Place:Askham Richard, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Askham Richard is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of City of York in the north of England, south-west of York, close to Copmanthorpe, Bilbrough and Askham Bryan. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 351. The village became a Conservation Area in 1975. Nearby is Askham Bryan College of Agriculture.

The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It was then a part of the district of Selby District in North Yorkshire from 1974 until 1996. Since 1996 it has been part of the City of York unitary authority.

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Askham Richard has a similar list of administering authorities from the neighbouring Askham Bryan. Before the late 19th century it was also an ecclesiastical parish in the Ainsty Wapentake which formed the rural region around the City of York. It became a civil parish in 1866 within the York Poor Law Union, Rural Sanitary District and Registration District in 1869. It was transferred to the Bishopthorpe Rural District in 1894. In 1937 the City of York absorbed many of the nearby rural civil parishes, including Askham Richard, into the borough. In the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974 York's boundaries were reduced and Askham Richard became part of the Selby District in North Yorkshire. In 1996 York was again able to expand its boundaries as a unitary authority and Askham Richard is once again part of the City of York.

History

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The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The name comes from ascam or ascha meaning "enclosure of ash-tree". It has been also known as "Little" or "West" Askham". The "Richard" in the village name is reputed to be that of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall.

The villages of Askham Richard and close-by Askham Bryan were once just one manor around the time of Edward the Confessor and belonged to Edwin, Earl of Mercia. When Edwin's lands were confiscated by the William the Conqueror, the village was granted to Roger de Mowbray who then passed the Manor to his friend, William de Tykhill, a former Warden of Foss Bridge.^[1]

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Askham Richard.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Askham Richard. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Askham Richard provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Askham Richard.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. The location of individual settlements within the parishes is also shown. These maps all expand to a very large scale.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding North 1900 and Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. NOTE: In 2022 the map of the southern section is not available through the Vision of Britain website. It is unknown if this omission is accidental or if the copy used by the university has been damaged in some way.
• Yorkshire West Riding South and Yorkshire West Riding North revised_1944. These two maps illustrate the urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
• A further useful map on A Vision of Britain through Time is a boundary map dated 1917. This shows all the boundaries of villages, townships and parishes in the Holmfirth area.