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The Ancient Parish of ABERFORD
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"ABERFORD, a market and parish-town, in the parishes of Aberford and Sherburn in Elmet, wapentakes of Skyrack, (lower division) and Barkston Ash, liberties of Pontefract and St. Peter; 6 miles from Tadcaster, 8 from Wetherby, 9 from Ferrybridge, 11 from Leeds and Pontefract, 14 from Selby, 16 from York, 186 from London. Market, Wednesday. Fairs, last Mondays in April and May, first Monday in October, first Monday after St. Luke, first Monday after All Saints, for horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c.; if either of the two last St. days fall on a Monday, the Fair will be held on that day. Principal Inn, the Swan. Pop. Lotherton with Aberford, 427 Aberford, 579, Total, 1,006. The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Richard (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, ~£6. 1s. 8d. Patron Oriel College, Oxford. Aberford is thus singularly situated with respect to the townships, viz. the west side of the town, from the river Cock, (south-end) is Aberford cum Parlington; the east-side of the same end, is Lotherton cum Aberford; and all north of the river is Aberford alone." (There is further information for Aberford)."BECKA LODGE, (the seat of William Markham, Esq.) in the township and parish of Aberford, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 1 mile from Aberford, 6 miles from Wetherby, 8 from Leeds."
"BLACK HORSE, a farm-house in the township and parish of Aberford. See Aberford."
"PARLINGTON, a township, in the parish of Aberford, lower division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Richard Oliver Gascoigne, Esq.) 1 mile SW. of Aberford. Pop. 226.
This has long been a seat of a branch of the ancient family of Gascoignes of Gawthorpe, the Baronetage of which became extinct, on the death of the late Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Richard Oliver, Esq. of Parlington, succeeded him in his estates, and in compliance with his will, assumed the name Gascoigne. A pedigree of the Gascoignes is given in Thoresby's Leodiensis."
"STURTON GRANGE, a township, in the parish of Aberford, lower-division of Skyrack; 3 miles S. of Aberford, 8 from Leeds, 11 from Tadcaster. Pop. 92."
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- St. Ricarius's Church, Aberford (view 1).
- St. Ricarius's Church, Aberford (view 2).
- The Methodist Church, Aberford.
- Transcript of the entry for Aberford in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Aberford.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Aberford to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE432372 (Lat/Lon: 53.829275, -1.345137), Aberford which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The World War I and World War II memorial at Aberford.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SE433375) Green Hill
- (SE433380) St John's
- This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.