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"wapentake" Definitions
  1. a subdivision of some English shires corresponding to a hundred
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Map showing the Newark wapentake Newark was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England.
Encyclopædia Britannica. The Wapentake of Beltisloe was bounded on the north by Winnibriggs and Threo Wapentake; on the east by Aveland Wapentake; on the south by Ness Wapentake and Rutland and on the west by Grantham soke and Leicestershire. This wapentake contained a number of now abandoned settlements, and in the 19th century contained the market town of Corby Glen and the villages of Basingthorpe, Bitchfield, Burton Coggles, Castle Bytham, Little Bytham, Careby, Creeton, Edenham, Gunby, Irnham, Lavington, Skillington, Stainby, Swayfield, Swinstead, Witham on the Hill, North Witham and South Witham.
London: Cecil Palmer. Tollerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Tolentun in the ancient wapentake of Bulford in the North Riding and was owned by the church of St Peter in York.Open Domesday Online: Tollerton, accessed 5 February 2019. In the 12th century, the wapentake was renamed as the wapentake of Bulmer.
Beltisloe is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln in England, and a former Wapentake. The Wapentake of Beltisloe was established as ancient administrative division of the English county of Lincolnshire before the Norman Conquest of 1066.Open Domesday: Wapentake of Beltisloe in 1066 and 1086, accessed 9 May 2020.Allen.History of the County of Lincoln. p.
Historically, Clowne was in the hundred or wapentake of Scarsdale in the county of Derbyshire. This hundred dates to pre Conquest times. Wapentake is a division of Danish or Viking origin.Buckley (1977), p. 5.
112), section 1. The Reform Act 1867 re-defined the constituency as the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, Claro, Skyrack, Barkston Ash, and Osgoldcross. The Boundary Act 1868 again re-defined the constituency as the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross with part of the wapentake of Morley (the parishes of Bradford and Halifax and the townships of Boston and Idle).
1832–1868: The Hundreds of High Peak and Scarsdale, and so much of the Wapentake of Wirksworth as was comprised in the Bakewell Division. 1868–1885: The Hundred of High Peak and the Wapentake of Wirksworth.
Map showing the Bingham wapentake Bingham was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. It was in the south-east of the county, to the south of the River Trent.
Bassetlaw is named after the historic Anglo-Saxon Bassetlaw Wapentake of Nottinghamshire.
The area of the wapentake was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Hang East was divided up into nine parishes; Bedale, Catterick, Hornby, Kirkby Fleetham, Masham, Patrick Brompton, Scruton, Thornton Watlass and Well. It was bordered to the south by Claro Wapentake and to the east by HallikeldThe spelling of this Wapentake varies between Halikeld and Hallikeld. and Gilling East Wapentakes. To the north lay Richmond and Gilling West Wapentake with Hang West on its western edge.
The old Deanery of Craven was approximately equivalent to the Wapentake of Staincliff.
Wapentakes of the West Riding. Agbrigg is labelled 11 on the map, and Morley is labelled 6. Agbrigg and Morley was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The main purpose of the wapentake was the administration of justice by a local court.
Since the Local Government Act of 1888, Holland had been in most respects, a county in itself. Before this, Freiston had been in Skirbeck Wapentake,White's Directory of 1882 gives the wapentake as Loveden but this is to confuse Freiston with Frieston in Kesteven. Parts of Holland.
In 1831, the Wapentake was measured as covering and was across at its widest and was from north to south. It was chiefly agricultural in nature and possessed two market towns; Bedale and Masham. Its land was described as being more fertile and low-lying than Hang West wapentake (to the west) which contained steeper valleys and higher peaks. In modern times, the area that the Wapentake covered is divided between the Hambleton and Richmondshire districts of North Yorkshire.
Epperstone site Retrieved 19 December 2015. It was in Thurgarton Wapentake (i. e. Hundred) up to 1894.
The village is named after the post-Roman Billings tribe of invaders. The village was formerly served by the Billingboro and Horbling railway station. The former high school name, Aveland, is taken from a pre-conquest Wapentake of that name, dating to 921. The Wapentake extended from Bourne to Threekingham.
Bulmer was the seat of the ancient wapentake of the same name, known as the Bulford wapentake in 1086.Open Domesday Online: Bulmer, accessed 5 February 2019. The name Bulmer comes from "bull mere," a lake frequented by a bull. The manor is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Winnibriggs and Threo was an anciently established wapentake in the Parts of Kesteven, the south-east division of the English county of Lincolnshire. Most of the administrative functions of the wapentake had been lost to other local units of government by 1832.Vision of Britain site: Retrieved 16 March 2012.
Dentdale was originally in the Ewecross Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, but was transferred to Cumbria in 1974.
Claro wapentake is exceptional because it is one of the few hundreds or wapentakes to have divisions with exclaves. The historic reasons for the situation are obscure but are likely based on patterns of settlement and transportation. The area of the wapentake now falls almost entirely within the district of Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
Hang West was a Wapentake (Hundred) in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The Wapentake measured across (from west to east) and was from north to south. It was bordered on its eastern side by Hang East, the West Riding of Yorkshire on the southern side with Westmorland and the West Riding on the Western side.
The name of Hang West name derives from the meeting place of the Wapentake, which was situated at Hang Bank, halfway between Hutton Hang and the village of Finghall. The name of the wapentake is first attested in 1157 as Hangeschire. Hang is believed to derive from the Old English word hængra ('wooded slope').
Originally located in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the entire area within Staincross Wapentake now occupies South Yorkshire. The original boundaries nestled against the wapentakes of Agbrigg to the north, Osgoldcross to the east and Strafforth to the south and south east. On the western edge, the wapentake bordered the Hamestan Hundred of Cheshire. It was estimated to have covered an area of , although, according to Domesday records, a smaller portion, geographically removed from the rest of the wapentake, was located at the village of Adlingfleet where the rivers Ouse and Trent converge.
Wapentakes of the West Riding. The East Division labelled 3 on the map, and the West Division is labelled 2. Staincliffe, also known as Staincliff, was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The wapentake was named from a place called Staincliffe, now lost, in Bank Newton, not to be confused with Staincliffe near Dewsbury.
Before this, Leverton had been in Skirbeck Wapentake, Parts of Holland. Leverton Grade I listed Anglican church is dedicated to St Helen.
The district was named after the old Rushcliffe wapentake. Rushcliffe means "cliff where brushwood grows", from Old English hris "brushwood" and clif "cliff".
Contained within the boundaries of the wapentake are parts of the current Newark and Sherwood district, Gedling borough and the City of Nottingham.
Although some distance from the village of Staincross, the Church of All Saints, Silkstone, was sometimes known as the "Mother Church" of the Staincross Wapentake.
Outlying farms (berwicks) were Cromford, Middleton, Hopton, Wellesdene (sic), Carsington, Kirk Ireton and Callow. It gave its name to the earlier Wirksworth wapentake or hundred.
Denis), is a parish in the union of Sleaford, wapentake of Aswardhurn, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 4 miles (N. by W.) from Folkingham.
European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999 The ancient parish of Quarrington lay within Kesteven's Aswardhurn wapentake. It was incorporated into Sleaford Poor Law Union in 1851.
277 In England a wapentake was the division of a shire for administrative, military and judicial purposes under the common law.Vision of Britain. The term wapentake is of Scandinavian origin and meant the taking of weapons; it later signified the clash of arms by which the people assembled in a local court expressed assent. Danish influence was strong in those English counties where wapentakes existed.
Robin Hood's Bay was part of the chapelry of Fylingdales in the Liberty of Whitby Strand which was a wapentake in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo after the mergers of wapentakes that occurred in the 11th–13th centuries.Vision of Britain: Retrieved 16 March 2012.
The original boundaries of the wapentake were used for the current two government wards of Howden and Howdenshire, which had a combined population of 19,753 at the 2011 census.
Ewcross was split from the Staincliffe and Ewcross wapentake in the nineteenth century. In modern times the name has been used for one of the area deaneries under the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven in the Anglican Diocese of Leeds. In 2017 it amalgamated with Bowland to become the Deanery of Bowland and Ewecross. Since 1974 the area of the wapentake has been divided between the counties of North Yorkshire and Cumbria.
The crimes of the men are unknown, owing to the lack of any associated documentation. The burial site is between Walkington and the deserted village of Hunsley, adjacent to the modern hamlet of High Hunsley, at the boundary of the then hundreds of Welton and Cave.A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 3: Ouse and Derwent wapentake, and part of Harthill wapentake, Allison, K.J. (ed.), 1976. British History Online.
Aveland was a Wapentake of Kesteven from the time of the Danelaw until the Local Government Act 1888. Its meeting place was The Aveland at in the parish of Aslackby.
Wirksworth was the administrative centre of one of the hundreds, local government units, of Derbyshire. Uniquely, the Wirksworth Hundred was still known by the archaic term Wapentake. Lead ore was Crown property in most places and the mining area of Derbyshire under royal control was known as the King's Field, with two separately administered divisions, the High and Low Peaks, each further divided into liberties, based on parishes. Wirksworth Wapentake was the Low Peak area of the King's Field. At different times there were liberties based on Wirksworth, Middleton-by- Wirksworth, Cromford, Brassington, Matlock, Elton, Middleton-by-Youlgreave, Bonsall, Hopton and Carsington, and from 1638 until 1654 there was a separate liberty for the Dovegang,Wirksworth Wapentake Survey, 1652: British Library, Add.
Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the chapelry of West Bretton was partly in the parish of Sandal Magna in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley and partly in the parish of Silkstone in the wapentake of Staincross. It became part of the Wakefield poor law union in 1837. West Bretton became part of Wakefield Rural District, created in 1894 and abolished 1974, when it became part of the City of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
Knaresborough Market Place. Knaresborough is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Chenaresburg, meaning "Cenheard's fortress",Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. Knaresborough. in the wapentake of Burghshire, Open Domesday: Knaresborough renamed Claro Wapentake in the 12th century. Knaresborough Castle is Norman; around 1100, the town began to grow and provide a market and attract traders to service the castle.
The Manor House, Ilkley Ilkley formed part of the Wapentake of Skyrack; its lands to the north of the river fell into the wapentake of Claro.Thomas Shaw, The History of Wharfedale, Otley, William Walker, 1830, p. 67 In the Domesday Book, dating to 1086, Ilkley (Ilecliue/Illecliue/Illiclei/Illicleia) is listed as being in the possession of William de Percy 1st Baron Percy.Ilkley a 'Ghost Town' in 1086, edited version of an Ilkley Gazette article from 18 February 1993.
Wapentakes were found in the Danelaw, most notably the wapentakes of Yorkshire. In the 12th century, the wapentake (or "Earldom") of Sadberge was a liberty of the county of Northumberland. In 1139, Northumberland and its liberties were given to the kingdom of Scotland by England's King Stephen. It was reclaimed in 1157 by Henry II. In 1189 Hugh de Puiset, the Bishop of Durham, purchased the manor and wapentake of Sadberge from Richard I for £11,000.
Historically, the village lay in the Claro Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974. Aldfield was the birthplace of the artist William Powell Frith.
Staincliffe was presumably where the wapentake originally met, although in the 12th century it met at Flasby. The wapentake was split into two divisions. The East Division included the ancient parishes of Barnoldswick, Bracewell, Broughton, Burnsall, Carleton, Gargrave, Hebden, Keighley, Kettlewell, Kildwick, Linton, Marton in Craven, Skipton, Thornton in Craven and parts of Arncliffe and Addingham. The West Division included the parishes of Bolton by Bowland, Giggleswick, Gisburn, Kirkby Malhamdale, Long Preston, Slaidburn and parts of Arncliffe, Browsholme, Mitton, and Sawley.
Belvoir Castle in 2006 Belvoir Castle in the late 19th century The south west range and round tower of Belvoir Castle from Jones' Views of the seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, published in 1829. Barring minor details this image shows the castle as it remains today. 10th Duke outside Belvoir Castle, by Allan Warren (late 1990s) A Norman castle originally stood on the high ground within the wapentake of Framland, overlooking the adjacent wapentake of Winnibriggs. in Lincolnshire and dominating both.
There was a Saxon settlement in around 500 AD. In 1853 the manor belonged to Rev. Christopher Nevile but was previously owned by the Nevile family. The parish was part of the Newark wapentake.
Fraisthorpe Beach, showing Bridlington and Flamborough on the horizon. In 1823 Fraisthorpe was written as "Fraysthorpe". It was in the parish of Carnaby and the Wapentake of Dickering. Occupations at the time included two farmers.
Page in Open Domesday. Retrieved 23 September 2019. The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo. The population of the 51 houses of the village in 1870–1872 was given as 234.
Aveland was probably established as an administrative unit soon after 921 when Edward the Elder ably assisted until 918, by Æthelflæd had restored English rule in the part of the Danelaw represented by Kesteven. The wapentake included the ancient parishes of Aslackby, Billingborough, Birthorpe, Bourne, Dembleby, Dowsby, Dunsby, Folkingham, Haconby, Haceby, Horbling, Kirkby Underwood, Laughton, Morton, Newton, Osbournby, Pickworth, Pointon, Rippingale, Sempringham, Spanby, Swaton, Threekingham and Walcot;"Aveland Wapentake through time", Vision of Britiain. Retrieved 13 June 2020. some of which have since been amalgamated.
Prior to the formation of the county council in 1889 the system of local government was fractured and dependent on many different structures. Like Yorkshire, Lindsey too, during the so-called Danelaw period, adopted the structure of Manor/ Wapentake /Riding (being a third part of the Parts of Lindsey). Bishop Norton was in the Wapentake of Aslacoe, in the West Riding of the Parts of Lindsey. The other important factors in local government throughout the post-medieval was the parish and the justices in their sessions.
Its name derives from its meeting place of Hang Bank which was halfway between Hutton Hang and the village of Finghall. Hang is believed to derive from the Old English word Hangar which meant a wooded slope. The place is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Hotun. Both Hang East and Hang West, were originally one wapentake (Hang) until they were divided in the 13th century; this is why Hang East wapentake derives its name from a hill which was no longer in its area.
The Ainsty is first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 (in the form Ainestig), when it was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was named from Ainsty Cliff at Bilbrough, presumably the original meeting place of the wapentake. Ainsty Cliff was itself named from a small narrow path which led from Steeton Farm over Ainsty Cliff to Bilbrough. The word Ainsty is from Old English ān stiga, meaning "one-man path" or "narrow path", which became einstigi in Old Norse.
Wapentakes of the West Riding. The Upper Division labelled 8 on the map, and the Lower Division is labelled 4. Claro was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was split into two divisions.
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Sezai" in the wapentake of Gerlestre (from the mid-12th century known as Birdforth). It later became a detached part of the wapentake of Allertonshire. At the time of the Norman invasion, the manor was the possession of the Bishop of Durham and St Cuthbert's Church, Durham. The manor became a Mesne lordship and was held after the Norman invasion first by the Percy family and then by the Darrell family from the end of the 12th century to the late 15th century.
Loveden is a Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln, England, and a former Wapentake. Loveden is located broadly to the North of Grantham and includes the villages from Long Bennington in the west to Culverthorpe in the east, and from Welby in the south as far north as Welbourn. Brandon is roughly in the centre. Loveden Hill is locally supposed to be the meeting place for the early Wapentake summons, and is the site of both Roman and extensive Anglo-Saxon archaeology The name is used for an STD telephone exchange, code 01400.
If there was a riding surrounding the wapentake, the wapentake would merely be a local assembly coordinating the power of the riding. In Scandinavian York's case, it would be under the king's command at what is now King's Square in York. The Kingdom of East Anglia was in control of the Danelaw which had been organised as the Five Boroughs. The Five were fortifications defending land against Wessex, or against the Vikings, depending on who ruled there; together with Lindsey, Lincolnshire, which was divided into three ridings like Yorkshire.
The village dates back to at least 1090, when it was spelled Barcestone. Now part of Selby district, the village previously gave its name to the former wapentake of Barkston Ash. The Ash part of the name comes from a large ash tree said to be at the approximate centre of the ancient county of Yorkshire, where meetings for the wapentake would be held. What is now the A162 London Road was a turnpike constructed in 1769: the Main Street and the major part of the village goes East from the junction with this.
The Shire Oak was an ancient tree that stood in Headingley, now a suburb of the city of Leeds. It is thought to date from the time of the Danelaw in 9th- century England and is a shire oak, a tree that was used as a meeting point for local assemblies. The wapentake (Danish local assembly) in this area was known as the Skyrack wapentake after the tree. The Shire Oak was felled by winds in 1941 and a plaque now marks the place that it once stood.
Buckrose consisted of the parishes of Acklam, Birdsall, Bugthorpe, Burythorpe, Cowlam, Fridaythorpe, Helperthorpe, Heslerton, Kirby Grindalythe, Kirby Underdale, Langton, North Grimston, Norton, Rillington, Scrayingham, Settrington, Sherburn, Skirpenbeck, Sledmere, Thorpe Bassett, Weaverthorpe, Westow, Wetwang, Wharram-le-Street, Wharram Percy, Wintringham and Yedingham. The only town in the wapentake was Norton. Buckrose gave its name to a parliamentary constituency which existed from 1885 to 1950; however, the Buckrose constituency extended well beyond the boundaries of the wapentake, and in fact took most of its electorate from towns in the neighbouring Dickering and Harthill wapentakes.
Alverton historically formed part of Kilvington parish in Newark wapentake. It appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Alvretun and Alvritun.Place Names of Nottinghamshire Retrieved 16 January 2016. The township was recorded in 1832 as having only 16 inhabitants.
"Documents Online: Stainfield", Great Domesday Book, Folios: 364v, 353v. The National Archives. Retrieved 12 June 2013Open Domesday Online: Stainfield, Aveland Wapentake; accessed August 2018. In 1933 Stainfield occupations included two farmers, one at the Manor farm, and three smallholders.
It has long since vanished and its location has not been found. Dogdyke appears as "Dokedyke" in the 14th century, and fell within the ancient wapentake of Langoe. The hamlet has two public houses, a caravan park and a marina.
Musson, Jeremy (2009) Up and Down Stairs. London: John Murray; p. 34 In 1823, Leconfield (then spelt 'Leckonfield') was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill. The parish church was under the patronage of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont.
The parish church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building. In 1823 Hollym was parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. St Nicholas' Church was built in 1814 by the then vicar. Population at the time was 260.
Nocton village sign on Main Street Historically Nocton fell within the Langoe Wapentake of Kesteven"Nocton and Dunston Walks"; North Kesteven District Council, (archive). Retrieved 1 July 2012 until the wapentakes were abolished by the Local Government Act of 1888.
Former political names are frequently still used. Rural areas,the valley’s lower south, tend to have kept older names for longer than the rest of the valley which is evident with Teesdale (dale is an old name for a valley) and Redcar and Cleveland in addition to its predecessor, Langbaurgh council. This has led to the words’ meanings to narrow to refer to these areas. For centuries, north Tees was under the Bishop of Durham's Palatine and south Tees was under a wapentake (division) of the North Riding of Yorkshire, which originally met at Langbaurgh in the centre of the wapentake.
Betty Watson's Hill tumulus There is evidence of Stone Age, Iron Age, Roman and medieval activity here, although the name "Cliffe" appears to be a medieval name possibly referring to Cliffe Hall and its park. Cliffe has no church, but it does have its own parish, possibly due to the previous existence of a chapel at Cliffe Hall. At least part of Cliffe shares the Piercebridge postal address, although Piercebridge is north of the Tees, in County Durham: hence some Cliffe locations are described in some records as Piercebridge locations. This area, being close to Manfield, was part of the Gilling West wapentake at the time of the Norman Conquest, so that the later Manfield parish, which included Cliffe, had in Gilling East wapentake and the comprising Cliffe in Gilling West wapentake. In 1717 there were places in Cliffe known as Haverfield, Willow Pound, Stonebridge-fields, Scroggy Pasture, Lime Kill-fields and Carlberry, together with the 13th-century mill and mill-dam.
The parish church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building. The Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line passes through the parish. In 1823, Holmpton was a parish in the Wapentake of Holderness. The patronage of the parish church was under the King.
"Vitalis" , Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2011. Particularly around the south of the village there are earthwork signs of houses, crofts, quarries and ridge and furrow field systems from earlier medieval settlement. The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.
Excavations have revealed later medieval pits and pottery in the village, with ditches reflecting a predominantly agricultural use of the land. In the Lay Subsidy of 1334, Quarrington and Millthorpe were valued at £4 10s. 4½d., slightly below average for its wapentake.
Wapentakes of the West Riding. The Upper Division labelled 7 on the map, and the Lower Division is labelled 9. Skyrack was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was split into upper and lower divisions and centred in Headingley, Leeds.
In Yorkshire a Norse wapentake usually replaced several Anglo-Saxon hundreds. This process was complete by 1086 in the North and West Ridings, but continued in the East Riding until the mid 12th century. In some counties, such as Leicestershire, the wapentakes recorded at the time of Domesday Book evolved into hundreds later on. In others, such as Lincolnshire, the term remained in use.. Although no longer part of local government, there is some correspondence between the rural deanery and the former wapentake or hundred, especially in the East Midlands, the Archdeaconry of Buckingham and the Diocese of York (see, for example, Beltisloe or Loveden).
William the Conqueror gave the whole lordship to William de Warenne. The name of Conisbrough relates to a king's stronghold and this is usually presumed to have either been on the site of Conisbrough Castle, or of the parish church. At the time of the Norman Conquest the manor of Conisbrough was held by King Harold - he was defeated at the Battle of Hastings. Conisbrough Castle is contained within an artificial oval-shaped enclosure similar to one used as wapentake meeting-places at Gringley-on-the- Hill and East Markham, leading Malcolm Dolby to suppose the castle site may have once been the meeting-place of the Strafforth and Tickhill wapentake.
The village is served by a local shop and the Black Swan public house. In 1823 Eastrington was in the Wapentake and liberty of Howdenshire. At the time the King was the patron of Eastrington's Church of St Michael. A Methodist chapel and a free school existed.
The Domesday Book record shows there was a church with a priest and of meadow. The village belonged until the 19th century to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.Vision of Britain site: Retrieved 16 March 2012. The Domesday village of Casthorpe is west from Barrowby.
Linton was historically a parish in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.Genuki website The ancient parish included the townships of Grassington, Hebden and Threshfield, all of which became separate civil parishes in 1866.Vision of Britain website Linton was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Headda has sometimes been identified with Saint Hædde. A stone coffin found near Beckett Park in 1995 suggests there may have been an earlier settlement in late Roman or post-Roman times. From Viking times, Headingley was the centre of the Skyrack wapentake or Siaraches, the "Shire oak".
In 1823 Kilham civil parish was in the Wapentake of Dickering and the Liberty of St Peter's. A market had previously been held on Thursdays. The parish church was under the patronage of the Dean of York. There existed a free grammar school, founded () by Lord D'Arcy of Aston.
Dembleby: St Lucia's church Dembleby appears in the Domesday survey three times, as "Denbelbi", "Delbebi" and "Dembelbi". The parish was in the ancient Aswardhurn Wapentake. St Lucia's Church is a foundation of unknown age, originally built in Early English style. The old church was taken down in 1867.
Retrieved 19 November 2011 Nafferton Methodist Church In 1823 Nafferton was a parish in the Wapentake of Dickering. The ecclesiastical parish was under the patronage of the Archbishop of York. A Methodist and an Independent chapel, and a small endowed school existed. Population at the time was 917.
The Ainsty or the Ainsty of York was a historic district of Yorkshire, England west of the city of York. Originally a wapentake or subdivision of the West Riding of Yorkshire it later had a unique status as a rural area controlled by the corporation of the city.
Leeds parish is thought to have developed from a large British multiple estate which, under subsequent Anglo-Saxon occupation was further sub divided into smaller land holdings. The ancient estate straddled the wapentakes of Morley Open Domesday Online: Morley Wapentake and Skyrack, Open Domesday Online: Skyrack Wapentake encompassing Leeds, Headingley, Allerton, Gipton, Bramley, Armley, Farnley, Beeston and Ristone (Wortley). Leeds parish in Skyrack was the most important of these holdings. Leeds was then further sub divided so that when the first dependable historical record about Leeds (as "Ledes") was written in the Domesday book of 1086, it was recorded as having comprised seven small manors in the days of Edward the Confessor.
St Stephen's Church, Newport Newport has a church, a school, a few shops, three public houses and two playing fields. In 1823 Newport (then New Port with New Village, and the 'West Side' of the settlement), was partly in the parish of Eastrington, partly part of an extra-parochial area, and within the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire, and the Wapentake of Harthill. In the early 1770s the area that became Newport was the uncultivated and barren Walling Fen. A clay bed deep, and adjacent to the present village, was found and dug to provide material for the production of bricks, tiles and earthenware. A quantity of 1,700,000 tiles and 2,000,000 bricks were being made annually by 1823.
Wapentakes of the West Riding. Osgoldcross is labelled 13 on the map. Osgoldcross was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It included the parishes of Adlingfleet, Badsworth, Burghwallis, Campsall, Castleford, Darrington, Kellington, South Kirkby, Owston, Pontefract, Whitgift, Womersley, Ferry Fryston and parts of Featherstone, Snaith and Wragby.
Temple Hirst is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It was formerly in the Barkston Ash wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The village is located on the north bank of the River Aire. In the 2011 census the population was 117.
Little Hale was originally a township in Great Hale ancient parish in the Kesteven part of Lincolnshire. It was made a separate civil parish in 1866.Youngs, F. A. (1991). p. 263. When a township, it was in Aswardhurn wapentake, and was in Sleaford poor law union and rural sanitary districts.
Nicholas), a parish, in the union of Bourne, wapentake of Beltisloe, parts of Kesteven, county of Lincoln, 2 miles (S. by W.) from Corby; containing 265 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 2. 11., and in the gift of the Crown; net income, £391.
Historically Cromford was part of the Wirksworth Wapentake or Hundred, this administrative area, also known as the Soke of Wirksworth (the "small county of Wirksworth") became, in due course, West Derbyshire Council and is now called Derbyshire Dales District Council. The village is run locally by the Cromford Parish Council.
Historically, the hamlet was in the Parish of Patrick Brompton in the Wapentake of Hang East. The nearest city to Arrathorne is Ripon. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 61. The population in 2011 census was 90 with an estimated population of the same number in 2015.
Historically, Hawksworth lay in Bingham Wapentake or hundred until it joined Bingham Rural District under the terms of the Local Government Act of 1894.J P D Dunbabin, British Local Government Reform: The Nineteenth Century and after in The English Historical Review, Vol. 92, No. 365. (October 1977), pp. 777–805.
In the 2001 Census the population of the whole parish was recorded as 648 in 257 households. Potterhanworth appears in the Domesday survey as "Haneworde". In Old English this meant "Hana's homestead" or "Hana's farmstead".Boston Standard - Pottering about on picturesque ramble It is part of the Wapentake of Langoe.
'Huggate' is derived possibly from road to or near the mounds from the Old Norse haugr and gata. In 1823 Huggate was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill. The parish church was under the patronage of the King; a Methodist chapel also existed. A well, deep, supplied the village with water.
It was formerly in the wapentake of Claro, and the Liberty of Ripon. The population of the parish in the 2001 census was 604, rising to 737 at the 2011 Census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish to be 760. The parish includes the hamlet of Sleningford.
Arncliffe was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The toponym is of Old English origin, meaning "eagles' cliff" (from earn "eagle"). The ancient parish of Arncliffe was part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish also included the townships of Hawkswick, Litton, Halton Gill and Buckden.
Sandal was anciently a parish town in the Agbrigg Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the liberty of Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Following the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, Sandal Magna became one of the 17 constituent parishes of the Wakefield Poor Law Union formed in 1837.
The ecclesiastical parish is in the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln, Archdeaconry of Stow and Manlake Deanery. The church is dedicated to St Genewys. Historically, the parish was in the wapentake of Corringham, and following the Poor Law reforms of the early 19th century was placed in the Gainsborough Poor Law Union.
It lost population in the early modern period, and by 1856 it was described in White's gazetteer as "only a farm of 400 acres" (162 ha).Lincs to the Past Retrieved 23 September 2017. The parish belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo.Vision of Britain map Retrieved 3 July 2016.
Langoe Wapentake was one of the ancient divisions of the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire. It was separated into two divisions, named First and Second. The First division consisted of the Parishes of Billinghay, Kirkby Green and Timberland. The second division contained Blankney, Dunston, Metheringham, Nocton, Potterhanworth, Scopwick and Washingborough.
Map showing the Thurgarton wapentake Thurgarton was a wapentake (equivalent to a hundred) of the historic county of Nottinghamshire, England. It extended north-eastwards from Nottingham. The River Trent formed most of the eastern boundary. It consisted of the parishes of Averham, Bathley, Bleasby, Blidworth, Bulcote, Burton Joyce, Calverton, Carlton, Carlton-on-Trent, Caunton, Caythorpe, Colwick, Cromwell, East Stoke, Edingley, Epperstone, Farnsfield, Fiskerton, Fiskerton Cum Morton, Fledborough, Gedling, Gonalston, Grassthorpe, Gunthorpe, Halam, Halloughton, Haywood Oaks, Hockerton, Holme, Hoveringham, Kelham, Kersall, Kirklington, Kneesall, Lambley, Lindhurst, Lowdham, Maplebeck, Marnham, Meering, Morton, Normanton on Trent, North Muskham, Norwell, Norwell Woodhouse, Nottingham St Mary, Ossington, Oxton, Park Leys, Rolleston, Sneinton, South Muskham, Southwell, Staythorpe, Stoke Bardolph, Sutton on Trent, Thurgarton, Upton, Weston, Winkburn and Woodborough.
During the campaign of the First English Civil War, King Charles I marched by Bridgnorth, Lichfield and Ashbourne to Doncaster, where on 18 August 1645 he was met by great numbers of Yorkshire gentlemen who had rallied to his cause. On 2 May 1664, Doncaster was rewarded with the title of 'Free Borough' by way of the King (Charles I's son, King Charles II) expressing his gratitude for Doncaster's allegiance. Doncaster has traditionally been a prosperous area Vision of Britain: Doncaster within the wapentake of Stafford and Tickhill. Vision of Britain: Stafford and Tickhill Wapentake The borough was known for its rich landowners with vast estates and huge stately homes such as Brodsworth Hall, Cantley Hall, Cusworth Hall, Hickleton Hall, Nether Hall and Wheatley Hall (demolished 1934).
Risplith is a village in the civil parish of Sawley, in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about west of Ripon on the B6265 road to Pateley Bridge. The name is believed to derive from Old Norse of slope overgrown with brushwood. The hamlet was previously in the Wapentake of Claro.
The Roman road, Dere Street crossed the River Ure at Milby. Until the mid 19th century, the old wooden bridge remains could still be seen. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Mildebi in the Hallikeld Wapentake. The lands were the possession of the Crown both before and after the Norman invasion.
Subsidy Rolls are records of taxation in England made between the 12th and 17th centuries. They are often valuable sources of historical information. The lists are arranged by county, and the description of each document indicates the area covered, usually by hundred or wapentake. The 1332 subsidy was the first for which many assessments survive.
The Reform Act 1867, as amended by the Boundary Act 1868, defined the constituency as the wapentakes of Claro, Skyrack, Barkston Ash and Osgoldcross with the part of Morley not in the Northern division. Skyrack is the wapentake centred on Leeds. The other areas included a number of small towns and the surrounding rural parishes.
Framland was a hundred in north-east Leicestershire, England, roughly corresponding to today's borough of Melton. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as one of Leicestershire's four wapentakes.Open Domesday Online: Wapentake of Framland, accessed November 2019. The name remains in use as a deanery of the Diocese of Leicester in the Church of England.
Chapel Haddlesey is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. The village used to be in the Barkston Ash Wapentake and up until 1974, it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The village is just east off the A19 road, which crosses the River Aire on Haddlesey Bridge.
The corporation became a borough council in 1835. Little Gonerby and Spittlegate were added to the borough in 1879. The town had been in the wapentake of Loveden, and the town included three townships of Manthorpe with Little Gonerby, Harrowby, and Spittlegate with Houghton and Walton. Grantham Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1894.
Gribthorpe is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east of Selby and north of Howden. Gribthorpe forms part of the civil parish of Foggathorpe. The road to Gribthorpe In 1823 Gribthorpe (also known as Gripthorpe), was in the civil parish of Bubwith and the Wapentake of Harthill.
Harswell is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is approximately west of Market Weighton town centre, south of Pocklington town centre, and west of the A614 road. It forms part of the civil parish of Everingham. In 1823 Harswell was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill.
Bonthorpe is a hamlet in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated north-east from the village of Willoughby. It is within the Civil Parish of Willoughby with Sloothby. Bonthorpe was known as Brunetorp in 1086, located for governance purposes in the wapentake of Calcewath in the South Riding of Lindsey.
Faxfleet was the location of the Faxfleet Preceptory, a former community of the Knights Templar. It was one of Yorkshire's principal preceptories, valued at more than £290 (equivalent to £ in ). when it was closed in 1308. In 1823 Faxfleet was listed as in the parish of South Cave, and in the Wapentake of Harthill.
Until 13 June 1960 Lockington railway station operated on the line. The level crossing adjacent to the station was the scene of a fatal accident on 26 July 1986. In 1823 Lockington was in the civil parish of Lockington and of Kilnwick, in the Wapentake of Harthill. A National School existed in the village.
Flinton is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north-east of Hull city centre and lies on the B1238 road. Entering Flinton from the east Flinton forms part of the civil parish of Humbleton. In 1823 the village was in the Wapentake of Holderness.
Historically, Burtersett was in the Parish of Aysgarth and the wapentake of Hang West. Whilst it now belongs in the civil parish of Hawes which it is nearer, Aysgarth was the largest settlement around until the Richmond to Lancaster Turnpike was diverted off Cam High Road (south of Burtersett) to go through Hawes and over Widdale.
Morley Park is an area within the parish of Ripley in the English county of Derbyshire, north of Derby. It is about five miles north of the village of Morley itself. At the Norman Conquest it was within the wapentake of Morleyston. In the reign of Henry II it was within the newly created Forest of East Derbyshire.
Coniston Cold is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village lies north-west of Skipton along the A65. According to the 2001 UK census, Coniston Cold parish had a population of 186, increasing to 203 at the 2011 Census.
No sign of the priory can now be seen, but the site is scheduled. Walcott is recorded in the 1872 White's Directory as a hamlet of Billinghay parish, part the Langoe wapentake, and near the Car Dyke navigation. The hamlet had a population of 609 within a land area of which stretched eastwards to the River Witham.
The township formed a detached part of the wapentake of Allertonshire, and retained a detached part at Howgrave, west of the village, apparently only a single farm, into the 19th century.GENUKI: Pickhill. Extract from the National Gazetteer 1868 The township was for that reason referred to as Holme cum Howgrave. Holme became a separate civil parish in 1866.
In particular it represented the "Old Adam" oak on Brierley Common. The chief or upper third of the shield was red, and bore a gold cross between two white roses. The roses were the symbols of Yorkshire, while the cross represented the ancient wapentake of Osgoldcross. A gold cross also featured in the arms of Nostell Priory.
Originally Hunsingore was in the Claro Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Since the county boundary shake up of 1974, it has been in North Yorkshire. There used to be a water-powered corn mill on the River Nidd by the weir. The weir is still on the river, but the mill has been converted into housing.
Scholars believe that the English word 'bully' derives from the surname of this early Norman lord.{cn} Busli was given lands in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Strafforth wapentake of Yorkshire. These had previously belonged to a variety of Anglo-Saxons, including Edwin, Earl of Mercia.David Hey, Medieval South Yorkshire and Rynold de Wynterwade, patriarch of the Wentworth family.
In 1823 Marton was in the civil parish of Swine, and the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. A Catholic chapel was the only place of worship. Population at the time was 129, with occupations including nine farmers and a shoemaker. A carrier, who was also a Licensed victualler, operated between the village and Hull twice weekly.
Great Hale, an ancient Kesteven parish, was in the Aswardhurn wapentake, the Sleaford poor law union and rural sanitary districts.Youngs, F. A. (1991). pp. 243, 263 From 1894 to 1931 it was part of Sleaford Rural District, and from 1931 to 1974, East Kesteven Rural District. Since 1974 it has been in the North Kesteven district.
Screveton (pronounced locally "Screveeton" or "Screeton") is an English parish and village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, with about 100 inhabitants, increasing (including Kneeton) to 191 at the 2011 Census. It was formerly in Bingham Rural District and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake. It is adjacent to Kneeton, Flintham, Hawksworth, Scarrington, Little Green and Car Colston.
Woldgate Methodist Church, Haisthorpe In the village, to the north of the A614, is Grade II listed late 18th-century Haisthorpe Hall. In 1823 Haisthorpe (then Haysthorp), was in the civil parish of Burton Agnes and the Wapentake of Dickering. Population at the time was 109, with occupations that included four farmers, a shoemaker, and a butcher.
Buckden was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Buckden became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website Buckden was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. The parish lies within the Skipton and Ripon UK Parliament constituency.
Retrieved 3 April 2016. The size of the village changed little from the time of enclosure up to the 20th century, when some building took place northward along Hawksworth Road. A few working farms remain, but most inhabitants commute to work or school. Scarrington was in Bingham Rural District up to 1974 and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake.
Langbaurgh is a small hamlet in the civil parish of Great Ayton in North Yorkshire, England. The place gave its name to the Langbaurgh Wapentake. Langbaurgh Hall is a Grade II listed building, dating from 1830. North of the hamlet is the Langbaurgh Ridge, part of Cleveland Dyke, where stone was quarried to make setts for road construction.
The name probably comes from the Old English hlið "hillside" and tūn "farmstead". Litton was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Litton became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website The parish was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.
In 1872 it was renamed the "Blacksmiths' Arms". In 1823 Naburn was in the parishes of Acaster Malbis and St George, York, in the Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Within the village was a chapel of ease, a Methodist chapel, and an endowed school for ten boys. Population at the time was 366.
Historically Thornton-le-Moor was a township in the parish of North Otterington in the wapentake of Birdforth in the North Riding of Yorkshire and after 1837, in the Thirsk Poor Law Union. After the passing of the Local Government Act 1972, on 1 April 1974 the village became part of Hambleton, a local government district of North Yorkshire.
In the 1086 Domesday Book, the village name is given as "Widerne". The parish was in the ancient Calceworth Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey. After the Poor Law Amendment Act reforms of 1834, the parish became part of the Louth Poor Law Union. The common lands, some , were enclosed in 1839.
A mistake in the location of the bridge means that it lands on private property, and is dangerously close to the river. Since no further money is available the bridge has remained closed since its construction. In 1823 Emmotland was in the parish of Frodingham and the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. Occupations at the time included two farmers.
The first compromise reached by the House of Commons was to put East Retford into the Wapentake while transferring the seats of another guilty borough, Penryn, to Manchester, but the latter Bill was defeated in the House of Lords. The question dragged on through the whole of the 1826–30 Parliament, and the Whig amendment to transfer Retford's seats to Birmingham was eventually defeated by 126 votes to 99. The Act that was passed in 1830 therefore reverted to the earlier practice, and the borough's boundaries were extended to encompass the Wapentake of Bassetlaw (which included the whole of the northern end of Nottinghamshire, including the town of Worksop): all those within this area who were qualified to vote in the county elections were given votes for East Retford.
Holme is the site of a lost settlement in West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately north-east from the city of Lincoln, and contained within the village of Sudbrooke, between Main Drive to the east and Holme Drive to the west. Holme was documented as a village in 1334, but no trace remains today. Holme was in the Lawress Wapentake.
Rise is a village and civil parish in Holderness, the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately east of the town of Beverley and south-west of Hornsea. It lies to the east of the B1243 road. The place- name 'Rise' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Risun in the Holderness Wapentake.
Kilpin Pike is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north of Goole town centre, about south of Howden, and lies on the north bank of the River Ouse. The village forms part of the civil parish of Kilpin. In 1823 Kilpin Pike was in the parish of Howden and the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire.
The constituency is mainly rural. The only towns are Selby and Tadcaster. The rural areas include parts of the ancient wapentake of the Ainsty of York. ;In statistics The constituency consists of Census Output Areas of two local government districts with similar characteristics: a working population whose income is close to the national average and lower than average reliance upon social housing.
Since the parish is small, it has a parish meeting instead of a parish council. The village forms a conservation area, which was last reviewed and extended in June 2009. The member of Parliament (MP) for the Newark constituency, to which Car Colston belongs, is the Conservative Robert Jenrick. It was formerly in Bingham Rural District and before 1894 in Bingham Wapentake.
Newton-le-Willows is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, west of Bedale. Historically, it is part of the North Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Hang East. Newton-le-Willows used to have a railway station on the Wensleydale Railway. The station opened with the Bedale to Leyburn extension of the line in 1856.
Hawkswick is a hamlet and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Situated in the Yorkshire Dales, it lies in Littondale on the River Skirfare. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 70 in 2012. Hawkswick was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The village as it stands today was established with a small number of farm houses around 400 years ago. Later building added to and expanded these existing structures into larger houses and farms with attached barns. Many barns were then demolished during the 1800s to avoid the 'Roof Tax'. In 1823 the Folkton parish was in the Wapentake of Dickering.
Spilsby parish was traditionally in the East division of the ancient Bolingbroke Wapentake in the East Lindsey district in the parts of Lindsey. The parish was also in the Bolingbroke Soke. Kelly's 1913 Directory of Lincolnshire places the parish in the South Lindsey division of the county. Spilsby, governed locally by Spilsby Town Council, is under East Lindsey District Council based at Manby.
Yorkshire in 1832 Yorkshire has three Ridings, \- Riding is taken from the Old Norse thrithjung meaning thirdings one third of an equally important area. East, North and West. Each of these was divided into wapentakes, analogous to hundreds. The Ainsty wapentake, first associated with the West Riding, became associated in the fifteenth century with the City of York, outside the Riding system.
Binsoe was not recorded in the Domesday Book, but was listed as Binzhou in 1190. The name is believed to have derived from a personal name such as Binteshou. Other variants have been recorded as Bishou in 1202, Bynshu in 1301, and Bynsoo in 1536. The hamlet used to be in the Wapentake of Hallikeld, but was later in the Bedale Rural District.
Newland lies within the Parliamentary constituency of Haltemprice and Howden an area that mainly consists of middle class suburbs, towns and villages. The area is affluent and has one of the highest proportions of owner-occupiers in the country. In 1823 Newland (then New Land), was in the parishes of Eastrington and Howden, and the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire.
Sandstone and coal in alternate layers are the underlying rocks of the area. In the Domesday Book, Brierley is referred to as 'Brerelia' in the wapentake of Staincross. The actual Domesday Book spelling is 'Breselia' but all ensuing documents use 'Brerelia' as the correct form. Later, this name became 'Brereley', then Brearley from which we get one of our modern pronunciations.
The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Rorestone with the name deriving from Hror's or Roarr's farm /settlement (Hror/Roarr-s-tun). The village was in the wapentake of Staincross. Originally a farming village, Royston joined the Industrial Revolution with the construction in the 1790s of the Barnsley Canal, and later a branch of the Midland Railway. Both are now disused.
Leicestershire was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a city within the wapentake of Guthlaxton.Open Domesday: Leicester, accessed May 2020. when there were four wapentakes completely in Leicestershire: Guthlaxton, Framland, Goscote and Gartree. These later became hundreds, with the division of Goscote into West Goscote and East Goscote, and the addition of Sparkenhoe hundred from a partition of Guthlaxton.
Retrieved 2 February 2018. At the time of the Norman conquest the name of the village was Adelinctune. It belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo."Winnibriggs and Threo Wap" , A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 March 2012 The post office and green in 1908 Allington's Grade II listed Anglican parish church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity.
Deepdale is a hamlet in Langstrothdale in the Yorkshire Dales in the north of England. The hamlet is northwest of Kettlewell and north of Settle. The hamlet was originally in the wapentake of Staincliffe and has been written as Deep Dale, Deep-Dale and Deepdale. Deepdale lies on the north bank of the River Wharfe, on the route of the Dales Way.
The Salford Hundred (also known as Salfordshire) was one of the subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire, in Northern England (see:Hundred (county division). Its name alludes to its judicial centre being the township of Salford (the suffix -shire meaning the territory was appropriated to the prefixed settlement). It was also known as the Royal Manor of Salford and the Salford wapentake..
Simon Bradstreet was baptized on March 18, 1603/4 in Horbling, Aveland Wapentake, Parts of Kesteven, Lincolnshire, the second of three sons of Simon and Margaret Bradstreet. His father was the rector of the parish church, and was descended from minor Irish nobility.Cutter, pp. 123–124 With his father a vocal Nonconformist, the young Simon acquired his Puritan religious views early in life.
Historically Woolley, mentioned as "Weludai" in the Domesday Book, was part of the Staincross Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the late 19th century it was part of the Roystone parish. By 1881 it had become a civil parish in its own right, which covered an area of about . Until 1974 it formed part of the rural district of Wakefield.
Eggborough (as well as High and Low Eggborough) is mentioned in the Domesday Book and was formerly in the Wapentake of Osgoldcross. The name derives from Ecga's Burh; a fortification which belonged to a person named Ecga. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. Eggborough Grain Mill There is a pub in the village; the Horse and Jockey.
The parish of Skinnand was in the higher division of the ancient Boothby Graffoe wapentake, in the North Kesteven division of the county of Lincolnshire. The term wapentake dates back to the Vikings and was used to describe a collection of local parishes. It meant "show your weapon" and the idea behind the term was that all those in favour of a resolution would raise their sword or axe to show agreement. A panoramic view across Navenby lowfields, where Skinnand once stood, taken from the top of the Lincoln Cliff at Clint Lane, Navenby The History of the County of Lincoln, a book written by Thomas Allen in 1834, states: Skinnand was classed as an ancient parish from the 11th to the 19th century, as it came "under the jurisdiction of a clergyman" and existed before 1597.
In 1823 Langtoft was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Dickering and the Liberty of St Peter's. Population at the time was 416. Occupations included thirteen farmers, two butchers, three shoemakers, two tailors, two grocers, a blacksmith, a corn miller, a stonemason, and the landlords of the George & Dragon and Nelson public houses. Carriers operated between the village and Driffield once a week.
The place-name Bingham seems to contain an Old English personal name, Bynna + ingahām (Old English). The Romans built a fortress at Margidunum (Bingham) and a settlement at the river crossing at Ad Pontem (East Stoke) on the Fosse Way, which ran between Isca (Exeter) and Lindum (Lincoln). The south-east of Nottinghamshire later formed the wapentake of Bingham. Bingham acquired a market charter in 1341.
There is a TV transmission mast just north of the village. Together with West Marton it forms the civil parish of Martons Both and in the 2011 census the population was listed as 213. East Marton was an ancient parish, sometimes known as Church Marton or Marton in Craven, in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Wapentakes of the West Riding. Barkston Ash is labelled 10 on the map. Barkston Ash was a wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, named after the meeting-place at the village of Barkston. It included the parishes of Birkin, Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Brayton, Drax, Kirk Fenton, Ledsham, Monk Fryston, Saxton with Scarthingwell and Sherburn-in-Elmet and parts of Brotherton, Kirkby Wharfe, Ryther, Snaith and Tadcaster.
Scottlethorpe is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Scachertorp" within the Beltisloe wapentake, and consisting of 3 households and 1.3 ploughlands. In 1086 the Lord of the Manor and Tenant-in-chief became Robert of Tosny."Documents Online: Scottlethorpe, Lincolnshire", Folio: 367r, Great Domesday Book; The National Archives. Retrieved 22 May 2012 There were medieval chapels in the area, one at Scottlethorpe, and others wider afield.
Bronze Age pit dwellings have been discovered near Bempton. From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Bempton was part of Dickering Wapentake. Between 1894 and 1974 Bempton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Between 1974 and 1996 it was part of the Borough of North Wolds (later Borough of East Yorkshire), in the county of Humberside.
The toponym is from an Old Norse personal name Asgaut, with the Old Danish suffix -by ("farm" or "village"), thus "Asgaut's farm". The place is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the Middle Ages the village was in the Ouse and Derwent wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and in the large ancient parish of Hemingbrough. It became a separate civil parish in 1866.
The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo."Winnibriggs and Threo Wap", A Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 16 March 2012. The village church dedicated to the Holy Cross dates from the 13th century. Its pinnacled tower was added in 1519 at the expense of Anthony Ellys, a wool merchant of Ellys Manor House, which is open to the public.
The hamlet is situated on the B6255 road between Ingleton and Ribblehead near to the Ribblehead Viaduct. The name derives from Old French and literally means Chapel in the valley. It was first recorded as Chappell ith Dale in 1677. Historically, the hamlet, and its parish, were both in the Wapentake of Ewcross and up until 1974, they were in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The village contains a public house, two benches (one a war memorial and the other a millennium bench) and a telephone box. Lelley Wesleyan Methodist Church was demolished in the late 19th century. In 1823 Lelly was in the parish of Preston and the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. Population was 119, which included a carrier who operated between the village and Hull once a week.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Howdenshire is marked 5. Howdenshire was a wapentake and a liberty of England, lying around the town of Howden in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In the Saxon period, the district was under the control of Peterborough's monastery, but it was confiscated by Edward the Confessor, and then given to the Bishop of Durham by William I of England.
In 1823 Harpham was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Dickering. The St Quintin family were Lords of Harpham. The foundations of the St Quintin mansion were recorded as being to the west of the church. The church contains St Quintin burials in the north aisle and a stained glass window to Sir William St Quintin, twenty-eighth in succession, who died in 1777.
Welbury is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is about south of Appleton Wiske and north of Northallerton. The village is mentioned in the Domesday book (1086) as having 6 Geld units for taxable purposes and King William being the Lord. The village was originally in the Union of Northallerton which was in the Wapentake of Birdforth.
Broxtowe is a suburban constituency in Nottinghamshire, to the west of the city of Nottingham, and almost identical in character to the seat of Gedling east of Nottingham. Broxtowe lies along the county's western border with Derbyshire. The constituency's name is derived from the old Broxtowe wapentake of Nottinghamshire, which covered a larger area. The constituency includes the East Midlands towns of Beeston, Stapleford and Kimberley.
Sign at the crossroads in Leeming Bar. This is on Roman Road, the original A1 road Hang EastSometimes referred to as East Hang. was a Wapentake (Hundred), which is an administrative division (or ancient district), in the historic county of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was one of the smaller wapentakes by area and consisted of nine parishes and two towns; Bedale and Masham.
Above the wainscoting runs a frieze, painted on boards, displaying the arms of the gentlemen of Yorkshire. They are arranged in twenty-one Wapentakes. To each Wapentake is given a tree and the coats of all gentlemen then living in that district are hung on its branches. Sir William carried on his heraldic decoration in the painted glass, which is the finest part of the Great Chamber.
The land on which the village stands was named by the Romans as Val-Caester. In Latin, Val means "a wall" and Castrum means a "camp". When the Romans departed the land was acquired by an Anglo-Saxon called Aca. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Acastre in the wapentake of Ainsty and was recorded to belong to two men, Elsi and Robert.
The village forms part of and is run by the Dalton Estate, which is owned by the Hotham family. Holme on the Wolds was listed as "Hougon" in the Domesday Book. The name is believed to derive from the Old Norse word haugr meaning hills or mound. In 1823 Holme on the Wolds was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill.
The area between Colsterworth Church and Twyford was once known as Dunkirk. Colsterworth, Woolsthorpe and Twyford are all separately entered in the Domesday Book of 1086."Welcome to the Village Archive Group web site!", Villagearchivegroup.com. Retrieved 30 April 2012 The village belonged to the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo."Winnibriggs and Threo Wap", A Vision of Britain through Time, Retrieved 16 March 2012.
Candleby appears in the Domesday Book as "Calnodesbi", in the Wapentake of Candleshoe. Although wapentakes were abandoned as local government units in the 1890s, the Candleshoe name lives on as the local Deanery. Gunby Hall was built around 1700 for Sir William, 3rd Baronet Massingberd, and was the former seat of the Massingberd family. The last in residence was Field Marshal Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd.
Guthlaxton is an ancient hundred of Leicestershire. Its jurisdiction was in the south of the county, and covered Lutterworth and Wigston Magna. At the time of the Domesday Book, it was one of Leicestershire's four wapentakes, and covered a much larger area,Open Domesday: Guthlaxton Wapentake, accessed March 2020. Domesday Map: Guthlaxton including Market Bosworth and Hinckley, which would later be made part of the Sparkenhoe hundred.
East of Kilnsea is the Grade II listed First World War concrete acoustic mirror used as an early warning device. Kilnsea has one public house, the Crown and Anchor. In 1823 Kilnsea was a civil parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. The parish church, dedicated to Saint Helen, was close to the cliff and in a "state of dilapidation" and "dangerous condition".
Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lincolnshire since the Middle Ages, the ancient parish of Skegness was in the Marsh division of the ancient wapentake of Candleshoe in the Parts of Lindsey.Youngs (1991), p. 278.Oldfield (1829), p. 21. In 1875, it was placed in the Spilsby Poor Law Union, but in 1885 Skegness became a local board of health and urban sanitary district.
The village lies in the Great Wold Valley and the course of the winterbourne stream the Gypsey Race passes through it. East Lutton East Lutton forms part of the civil parish of Luttons. In 1823 East Lutton was in the parish of Weaverthorpe, the Wapentake of Buckrose, and the Liberty of St Peter's in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Population, including West Lutton was 311.
Clitheroe Castle, the caput of the Honour of Clitheroe The Honour of Clitheroe (also spelled Honor) is an ancient grouping of manors and royal forests centred on Clitheroe Castle in Lancashire, England; an honour traditionally being the grant of a large landholding complex, not all of whose parts are contiguous. In the case of Clitheroe, this complex was loosely clustered around the ancient wapentake of Blackburnshire.
The Statute of Cambridge 1388 (12 Rich. 2, ch. 7) was a piece of English legislation that placed restrictions on the movements of labourers and beggars. It prohibited any labourer from leaving the hundred, rape, wapentake, city, or borough where he was living, without a testimonial, showing reasonable cause for his departure, to be issued under the authority of the justices of the peace.
The name Isle is given to the area since, prior to the area being drained by the Dutchman Cornelius Vermuyden, each town or village was built on areas of dry, raised ground in the surrounding marshland. The River Don used to flow to the north and west (it has since been diverted), dividing the Isle from Yorkshire; the River Idle separates the Isle from Nottinghamshire; and the River Trent separates the Isle from the rest of Lincolnshire. Three small towns developed here: Epworth – birthplace of John Wesley and his brother Charles; Crowle; and Haxey. The boundaries of the Isle of Axholme usually match with those of the ancient wapentake of Epworth Domesday Online - Epworth wapentake and its 17 communities: Belton, Crowle, Epworth, Haxey, Beltoft, (High and Low) Burnham, Owston Ferry, (East) Lound and (Graise)lound, Garthorpe, Luddington, Amcotts, (West) Butterwick, Althorpe, The Marshes, Waterton, Upperthorpe, and Westwoodside.
The Church of All Saints The toponym is from an Old English personal name Bardolf, with the Old Danish suffix -by ("farm" or "village"), thus "Bardolf's farm". The place is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the Middle Ages the village was in the Ouse and Derwent wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and in the large ancient parish of Hemingbrough. It became a separate civil parish in 1866.
Robin Hood's Bay is a small fishing village and a bay located in the North York Moors National Park, south of Whitby and north of Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. Bay Town, its local name, is in the ancient chapelry of Fylingdales in the wapentake of Whitby Strand. It is on the Cleveland Way national trail and also the end point of Wainwright's Coast to Coast route.
The parish of Thorpe Bassett is in the wapentake of Buckrose. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All Saints, in the deanery of Buckrose. The Church was built in the 12th century and then extensively restored in the late 1870s by Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. The church features a war memorial to those from the village who lost their lives fighting in the First World War.
East Ferry was founded in the 13th century around a ferry crossing; the ferry ran until the 1940s. Previously it was also known as East Kinnard's Ferry,Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 594 and was part of the Corringham Wapentake. A Medieval chapel in the village, dedicated to St Laurence, is described as decayed in the 16th century, but survived into the late 18th century.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Ouse and Derwent is marked 1. Ouse and Derwent was a wapentake of the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, England consisting of the westerly part of the county, between the River Ouse and the River Derwent. Established in medieval times, it ceased to have much significance in the 19th century when the wapentakes were superseded by other administrative divisions for most local government purposes.
"Honington" , Domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 21 December 2011. The smaller lordship, worth three geld units, was held by Ulf (Fenman) before the 1066 conquest, then in 1086 by Fulbert with Gilbert of Ghent as his tenant-in-chief. Honington, like every Lincolnshire village, was assessed at twelve carucates to the geld was known as a hundred in the 11th century, each hundred being a fiscal unit distinct from the larger political wapentake.
In 1823 Baine's Directory recorded Foggathorpe as in the parish of Bubwith and the Wapentake of Harthill. Population was 137, with occupations including three farmers, a blacksmith, a wheelwright, a grocer, and a shoemaker. A carrier operated between the village and York and Howden once a week. At the time parcels of land were let to labourers for 'cow-gates' which resulted in a reduction in poor rates.
In 1823, Melbourne was in the civil parish of Thorton and the Wapentake of Harthill. Within the village was a Wesleyan and a Primitive Methodist chapel. Population at the time was 437. Occupations included two blacksmiths, two shoemakers, a joiner, a wheelwright & machine maker, a bricklayer, a cattle dealer, a shopkeeper, a brick & tile maker, and fourteen farmers, one of whom was the landlord of The Cross Keys public house.
The village was a parish in the Wapentake of Harthill, and partly in the Liberty of St Peter. Population at the time was 220, with occupations including fifteen farmers, a boot & shoe maker, a corn miller, a shoemaker, a wheelwright, a blacksmith who was also the parish clerk, and the licensed victualler of The Star public house. A carrier operated between the village and Market Weighton and Beverley once a week.
Horton in Ribblesdale was historically a part of Ewcross wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a parish town in the early 12th century when the church of St. Oswald was established. This church was historically associated with the Deanery of Chester, and was part of the Diocese of York – though today it is part of the Diocese of Leeds. The surviving parish records date back to 1556.
Sawley was an extra-parochial area in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1858, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974. The civil parish previously had a detached area on the southern side of Gisburn with a smaller part of that parish on the western side of Sawley. In 1938 these areas were joined with the respective parishes.
The church dedicated to St Martin was designated a Grade I listed building in 1967 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. In 1823 Hayton was a village and a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill. The ecclesiastical parish was Hayton-cum-Beilby, with the parish incumbent living under the patronage of the Dean of York. Population at the time was 177.
In 1823 Leven (then spelt 'Leaven'), was a civil parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. The patronage of the church was under Sir William Pennyman. Population at the time was 658. Occupations included eight farmers, three wheelwrights, two blacksmiths, two butchers, three corn millers, five shoemakers, two maltsters, two grocers, a bricklayer, a schoolmaster, a parish clerk, and the landlords of The Minerva and the Blue Bell public houses.
Newsholme is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the market town of Howden and lies on the north side of the A63 road. A63 at Newsholme looking North West It forms part of the civil parish of Wressle. In 1823 Newsholme with Brind was in the parish of Wressle, the Wapentake of Harthill and the Liberty of Howdenshire.
Lying within the ancient county boundaries of Yorkshire since a very early time, during the Middle Ages, Denshaw lay within the Saddleworth chapelry of the ancient parish of Rochdale. Like the other Yorkshire areas of the ancient parish, it was in the wapentake of Agbrigg in Yorkshire, with the Lancashire areas of the ancient parish being in Salfordshire.Youngs, F. A. (1991). page 600, under the entry for Saddleworth.
The church, dedicated to St Martin, was designated as Grade I listed in 1966. The civil parish is formed by the village of Burton Agnes and the hamlets of Gransmoor and Thornholme. According to the 2011 UK Census, Burton Agnes parish had a population of 497, an increase of one over the 2001 UK Census figure. From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Burton Agnes was part of Dickering Wapentake.
He was a gentleman farmer who became a record holding breeder of shorthorn cattle and at one point was credited with the best shorthorn herd in the country. He was "unquestionably a great breeder". He also acted as Chief Constable of the wapentake of Gilling West. The Kirkby Ravensworth parish church has a memorial dedicated to Thomas Lax, as well as a memorial dedicated to the mother of the two brothers.
Mattram Hall, near Biggin Biggin population decrease left The name 'Biggin' is said to derive from "'bigging' (Middle English) A building; later an outbuilding, an outhouse". In 1820 Biggin was said to have a population of 164 people "BIGGIN, in the parish of Church Fenton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St. Peter and Pontefract; 6 miles SE. of Tadcaster, 7 from Selby, 11 from Pontefract. Pop. 164".
St Nicholas' Church, Grindale According to the 2001 UK Census, Grindale parish had a population of 98, however the 2011 census grouped the parish with Boynton (2001 pop. 161), giving a total of 229. In 1823 Grindale (then Grindall), was in the civil parish of Bridlington, the Wapentake of Dickering, and the Liberty of St Peter's. Population at the time was 107, which included six farmers and the parish curate.
18–19 As the economic initiative fell more to the burgesses and middlemen who formed connections with nearby towns, such as Boston, evidence suggests that Sleaford developed a locally important role in the wool trade.Mahany and Roffe 1979, p. 19Pawley 1996, p. 34 In the Lay Subsidy of 1334, New Sleaford was the wealthiest settlement in the Flaxwell wapentake, with a value of £16 0s. 8d.1/4d.
Reighton is a village and civil parish, in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Reighton was part of Dickering Wapentake. Between 1894 and 1974 Reighton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. According to the 2011 UK census, Reighton parish had a population of 407, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 387.
Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lincolnshire for centuries, from a very early time, Alkborough formed part of the Manley Wapentake in the North division of Lindsey. Care for the poor of the parish extends back prior to 1765, though after the Poor Law reforms of 1834, Alkborough became part of the Glanford Brigg Poor Law Union. From 1894 until 1974, Alkborough lay within Glanford Brigg Rural District.
British History Online. Retrieved 22 January 2019"Langrick Ferry ExP/CP", A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 22 January 2019 In 1855 Kelly's Directory recorded Langrick Ferry as a hamlet of 'Langrick Ville' "on the line of the Boston and Lincoln steamers", and in the extra-parochial district of Perry Corner in the Kesteven wapentake of Kirton. It had a population of 76, and included a Methodist chapel.
The parish of Navenby was originally in the higher division of the ancient Boothby Graffoe wapentake, in the North Kesteven division of the county of Lincolnshire. The term wapentake dates back to the Vikings and was used to describe a collection of local parishes. It originally meant "show your weapon" and the idea behind the term was that all those in favour of a resolution would raise their sword or axe to show agreement. A panoramic view across Navenby lowfields and the old station, towards the Trent valley, from the top of the Lincoln Cliff at Clint Lane, Navenby The History of the County of Lincoln, a book written by Thomas Allen in 1834, states: Navenby was classed as an ancient parish from the 11th to the 19th century, as it came "under the jurisdiction of a clergyman" and existed before 1597. Early records show that the Manor of Navenby was granted to the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln in 1292.
Beeston Town Hall, together with the Council Offices also on Foster Avenue in the town, is the Borough Council's HQ The district formed on 1 April 1974 by a merger of the Beeston and Stapleford urban district, the Eastwood urban district and part of Basford Rural District. The borough's name was derived from the old Broxtowe wapentake of Nottinghamshire, which covered a larger area. The district was granted borough status in 1977.
Mapplewell began life as a hamlet within the Staincross Wapentake. As it grew in size it began to merge with neighbouring hamlet, Staincross and ever since the histories of the villages have been linked together. As in Staincross, nail making was an important industry in Mapplewell in the 17th century. However, by the late 19th century mining was the predominant source of employment, after the sinking of a deep mine in North Gawber.
1320) are entombed within the church, and are its oldest inhabitants. Their effigies now lie beneath an arch moulding set into the wall in the Molyneux chapel, which is outside of the 14th-century church walls. In 1436 the office of Hereditary Steward of the Wapentake of Salfordshire was granted to Sir Robert Molyneux of Sefton. The office was held by Sir Robert's successors (descendants of his brother Richard), the Earls of Sefton until 1972.
Sitlington - National Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley. The h was dropped from Shitlington and Sitlington was adopted in 1929 with the approval of the county council. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,963.
Horton was once a township in the ancient parish of Gisburn, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974. It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley. Along with Rimington, Gisburn, Middop, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne and Newsholme, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.
Retrieved 12 December 2014 In 1823 South Cave was a town and civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill, the Liberty of St Peter's, and in the division of Hunsley Beacon. Baines's History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York states that the South Cave's name probably derives from the "hollow" in which it sits. The parish, with South Cave, included the townships of Broomfleet, Faxfleet, and Osmandyke. A National School existed.
In 1838 the parish of Kirk Ella became part of the Hunsley Beacon Division of the Harthill Wapentake. Extraparochial parts of the parish were transferred to the parish of Newington in 1878, and this area was transferred to the borough of Hull in 1882. In 1885 the Hull and Barnsley Railway opened, passing north-east of the village centre.See Hull and Barnsley Railway – Willerby and Kirk Ella railway station also opened 1885 (closed 1955).
Between 921 and 1888, the administrative significance of the wapentake was reduced by many small steps. The first was as a result of the invasion of England by Swein in 1013. The Kesteven people supported it so that, when order was restored, the shire of Lincoln was set up and given powers over the wapentakes. Subsequently, piecemeal, privileges were given to lords of the manors in Aveland so that it became progressively less significant.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. North Division is marked 9, Middle Division is marked 11 and South Division is marked 12. Holderness was a wapentake of the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, England consisting of the south-easterly part of the county. Established in medieval times, it ceased to have much significance in the 19th century when the wapentakes were superseded by other administrative divisions for most local government purposes.
The palatine courts of Durham were a set of courts that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham. The bishop purchased the wapentake of Sadberge in 1189, and Sadberge's initially separate institutions were eventually merged with those of the County Palatine.; The Bishop of Durham was the supreme judge of all the courts of Durham, both ecclesiastical and temporal, by virtue of the privileges of his palatinate.William Parson and William White.
To the north and west are the Yorkshire Wolds. The Prime Meridian passes through Holderness just to the east of Patrington and through Tunstall to the north. From 1974 to 1996 Holderness lay within the Borough of Holderness in Humberside. Holderness was the name of an ancient administrative area called a wapentake until the 19th century, when its functions were replaced by other local government bodies, particularly after the 1888 Local Government Act.
Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1(M) motorway and east of Knaresborough. Goldsborough Cold Store, one of forty built during the Second World War at road and rail links, still in use as a storage depot Flaxby was once part of the wapentake of Claro.Historic details: It is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Goldsborough (St Mary).
According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Blacktoft's joint derivation is from the Old English with Old Scandinavian for "dark coloured homestead." In it was recorded as "Blaketofte." In 1823 Blacktoft was in the wapentake of Howdenshire. It had a population of 268, with occupations including two farmers, a corn miller, blacksmith, tailor, shoemaker, and a carpenter, and a coal dealer who was also the landlord of the Bay Horse public house.
Newsholme was once a township in the ancient parish of Gisburn, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974. It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley. Along with Rimington, Gisburn, Middop, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.
Lying within the ancient county boundaries of Yorkshire since a very early time, during the Middle Ages, Dobcross lay within the Saddleworth chapelry of the ancient parish of Rochdale. Like the other Yorkshire areas of the ancient parish, it was in the wapentake of Agbrigg, with the Lancashire areas of the ancient parish being in Salfordshire.Youngs, F. A. (1991). page 600, under the entry for Saddleworth. Dobcross was created an ecclesiastical parish in 1797.
Penistone was a parish in the wapentake of Staincross in the West Riding of Yorkshire and after 1837 was a member of the Wortley Poor law union. Penistone was in the Barnsley West and Penistone constituency until the 2010 general election when it became part of the newly created Penistone and Stocksbridge constituency. Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is responsible for local government issues and Penistone Town Council is responsible for local issues.
They divided the area into wapentakes and Wakefield was part of the Wapentake of Agbrigg. The settlement grew near a crossing place on the River Calder around three roads, Westgate, Northgate and Kirkgate. The "gate" suffix derives from Old Norse ' meaning road and kirk, from ' indicates there was a church. Before 1066 the manor of Wakefield belonged to Edward the Confessor and it passed to William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings.
Morley is first mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as Morelege, Morelei and Moreleia. Morley means "open ground by a moor", from Old English mōr "moor, clearing, pasture" + lēah "open ground, clearing". It also gave its name to Morelei Wapentac, a wapentake which probably met at Tingley.Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v.
St Nicholas Church In 1823 Ganton was a parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Dickering. The church of St Nicholas was under the patronage of the local Legard baronets. Population at the time was 278, which included the nearby settlement of Brompton. Occupations included three farmers, two carpenters, a gardener, a stone mason, a tailor, a licensed victualler & blacksmith, a druggist & gun maker, and a machine maker.
Lissett is a village in the Holderness area of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated south of Bridlington town centre and north-east of Beverley town centre on the A165 road that connects the two towns. Together with Ulrome it forms the civil parish of Lissett and Ulrome. In 1823 Lissett, with a population of 95, was in the parish of Beeford, and the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness.
Kennythorpe is a hamlet in the civil parish of Burythorpe, and the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is south from Malton, and between the village of Langton to the north, and Burythorpe to the south. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. In 1823 Kennythorpe (then Kennythorp), was in the civil parish of Langton, and the Wapentake of Buckrose in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
New Ellerby is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north-east of Hull city centre and east of Skirlaugh, lying to the east of the A165 road. Together with its neighbour Old Ellerby it forms the civil parish of Ellerby. The Railway Inn In 1823 Ellerby was in the civil parish of Swine, and the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness.
One of the earliest records of Wigston is in the Domesday book as Wichingstone in the ancient wapentake of Guthlaxton,Open Domesday Online: Wigston (Magna), accessed January 2017 listed amongst the lands held by Hugh de GrandmesnilDomesday Book: A Complete Transliteration. London: Penguin, 2003. p. 652 for the King. In the Middle Ages it was known as Wigston Two Spires as, unusually, there were two mediaeval churches there, All Saints' and St Wistan's.
Pateley Bridge was once in the Lower Division of Claro Wapentake. In the 19th century local government reforms the town fell within the Pateley Bridge Poor Law Union, later the Pateley Bridge Rural Sanitary District and from 1894 Pateley Bridge Rural District. In 1937 the rural district was merged to become part of Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District. Since 1974 the town has fallen within the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
In 1823 Nunburnholme was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill. Baines stated that there was previously a small Benedictine nunnery, indicated by a mound, that was founded by the ancestors of Roger de Morley. Population at the time was 203, with occupations including ten farmers and yeomen, a shoemaker and shopkeeper, a schoolmaster, and a wheelwright. Nunburnholme was served by Nunburnholme railway station on the York to Beverley Line between 1847 and 1951.
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, where it is noted as having a church. The name literally means Higher Town and is recorded as Uptune, Uptone and Opton in old documents. Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Osgoldcross and the parish of Badsworth. In 1885, the Hull and Barnsley Railway opened a railway station at the south end of the village, which also served the community of North Elmsall.
Skipton (also known as Skipton-in-Craven) is a market town and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the East Division of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to the south of the Yorkshire Dales. It is situated north-west of Leeds and west of York. At the 2011 Census, the population was 14,623.
By the late 14th century the manor passed to the Norton family, one of whose members built Norton Conyers House. Norton Conyers was a chapelry of the parish of Wath in the North Riding of Yorkshire, although unlike the rest of the parish it formed part of the wapentake of Allertonshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website In 1974 it was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Buckrose is marked 2. Buckrose was a wapentake of the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, England consisting of the north-west part of the county; its territory is now partly in the modern East Riding and partly in North Yorkshire. Established in medieval times, it ceased to have much significance in the 19th century when the wapentakes were succeeded by other administrative divisions for most local government purposes.
Hemingbrough station The toponym is of uncertain origin. The place is mentioned in the Knýtlinga saga, and the name may be the burh of a Viking named Hemingr. Alternative explanations are that it was the burh of the followers of a man called Hema, or the burh by the fish-weir (Old English hemming). In the Middle Ages the village was in the Ouse and Derwent wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Pocock & Norris p.30 The wapentake was initially administered separately from the Bishop's County Palatine of Durham, and sometimes called the "county of Sadberge", with its own sheriff, coroner and court of pleas. Sadberge's institutions gradually merged with those of Durham, ending with its assizes, last held in 1576. By the 14th century its area was included within two of Durham's four "wards" (subdivisions akin to the hundreds of other English counties).
François de Beaurepaire, Les noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la sine-Maritime, éditions Picard 1979. p. 54. Busli was also given feudal manors in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Strafforth wapentake of Yorkshire. To enforce his rule, Laughton castle was among a number that Busli had built in the late 11th century. The motte and bailey with a high mound high with a by inner bailey was surrounded by large earthworks and an outer ditch.
Cliffe is recorded in the Domesday survey as being part of the manor of Howden. In the Middle Ages the village was in the Ouse and Derwent wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire. With the hamlet of Lund it formed the township of Cliffe cum Lund in the large ancient parish of Hemingbrough. Until the later Middle Ages Cliffe was on the banks of the River Ouse, but the river changed course when a meander was broken through.
Manfield is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is a parish in the wapentake of Gilling East. The closest major town is Darlington, which is east of Manfield. It is close to the River Tees and Darlington and is notable for its real ale pub, The Crown, which won the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)'s Yorkshire Pub of the Year in 2005, the All Saints Church and Manfield Village School.
The church is in the ecclesiastical parish of Thorganby, which is in the Diocese of York. The village is in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, but was previously in the Ouse and Derwent Wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The village is on the west bank of the River Derwent and is across the river from the Lower Derwent National Nature Reserve. The nearest railway station in the 19th century was , some to the west.
Lord Hotham, who owned much of the farmland between Market Weighton and Beverley, was reluctant to have a railway built across his estate on the Yorkshire Wolds. He finally agreed to let the railway through - on the condition that he was provided with his personal station, at and that no trains ran on Sundays. The first through train from Hull to York ran on 1 May 1865. In 1823 Hotham was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill.
The parish fell within the ancient Rushcliffe wapentake of Nottinghamshire. Before 1894 the parish was part of the Shardlow sanitary district, along with other nearby villages such as Ratcliffe on Soar and Kegworth. Between 1837 and 1930 the parish was also part of the Shardlow poor law union and registration district. From 1927 the parish was part of the Leake Rural District, until its abolition in 1935, when the parish was then transferred to the Basford Rural District.
The toponym is of Old Norse origin, meaning "the farmstead of a man called Flat" (the same origin as Flaxby). Flasby with Winterburn was a township in the ancient parish of Gargrave in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. Flasby Hall is a large house built in 1843–44 and a Grade II listed building.
Also filmed in the same year, but not released until 2012, was the film The Woman in Black, which used Halton Gill for filming as the fictional village of Crythin Gifford. Halton Gill was historically a township in the ancient parish of Arncliffe, part of Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Halton Gill became a separate civil parish in 1866.Vision of Britain website The parish was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974.
In 1823 Laxton was in the civil parish of Howden, and in the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire. Population at the time was 268. Occupations included seven farmers, two carpenters, a corn miller, a tailor, a shopkeeper, a shoemaker, a schoolmaster and public house landlords of the White Horse; the Mason's Arms, who was also a bricklayer; and the Cross Keys, who was also a blacksmith. Resident was the ecclesiastical parish curate and a Philip Saltmarshe, Esquire of Saltmarshe.
Baron Gilbert de Ghent; Ournorthernroots.com. Retrieved 15 April 2012"Documents Online: Walcot near Folkingham, Lincolnshire", Folio: 345v, Great Domesday Book; The National Archives. Retrieved 15 April 2012 Marrat, in his History of Lincolnshire (1816), notes the village as being in the wapentake of Aveland. He mentions the existence of two Elizabethan manor houses, one to the west of the church, belonging to Sir Gilbert Heathcote, the other to the south-east of the church, to Edward Brown.
1885–1918: Part of the Wapentake of Skipton and Ewecross. 1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Barnoldswick, Earby, and Skipton, and the Rural Districts of Bowland, Sedbergh, Settle, and Skipton. 1950–1983: The Urban Districts of Barnoldswick, Earby, and Skipton, the Rural Districts of Bowland, Sedbergh, and Settle, and the Rural District of Skipton except the parishes of Steeton with Eastburn, and Sutton. In 1974 the rural district of Sedbergh became part of the new county of Cumbria.
The Lord as well as tenant-in-chief in 1086 was William of Percy and the value was £5. Dalton had 15 ploughlands, one mill, one church and four furlongs worth of woodland. In 1086 Dalton was a berewick (outlying estate) of Topcliffe, and by the 15th century was known as a manor. Until the 19th century it remained a township of the large ancient parish of Topcliffe in the wapentake of Birdforth in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
He was given permission to work 2 meers of ground, known as founder meers, with no restriction on width or depth. A third meer was the king's, and other miners were each allowed to open a further meer, taker meers, along the vein. The miner marked each meer with his possessions or stows (a miniature version of the stows or windlass used to wind the ore from the shaft). A meer was , in the Wirksworth Wapentake.
The Manners family met them head-on, refused all attempts to establish free mining, and employed miners as day labourers in their mines. Their Cavendish neighbours at Chatsworth, after a period of conflict, adopted the same pattern as the Gells at Griffe Grange, collecting the dues from mines run by Duchy of Lancaster rules. The operation of the old rules and customs in the Wirksworth Wapentake did not prevent the development of a complicated structure there.
The parish church of St Andrew's is a Grade I listed building. It includes a 15th-century tower, as well as memorials to the Strickland, later Cholmley, later Strickland-Constable Baronets, of Boynton (1641), whose seat was at Boynton Hall, which is also Grade I listed. From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Boynton was part of Dickering Wapentake. Between 1894 and 1974 Boynton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Historically Horbury was a chapelry in the parish of Wakefield, in the lower division of the Wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley and part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Following the implementation of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, Horbury became one of the 17 constituent parishes of the Wakefield Poor Law Union formed in 1837. Horbury Urban District Council built the town hall. Its foundation stone was laid on Wednesday 30 July 1902 by Joshua Harrop.
The toponym is of Old Norse origin, and means "the hamlet of a man called Menni or Menja". In the Middle Ages the village was in the Ouse and Derwent wapentake of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Most of Menthorpe was in the large ancient parish of Hemingbrough, and formed a township of that parish with the hamlet of Bowthorpe, to the south. An area of Menthorpe between the village and Bowthorpe was a detached part of Skipwith parish.
Anston, first recorded as Anestan is from the Old English āna stān, meaning "single or solitary stone". In the Domesday Book (1086) North and South Anston (Anestan and Litelanstan) were both held by Roger de Busli. South Anston was an ancient parish in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill in the West Riding of Yorkshire.GENUKI website It was a large parish, also known as Anston cum Membris, which also included North Anston and the township of Woodsetts.
The village appears in the Domesday Book as Rascill and its derivation is believed to be Ra (Roe Deer) and Skelf (Shelf). This implies that at the time, Roe Deer were present on the shelf of land where Raskelf now stands. The village was originally in the Wapentake of Bulmer and is now in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire. The village itself is split into two, 'The Green' and the main village which are about 400 yards apart.
Cropmarks indicating Roman trackways, field systems and field boundaries in Kirk Deighton have been recorded by archaeologists. "Kirk" in the village name of Kirk Deighton refers to the parish of All Saints, which is mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the Medieval Era, the village was in the union of Barwick, in the Claro Wapentake. The village had a Royalist connection in the Civil war; the Royalist Richard Burton was rector of the church from 1648 to 1656.
Leppington is a hamlet in the civil parish of Scrayingham and the Ryedale District of North Yorkshire, England, and is north-east from the centre of the city and county town of York. Road junction south of Leppington Historically the hamlet was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. Leppington in 1823 was in the civil parish of Scrayinham, and the Wapentake of Buckrose in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Population at the time was 129.
From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Wold Newton was part of Dickering Wapentake. Between 1894 and 1974 Wold Newton was a part of the Bridlington Rural District, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Between 1974 and 1996 it was part of the Borough of North Wolds (later Borough of East Yorkshire), in the county of Humberside. The 1974 reforms to local government saw the parish form the northernmost tip of the new county of Humberside.
Eddlethorpe is a hamlet in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately south from Malton, and between the village of Langton to the east, and Westow to the south-west. In 1823 Eddlethorpe (then Eddlethorp), was in the civil parish of Westow, and the Wapentake of Buckrose in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Population at the time was 62, with occupations including two farmers, one of whom was the Surveyor of Highways.
Old Ellerby is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately north-east of Hull city centre and south-east of Skirlaugh, lying to the east of the A165 road. Garden Nurseries at Old Ellerby Together with its neighbour New Ellerby it forms the civil parish of Ellerby. In 1823 Ellerby was in the civil parish of Swine, and the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness.
The toponym is derived from the Old English wala "Britons or Welshmen" and burna "stream", indicating the presence of Britons in the area when the English arrived. Walburn was historically a township in the parish of Downholme in the wapentake of Hang West in the North Riding of Yorkshire. From 1286 Walburn was held of the manor of Thornton Steward, whose lords were mesne tenants of the honour of Richmond. Walburn became a separate civil parish in 1866.
Retrieved 10 December 2014 In 1823 Muston was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Dickering in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The ecclesiastical parish was a Vicarage held by the Archdeacon of Cleveland, Francis Wrangham. Population at the time was 350. Occupations included fourteen farmers, two butchers, two carpenters, three grocers, a tanner, a bricklayer, a corn miller, a shoemaker, an earthenware dealer, a tailor, a blacksmith, and the landlady of The Cross Keys public house.
The layout of this linear village, with properties facing the main street and tenement plots running down to a back lane, is common of many established in the tenth century. Historically Gisburn was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, within the Deanery of Craven, and Wapentake of Staincliffe. It touched the historic county of Lancashire on the south. In 1612 a village resident, Jennet Preston, was tried at the Lancashire witch trials, accused of causing the death of Thomas Lister by witchcraft.
Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet The Gell Baronetcy, of Hopton in the County of Derby, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 29 January 1642 for John Gell, Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, chief barmaster in the wapentake of Wirksworth from 1638-1644\. The family gained importance and wealthy through their lead mining interests near Wirksworth. Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet received the baronetcy on the eve of the English Civil War, but fought for the Parliamentary side.
Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Claro, and is now in the Borough of Harrogate, some south of Ripon. The village sits on Stainley Beck, a tributary of the River Ure and the land is mostly magnesian limestone with a small outcrop of millstone grit around the village. The population of the parish was 174 at the 2001 census, falling slightly to 172 at the 2011 census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 180.
Kelfield chapel Kelfield is recorded in the Domesday Book (1086) as Chelchefelt,‘an estate of one carucate and seven bovates… The estate of Hugh son of Baldric had land for one plough, and four villeins had a plough there.’" A brief history of Kelfield", Chris Cade, 2010. In 1823 Kelfield was a township in the civil parish of Stillingfleet, in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent. A public school existed for the benefit of poor children.
In the early 19th century, Sir Joseph Radcliffe from Milnsbridge House was Lord of the Manor. He was knighted for his role in suppressing the Luddites in the Huddersfield area following the murder of Marsden mill owner William Horsfall in 1812. In 1868 Shepley was described as a township and chapelry in the parish of Kirkburton, upper division of Agbrigg Wapentake, West Riding County York. The village was also recorded as having 30 tailor's shops in a population of around 1,000.
Eastburn is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, it forms part of the civil parish of Kirkburn. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds on the A164 road, approximately south-west of Driffield town centre and north-west of the village of Hutton Cranswick. In 1823 Eastburn was in the parish of Kirkburn, the Wapentake of Harthill, and had a population of 12, which included a yeoman.Baines, Edward (1823): History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, p.
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Count Alan, and as having 16 villagers, a meadow, one fishery and two churches. Formerly in the wapentake of Gilling West and the parish of Hutton Magna, the village is now in Richmondshire in North Yorkshire. The name of Layton is historically recorded as Laston, Lastun and Latton, and means the town where the leeks are grown. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100.
At a similar time, during the period 1145-1154, a major enfeoffment by Roger de Mowbray put William in control, or perhaps just confirmed his control, of what would become the Barony of Kendal, plus Warton, Garstang, and Wyresdale in Lancashire, as well as Horton in Ribblesdale and "Londsdale". The latter two are sometimes apparently being interpreted as indicating possession for some time of at least part of what would become the Wapentake of Ewcross in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Post Office Finder - Royal Mail The hamlet of Leppington, to the north-east, forms part of the parish. In 1823 Scrayingham was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Buckrose and the East Riding of Yorkshire. The living for the ecclesiastical parish and the parish church of St Peter's was under the patronage of the King. Population at the time was 157, with occupations including nine farmers, two tailors, a cooper, and the landlord of The Horse & Jockey public house.
Yearsley: A Genealogical Story Part 1: The Early Years The Colvilles held the manor until 1405 when the eighth Thomas Colville was murdered outside York and died without male heirs. The lands were held by the Archbishop of York after the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century. Kilburn was historically a township and parish in the wapentake of Birdforth in the North Riding of Yorkshire. After 1837 it was part of the Thirsk and Helmsley Poor Law Unions.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Bainton Beacon Division is marked 7, Holme Beacon Division is marked 4 Hunsley Beacon Division is marked 6 and Wilton Beacon Division is marked 3. Harthill was a wapentake of the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, England consisting of the central part of the county. Established in medieval times, it ceased to have much significance in the 19th century when the wapentakes were superseded by other administrative divisions for most local government purposes.
In conjunction with the jury of 24 sitting at the Barmote Courts, the deputy barmasters adjudicated in disputes and enforced compliance with the customs of the mines. Their duties extended to acting as the coroner in the case of fatal accidents, where a specially summoned jury of twelve or thirteen local miners decided the cause of death. In an 18th-century example the Brassington barmaster, Edward Ashton, followed the rules after a death in Throstle Nest mine. > Wirksworth Wapentake March 26th 1761.
According to George Macaulay Trevelyan in A Shortened History of England (1958), during the Viking occupation: The English king Æthelred the Unready issued a legal code at Wantage, which states that the twelve leading thegns (minor nobles) of each wapentake (a small district) were required to swear that they would investigate crimes without bias. These 'juries' differed from the present-day kind by being self-informing; instead of getting information through a trial, the jurors were required to investigate the case themselves.
The Aveland, a moat said to be the meeting place for the Wapentake of Aveland is in the parish. There is documentary evidence for a settlement called Avethorpe, from the Domesday survey onwards, but no actual location is known. In 1164 the Knights Templar established a preceptory at Aslackby, from where their local estates were managed, and which resulted in high-status village buildings. However, with the transfer of the preceptory to the Hospitalers it was no longer needed, and little now remains.
As a part of the Germanic world, thing sites were also found in the British Isles. In England, there is Thingwall on the Wirral. In the Yorkshire and former Danelaw areas of England, wapentakes—another name for the same institution—were used in public records. Several places ending in the -by ('village') place name suffix originally possessed their own laws, by-laws, and jurisdiction subject to the wapentake in which they served, which often extended over a surrounding ground called a thorpe ("hamlet").
Grantham once lay within the ancient Winnibriggs and Threo wapentake in the Soke of Grantham in the Parts of Kesteven.Vision of Britain site: Retrieved 16 March 2012. Politically the town is part of the Grantham and Stamford constituency and is represented in Parliament by Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Gareth Davies who was elected at the 12 December 2019 general election. Two of Grantham's MPs in recent years (Joe Godber and Douglas Hogg) have been Secretary of State for Agriculture.
There is also a memorial tablet to Francis Bond (1852-1918), the late 19th-century authority on Gothic architecture, who was born in the village. Historically the parish was within Haverstoe, the south division of the Bradley-Haverstoe wapentake, in the North Riding of Lindsey. North Thoresby was enclosed in 1839, its Tithe barn still stands having been converted into a private dwelling standing to the east of the rectory. Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists each had a chapel here prior to 1900.
39 (Sigma Leisure, 2004) It forms a symbolic image of the area and features in the logo for the nearby Teesside International Airport. At , Roseberry Topping was traditionally thought to be the highest hill on the North York Moors;See e.g. J.J. Sheahan and T. Whellan, History and Topography of the City of York; the Ainsty Wapentake; and the East Riding of Yorkshire, p. 10. 1855. however, there are 15 higher peaks with the nearby Urra Moor being the highest, at .
The name of the hamlet changed from Keeling to Nunkeeling due to the fame of Nunkeeling Priory, built by Agnes de Arches during the reign of King Stephen for Benedictine nuns. Eventually the priory owned most of the surrounding land but declined into poverty. In 1823 Nunkeeling was a civil parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. Lord of the manor in 1823 was Harrington Hudson of Bessingby. Population at the time, which included Bewholme, was 243, with occupations including four farmers.
Kettleness is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, but the neighbouring settlement of Goldsborough is, and both were in the Wapentake of Langbaurgh. The hamlet takes its name from the nearby headland Kettle Ness, but the hamlet is stylised as Kettleness on mapping. The name is thought to derive from Old Norse, where the Kettle part comes from the word Kettil which describes a pot or cauldron. In this sense, the cauldron refers to the cauldron of water around the headland.
One of the earliest mentions of this place is in the Domesday book where named Segrave, it is listed amongst the lands in the wapentake of Goscote given to Henry de Ferrers by King William I. The land consisted of work for one plough and four acres of meadow. By the twelfth century, Seagrave was owned by the de Segrave family, who built a fortified manor house in the parish.Seagrave Parish Council, Seagrave and its Background. Uploaded 28 January 2015.
Their familial coat of arms was later adopted by the village. In March 1234 Richard Siward, at the head of a company of outlaws, ravaged Stephen de Segrave's native place, evidently Seagrave, burnt his fine houses, oxen, and stores of grain, and carried off many valuable horses and rich spoil. Later the same band ravaged Alconbury, and burnt his buildings there. In 1346 population growth led to the division of the wapentake; for judicial matters Seagrave was in the hundred of East Goscote.
The village is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Cotingelai in the wapentake of Skyrack and the lands of Erneis of Buron. The first element is the personal name Cotta (the origin of which is unknown), and the second the suffix -ingas denoting a group of associated people. Thus the Cottingas were a group descended from or otherwise associated with someone called Cotta. This group name was then compounded with the Old English word lēah ('open land in a wood').
Howden () is a small historic market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of York to the north of the M62, on the A614 road about south-east of York and north of Goole, which lies across the River Ouse. William the Conqueror gave the town to the Bishops of Durham in 1080. The wapentake of Howdenshire was named after the town, and remained an exclave of County Durham until as late as 1846.
The Ainsty Bounds Walk is a 44-mile (71 km) long-distance footpath mostly in North Yorkshire, England, with a short section in West Yorkshire. It follows the boundaries of the ancient wapentake of The Ainsty, between the rivers Wharfe, Nidd and Ouse, and passes through the towns of Boston Spa, Wetherby, Moor Monkton, the outskirts of York, and Bolton Percy. As a circular walk it can be walked from any point, but it is considered to start and finish at Tadcaster.
At that time the parish was in Flaxwell wapentake, Sleaford Union and County Court district, and the ecclesiastical rural deanery of Longobody. The parish lies 10 miles to the southeast of Lincoln, 4 miles southeast of Navenby and 6 miles northwest of Sleaford. Wellingore and Welbourn parishes lie to the west and Brauncewell to the south. The old Roman Road, Ermine Street, passes through the western edge of the parish, which at this point is a bridleway not a modern road.
Worsbrough dates back to the 7th century, and is listed within the wapentake of Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, in the Domesday Book of 1086:Open Domesday Online: Worsborough, accessed 20 November 2018. > In Wircesburg Gerneber and Haldene had five carucates of land and a half to > be taxed where there may be four ploughs. Gamel and Chetelber now have it of > Ilbert, themselves two ploughs, and four bordars, and one mill pays two > shillings. Wood pasture half a mile long and half a mile broad.
The area is affluent, placed as the 10th most affluent in the country in a Barclays Private Clients survey, and has one of the highest proportions of owner-occupiers in the country. According to the 2011 UK census, Kilpin parish had a population of 339, a decrease on the 2001 UK census figure of 357. In 1823 Kilpin was in the parish of Howden and the Wapentake and Liberty of Howdenshire. Population at the time was 318, and included four farmers and a yeoman.
The Lower Division included the parishes of Aberford, Bardsey, Barwick-in-Elmet, Kippax, Thorner, Whitkirk and part of Harewood, while the Upper Division included the parishes of Adel, Bingley, Guiseley and parts of Harewood, Ilkley and Otley. Skyrack Public House The Upper division of Skyrack was bounded to the north by the River Wharfe whilst the southern edge was bounded by the River Aire. Both divisions together contained 82 settlements. The Skyrack wapentake derives its name from a large oak that grew for centuries in Headingley.
Moor Monkton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a small settlement belonging to Richard son of Herfast. The name of Moor, was added to the name Monkton to distinguish it from Nun Monkton, which is over the other side of the River Nidd. The name Monkton, which has been recorded variously as Munechatun, Monketon super Moram, Munketun, and Moore Monkton, means the town of the monks. Historically, the village was in the Wapentake of Ainsty, which meant that it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Under the Danelaw Wibsey was in the wapentake of Morley. It became an independent manor under the Normans when it was granted to the de Lacy family. The whole area had been laid waste during the Harrying of the North and it was up to fifty years before it recovered. Eventually the manor passed to the Danby family of Farnley, Leeds and was then purchased by the Rookes family of Royds Hall, near Huddersfield and subsumed into a wider estate that also included North Bierley.
From the B6160 road, the Wharfe is crossed at Conistone by a stone-arch bridge, which is within easy walking distance of Kilnsey, with its Crag. The parish church, St Mary's Church, dates from the 11th or 12th century, and is a Grade II listed building. Conistone was historically in the large ancient parish of Burnsall, in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became part of the civil parish of Conistone with Kilnsey in 1866, and was transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974.
Matthew Greathead The parish once belonged to the wapentake of Sadberge, which was part of Northumberland until 1189. Æthelwald Moll of Northumbria, who may have previously murdered Oswulf of Northumbria for the succession, killed Oswin, a Bernician nobleman here in 761. In the year 778 AD a high sheriff called Elduf was killed here. Later there was a coup in which Æthelred I of Northumbria, Moll's son, was ousted by Ælfwald I of Northumbria, and several royal nobles were killed in this same village.
History, Topography and Directory of Durham, Whellan (1894) on Genuki "Low" was added to distinguish the village from the neighbouring village of Over Dinsdale, on the opposite bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire. The toponym was recorded in Domesday Book as Dignesale and Dirneshale, and recorded in 1088 as Detnisale. The name is Old English and means either "nook of land belonging to a man named Dyttin" or "nook of land belonging to Deighton". Deighton was in the same wapentake (Allerton) as Over Dinsdale.
From a very early time, Blyton was part of an ancient parish, Blyton cum Wharton, within the historic county boundaries of the Parts of Lindsey in Lincolnshire In March 1886 a part of Pilham parish, known as Pilham Carr, was transferred to Blyton. Some records refer to it simply as "Carr". For governance, Blyton parish was in the Corringham Wapentake in the West Lindsey district of the Parts of Lindsey. From 1894 until 1974 it lay within Gainsborough Rural District in the administrative county of Lindsey.
The name of the village is from Old English (Oter's Tun) and means the town of Oter's people. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Otrinctun in the Hundred (Wapentake) of Allerton. The Church of St Michael and All Angels dates back to the 12th century, though most parts were expanded in the 14th, 17th and 19th centuries. Whilst the site was important back to Saxon times (Saxon coffins and swords were unearthed in the 19th century restoration), the first vicar was not recorded until 1282.
Guisborough, once in the North Riding of Yorkshire, was part of the County of Cleveland from 1974 to 1996, and is now in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland. Guisborough Priory Some archaeologists date the town to the Roman occupation, when it may have been a military fortification. Discovery of a few Roman artefacts support this, such as the elaborate ceremonial Guisborough Helmet (see below), but proof is still lacking. Gighesbore is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 as a place within Langbaurgh Wapentake.
The historic parish of Burnsall occupied a large part of upper Wharfedale. It included the townships of Appletreewick, Bordley, Conistone with Kilnsey, Cracoe, Hartlington, Hetton, Rylstone and Thorpe, all of which became separate civil parishes in 1866."Burnsall CP/AP", A Vision of Britain through time The parish was in Staincliffe Wapentake and in the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when it was transferred to North Yorkshire. The 2001 Census gave Burnsall parish a population of 112, decreasing to 110 at the 2011 census.
Michael Sadleir stated that Fletcher's historical novel, When Charles I Was King (1892), was his best work. Fletcher wrote several novels of rural life in imitation of Richard Jefferies, beginning with The Wonderful Wapentake (1894). In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and went on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell. Fletcher is sometimes incorrectly described as a "Golden Age of Detective Fiction" author, but he is in fact an almost exact contemporary of Conan Doyle.
Wakefield Town Hall Wakefield County Hall Wakefield was anciently a market and parish town in the Agbrigg division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a parliamentary borough with one Member of Parliament after the Reform Act 1832. In 1836 the Wakefield Poor Law Union was formed following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 with an elected board of guardians. The town was incorporated as a municipal borough with elected councillors in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835.
The manor was owned by Auduid before the Norman Conquest. By 1086, it was held by Count Alan who also had many lands in the area and who owned the manor of Bedale. Count Alan and his family owned the parish for over two centuries and by the late 14th century, it was in a different family name. Firby was a Liberty of Richmondshire and within the bounds of East Hang wapentake in the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is now within Crakehall ward of Hambleton district.
It contained twelve households, twelve villagers, and six ploughlands. In 1066 Ealdred, the Archbishop of York, held the Lordship, this transferring by 1086 to the canons of Beverley, with Thomas of Bayeux, the later Archbishop of York, as Tenant-in-chief to King William I. By 1260 the settlement name was recorded as "Suthdalton".Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p. 146\. In 1823 South Dalton was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill.
In 1823 Mappleton was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Holderness and the Liberty of St Peter's. The ecclesiastical parish and church living was under the patronage of the Archdeacon of the East Riding A public school was established in 1820 by subscription and run under the ideas of educationalist Andrew Bell. Population at the time was 187, including the hamlet of Rolston (then 'Rowlston'). Occupations included six farmers, a carpenter, a corn miller, and a schoolmaster who was also the parish clerk.
Sparkenhoe was a hundred of Leicestershire, England in the south-west of the county, covering Market Bosworth and Hinckley, broadly corresponding to the modern districts of Blaby and Hinckley and Bosworth. The meeting place of the Sparkenhoe Hundred was probably at Shericles Farm near Desford (SK467026), which derives from scirac meaning "the hundred oak". Sparkenhoe hundred was not recorded in the Domesday Book as a wapentake, being formed in 1346 from part of GuthlaxtonJohn Curtis, A Topographical History of the County of Leicester (1831) and Goscote.
"Lindsey Anglo-Saxon Kingdom and Bishopric" Encyclopaedia Britannica. Accessed 27 April 2020 It is likely that elements of the Great Heathen Army passed through Nocton in September 870 after destroying Bardney Abbey, crossing the River Witham from Lindsey into Kesteven before travelling south towards Peterborough. By the late tenth century Nocton fell within the Langoe Wapentake within the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. By the eleventh century at the time of the coming of the Normans the settlement comprised 39 families and a church.
Hannah moved in 1903 to a small rented cottage in Wyke Place, Shifnal, owned by Jim Cullwick. She remained active until shortly before her death. On 9 July 1909, she died, aged 76; the cause of death was recorded as "failure of heart action and senile decay". Her remains were buried in St Andrew's churchyard in Shifnal; her gravestone bears the words "she was for 36 years of pure and unbroken love the wedded wife of Arthur Munby of Clifton Holme in the Wapentake of Bulmer".
Richard was also selected to represent the county at Edward III's 43rd parliament, which was summoned on 8 January 1371 and assembled from 24 February to 29 March 1371. Among its accomplishments was to assert parliament's right to approve indirect taxation. In 1366 he was recorded as a witness to a property transfer in his role as the seneschal of the wapentake of Cliderow (Clitheroe). Richard was appointed by John of Gaunt to three terms as the High Sheriff of Lancashire, in 1375, 1376 and 1377.
The Danelaw was an important factor in the establishment of a civilian peace in the neighbouring Anglo-Saxon and Viking communities. It established, for example, equivalences in areas of legal contentiousness, such as the amount of reparation that should be payable in wergild. Many of the legalistic concepts were compatible; for example, the Viking wapentake, the standard for land division in the Danelaw, was effectively interchangeable with the hundred. The use of the execution site and cemetery at Walkington Wold in east Yorkshire suggests a continuity of judicial practice.
The 1830 Act extended the borough's boundaries to encompass the Wapentake of Bassetlaw (which included the whole of the northern end of Nottinghamshire, including the town of Worksop). All those within this area who were qualified to vote in the county elections were given votes for East Retford. Within a year, Parliament was debating the Great Reform Bill, but the extended boundaries meant Retford could retain its seats until in 1885 the Municipal Borough of East Retford was reformed and the constituency replaced by an identically delineated single-member county constituency - Bassetlaw.
St Peter's Church There is archaeological evidence of Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon settlements, while the name St Osyth's Well, just west of the church, refers to a Viking Age saint. The ancient parish of Thorner covered 4400 acres in the wapentake of Skyrack in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish included the townships of Scarcroft and Shadwell, which became separate civil parishes in 1866.Vision of Britain website In 1245 it acquired a market, and the area around Main Street shows a typical Medieval layout of strips leading from a market street.
Fleet is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on Delph Bank, south-east from Holbeach. The population of the civil parish, including Fleet Hargate, at the 2011 census was 2136. In 1086, Fleet was listed as Fleot (Old English: the stream, estuary or creek), in the wapentake of Elloe in the Parts of Holland of Lincolnshire.Open Domesday Online: Fleet, Lincolnshire The Grade I listed Church of England parish church, dating from the late 12th century, is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene.
In 1268, King Henry III granted the wapentake of Amounderness to his son Edmund Crouchback, who became the 1st Earl of Lancaster around this time. The amount of land in Poulton owned by St. Mary's Priory increased during the 12th and 13th centuries and caused conflict with local landowners over whose land the tenants and monks of the priory had to cross. In 1276, Sir Adam Banastre and his supporters assaulted the prior, Ralph de Truno, as he travelled to Poulton. He and his attendants were taken by Banastre, beaten and imprisoned in Thornton.
The first documentary evidence of Saddleworth appears in the Domesday Book in which it is referred to as "Quick", spelt "Thoac"; where it is described as "Land of the King in Eurvicsire (Yorkshire), Agbrigg Wapentake." The history of the region clearly dates further back than the Domesday Book however. Place names derived from Celtic and Anglian dialects, along with the discovery of flint arrowheads and gold Viking rings all point to a much earlier Saddleworth, possibly as old as the Stone Age. A Roman road from Chester to York passed through the area.
The bill was paid by the king's farmer and chief barmaster. There were usually about a dozen gentlemen, some of whom were members of the jury, while others were there to present a case to the Court. Also among the gentlemen were the steward of the court, who was a lawyer and who conducted the sessions. When the chief barmaster for the Wapentake, always a man of wealth and rank, was a local gentleman such as Sir John Gell of Hopton or his son John, the 2nd baronet, he often attended the Court himself.
The Amounderness Hundred () is one of the six subdivisions of the historic county of Lancashire in North West England, but the name is older than the system of hundreds first recorded in the 13th century and might best be described as the name of a Norse wapentake. In the Domesday Book, it was used for some territories north of the River Ribble included together with parts of Yorkshire. The area eventually became part of Lancashire, sitting geographically between the Rivers Lune and Ribble, in the strip of coast between the Irish Sea and Bowland Forest.
Henry de Ferrers had been granted vast tracts of land, in present day Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Northamptonshire, and Essex and as far south as Wiltshire. In 1070 Hugh d'Avranches was promoted to become Earl of Chester and the Wapentake of Appletree, which covered a large part of south Derbyshire, was passed to de Ferrers.Marios Costambeys, 'Ferrers, Henry de (d. 1093x1 100)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, May 2007 [ 61, accessed 28 October 2007] At the centre of this was Tutbury Castle which he adopted as his domestic headquarters.
368, 369 In 1823 Meaux was in the parish of Waghen (alternatively 'Wawn'), in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. Baines states that the Cistercian Meaux Abbey was established in 1136, and that only remains of a brick mosaic pavement had been found within "extensive" moats or ditches. Meaux population at the time was 74, with occupations including five farmers & yeomen. Mewes (also Mewis) is a fairly common family name in the North-East, and believed to be used by descendants of those who came to Yorkshire as soldiers commanded by Gamel.
The name refers to the River Rye and was previously used for the Ryedale wapentake of Yorkshire, which covered roughly the same area. The current district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, and was a merger of urban district of Norton and Norton Rural District, from the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, along with the urban districts of Malton and Pickering with Flaxton Rural District, Helmsley Rural District, Kirkbymoorside Rural District, Malton Rural District and Pickering Rural District, all from the North Riding of Yorkshire.
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Norway, Ukrainian state of Cossack Hetmanate (Russian province of Malorossia). It is still used in other places, including South Australia and the Northern Territory. Other terms for the hundred in English and other languages include wapentake, herred (Danish and Bokmål Norwegian), herad (Nynorsk Norwegian), hérað (Icelandic), härad or hundare (Swedish), Harde (German), Satakunta or kihlakunta (Finnish), kihelkond (Estonian), cantref (Welsh), sotnia (Slavic).
In 1823, Baines recorded that 'Cotham' was in the parish of Langtoft, the wapentake of Dickering, and the liberty of St Peter's, and noted a chapel of ease to the parish church at Langtoft. The population of sixteen included a curate and a gentleman farmer.Baines, Edward (1823): History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, p188 RAF Cottam was built as a bomber airfield in the Second World War but was never used for flying. Later the runways were used for bomb storage and the buildings were demolished in 1980.
Staincross is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it formed part of the defunct Barnsley West and Penistone borough constituency, following the Boundary Commission for England's report on South Yorkshire's Parliamentary constituencies in 2004 and the subsequent inquiry in 2005, it is now part of the Barnsley Central borough constituency. The population now falls within the Darton East ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. The village also gave its name to the Staincross wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The village may take its name from the old Danish name Aswarth; it was originally an ecclesiastical parish within the ancient Aswardhun wapentake of the Danelaw. Although there is no firm evidence of earlier occupation, a flint axe and a 2nd-century AD Roman brooch were found near Aswarby. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as "Aswardebi". In the mid-19th century, it was moved to a new site to make way for improvements to Aswarby Park; the original position is about 500 yards to the south-west of the modern village.
The north-western part of the county of Rutland was recorded as Rutland, a detached part of Nottinghamshire, in the Domesday Book; the south-eastern part as the wapentake of Wicelsea in Northamptonshire. It was first mentioned as a separate county in 1159, but as late as the 14th century it was referred to as the 'Soke of Rutland'. In 1584 Uppingham School, one of the earliest "public" (actually private) schools of England, was founded in Rutland with a hospital, or almshouse, by Archdeacon Robert Johnson. The original 1584 Schoolroom still exists in Uppingham churchyard.
The Goscote Hundred (or Wapentake) is mentioned in the Domesday Book, this was later split into the West and East Goscote Hundreds. It was the first new village to be created in Leicestershire since Domesday. The village is built on the site of a former British Army supply depot. According to Ministry of Defence (MoD) files, the site was originally constructed in 1940 (finished September 1942) by Holloway Brothers, and was an Agency Filling Factory run by Lever Brothers/Unilever as No.10 Royal Ordnance Factory (10 ROF).
Riddlesden is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to William the Conqueror and being in the Wapentake of Skyrack. The name of the village appears throughout history as Redlesden and as Redelesden and it derives from the name of a wooded vale (or farm) of Rœd or Redwulf. The village was historically in the parish of Bingley, but it is currently in the civil parish of Keighley. There have been proposals in 2010 and 2012 for Riddlesden to have a separate parish which includes nearby Stockbridge and Sandbeds.
Formerly within the wapentake of Morley and Calverley Parish, Pudsey Urban District was formed in 1894; it gained municipal borough status c1900.Pudsey was the last borough to receive its royal charter by Queen Victoria For many years, despite being joined to the Leeds conurbation, it avoided being made part of the County Borough of Leeds. In 1937 the Farsley and Calverley urban districts were added to Pudsey. In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, it became part of the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds.
In 1848 it was written that Carburton was part of the Hatfield division of the Bassetlaw wapentake north division of the county of Nottingham situated about SSE from Worksop. The township contained 193 inhabitants and 1,516 acres of land. The Duke of Portland was the sole owner and lord of the manor, however the Duke of Newcastle owned about 40 acres, which was inclosed in Clumber Park. In 1853 it was written that the chapelry included Carburton Forge, a small hamlet, one mile west of the village, where there was previously an iron forge.
Flint articles were found, and evidence of previous disturbance of the site, including burnt bones and a food vessel indicating a burial site. The mound later might have been used as a moot hill local meeting place. At the same site, to the north-west of Old Sunderlandwick Lane, is earthwork evidence of the deserted medieval village of Sunderlandwick --a settlement mentioned in the Domesday survey--with enclosures, hollow ways, ridges and furrows, and ditches. In 1823 Hutton Cranswick was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill.
On 18 October 1229, Henry III granted all land from the Ribble to the Mersey, including West Derby, Liverpool, the village of Salford, and the wapentake of Leyland to Ranulf Earl of Chester and Lincoln. When he died in 1232 without any heir the land was inherited by William de Ferrers, through his wife Agnes, sister of the late earl. The land was then passed on to his son William, and then to his son Robert. In 1263, Robert held court against several people who had committed offences against the deer of his forest.
Bracebridge Heath is a commuter village located approximately south from the city and county town of Lincoln, England. It lies at the junction of two major roads the A15 to Sleaford and the A607 to Grantham, and was (until modern systems of local government were introduced in the 19th century) part of the Boothby Graffoe Wapentake. The village sits on top of Lincoln Cliff, overlooking Lincoln and the valley of the River Witham. The Viking Way runs along the cliff top, a long footpath, which runs from the Humber Bridge to Oakham.
The district was created in 1974 as the borough of Langbaurgh, one of four districts of the new non-metropolitan county of Cleveland. It was formed from the Coatham, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank wards of the County Borough of Teesside, along with Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Marske-by- the-Sea, Eston Grange and Skelton and Brotton urban districts, from the North Riding of Yorkshire. The borough was named after the ancient Langbaurgh wapentake of Yorkshire. On 1 January 1988 the borough was renamed Langbaurgh- on-Tees.
The village pub "The Red Lion" is located between two wells which were originally used to gather water for the brewing process. In the Middle Ages it was part of the Wapentake of Skyrack. Over the centuries Shadwell was sometimes a separate manor, sometimes part of the Manor of Roundhay until these rights were extinguished in 1935. In the early part of the 19th century it was still a village with fewer than 200 inhabitants, containing 11 farms, 2 inns and a Methodist chapel but no school or church.
East Retford was a parliamentary constituency in Nottinghamshire, which elected two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons for the first time in 1316, and continuously from 1571 until 1885, when the constituency was abolished. Although East Retford was technically a parliamentary borough for the whole of its existence, in 1830 its franchise had been widened and its boundaries had been extended to include the whole Wapentake of Bassetlaw as a remedy for corruption among the voters, and from that point onward it resembled a county constituency in most respects.
When elected county councils were created by the Local Government Act 1888, the Ainsty's inclusion in the West Riding was confirmed. Like other similar subdivisions of counties, although the Ainsty was never formally abolished, it ceased to have any function in the latter half of the 19th century. The former area of the wapentake is now divided between the unitary City of York and the districts of Harrogate and Selby in North Yorkshire. By the 19th-century, the Ainsty had two divisions: the eastern, or York Division, and the western, or Tadcaster Division.
Acklam is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Aclum in the East Riding and gave its name to the Hundred. The Lord in 1066 was named as Siward and comprised 4 ploughlands with 2 Lord's plough teams and a church. The village lay within the ancient Wapentake of Buckrose The etymology of the name is derived from Old English āc (an oak tree) and lēah (a forest or wood clearing). There are the remains of an earthwork motte and bailey castle on a ridge overlooking the village to the south.
According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Owm could be “a farmstead or a village of a man called Authunn” or Old Scandinavian for “uncultivated land or deserted farm”, and “by”, a “farmstead , village or settlement”.Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, pp.358, 520, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011). Owmby is mentioned in the Domesday Book as " Odenebi", in the Lindsey Hundred, and the Wapentake of Yarborough. It comprised 19 households, 7 villagers, 2 smallholders and 11 freemen, with 5 ploughlands, a meadow of , and a mill.
Wapentakes of the East Riding of Yorkshire. Dickering is marked 8. Dickering was a wapentake (which is an administrative division) of the historic county called East Riding of Yorkshire in England, consisting of the north-east part of that county, including the towns of Bridlington and Filey; its territory is now partly in the modern East Riding and partly in North Yorkshire. Established in medieval times, it ceased to have much significance in the 19th century when the wapentakes were superseded by other administrative divisions for most local government purposes.
Bassetlaw was created as a non- metropolitan district in 1974 by the merger of the municipal boroughs of Worksop and East Retford and most of Worksop Rural District and East Retford Rural District following the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Local Government in Nottinghamshire is organised on a two-tier basis, with local district councils such as Bassetlaw District Council responsible for local services such as housing, local planning and refuse collection and Nottinghamshire County Council responsible for "wide-area" services, including education, social services and public transport. The district is named after the ancient Bassetlaw wapentake of Nottinghamshire.
For the purposes of the Lieutenancies Act 1997, this area is defined as a county.HMSO, Lieutenancies Act 1997, (1997) In common usage, the terms "Tees Valley", "Teesdale" ( west of the Valley), "Teesside" (urban areas) and "Cleveland" (east of the valley) are usually used interchangeably with each term more common than the others in the west of the Valley, urban areas and east of the valley, respectfully. Archaically, the southern area was known as the Langbaugh Wapentake given its name from Langbaugh which was close to the southern orginal meeting point for governance. Norton was the main north valley town.
The village contains a small shop (which acts as a post office), a school, a church, village hall, playing fields, a garage and the Black Horse public house. The No. 63 bus connects Little Weighton to villages in the local area as well as Beverley and Hull In 1823 Little Weighton was in the civil parish of Rowley and the Wapentake of Harthill. Occupations at the time included six farmers and yeomen, a shoemaker, a blacksmith, a tailor, a shopkeeper, and the landlord of The Black Horse public house. A carrier operated between the village and Beverley and Hull once a week.
Staincross was named after the village of Staincross and also included the parishes of Cawthorne, Darton, Felkirk, Hemsworth, High Hoyland, Penistone, Royston, Silkstone (including Barnsley) and Tankersley and parts of Darfield, and Wragby. Of the nine wapentakes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Staincross typically had the lowest population density, which was recorded in 1867 as 27,089. The original meeting place of the wapentake is believed to have been in, or near, to the village of Staincross, similar to the wapentakes at Ewcross and Osgoldcross. The name derives from the Old Norse of stein- kross, literally, stone cross.
Historically, Calverley was a parish in the district of Bradford and the Morley wapentake, but was incorporated into the municipal borough of Pudsey in 1937, of which it remained a part until its abolition in 1974. Calverley is a rural village with a medieval manor house, Calverley Old Hall, which dates back to the 14th century and was home to the Calverley family. In 1605 the landowner, Walter Calverley, went insane and murdered some of his children in Calverley Hall. He refused to plead and was ordered to be pressed to death, a method used to try to force a confession.
Prior to the Norman conquest of England, Holdworth was a small Ango-Saxon farming community. Settlements which end in “worth” signify a farmstead that is thought to have Mercian origins with “Hold“ being an Old English personal name. It was located in the Strafforth wapentake and was owned by the Saxon Lord Healfdene or Aldene, who also held land in the nearby settlements of Wadsley, Worrall and Ughill. After the Conquest, ownership of Holdworth passed to Roger de Busli (Roger of Bully) who had been given extensive lands by William the Conqueror across Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire for his part in the Conquest.
Balkholme is a hamlet in the civil parish of Kilpin and the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Balkholme is to the south of the B1230 Howden to Gilberdyke road as it crosses the M62 motorway, and north-east of the parish village of Kilpin. The county town of Beverley is to the north-east, the town of Howden west, and the town centre of Goole approximately south-west. In 1823, Baines recorded that Balkholme was in the parish of Howden, and the wapentake and liberty of Howdenshire, and had a population of 105 including eight farmers.
Osgoldcross Rural District was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was created in 1938, from 19 remaining parishes of the disbanded Pontefract Rural District after three-quarters of its population (but only a small fraction of the area) had been transferred to surrounding authorities - specifically to Castleford (which took 14,145 of the 23,981 in the district in 1931), Knottingley, and Pontefract. It was named after the Wapentake of Osgoldcross and administered from Pontefract. Since 1 April 1974, it has formed part of the District of Selby and the City of Wakefield.
The parish fell within the ancient Rushcliffe wapentake of Nottinghamshire.Vision of Britain Sutton Bonington The two ancient ecclesiastical parishes of Sutton and Bonington were also separate townships; they were united for civil purposes in 1829 and combined in 1923 into one ecclesiastical parish. Related to the situation of the two original parishes, Sutton and Bonington are separate manors, named after their churches – St Anne and St Michael respectively. From 1894 the parish was part of the Leake Rural District,Vision of Britain Leake RD until its abolition in 1935, when the parish was transferred to the Basford Rural District.
The 'Hundred', Count Alan also had 195 other places including Bedale and Bellerby. The name 'Patrick Brompton' derives from the personal name 'Patrick' and Brompton derives from 'broom', a thorny bush or shrub and 'tun' deriving from an enclosure; a village; an estate. Patrick Brompton is also mentioned on the GENUKI website and in the 1820s, described as: :Patrick Brompton, (or East Brompton) a parish in the wapentake of Hang East & liberty of Richmondshire; 3½ miles NW. of Bedale. Here is a church dedicated to St. Patrick; the living is a Perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Bishop of Chester.
Henry Bowett, the 49th Archbishop, built the great hall; and his successor, Cardinal Kempe, erected the gatehouse, the ruins of which are all that remain of this once magnificent building. In the 1800s Cawood was considered a market and parish-town, "in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St. Peter and Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 5 miles from Selby, 7½ from Tadcaster, 10 from York, 12 from Pontefract, 186 from London." Cawood being within the Liberty of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley made the village administratively independent from the surrounding West Riding of Yorkshire. Market was held each Wednesday.
In 1066 Thorfridh held the lordship, this transferred by 1086 to Drogo of la BeuvriËre, who was also Tenant-in- chief to King William I."Keyingham" , Open Domesday, University of Hull. Retrieved 7 December 2014 In 1823 Keyingham (or Kyingham) was a civil parish in the Wapentake and Liberty of Holderness. The patronage of the ecclesiastical parish and church was under the Archbishop of York. In 1802 the interest from a bequest of 200 shillings was left for the education of poor parish children of 'Kayingham', administered by the churchwardens, and the incumbent who held his post as a perpetual curate.
The Teesside area was partitioned between the boroughs of Hartlepool, Stockton-on- Tees, Middlesbrough and Langbaurgh-on-Tees, the latter of which took its name from the former Langbaugh wapentake. The wards were: Billingham East & West, Grangefield, Hartburn, Mile House, North End, Norton, Stockton South, Darlington, Thornaby East & West went to Stockton. The wards of Coatham, Eston Grange, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank going to Langbaurgh; and the rest went to Middlesbrough. The county town was Middlesbrough, had a total area of 225 square miles (583 km2) and an estimated population of 567,600 in 2000.
1832–1868: The Hundreds of Appletree, Morleston and Litchurch, and Repton and Gresley, and so much of the Wapentake of Wirksworth as was not comprised in the Bakewell Division. 1868–1885: The Hundreds of Repton and Gresley, Morleston and Litchurch, and Appletree. 1885–1918: The Municipal Borough of Derby, the Sessional Divisions of Repton and Swadlincote, and parts of the Sessional Divisions of Ashbourne and Derby. 1918–1950: The Urban Districts of Alvaston and Boulton, Long Eaton, and Swadlincote, the Rural Districts of Hartshorne and Seals, and Shardlow, and part of the Rural District of Repton.
1885–1918: The parishes in the Wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewecross of Cowling, Glusburn, Keighley, Steeton with Eastburn, and Sutton, and the parishes of Haworth, Thornton, and Wilsden. 1918–1950: The Borough of Keighley, the Urban Districts of Denholme, Haworth, Oakworth, Oxenhope, and Silsden, and the Rural District of Keighley. 1950–1983: The Borough of Keighley, the Urban Districts of Denholme and Silsden, and in the Rural District of Skipton the parishes of Steeton with Eastburn, and Sutton. 1983–2010: The City of Bradford wards of Craven, Ilkley, Keighley North, Keighley South, Keighley West, and Worth Valley.
Ebberston used to be in the Wapentake of Pickering Lythe. A cairn north-east from the village is dedicated to Alfrid, King of Northumberland, who supposedly sought sanctuary in a cave here before being removed to Little Driffield where he died. Between 1882 and 1950 the village was served by Ebberston railway station at Allerston, and on the Forge Valley Line between Scarborough and Pickering. On 18 August 2009 a 500 lb unexploded bomb was destroyed in a controlled explosion next to the village which necessitated the evacuation of hundreds of local residents from Ebberston and Allerston.
In 1823 Metham was a village in the civil parish of Howden, and the Wapentake of Howdenshire. The population of Metham in 1823 was 45, and included one farmer; two gentlemen, one of whom lived at Metham Hall; and two yeomen, one of whom lived at 'Bishopsoil'. The hamlet is about from a Roman military highway, Roman pottery and other artifacts have been found nearby. While the Metham Estate has existed for centuries prior, the current Metham Hall is on Metham Lane, and is a Grade II listed building and is of early 19th century origin.
Later his son, Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet, employed George Edmund Street to furnish the church. It was eulogised by Nicholas Pevsner and is a popular visitor attraction due to its unique interior; the walls and ceilings are decorated in colourful murals depicting various biblical scenes, in sharp contrast to the stark interior of many other churches, and it has highly geometric floors in the altar and nave. The mosaics in the sacristy are in the Cosmati style, and some resemble Sierpinskifractals. In 1823 Garton parish was in the Wapentake of Dickering, and the Liberty of St Peter.
In 1823 Norton was in the Wapentake of Buckrose and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Population at the time was 1017. Occupations included five farmers, one of whom was also a lime burner, two blacksmiths, four butchers, six grocers, five shoemakers, three tailors, two horse jockeys, a horse trainer, three raff merchants (dealers in lumber and odd refuse), two schoolmasters, a corn miller, saddler, stonemason, linen draper, cabinet maker, roper, gardener, fellmonger, wheelwright, overseer, and surgeon, and the landlords of The Bay Horse, and The Oak Tree public houses. Resident were fifteen members of the gentry.
Leavening is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as in the Acklam Hundred of the East Riding of Yorkshire. At the time of the survey the settlement contained 10 households, 5 villagers, 5 smallholders, and 3 ploughlands. In 1823 Leavening was in the civil parish of Acklam, the Wapentake of Buckrose and the Liberty of St Peter's, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Population was 294, with occupations including thirteen farmers, four nurserymen, two carpenters, two grocers, three shoemakers, a blacksmith, a corn miller, a tailor, a butcher, a linen manufacturer, a schoolmaster, and the landlord of The Hare & Hounds public house.
Church Broughton used to be part of the ancient Appletree Hundred, or Wapentake. The nearest place to Church Broughton that is mentioned in the Domesday Book is Barton, only from the village and with a total population of "31 households (quite large)", "4 ploughlands (land for), 3 lord's plough teams, 7 men's plough teams" and "64 meadow acres, 2 mills and 1 church." The associated lords of different estates in this area in 1066 were Edric of Tissington, Alfheah of Barton, Dunning, Leodmer of Barton and Leofnoth Sterre. There are two cottages next to the church that date from 1711.
This anecdote is not supported by evidence in the Doomsday Book, however. which does not list any landholder named "Jordayne". The book Identifies several Lords and Tenants-in-Chief for both North and South Cave; Beside King William himself, Robert Malet appears to be the primary landholder in 1086, but William I died in 1087, Leaving William II as successor, and so, some land may have transferred after 1086, but more evidence is required to lend credence to this family origin story. In 1823 North Cave was a civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill and the Liberty of St Peter's.
