Azerley, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Azerley, or Cozenley, a township in the parishes of Kirkby-Malzeard and Ripon, W.R. Yorkshire, on a head-stream of the river Ure, 4½ miles NW of Ripon. It includes the villages of Galphay and Mickley. Acreage, 3994; population, 497. Kirkby-Malzeard is the post, money order, and telegraph office. The Marquis of Ripon is lord of the manor. Azerley Chase, the seat of the Cromptons, commands extensive views.
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 | Kirkby Malzeard | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Claro |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Azerley from the following:
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 Azerley 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: