Huddleston and Lumby, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Huddleston and Lumby, a township in Sherburn parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the Leeds and Selby railway, 2 miles from Milford Junction, and 8 NNE of Pontefract. Post town and money order and telegraph office, South Milford (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1423; population, 223. The manor belongs to Lady Ashtown. Huddleston Hall is a very ancient mansion, was formerly the seat of the Hungate family, and is now occupied as a farmhouse. A fine white building-stone, known as Huddleston quarry stone, and which was the material of Henry VIL's chapel at Westminster, is worked.
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 | Sherburn | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Barkstone-Ash |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Huddleston and Lumby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Huddleston, with Lumby)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: