Knapton, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Knapton, a township-chapelry in Wintringham parish, in the E.R. Yorkshire, on the river Derwent, adjacent to the York and Scarborough railway, 6½ miles NE by E of New Malton. It has a station on the railway, and there is a post office at the station, under York; telegraph office, Rillington. Acreage, 2892; population, 221. Knapton Hall is a chief residence. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of York; net value, £80. There is no parsonage nor resident curate. The church is ancient, and has a bell-turret. There is a dissenting 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 | Wintringham | |
| Poor Law union | Malton | |
| Riding | East | |
| Wapentake | Buckrose |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Knapton 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 Knapton 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following East Riding newspapers online: