Aike, East Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Aike, a village and a township in the parishes of Lockington and St John Beverley, E.R. Yorkshire, near the river Hull, 2 miles E of Lockington railway station, and 6 N of Beverley, which is the post town. Acreage, 540, population, 63.

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Administration

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

Ancient County	Yorkshire
Poor Law union	Beverley
Riding	East
Wapentake	Harthill

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

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aike from the following:

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

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Land and Property

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

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Maps

Online maps of Aike 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)

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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

• Hull Daily Mail
• Hull Packet
• Driffield Times
• Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette
• Beverley and East Riding Recorder