Floriston was in the vicinity of the bridge over the River Esk.
It is located at the estuary of three rivers: the Esk, Mite and Irt.
Baty built a parsonage for himself at his own expense, and for the use of his parishioners provided a ferry for the first time across the River Esk, which ran through the town, and across which there was no bridge.
This also applies to the similarly spelled rivers Axe, Exe and Usk with the changes to the name evolving over ten centuries of usage.
The Cumberland Quarter Sessions (Coroner's Inquests) in 1762 looked into the death of Elizabeth Benson, aged 30, who died walking from Whincop in Birker to Boot in Eskdale, when she tried to ford Birker Beck at the site of a footbridge which had been destroyed by earlier floods, and was swept into the River Esk and drowned.
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It is in Dumfries and Galloway, near the mouth of the River Esk and was historically the first village in Scotland, following the old coaching route from London to Edinburgh.
The viaduct was constructed for the Scarborough and Whitby Railway to carry a single track line over the River Esk and valley near Whitby, as well as crossing the Esk Valley Railway, and Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway.
The Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway (WRMU) was a railway line in North Yorkshire, England, built in the late 19th century, running from Loftus on the Yorkshire coast to the Esk at Whitby, and connecting Middlesbrough via previously built lines in Cleveland to Whitby.