Addingham, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Addingham, a village, a township, and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Wharfe, 6 miles ESE of Skipton, and has a station on the M.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. It formerly carried on a large industry in cotton, worsted, and woollen factories, but began to suffer great reverses about 1835. The inhabitants are now chiefly occupied in agriculture and in silk manufacture. Fairs are held on 22 March and 23 Oct. Acreage, 3198; population, 2225. The parish also includes the hamlets of High House, Low Mills, and Small Banks. Area of the parish, 3515 acres; population, 2256. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £190. The church is partly Norman, was restored in 1858, and again in 1875, and stands in a beautiful situation. There are three dissenting chapels, three schools, a mechanics' institute and reading room.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Addingham St. Peter | |
Poor Law union | Skipton | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Staincliffe and Ewcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Addingham Parish Registers (Christenings, Marriages, Burials), 1612-1812 (£)
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Addingham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Addingham (St. Peter))
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 Addingham 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: