Bawtry, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Bawtry, a small market-town and a township, forming with Austerfield an ecclesiastical parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the verge of the county, on the great North road, on the river Idle, and on the G.N.R., 8 miles SE of Doncaster. Part of it is low, and used to be subject to inundation; but part is high, and contains a market-place. It has a station on the railway, a head post office, a bank, a hotel, a good supply of water, two churches, and two dissenting chapels, and is lighted with gas. The Church of St Nicholas is partly Norman, consists of Roche abbey limestone, was built in the 12th century, and has a tower, added in 1712. A weekly market is held on Thursday, and fairs on Holy Thursday and 22 November. The Church of St Mary Magdalen and Bawtry Hospital, founded by the Morton family about 1316, was restored for divine service in 1839. A farmhouse, a mile distant, occupies the site, and was formed of the materials of a palace of the Archbishops of York, inhabited by Cardinal Wolsey and Archbishop Sandis. Bawtry Hall is a seat of Lord Houghton, who is lord of the manor. Acreage of the town, 259; population of the township, 947; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1288. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Southwell; net value, £370 with residence. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. There are two almshouses and a Mutual Improvement Society.
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 | Blyth | |
Poor Law union | Doncaster | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Bawtry:
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bawtry 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 Bawtry 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: