Branton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Branton, a hamlet in Cantley parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 2 miles SE of Doncaster.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 | Cantley | |
Poor Law union | Doncaster | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Branton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Branton, or Brampton)
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 Branton 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: