Nostel or Nostell, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Nostel or Nostell, a hamlet in Huntwick-with-Foulby and Nostel township, Wragby parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the West Riding and Grimsby railway, 5½ miles SE of Wakefield. It has a station on the railway. An Augustinian priory was founded here in 1121 by Ralph Adiove, chaplain to Henry I.; superseded a hermitage, with an oratory and a small hall; acquired circumjacent land from Robert de Lacy, owner of the manor of Pontefract; and was purchased about the middle of the 17th century by Mr George Winn. A mansion, called Nostell Priory, was built near the site of the old priory, in the beginning of the 18th century, by Sir Roland Winn; is now the seat of Lord St Oswald; stands on a rising-ground, in a beautiful park of 250 acres, with an elm-avenue about a mile long and a lake of about 40 acres; and contains a fine collection of paintings, one of which is the famous " Sir Thomas More and his Family," ascribed to Holbein. Wragby Church stands in the park.
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 | Wragby | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Osgoldcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Nostel or Nostell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Nostal, with Huntwick and Foulby)
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: