Beaghall or Beal, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Beaghall or Beal, a township in Kellington parish, W.R. Yorkshire, situated on the south bank of the Aire, 6 miles E of Pontefract, and 2½ from Whitley Bridge station on the L. & Y.R. Post town, Normanton. Acreage, 1876; population, 398. It includes Kellingley hamlet. Earl Cathcart is lord of the manor and principal landowner. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Kellington | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Osgoldcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Beaghall or Beal from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Beaghall, or Beal)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: