Steeton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Steeton, a township in Bolton Percy parish, W.R. Yorkshire, 3 miles E of Tadcaster station on the N.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bolton Percy. Acreage, 1141; population, 80. The Fairfax family are lords of the manor.
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 | Bolton Percy | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Ainsty |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Steeton 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 Steeton 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: