Bilton, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Bilton, a township, a parish, and a small village in the E.R. Yorkshire, 3 miles N of Swine railway station, and 4 NE of Hull, which is the post town. The parish also comprises the townships of Ganstead and Wyton. Area of township, 1205 acres; population of the civil parish, 101; of the ecclesiastical, 259. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, .6283 with residence. The church is excellent.
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 | Swine | |
Poor Law union | Skirlaugh | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Holderness |
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 Bilton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
---|---|---|---|
1692-1914 | 1809-1930 | 1694-1930 | 1692-1984 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bilton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East 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 East Riding newspapers online: