Place:Birdforth Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameBirdforth Wapentake
TypeHundred
Located inNorth Riding of Yorkshire, England
Also located inYorkshire, England    

For a definition of "wapentake", see the article entitled Hundred (county division) in Wikipedia.

Wapentakes, the Old Norse form of the Anglo-Saxon "hundred", are dealt with in Section 1.4, but Sections 1.1 (Hundred courts) and 1.2 (Administrative functions) deal with the concept and purposes of wapentakes along with those of "hundreds" used in English counties further south.

Birdforth Wapentake is located in the North Riding of Yorkshire and was bounded by the wapentakes of Hallikeld on the west, Allerton on the north, Ryedale on the east, and Bulmer and a detached part of Hallikeld on the south.

The wapentake had two portions detached from the main area: Welbury and East Harlsey to the north, and South Otterington to the west.

The parishes of Felixkirk and Kilburn are considered to be part of the wapentake from a geographical point of view, but historically they were part of the Liberty of Ripon which covered a number of detached parishes most of which were in the West Riding of Yorkshire (as Ripon was until 1974). Felixkirk and Kilburn are not in the list provided by the Victoria County History of the North Riding.

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List of Ancient Parishes

Ancient ParishParish StatusSubsidiary Places  Subsidiary Place Status
Cold Kirby parish (ancient) none
Cowesby parish (ancient) none
Coxwold parish (ancient) Angram Grange township, civil parish
Birdforth chapelry, civil parish
Byland Abbey township, civil parish
Newburgh township, civil parish
Oulston township, civil parish
Thornton on the Hill township, civil parish
Wildon Grange township, civil parish
Yearsley township, civil parish
East Harlsey parish (ancient) none
Felixkirk (see note above)parish (ancient) Boltby township, civil parish
Sutton under Whitestone Cliffe township, civil parish
Thirlby township, civil parish
Hawnbyparish (ancient) Arden township, civil parish
Dale Town township, civil parish
Snilesworth township, civil parish
Husthwaite parish (ancient) Carlton Husthwaite chapelry, civil parish
Hutton Conyers parish (ancient) none
Kilburn (see note above) parish (ancient) Oldstead township, civil parish
Thorpe le Willows township, civil parish
Wass township, civil parish
Kirby Knowleparish (ancient) Bagby with Islebeck township, civil parish
Balk township, civil parish
Maunby township, civil parish
Old Byland parish (ancient) none
Over Silton parish (ancient) Kepwick township, civil parish
South Kilvington parish (ancient) Thornbrough township, civil parish
Upsall (near Thirsk) township, civil parish
South Otteringtonparish (ancient) none
Thirkleby (near Thirsk) parish (ancient) none
Thirskparish (ancient) Carlton Miniott chapelry, civil parish
Sandhutton (near Thirsk) township, civil parish
Sowerby (near Thirsk) township, civil parish
Topcliffe (near Thirsk)parish (ancient) Asenby township, civil parish
Baldersby township, civil parish
Catton (near Thirsk) township, civil parish
Dalton (near Thirsk) township, civil parish
Dishforth chapelry, civil parish
Eldmire with Crakehill township, civil parish
Marton le Moor chapelry, civil parish
Rainton with Newby township, civil parish
Skipton on Swale township, civil parish
Welbury parish (ancient) none

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