Bickerton, North Yorkshire

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Bickerton
Village
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Bickerton
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference SE450506
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WETHERBY
Postcode district LS22
Dialling code 01423
Police North Yorkshire
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UK
England
Yorkshire
53°56′58″N1°18′51″W / 53.94937°N 1.31406°W / 53.94937; -1.31406

Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the civil parish of Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, in North Yorkshire, England. The nearest town is Wetherby. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation. [1]

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History

Bickerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers. [2] The name of the village derives from the Old English of bīcere and tūn; the town of the bee-keepers. [3] [4] Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Ainsty, in what was the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is some 9 miles (14 km) west of York, and 3.75 miles (6.04 km) north-east of Wetherby. [5] [6] The road to the immediate south of the village was part of the Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike trust, and in the 1820s, Bickerton was a stop on the coaching route between Leeds and York. [7] [8] [9] The modern day designation of the road is the B1224, which runs between York and Wetherby. [10] [11]

Bickerton was formerly a township in the parish of Bilton, [12] in 1866 Bickerton became a separate civil parish, [13] on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bilton. [14] In 1931 the parish had a population of 140. [15]

From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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References

  1. ↑ "Bickerton Plantation". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. ↑ "Bickerton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Bickerton :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 41. OCLC   1228215388.
  5. ↑ "Genuki: BILTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (Ainsty)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Bickerton, Harrogate". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "BICKERTON AND RUFFORTH TURNPIKE TRUSTYORKSHIRE - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike Trust". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  9. ↑ Bradley, Tom (1968) [1889]. The old coaching days in Yorkshire. East Ardsley: S. R. Publishers. p. 180. OCLC   10661494.
  10. ↑ "Bickerton, Harrogate". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  11. ↑ "Parish History – Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton". biltoninainstywithbickerton-pc.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  12. ↑ "History of Bickerton, in Harrogate and West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time . Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  13. ↑ "Relationships and changes Bickerton CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  14. ↑ "Wetherby Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  15. ↑ "Population statistics Bickerton CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
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