Deighton, East Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Deighton, a village and a township in Escrick parish, E.R. Yorkshire, near the river Ouse, 5 miles S by E of York. Post and telegraph office and railway station, Escrick; money order office, York. Acreage, 2001; population, 193.

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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	Escrick
Riding	East
Wapentake	Ouse and Derwent

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Deighton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Deighton)

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Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

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Maps

Online maps of Deighton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• 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)

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online:

• Hull Daily Mail
• Hull Packet
• Driffield Times
• Hull Advertiser and Exchange Gazette
• Beverley and East Riding Recorder