Lawkland, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Lawkland, a township in Austwick ecclesiastical parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, near the river Ribble, 3 miles NW of Settle, which is the nearest railway station. Post town and money order office, Austwick; telegraph office, Olapham. Acreage, including the hamlets of Eldroth and Frizor, 5350; population, 280. Lawkland Hall is the property of the Ingleby family, who are lords of the manor and principal landowners. There is a Roman Catholic chapel.
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 | Clapham | |
Poor Law union | Settle | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Staincliffe and Ewcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lawkland from the following:
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 Lawkland 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: