Kellington, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Kellington, a township and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township stands near the river Aire, 1 mile N by W of Whitley Bridge station on the L. & Y.R., and 6½ miles ENE of Pontefract, and has a post office under Goole; money order office, Knottingley; telegraph office, Whitley Bridge. Acreage, 1761; population of the township, 317; of the ecclesiastical parish, 1063. The parish contains also the townships of Beaghall, Whitley, and Egbrough. Acreage, 7490. Earl Cathcart is lord of the manor and one of the chief landowners. Roall, a picturesque old house, with remains of a fine gateway, was long the seat of the Eam-shaws, and is now a farmhouse. Malting is carried on, and there are corn and bone mills. The living, with Whitley, is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £108 with residence. Patrons, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, old but good, has a tower, and was thoroughly restored in 1870. There is a Wesleyan chapel in each of the four townships.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Kellington St. Edmund | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Osgoldcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kellington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kellington (St. Edmund))
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 Kellington 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: