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A

DICTIONARY

OF

YORKSHIRE;

CONTAINING THE NAMES OF ALL THE

TOWNS, VILLAGES,

HAMLETS, GENTLEMEN'S SEATS, &c.

IN THE

County of Pork,

Alphabetically arranged under the Heads of the
NORTH, EAST, AND WEST-RIDINGS,
AND THE AINSTY;

THE RESPECTIVE DISTANCES

From two, three, or more Market or Post-Towns,

ALSO IN WHAT

Parish, Wapentake, Division, and Liberty
They are situate;

THE NAMES OF ALL THE

ACTING MAGISTRATES,

LORDS AND CHIEF BAILIFFS OF LIBERTIES,
With Directions for Warrants;

The Clerks of Peace, and their Deputies,

Treasurers, Coroners, Chief Constables, Clerks of General
And Subdivision Meetings of Lieutenantcy, Bailiffs, &c.
With their respective Residences ;

The Markets and Fairs,

AND THE DAYS ON WHICH THEY ARE HELD;
THE NAMES OF ALL THE

BANKERS, and the PRINCIPAL INNS;
POPULATION of every TOWNSHIP, according to Returus made to
Parliament in 1801;

RISE AND Course of RIVERS AND CANALS;
ASSIZES AND SESSIONS.

BY THOMAS LANGDALE.

NORTHALLERTON:

"RINTED AND SOLD BY J. LANGDALE;

BY WILKIE AND ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON,
And by the principal Booksellers in the County of York.

1809.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

PREFACE.

IN offering this Work to the Public, the first NOMINA

VILLARUM, on this plan, ever yet attempted, it may seem proper, and indeed necessary, briefly to state from what sources the intelligence for the present work has been derived, and to furnish introductory explanations of the method observed, and of the information to be expected by the reader.

The Population Abstracts, and Returns relating to the Poor have furnished the names of places, far more correctly than could be obtained by former compilers; but that in a work comprising so many thousand names, errors should not be found, particularly relative to distances, which in the remote parts of the county were found extremely difficult to ascertain, is more than the compiler will venture to assert. He can, however, assure the reader, that his utmost endeavours have been to render it as correct as possible, that various sources of infor mation have been explored, and that he travelled over the greatest part of the West, and various parts of the North and East-Ridings for that purpose, and from his correspondence with the Chief Constables and others, in the different Ridings, fully competent to give such information as was required, to