Beckwithshaw, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Beckwithshaw, a village and an ecclesiastical parish, constituted in 1887, in the W.R. Yorkshire, comprising part of the parish of Pannal, the wliole of Haverah Park, and part of St Mary's, Low Harrogate. It has a post office under Harrogate, which is the money order, telegraph office, and railway station. Population of the ecclesiastical parish, 310. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £206 with residence. The church, erected in 1886, is a building in the Early English style.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Beckwithshaw 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 West Riding newspapers online: