South Duffield, East Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Duffield, South, a village and a township in Hemingborough parish, E.R. Yorkshire, on the river Derwent, between the Selby and Market-Weighton and the Selby and Hull railways, 4¼ miles E by N of Selby. Post town, money order, and telegraph office, Selby. Acreage, 1685; population, 208. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 South Duffield 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:

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