1850/ 1876 Vine House was used as the post office
1851 Population 3,321
1851 Census shows Head of Household and All others in the House on the night of 30 March, Their relationship to Head of Household, Their Marital Status, Age, Sex, Profession or Occupation, Where Born, And if Blind, Deaf or Dumb
1854 North End Station Built on the Leeds to Stockton line
1856 North Riding constabulary Founded, One of the last County forces to be formed.
1856 N/A cemetery Laid Down (Designed)
1857 The new Union Workhouse (Sun Beck House, now part of the Friarage Hospital) was built on land known as Friarage Fields.(The site of an old Camelite Friarage). It provided Accommodation for 125 inmates
1857 Savings Bank built on site of Old Town Workhouse
1858 Annual value of Tolls was about £100.00
1860 Houses started to be built on South Parade
1864 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Built on the Site of the Pack Horse Inn on the East side of the High Street Close to the Rudson Hospital
1872 (1870**) The Shambles bought from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Northallerton Market and Public Improvement Company (*) and demolished.
1872 Town Hall Built on site of the Shambles at a cost of £5,000 and was opened on December 22nd 1873
1872 Market cross moved to Standard House, reinstalled in 1913 (Originally built in 1777)
1873 The Tollbooth (for the paying of Market Tolls not Road Tolls) bought for £18.00 and demolished
1873 Over twenty public Houses in the High Street
1873 N/A Cattle Mart Opened beside the Railway Station
1877 The Cottage Hospital was opened in the building known as " Vine House". Built as a private house, it was used as a meeting place for the Quarter Sessions between 1720 and 1770, and as the Post Office from 1850 to
1876. Renamed in 1904 to the "Rudson"
1880 New Constabulary Headquarters Built at north end of Goal
1882 New church built at Romanby and dedicated to St James on May 30th 1882
1882 Cattle Mart opened at Malpas Fields
1885 104 Trains stopped at N/A
1887 Church Yard Trees Planted
1889 N/A established as the County town for the new administrative county of the North Riding
1890 New "Merryweather" steam Fire engine bought for the town
1896 The First Car was seen in N/A on November 27th
1898/1929 Major Robert Bower Chief Constable North Riding Police (Knighted in 1925)
1899 The Northallerton Electric Light and Power Company was founded by a Mr. Ernest Hutton
(*) see Christopher Palliser 1819 - 1900 Find This Person
(**) Dates vary between books