Laverton, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Laverton, a township in Kirkby Malzeard parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, on a branch of the river Ure, 5½ miles WNW of Ripon, which is the nearest railway station. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Kirkby Malzeard. Acreage, including Carlesmoor and Dallowgill, 6721; population, 289. The Marquis of Ripon is lord of the manor. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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 Laverton 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:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph