Wansford, East Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Wansford, a township in Nafferton parish, E.R. Yorkshire, 3 miles ESE of Great Driffield, and 1 from Nafferton station on the N.E.R. It has a post office under Driffield; money order and telegraph office, Nafferton. Acreage, 973; population, 228. The church is a chapel of ease to Nafferton, and there are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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 Wansford 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:

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