Bilton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Bilton, a township, a village, and a parish in W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the York and High Harrogate railway, 5 miles ENE of Wetherby station, and has a post office under York; money order office, Tockwith; telegraph office, Wetherby. Acreage, 1923; population of the civil parish, 237; of the ecclesiastical, 376. The parish includes also the township of Bickerton. A Cistercian nunnery was founded here, at Symingthwaite, about 1160, by Bertram de Haget. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £261 with residence. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. 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 | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bilton St. Helen | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Ainsty |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bilton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bilton (St. Helen))
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 Bilton 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: