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The Ancient Parish of BILTON
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"BILTON, a parish in the liberty of St. Peter's; (Bilton Park, the seat of Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.) 5 miles ENE. of Wetherby. The church, peculiar, is a vicarage. It is a small edifice, of Saxon architecture, which is dedicated to St. Helen (see Churches for photograph). Here is a small school, endowed by the late Hall Plumer, Esq. Population, 223.""BICKERTON, in the parish of Bilton; 4 miles NE. of Wetherby. Population, 149."
"TOCKWITH, in the parish of Bilton, 7.5 miles N. of Tadcaster. At the commencement of the memorable battle of Marston Moor, in the year 1644, the front of the Parliament's army extended from the North end of Marston Moor to this village, a distance of nearly 3 miles. Here is a small neat Methodist chapel, built in the year 1796, and a Sunday school for 100 children. Population 436."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- St. Helen's Church, Bilton in Ainsty - view 1.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- St. Helen's Church, Bilton in Ainsty - view 2.
- The former Wesleyan Church, Bilton in Ainsty, founded in 1845, now a private dwelling.
- Church of Epiphany, Tockwith - view 1.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The East Window
- The font
- Church of Epiphany, Tockwith - view 2.
- The Methodist Church, Tockwith, for sale in April 2007.
- The ex Wesleyan Sabbath School, Tockwith, founded in 1861.
- St. Helen's Church, Bilton in Ainsty - view 1.
- Transcript of the entry for Bilton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Bilton.
- The Incumbents at St. Helen's, Bilton.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the North Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1890. of the North Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835,, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Bilton to another place.
- Tockwith, (a township in this parish) was, by an Order in Council, constituted a separate parish in 1866. See Tockwith parish.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE477499 (Lat/Lon: 53.943019, -1.274801), Bilton which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The World War I Roll of Honour in the Church of the Epiphany, Tockwith.
- The World War I Memorial Plaque in the Church of the Epiphany, Tockwith.
- The World War II Memorial Plaque in St. Denys's Church, York.
- The 1914-1918 War Memorial in Bilton Churchyard.
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.