Draughton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Draughton, a small village and a township in Skipton parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, adjacent to the river Wharfe, 3¼ miles E by N of Skipton, and 2 from Bolton Abbey station on the M.R. Post town, Skipton; money order and telegraph office, Bolton Abbey. Acreage, 2501; population, 204. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Skipton | |
Poor Law union | Skipton | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Staincliffe and Ewcross |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Draughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Draughton)
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 Draughton 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: