Meltonby, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Meltonby, a hamlet which forms with Yapham a joint township in Pocklington parish, in the E.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles NNW of Pocklington station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Pocklington, under York. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Pocklington, in the diocese of York. The church serves also for Yapham, and is a small building with a bell-turret. See YAPHAM.
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 | Pocklington | |
Poor Law union | Pocklington | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Harthill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Meltonby 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 Meltonby 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: