branches; it is 3 miles from Ripon by rail and 4 ½ by road. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1826. Here is a brewery. Melmerby Hall is the residence of Mrs Verelst. The principal landowners are the trustees of the late J. T. Pearson esq. Sir R. H. Graham bart. the trustees of the late Martin Waddington esq. Lt.-Col. John I’Anson, of Howe Hall, Pickhill, and Richard Henry Prior-Wandesforde esq. of Castlecomer, Ireland. The land is of excellent quality for turnips and barley, and specially adapted for sheep farming, the acreage is 1,139; rateable value, £2,849; in 1911 the population was 284.