It was in the east of the county with the River Trent forming most of the western boundary. It consisted of the parishes of Alverton, Balderton, Barnby in the Willows, Besthorpe, Broadholme, Coddington, Cotham, East Stoke, Elston, Farndon, Flawborough, Flawford, Girton, Harby, Hawton, Kilvington, Langford, Newark upon Trent, North Clifton, North Collingham, Shelton, Sibthorpe, South Clifton, South Collingham, South Scarle, Spalford, Staunton, Syerston, Thorney, Thorpe, Wigsley and Winthorpe. Its residual significance was lost with the introduction of districts under the Local Government Act 1894. Contained within the boundaries of the wapentake were the eastern part of the current Newark and Sherwood district.
Molescroft is listed in the Domesday Book as in the Hundred of Sneculfcros in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The settlement contained two households, two villagers, and two ploughlands. In 1066 Ealdred, Archbishop of York, was the Lord, this in 1086 transferred to the canons of Beverley Minster, and the later Archbishop of York Thomas of Bayeux who was also Tenant-in-chief to King William I. In 1823 Molescroft was in the parish of Beverley Minster, and the Wapentake of Harthill. Population at the time was 111, with occupations including four farmers, and the landlord of The Wellington public house.
The village was part of the Earl of Dartmouth estates, a chapelry, in the parishes of Huddersfield and Almondbury, union of Huddersfield, Upper division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and included the township of 'Lingarths' (Lingards) and the Township of Slaithwaite. In the early 19th century a local spring was discovered to contain sulphurous properties and minerals, similar to those found in Harrogate. Sometime after 1820 a bathing facility was built, along with a gardens and pleasure ground, with some visitor cottages. A free school was founded in 1721 and rebuilt twice: first in 1744, and again in 1842.
This area, which includes the hamlets of Newmarket and Scholey Hill, was subject to a planning dispute regarding an industrial and leisure development as villagers feared increased traffic levels – particularly along the A642, B6135 (Newmarket Lane and Watergate), Park Lane and Churchside. Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government approved the development on 21 June 2012. The new stadium for Wakefield Trinity Wildcats Rugby league club will form part of the development and should be completed by 2015. Methley was in the wapentake of Agbrigg in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1086.
Balne is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire in England, south of Selby. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 231, reducing to 224 at the 2011 census. The parish is bound to the north-east by the East Riding of Yorkshire and to the south by the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The village formed the centre of the ancient district of Balne, which consisted of the eastern part of the Osgoldcross wapentake, probably including all the land between the River Don and the River Aire.
A few remains have, however, been found of Anglo-Saxon occupation by a person, or persons, of some substance. The Domesday Survey records "Duvelle" as being within the wapentake or hundred of Morleystone. In Norman times, Duffield Castle was built to protect the hunting grounds of Duffield Frith, awarded to Henry de Ferrers (or de Ferrars) by William I. Most of this became the ancient parish of Duffield, which contained the townships of Hazlewood, Holbrook, Makeney, Milford, Shottle, and Windley, and the chapelries of Belper, Heage, and Turnditch. Meanwhile, St Alkmunds Church was built some quarter of a mile south.
The name Appersett derives from Norse and means the 'Shieling by the apple tree'. The suffix "sett", is notable to Wensleydale (Burtersett and Countersett), with Appersett originally recorded as Appeltresate, which became Aperside and eventually, Appersett. Historically in the wapentake of Hang West and in the Parish of Aysgarth, the hamlet is now within the civil Parish of Hawes, where its population is recorded in the 2011 Census. The bridge in the hamlet that carries the A684 over Widdale Beck, was built in the early 18th century and was widened in 1795 by the architect, John Carr.
Carey Hill and Hall's Court quarries were later filled in, but Clint Hill remains, a relic of the village's industrial heritage, now filled with water and a haven for wild-life. The village is of ancient origin, being mentioned in the Domesday Survey of Leicestershire (1086) In Guthlaxton Wapentake…. Robert the Bursar holds in STANTONE 6 caracutes of land. Land for […….ploughs] 7 villagers with 3 smallholders have 3 ploughs; 4 free men; meadow, 12 acres; woodland 3 furlongs long and 1 furlong wide. The value was and is 20s'' Prior to the growth of industry, the village was mainly dependent on farming.
136 From the mediaeval era until the 19th century Weaverthorpe was part of the Wapentake of Buckrose. Between 1894 and 1974 it was a part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, firstly in the Driffield Rural District, then moving to the Norton Rural District in 1935. Since 1974 it has been in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire. During the Second World War, MI6 secretly installed a new type of direction finding station in a field just south of the village, it consisted of an underground metal tank with an aerial protruding above rotated by the operator inside the tank.
The Court of Pleas of the County Palatine of Durham and Sadberge,2 & 3 Vict c 16, preamble. Archbold, Summary of the Laws of England, 1848, vol 1, p 184. sometimes called the Court of Pleas or Common Pleas of or at Durham was a court of common pleas that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham (including the wapentake of Sadberge) until its jurisdiction was transferred to the High Court by the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873. Before the transfer of its jurisdiction, this tribunal was next in importance to the Chancery of Durham.
Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892) reprinted on Their former home, Langton Hall, previously owned by their descendants, the Howard-Vyse family, and leased to Woodleigh School until 2012, is a Grade II listed building. Langton Hall was purchased by William Langton in 2019 (namesake coincidence), who has undertaken a full restoration of the "decaying country pile after falling for its charms". In 1823 Langton was a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and the Wapentake of Buckrose. The parish church, dedicated to St Andrew, and the parish living was under the patronage of the King.
The Owst family were Roman Catholic and lived under difficulties in the 18th century. In The History and Antiquities of the Seigniory of Holderness, Poulson quotes a 1745 certificate given to Thomas Owst, which describes him as a popish recusant, by Act of Parliament unable to travel farther than five miles from place of abode. The certificate signed by the Deputy Lieutenant was a licence allowing him to travel to Drax to visit his ill wife, under conditions including a stipulated return date.Whellan, T., History and topography of the city of York; the Ainsty wapentake; and the East Riding of York (1856), p.327.
Tutbury Castle at dusk West front of St Mary's Church (circa 1160) Tutbury Castle became the headquarters of Henry de Ferrers and was the centre of the wapentake of Appletree, which included Duffield Frith. With his wife Bertha, he endowed Tutbury Priory with two manors in about 1080. It would seem that Tutbury at that time was a dependency of the Norman abbey of St Pierre‑sur‑Dives.Marios Costambeys, 'Ferrers, Henry de (d. 1093x1 100)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 [ 61, accessed 28 Oct 2007] Quarries near Tutbury once produced Nottingham alabaster, used for monumental carvings.
Page from the Protestation Returns The Protestation Returns of 1641–1642 are lists of English males over the age of 18 who took, or did not take, an oath of allegiance "to live and die for the true Protestant religion, the liberties and rights of subjects and the privilege of Parliaments." These lists were usually compiled by parish, or township, within hundred, or wapentake. They are of importance to local historians for estimating populations, to genealogists trying to find an ancestor immediately before the English Civil War and for scholars interested in surname distributions.A. Whiteman,’ The Protestation Returns of 1641–1642’ in Local Population Studies, p.
In 1823 Fulford, known as "Fulford Gate", was a village in the parish of Fulford Ambo in the East Riding of Yorkshire and the Wapentake of Ouse and Derwent. Population at the time was 182, with occupations including two farmers, two blacksmiths, two wheelwrights, two shoemakers, a butcher, a tailor, a shopkeeper, a coal dealer, a corn miller, and the landlords of The Light Horseman, The Saddle, The Board, The Plough, and The Bay Horse public houses. Also within the village was a druggist, a manufacturing chemist, a schoolmaster, nine gentlemen, three gentlewomen, two bankers and seven yeomen. A school existed for 20 boys and girls.
The Upper Division included the parishes of Farnham, Fewston, Hampsthwaite, Kirkby Malzeard and Pannal and parts of Aldborough, Knaresborough, Otley, Little Ouseburn, Ripley, Ripon, Wetherby and Whixley, many of which formed exclaves. The Lower Division included the parishes of Allerton Mauleverer, Goldsborough, Hunsingore, Kirk Deighton, Kirkby Overblow, Leathley, Spofforth with Stockeld, Weston and parts of Addingham, Aldborough, Harewood, Ilkley, Kirk Hammerton, Otley, Ripley and Whixley. At the time of the Domesday Book the wapentake was known as Burghshire, named from its meeting place at Aldborough. In the 12th century the name was changed to Claro, from Claro Hill near Coneythorpe, presumably its meeting place.
Soon after 1213, Albemarle was established by King John in the territories of the Earldom of Albemarle, and in 1215 the whole of his mother's estates were formally confirmed to him. The Earldom of Albemarle which he inherited from his mother, included a large estate in Yorkshire, notably the wapentake of Holderness, including the castle of Skipsea, and the honour of Craven, as well as estates in Lincolnshire and elsewhere. It had also included the county of Aumale, but this had recently been lost to the French, along with the rest of Normandy. Albemarle was the first holder of his earldom to see it as wholly English.
The place-name Orston seems to contain an Old English personal name, Osica, with -ingtūn (Old English), a settlement called after, or connected with..., so probably, "farm/settlement connected with Osica".J. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton (eds), Place Names of Nottinghamshire (Cambridge, 1940), p. 227; A. D. Mills, Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 2002), p. 262; E. Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (Oxford, 1960), p. 351. Some early spellings are Oschintone in 1086 (the Domesday Book); Orskinton, 1242; Orston, 1284 and Horston in 1428. It lay in Bingham Wapentake (hundred) until such units were abolished under the Local Government Act 1894.
Grangetown houses with industry in the background Grangetown is on the eastern outskirts of Middlesbrough, beyond South Bank, east of Middlesbrough town centre and from Redcar. It was historically part of the ancient wapentake of Langbaurgh West, which along with Langbaurgh East formed the Cleveland area of North Yorkshire, then the parish and urban district of Eston. Grangetown was brought into Teesside County Borough in 1968; from 1974 to 1996, it formed part of the County of Cleveland, and in 1996 it became part of the Unitary Authority of Redcar and Cleveland, which replaced the district of Langbaurgh-on-Tees. It has a population of approximately 8,000.
The road passes the buildings of Leeds Girls' High School and climbs to Headingley, passing St Michael's Church and many shops and bars including the Arndale Centre. Shortly after the church, a plaque shows the site of the original oak tree which gave its name to the wapentake of Skyrack ("Shire oak"): this is reflected in two pub names and nearby Shire Oak Road. The road continues through Far Headingley and West Park. This stretch of the A660 was the route of the first tram service in Leeds (to Far Headingley) and is still a major bus corridor, with several peak hour bus lanes.
It continued in the female line until 1348. Some of the English holdings lost by Roger the Poitevin due to his rebellion were awarded to Robert de Lacy, the son of Ilbert de Lacy. In 1102, King Henry I of England granted the fee of the ancient wapentake of Blackburnshire and further holdings in Hornby,"The Medieval Borough of Hornby (Lancashire)", pp 187-92, Alan G Crosby, ed., Of Names and Places: Selected Writings of Mary Higham (English Place-Name Society 2007) and the vills of Chipping, Aighton and Dutton in Amounderness to de Lacy while confirming his possession of the Lordship of Bowland.
In 1823 North Newbald was a village and civil parish in the Wapentake of Harthill and the Liberty of St Peter's. The North Newbald civil parish contained the hamlet of South Newbald. A stretch of land was purchased to provide a rental which was "distributed every New Year's Day to 20 resident parishioners, who have never received parochial relief". Population at the time was 543, with occupations including six farmers, two blacksmiths, two bricklayers, two shopkeepers, and a tailor, and the public house landlords of The Tiger; The New Inn, who was also a butcher; and The Rose & Crown, who was also a corn miller.
The name of the village derives form a mixture of Old English and Old Norse and was originally prēost tūn sker, which translates as Priests farm (or settlement) under rock (or cliff). The village used to be in the Wapentake of Hang West and in the parish of Wensley. Traditionally, worship was undertaken at the church in Wensley as there was no church in the village save for a small Methodist chapel, but the village does have a small "mission room" (St Margarets Church) that was constructed in 1862 and is now a grade II listed building. However, services are only held twice-monthly.
A café and shop was built, and the mill adapted for disabled access. New sails were fitted on 21 November 2011 and on 28 April 2013 the first bag of flour to be ground with wind power in over 100 years was produced."Moulton windmill's flour-from-sail power for first time in 120 years" BBC News; 2 May 2013 The remains of Moulton Castle, now a small mound of earth and a moat, lie south of the village. The Elloe Stone Located nearby, just off the A151, is the Elloe Stone, believed to mark the site of the moot of the Elloe wapentake in Danish times.
It was part of the Kingdom of Elmet until overrun by the Anglo-Saxons who transferred religion to Guiseley by building a church and divided Yeadon into two areas with Saxon lords (thegns): it remained divided until 1630,as is shown by the names Yeadon and Nether Yeadon. Following the Danish conquest of Yorkshire it became part of the Wapentake of Skyrack but still with Saxon lords. After the Norman conquest the two manors were taken from their Saxon lords and given to the House of Percy (present Yeadon village) and the Meschines family (Nether Yeadon). According to the Domesday book it comprised four carucates or about 328 acres.
Although on the western side of the Pennine watershed, Saddleworth, or 'Quick' as it was once known, has lain within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire since the middle ages. From a very ancient time, the area formed part of the Agbrigg Wapentake, in the "Land of the King in Eurvicsire" (Yorkshire). For a time, during the 17th century, Saddleworth constituted a chapelry within the ancient parish of Rochdale in Salfordshire, which was otherwise entirely in the ancient county of Lancashire. In 1866 it became a civil parish in its own right and in 1889 became part of the administrative county of the West Riding of Yorkshire.
A fine example of English stonecarving from the period, the Brompton Hogbacks, can be found in Brompton Parish Church. In the Domesday Survey, Norman scribes named the settlement Alvertune, Aluertune and Alretone and there is a reference to the Alvertune wapentac, an area almost identical to the Allertonshire wapentake of the North Riding, which was named after the town. The origin of the town's name is uncertain, though it is believed that the name derives from a derivation of the name Aelfere, Aelfereton translates as the farm belonging to Aelfere or even of King Alfred. Alternatively it may be referring to the Alder trees which grew nearby.
Street map of Morley Historically, Morley was the centre of one of two divisions of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley. Morley became a Municipal Borough in 1889 and under the Local Government Act 1972, was incorporated into the City of Leeds Metropolitan District. Morley is represented on Leeds City Council by three wards (namely Morley North, Morley South and Ardsley and Robin Hood) each with three councillors. At the 2010 general election, Morley and Outwood was won by Ed Balls of the Labour Party, who had been MP for Normanton since 2005, and served as Labour's Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2011 until 2015.
The village of Beal was a township in the ancient parish of Kellington in the wapentake of Osgoldcross and liberty of Pontefract in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate parish in 1866, and was incorporated into Pontefract poor law union in 1869. In 1875, the area of the poor law union became a rural sanitary district, which in 1894 was superseded by Pontefract Rural District. The rural district was abolished in 1938, and Beal became part of Osgoldcross Rural District, which was itself abolished under local government reorganisation in 1974, with the eastern part incorporated into the District of Selby in the new county of North Yorkshire.
A Wapentake court was held every three weeks with the steward of the hundred officiating. There had been a courthouse in West Derby for over 1000 years since the time of the Vikings. The present courthouse situated in West Derby is from a building which was constructed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The court was used for the presentation of minor offences, or breaches of any laws within the hundred. The King, or lord of the manor had his own bailiff, who was the officer to the sheriff, who had the duty to ensure peace within the hundred and collect any taxes or levys from the people.
The city of York later claimed jurisdiction over the area under a royal charter of King John granted in the early 13th century. The validity of this charter was a matter of dispute between the city and the Crown, eventually leading to the imprisonment of the mayor in 1280 when it was proved that a clause in the document had been altered. The bailiffs of the city were subsequently able to resume jurisdiction of the wapentake, although it was not formally included in the city when it was created a county of itself in 1396. In 1449 the Ainsty was annexed to York, with the sheriffs of the city assuming authority.
Born on 24 March 1330 in Scampston, Ryedale Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire (now North Yorkshire), England, Latimer was the son of William Latimer, 3rd Baron Latimer, by Elizabeth, daughter of John de Botetourt, 1st Baron Botetourt. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel and Alice de Warenne, by 1353 and they had a daughter, Elizabeth (1357–1395). She married firstly John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby and secondly Robert Willoughby, 4th Baron Willoughby de Eresby. He was present at the Battle of Crécy in 1346, and by 1351 he had been knighted and was in royal service in Calais.
Before the Tenures Abolition Act of 1660, which effectively introduced the concept of freehold into English law, the Lord of the Honour was Lord Paramount over all the mesne lords of the Honour. He exercised governance of the Honour through manorial and forest courts. The Great Court Leet for Blackburnshire was originally held every three weeks at Clitheroe Castle, with the Steward of the Honour presiding. It had jurisdiction over the mesne manors of the Wapentake of Blackburn and within the Borough of Clitheroe, but not within the demesne manors, such as Slaidburn in the Forest of Bowland, which convened their own halmote (manorial) courts.
Rimington was once a township in the ancient parish of Gisburn, in the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. This became a civil parish in 1866, forming part of the Bowland Rural District from 1894 to 1974. It has since become part of the Lancashire borough of Ribble Valley. The parish council is called Rimington and Middop, and is shared with Middop, a small rural parish east of Rimington with a population of 43 at the 2001 census, (2001 Census) Along with Middop, Gisburn, Gisburn Forest, Paythorne, Newsholme and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council.
Appleton Wiske - today just a tiny parish within the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire - is actually one of the 41 ancient parishes of the Wapentake of Langbaurgh in the Cleveland division of the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was also a part of the sessional division of Yarm. The parish was gifted by William the Conqueror to Robert de Brus of Skelton, an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, the famous Scottish king. De Brus’s son gave it to St. Mary’s Abbey, York, along with Hornby and other lands. It remained in the possession of the St. Mary’s until the dissolution of monasteries, when it was granted by Henry VIII to Charles Brandon, who later became the Duke of Suffolk.
In the reign of Edward the Confessor, Newark belonged to Godiva and her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, who granted it to Stow Minster in 1055. After the Norman Conquest, Stow Minster retained the revenues of Newark, but it came under the control of the Norman Bishop Remigius de Fécamp, after whose death control passed to the Bishops of Lincoln from 1092 until the reign of Edward VI. There were burgesses in Newark at the time of the Domesday survey. The reign of Edward III shows evidence that it had long been a borough by prescription. The Newark wapentake (hundred) in the east of Nottinghamshire was established in the period of Anglo-Saxon rule (10th–11th centuries).
Hebden was a township in the parish of Linton, part of the east division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross in the historic county of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in Skipton Rural District in 1866 as a result of the enactment of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1866. In 1974 it was transferred to Craven District in North Yorkshire as the result of the enactment of the Local Government Act 1972. Hebden lies in the Skipton and Ripon Parliamentary Constituency, a seat held by Julian Smith MP for the Conservative; and in the Mid-Craven electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council, represented by Conservative party member, Gillian Quinn.
The Whyburn, or Town Brook is the main watercourse flowing through the town of Hucknall in the English county of Nottinghamshire. It rises in two separate springs at the foot of the Misk Hills by Whyburn Farm, and flows east into the town of Hucknall, past Whyburn Lane to which it also gives its name. The brook once drove several mills in Hucknall, the most notable example being close to the junction of Baker Street and Annesley Road near the town centre.Beardsmore (1909), Broxtowe Wapentake, accessed 2010-06-06 In the History of Hucknall Torkard it is suggested that a mill pond once existed close to the former village green (now the Market Place).
The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Burtone, and belonging to the then Archbishop of York. The name derives from a combination of Old and Middle English; Burh-tūn and Chiri, which means a fort enclosure; a farm with a palisade and a cherry tree. Due to its location, some north of Bishop Burton, the village was sometimes known as North Burton (or even rarer, as Sheriff Burton). Historically in the Wapentake of Harthill, the village also came under the Beverley for its local district. Until rapid house- building in the 1960s and 1970s, the village mostly consisted of one long main street as laid down in the 18th and 19th centuries with farmhouses.
Section 1 of the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844 read in part as follows: The Act went on to state (s. 2) that the parts transferred would be incorporated in an existing: > Hundred, Wapentake, Ward, Rape, Lathe, or other like Division by which it is > wholly or for the most Part surrounded, or to which it is next adjoining, in > the County to which it will thenceforth belong, unless the Justices of the > County, [...] shall declare it to be a new or separate Hundred or other like > Division [...]. The Act itself did not list the areas transferred; these had already been detailed in "Schedule M" of the Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832.Parliamentary Boundaries Act 1832, 2 & 3 Will.
The village of Great Broughton and the hamlet of Little Broughton are listed (under their Latin names Magna Broctun and Parva Broctun) in the Domesday book of 1086."About the Parish - Great and Little Broughton", Great and Little Broughton Parish Council, Hambleton Council website The name "Broughton" is a common English placename, derived from Old English meaning "farmstead by a brook".Oxford Dictionary of British Placenames, ed. A.D.Mills, Oxford University Press, The village was formerly part of the Parish of Kirkby,"Broughton, (Great and Little)", entry in History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County of York (vol 2), Edward Banes, Hurst and Robinson, 1823 and was a part of the wapentake and liberty of Langbaurgh.
By lowering the water table and opening up large new deposits of lead ore, they transformed the industry. The first sough, designed by Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, knighted for his work in draining the East Anglian fens, was driven over a twenty-year period from a point on Cromford Hill, between Cromford and Wirksworth, into an area called the Dovegang. When it was completed in 1652 there was an immediate jump in ore production in the area. Vermuyden's was followed by a succession of soughs which by the end of the century had drained enough of the mines in the Wirksworth Wapentake to cause a dramatic rise in production in the whole area.
Local government reorganisation in 1996, recommended by the Banham Review, saw the county of Cleveland broken up into the four independent unitary authority boroughs of Hartlepool, Stockton, Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland, a smaller, renamed Langbaurgh. At this time they were returned to the counties of North Yorkshire and County Durham for ceremonial purposes. Separate Boroughs The four boroughs continued to use the Teesside name to promote the area and most signage into and around the region likewise. Stockton-on-Tees became the only district in England split between two ceremonial counties when it acquired most of the former East Langbaugh wapentake equivalent, of which some had been under the Stokesley Rural District.
The Norman manor house The village lay in the historical wapentake of Winnibriggs and Threo."Winnibriggs and Threo Wap", A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 16 March 2012 Boothby Pagnell has a Grade I listed surviving fragment of a medieval manor house, in the Norman style, dating from around 1200 AD. The village was a small community, its population in 1086 being just 19. It has archeological remains at 'Cooks Close', a field west of the church, which is chiefly of medieval housing that seems to have fallen into disuse and dereliction by the 14th century, possibly as a result of the desertion of the workforce in the aftermath of the Black Death.
According to the 12th century compilation known as the Leges Edwardi Confessoris, the riding was the third part of a county (provincia); to it causes were brought which could not be determined in the wapentake, and a matter which could not be determined in the riding was brought into the court of the shire. Riding courts were held after the Norman Conquest. A charter which Henry I granted to the Church of St Peters at York mentions wapentacmot, tridingmot and shiresmot (-mot designates popular assemblies), and exemptions from suit to the thriding or riding are described in the charters of the Norman kings. As yet, however, the jurisdiction and functions of these courts have not been ascertained.
The village is of ancient establishment, possibly with Roman origins and was part of the wapentake of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The field adjoining All Saints' Church is the site of the palace of kings of Elmet, which was given (with the manor of Cawood) by Athelstan to the Archbishops of York on his conversion to Christianity in or around the 10th century. All Saints Church The church itself is unusually large for a village parish church and dates from around 1120, with Norman pillars and a later-built large tower housing a ring of eight bells. It was built on the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon church.
From its inception, responsibility for writing the volumes was delegated to local editors for each individual county. The county editors traditionally worked under the direction of a general editor, following a uniform format and style. In general, the histories begin with one or more volumes of general studies of the county as a whole, including major themes, such as religious history, agriculture, industries, population (with summary tables of decennial census totals 1801–1901), and an introduction to and translation of the relevant section of Domesday Book. These volumes are followed by others consisting of detailed historical surveys of each Hundred, Wapentake (discussed in separate Riding (country subdivision) volumes) and Ward (country subdivision), parish by parish.
Margaret Dakins was born before 10 February 1571 (the date of her baptism), the only child of a landed gentleman, Arthur Dakins (c. 1517–1592) of Linton, East Riding of Yorkshire,This may have been the vanished village of Linton in the SE of the parish of Wintringham, represented on modern maps only by Linton Wold Farm, but still described in 1835 as "Linton, a hamlet in the parish of Wintringham, wapentake of Buckrose, East Riding of the county of York, 7 miles E. from New Malton." Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, 1835. Quoted on Genuki site: Retrieved 2 October 2011. However, it was described only as a farm in the seventh, 1848 edition: Retrieved 2 October 2011.
According to the 2011 UK Census, Kirby Underdale parish had a population of 125, a decrease on the 2001 UK Census figure of 129. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was designated a Grade I listed building in 1987 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England. In Baines 1823 History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York Kirby Underwood village and parish was listed as "Kirby Guderdale", and was in the Wapentake of Buckrose. All Saints' Church and its benefice was in the patronage of King George IV. Population at the time was 385, which included two farmers, one of whom was a butcher, a blacksmith, a grocer, and a carpenter.
Langbaurgh West was a division of the wapentake of Langbaurgh in the North Riding of the ancient county of Yorkshire. The area along with Langbaurgh East forms the Anglo-Saxon baronial Liberty of Cleveland, England (not to be confused with the County of Cleveland of 1974 to 1996) and roughly covers the modern districts of Middlesbrough, the western, urbanised portion of Redcar & Cleveland, the southern portion of Stockton-on-Tees, the northern parts of Hambleton (Great Ayton, Stokesley) and the northern parts of the Borough of Scarborough. From the most northwesterly point, the West Wapentake's approximate boundary started from Yarm across to Eston (and the modern Grangetown area), following south the boundary of Lanbaurgh East, then southwest past Stokesley and back up to Craven and Yarm.
Bedale ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the district of Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated north of Leeds, south-west of Middlesbrough and south-west of the county town of Northallerton. It was originally in Richmondshire and listed in the Domesday Book as part of Catterick wapentake, which was also known as Hangshire (so named from Hang Bank in Finghall and because of the many gallows used to execute marauding Scots); it was split again and Bedale remained in East Hang. Bedale Beck is a tributary of the River Swale, which forms one of the Yorkshire Dales, with its predominance of agriculture and its related small traditional trades, although tourism is increasingly important.
Calendar of State Papers, 30 May 1680 In 1683 he and William Tempest purchased the manor of Little Hutton near Hutton Magna (Gilling West Wapentake) Yorkshire from the Edens.Feet of Fine Yorkshire Mich.35 Charles II In July 1688 he is reappointed as Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Durham with his son William.Calendar of State Papers 1688 He was buried at Forcett, North Yorkshire, on 26 July 1697, his daughter Margaret having married Richard Shuttleworth of Forcett and Gawthorpe Hall (Lancashire) William Tempest (31 January 1653 – 16 March 1700), second son of John Tempest of The Isle and Old Durham and Elizabeth daughter and sole heiress of John Heath, represented the City of Durham as Member of Parliament in 1678, 1680 and 1689.
Remembering that large areas of the county were laid to waste during the so-called Harrying of the North, and are recorded as such in the Domesday Survey, Pilsbury Castle, on the west bank of the River Dove, was probably built to protect his holdings in the wapentake of Hamston. Meanwhile Duffield Castle commanded an important crossing over the River Derwent and oversaw the parts of the wapentakes of Litchurch and Morleyston, to the west of the river, and that part of his lands that would become the Frith.Turbutt, G., (1999) A History of Derbyshire. Volume 2: Medieval Derbyshire, Cardiff: Merton Priory Press Much of the estate was granted to Knights who served under him, among them being the Curzons of Kedleston Hall.
The term "hundred" is first recorded in the laws of Edmund I (939–46) as a measure of land and the area served by a hundred court. In the Midlands, they often covered an area of about 100 hides, but this did not apply in the south; this may suggest that it was an ancient West Saxon measure that was applied rigidly when Mercia became part of the newly established English kingdom in the 10th century. The Hundred Ordinance, which dates to the middle of the century, provided that the court was to meet monthly, and thieves were to be pursued by all the leading men of the district. The name of the hundred (called "wapentake" in the Danelaw) was normally that of its meeting-place.
In 1066, this owner was Ernui who was said to have six carucates of land at Brerelia and Hindelia, valued at forty shillings. (A carucate was as much land as could be ploughed in one year by one plough and eight oxen. An acre was as much land as could be ploughed in one day by one plough and a pair of oxen.)Brereley - A History of Brierley, by M. R. Watson & M. Harrison, First Edition 1975, Reprinted 1976, Anchor Press, Barnsley Road, Cudworth This land was given after the Norman conquest to Airic who was given the whole of Staincross wapentake by Ilbert de Lacey, the Norman of Pontefract. All of Yorkshire was divided into wapentakes, Staincross being the one for Barnsley area.
The original meeting place was on the Toot Hill ridge, west of Bingham.Valerie Henstock, Structural Nottinghamshire Heritage Gateway: Bingham The wapentake covered the parishes of Adbolton, Aslockton, Bingham, Car Colston, Clipston on the Wolds, Colston Bassett, Cotgrave, Cropwell Bishop, Cropwell Butler, East Bridgford, Elton, Flintham, Gamston, Granby, Hawksworth, Hickling, Holme Pierrepont, Kinoulton, Kneeton, Langar cum Barnstone, Lodge on the Wolds, Normanton-on-the-Wolds, Orston, Owthorpe, Plumtree, Radcliffe on Trent, Saxondale, Scarrington, Screveton, Shelford, Thoroton, Tithby, Tollerton, Upper Broughton, West Bridgford, Whatton and Wiverton Hall. Contained within it were eastern parts of the present-day Rushcliffe Borough, and western parts of the Vale of Belvoir. Its residual significance was lost with the introduction of districts under the Local Government Act 1894.
Henry de Keighley, a Lancashire knight, was granted a charter to hold a market in Keighley on 17 October 1305 by King Edward I. The poll tax records of 1379 show that the population of Keighley, in the wapentake of Staincliffe in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was 109 people (47 couples and 15 single people). From 1753 the Union stage coach departed on the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike from what was the Devonshire Arms coaching inn on the corner of Church Street and High Street. Rebuilt about 1788, this public house has a classical style pedimented doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns in the high fashion of that age. The original route towards Skipton was Spring Gardens Lane – Hollins Lane – Hollins Bank Lane.
Nidderdale was historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in the Lower Division of Claro Wapentake. In the 19th century local government reforms most of the dale fell within the Pateley Bridge Poor Law Union,Vision of Britain: Pateley Bridge RegD/PLU later the Pateley Bridge Rural Sanitary DistrictVision of Britain: Pateley Bridge RSD and from 1894 Pateley Bridge Rural District.Vision of Britain: Pately Bridge RD In 1937 the rural district was merged to become part of Ripon and Pateley Bridge Rural District.Vision of Britain: Ripon and Pateley Bridge RD Hampsthwaite and Felliscliffe in the lower dale fell within Knaresborough Poor Law Union, later Knaresborough Rural Sanitary District and from 1894 Knaresborough Rural District, which merged in 1938 to become part of Nidderdale Rural District.
There was one independent area within the Wapentake, Griffe Grange, near Brassington, held by the Gell family of Hopton since Ralph Gell had leased it from Dale Abbey and bought it from the Crown Commissioners at the dissolution of the religious houses by Henry VIII.Derbyshire Record Office D258/53/3a,b,c The Gells, however, ran their mines under similar rules to those in the Duchy, the only difference being that the miners paid their dues to them.Derbyshire Record Office D258/20/7/1-40 Attempts by other landowners to establish the same rights as the Gells were largely unsuccessful. An example occurred at Elton, where the landowner, Francis Foljambe, prevented the application of Duchy rules, employing wage labourers in the Elton mines and seeking sanction for his action in the courts.
The Duchy Court, however, issued an injunction against him in 1627, instructing him "to conveane or execute noe other suite or suites hereafter att the Comon Lawe ... concerning the lott and copp and lead mynes in Elton". This ruling was applied in all the Duchy liberties, though there was a renewal of opposition from landowners after the Restoration of 1660. For historical reasons the structure of the industry was different in the High Peak where, mainly because of very long leases, there had been a blurring of the Duchy's authority, and the two largest landowners, the Manners and Cavendish families, maintained claims to mining rights and dues.Wood 1999, pp.238–248 The miners fought hard, physically and in the courts, to obtain the free mining rights enjoyed in the Wirksworth Wapentake.
Any labourer found wandering without such letter, was to be put in the stocks until he found surety to return to the town from which he came. Impotent persons were to remain in the towns in which they were living at the time of the Act; or, if the inhabitants were unable or unwilling to support them, they were to withdraw to other towns within the hundred, rape, or wapentake, or to the towns where they were born. It is often regarded as that the first Act for the Relief of the Poor, for within its many restrictions each county "Hundred" was made responsible for relieving its own "impotent poor" who, because of age or infirmity, were incapable of work. Although lack of enforcement limited its effect. Workhouses.
The wapentake was the rough equivalent in the Danelaw of the Anglo-Saxon hundred. The word is possibly derived from a meeting place, usually at a crossroads or by a river, where one's presence or vote was taken by the brandishing of weapons. According to some authorities, weapons were not brandished during a Norse assembly (known as a thing) but were allowed to be taken up again after the assembly had finished. It is also possible that it was just citizens who were entitled to possess weapons who were allowed to take part—an idea perhaps suggested by references in the Germania of Tacitus or current practice in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden.. The Danelaw counties of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Lincolnshire were divided into wapentakes, just as most of the remainder of England was divided into hundreds.
Wetherby () is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England, close to the county's border with North Yorkshire and lies approximately 12 miles from Leeds, 12 miles from York and 8 miles from Harrogate. The town stands on the River Wharfe, and for centuries has been a crossing place and staging post on the Great North Road midway between London and Edinburgh. Historically a part of the Claro Wapentake (as part of the parish of Spofforth) within the West Riding of Yorkshire, Wetherby is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Wedrebi, thought to derive from wether- or ram-farm or else meaning "settlement on the bend of a river". Wetherby Bridge, which spans the River Wharfe, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed structure.
William Firby was an early 21st Century Labour Party (UK) Councillor for Deerness Valley in County Durham. There was a James Edmund Firby, solicitor, who ran for office in the South Ward of Hartlepool elections of 1924. The presence of Firby toponymy paralleling the outline of all three wapentake groups, with Firby near Bedale in Hang, Firby Court near Richmond in Gilling, and Firby Lane in Ripon not very far from Hallikeld, would make for a roughly even distribution of the Firby place name throughout the five wapentakes of Richmondshire. Not only that, but the area of Grimston is adjacent to the Domesday estates of Count Alan (and Lord FitzAlan of Bedale's as well) near the City of York, so the history of the Firby family relatively coincides with that of the Honour of Richmond within Yorkshire.
Honington Hill Fort To the east of Honington are earthwork remains of an Iron Age fort, measuring by with defensive banks and ditches. There a hoard of Roman coins was found in 1691, although an investigation in 1976 could find no evidence of Roman occupation.Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire pp. 576 and 577, Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. The 1885 Kelly's Directory view of the earthworks "on the heath near the village" is that it is the site of a Roman Camp with fosse and vallum.Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull 1885, p. 483 In the Domesday account of 1086, Honington appears as "Hondintone", "Hundindune" and "Hundinton"."Documents Online: Honington", Folios: 351v, 355v, 377v, Great Domesday Book; The National Archives. Retrieved 21 December 2011 Honington consisted of two manors in the old wapentake of Threo.
Farrar is a surname. The principal contemporary alternate spellings Farrer, Farra, '''Ferrar, Pharo occasionally, but not necessarily Farrow, and is an occupational surname for a blacksmith or ironworker - derived from the Latin ferrarius - Middle English Ferror (a smith) as an occupation, Anglo-Norman ferrur, and thus shares a common occupational derivation with the most common English surname, Smith. There are records of an Osbert le ferrur and Peter le ferrour previous to the Poll tax of 1377, but in those cases ferrur is not a name, it is an occupation i.e. Thomas the horseshoer The Subsidy roll (Poll tax) of 1379, for the town of Elland, Halifax Parish, Morley Wapentake, West Riding of Yorkshire lists a Johannes de Helistones, fferror & uxor (John of Helistones, Ferror and (his) wife, indicating that he was a "ferror"; also in the same subsidy roll is Henricus de Langfeld', ffranklayn, & uxor, which translates into Henry of Langfeld, freeman and (his) wife.
Merchant's mark of John Lane, sculpted on exterior of the Lane Aisle of Cullompton Church, showing the mystical "Sign of Four" the stem of which is formed of a teasel frame used for carding wool. The emblem is repeated profusely on corbels and ceiling bosses inside the chapel Ship from Lane's trading fleet, relief sculpture on exterior of Lane Chapel Interior of the Lane Chapel, looking eastwards; the stained glass is modern Exterior of the Lane Chapel, looking eastwards John Lane (died 1528) was a wealthy clothier from Cullompton in Devon, remembered today for having built the magnificent Lane Chapel (or Lane Aisle) on the south side of St Andrew's Church, Cullompton. Due to a misreading of the inscription on the exterior of his Chapel he was said by Polwhele (1793) to have occupied the office of Wapentake Custos,Custos (Latin), "custodian", thus Constable of the hundred (of Collumpton?) Lanarius,Lanarius (Latin), "wool merchant"Polwhele, Richard, History of Devonshire, 3 Vols., Vol.
Pishey Thompson believed the founder of the Boston chapel to be John Saul. Brothertoft Farm was extended in the early 19th century by Thomas Gee, a son of Henry Gee, a banker of Boston. Marrat recounted in 1814 that Cartwright had sold off much of the land as separate farms, that the holding had consisted of around and that the principal owners then had been Gee, T C Gerordot, C Dashwood, G Beedham and John Burrell. Cartwright had married the eldest daughter of Samuel Dashwood in 1780. The lands had a rateable value of £790 4s. 0d. in 1831–1832, with the "extra-parochial Pelham's Lands" being valued at £518 7s. 7d. (Pelham's Lands was near Fosdyke and by the 1870s comprised seven houses and a population of 54). At this time the area was a part of the Kirton Hundred or Wapentake, which itself had a total rateable value of £51,469 15s. 8d. By the mid-1850s there were 123 inhabitants and the lands consisted of , with the principal owners being Gee, Herbert Ingram, Henry Rogers, George Cartwright and Mrs Barnsdale.
Sleaford is in the North Kesteven District of Lincolnshire (coloured red on this map). From the early medieval period, New Sleaford was in the Flaxwell Wapentake and Old Sleaford in the Ashwardhurn Wapentake.Youngs 1991, p. 699 Sleaford Poor Law Union, overseen by a Board of Guardians, was established in 1836. A Local Board of Health was formed in 1851. After the Public Health Act 1872 established Urban and Rural Sanitary Districts (USD or RSD), Sleaford USD incorporated New and Old Sleaford, Holdingham and Quarrington, while the Sleaford RSD included all other parishes in the Poor Law Union.Youngs 1991, p. 705 The Local Government Act 1894 converted the Board of Health and USD into the Sleaford Urban District Council; in 1899, the town became the administrative base of Kesteven County Council.Pawley 1996, p. 119 In 1973, Sleaford Urban District merged with the North and East Kesteven Rural Districts to form North Kesteven, a district of Lincolnshire;The English Non- metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972 (1972, No. 2039), article 3 with reference to part 25 of the ScheduleYoungs 1991, p.
Ollerton is a settlement listed in Domesday Book, located in the Bassetlaw Wapentake or hundred in the county of Nottinghamshire at a crossing of the River Maun. In 1086 it had a recorded population of 15 households, and is listed in the Domesday Book under 2 owners, Open Domesday by Anna Powell-Smith. Formerly a rural village with a tradition of hop-growing centred on the parish church of St Giles the settlement has its origins at a point where three main routes cross. The A614 linking Nottingham north through Sherwood Forest to Blyth, Nottinghamshire and on to the large minster town of Doncaster; the A6075 linking Mansfield with the ferry crossing of the River Trent at Dunham-on-Trent and on via the A57 road to the cathedral city of Lincoln, England; and the A616 linking Sheffield with the Great North Road Great Britain at Newark-on-Trent. From the 1920s onwards the main industry was coal mining with Ollerton expanding greatly during the 1960s and 1970s. The colliery was sunk in the 1920s and completed during the General Strike of 1926, which led to a saying of "Ollerton was ever built with scab labour".
Reverend Joseph Dunn in bringing gas lighting to the town In the mid-12th century, Preston was in the hundred of Amounderness, in the deanery of Amounderness and the archdeaconry of Richmond. The name "Amounderness" is more ancient than the name of any other "Wapentake" or hundred in the County of Lancashire, and the fort at Tulketh, strengthened by William the Conqueror, shows that the strategic importance of the area was appreciated even then. The location of the city, almost exactly midway between Glasgow and London, led to many decisive battles being fought here, most notably during the English Civil War at the Battle of Preston (1648), and then the first Jacobite rebellion, whose invasion of England was brought to a conclusion by the defeat of the pro-Catholic and pro-monarchial Jacobite army at the Battle of Preston (1715). Letitia Elizabeth Landon alludes to this latter defeat in her poem Preston in Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book 1834. Preston in 1774 In the last great Jacobite Rising, on 27 November 1745 the Jacobite Prince of Wales and Regent, Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through Preston with his Highland Army on the way south through Chorley and Manchester to Derby intending to take London and the Crown.

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