Grassington, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Grassington, a market-town and township in Linton parish, and a polling-place for the Skipton division of the W.R. Yorkshire, lying on the river Wharfe, 8½ miles N of Skipton railway station, and with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Skipton. Acreage, 5802; population, 480. There are a worsted mill and lead mines in the neighbourhood. A fair is held on 24 April. Grassington Moor is rich in minerals. There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels, and a mechanics' institute, built in 1855 at the expense of the Duke of Devonshire, who is lord of the manor.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Linton | |
Poor Law union | Skipton | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Staincliffe and Ewcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Grassington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grassington)
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 Grassington 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: