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Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the civil parish of Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, in North Yorkshire, England. The nearest town is Wetherby. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation.[1]

History

Bickerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers.[2] The name of the village derives from the Old English of bīcere and tūn; the town of the bee-keepers.[3][4] Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Ainsty, in what was the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is some 9 miles (14 km) west of York, and 3.75 miles (6.04 km) north-east of Wetherby.[5][6] The road to the immediate south of the village was part of the Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike trust, and in the 1820s, Bickerton was a stop on the coaching route between Leeds and York.[7][8][9] The modern day designation of the road is the B1224, which runs between York and Wetherby.[10][11] From 1974 to 2023 it was in the Harrogate district.

Bickerton was formerly a township in the parish of Bilton,[12] in 1866 Bickerton became a separate civil parish,[13] on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bilton.[14] In 1931 the parish had a population of 140.[15]

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References

  1. ^ "Bickerton Plantation". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Bickerton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Bickerton :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  4. ^ Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  5. ^ "Genuki: BILTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (Ainsty)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  6. ^ "Bickerton, Harrogate". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. ^ "BICKERTON AND RUFFORTH TURNPIKE TRUSTYORKSHIRE - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  8. ^ "Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike Trust". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  9. ^ Bradley, Tom (1968) [1889]. The old coaching days in Yorkshire. East Ardsley: S. R. Publishers. p. 180. OCLC 10661494.
  10. ^ "Bickerton, Harrogate". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  11. ^ "Parish History – Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton". biltoninainstywithbickerton-pc.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  12. ^ "History of Bickerton, in Harrogate and West Riding". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Relationships and changes Bickerton CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  14. ^ "Wetherby Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  15. ^ "Population statistics Bickerton CP/Tn through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
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