Gateforth, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Gateforth, a township in Brayton parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, 1½ mile SSE of Hambleton railway station, and 4½ miles WSW of Selby. Post town and money order office, Selby; telegraph office, Hambleton. Acreage, 3752; population, 171. Gateforth Hall is the seat of H. Brooke Firman, Esq., lord of the manor and principal landowner. The living as a perpetual curacy in the diocese of York; net yearly value, £150 with residence. The church is modern.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Gateforth from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Gateforth)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Gateforth are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph