Notton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Notton, a village and a township in Roystone parish, W.R. Yorkshire. The village, a scattered place, stands on an eminence near the North Midland railway, 4 miles N of Barnsley, and has a station on the M.S. & L.R., and one, jointly with Roystone, on the M.R., and a post office under Barnsley; money order and telegraph office, Roystone. The township includes also part of the hamlet of Staincross, and comprises 2602 acres, including 13 of water; population, 269.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
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 Notton 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: