Scriven with Tentergate, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Scriven-with-Tentergate, a township in Knaresborough parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Nidd, 1 mile N by W of Knaresborough station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Knaresborough. Acreage, 1759; population, 615. The manor belonged anciently to the Scrivens, passed in the time of Henry III. to the Slingsbys, and belongs now to the Queen. Conyngarth Saxon camp and Gateshill Danish camp are near.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Scriven with Tentergate from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Scriven)

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:

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