Aislaby, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Whitby parish, N. R. Yorkshire, on the Esk river and the Whitby railway, 1 mile from Sleights station on the N.E.R., and 3 miles SW of Whitby. Post town, Sleights, under Whitby. Acreage, 1072; population, 840. A building limestone is quarried here, and was the material of Whitby Abbey and of several great modern works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; value, £110.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
