South Milford, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Milford, South, a village and a township in the civil parish of Sherburn-in-Elmet, and an ecclesiastical parish comprising also detached parts of Monk Fryston parish, in th& W.R. Yorkshire. The village lies 1 mile from Milford Junction station. 7½ miles S of Tadcaster, and has a station on the N.E.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.½ The township comprises 2301 acres; population, 1064. Under the Local Government Act 1894 South Milford was for parish council purposes made into a parish, and has a. parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to the Gascoigne family. Milford House is the seat of the Crosland family. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1859. Population, 1309. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; net value, —6282 with-residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was built in 1846, and is in the Early English style. There are also a Wesleyan chapel, a bank, malthouses, and gasworks.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for South Milford:
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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: