Place:Catton (near Pocklington), East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Catton is a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 6 miles (10 km) to the northwest of the market town of Pocklington and covers an area of 1,232.568 hectares (3,045.74 acres). It lies on the east bank of the River Derwent that forms the boundary with the unitary authority of the City of York. The A1079 road crosses the river just north of Kexby Bridge which is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed structure.

The ancient parish of Catton was located in the wapentake of Harthill and had five townships and a chapelry. The chapelry, Full Sutton, became an ancient parish in the 13th century, but the townships of Kexby, East Stamford Bridge, West Stamford Bridge with Scoreby, High Catton and Low Catton all retained their places as such until 1866. Following 1866 Catton only existed as an ecclesiastical parish until 1935.

The civil parish of Catton was formed in 1935 by the merger of the villages of High Catton and Low Catton. According to the 2011 UK census, Catton parish had a population of 348, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 284.

Prior to the merger, both High Catton and Low Catton were located in Pocklington Rural District.

Humberside 1974-1996

In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").

Research Tips

• GENUKI on the parish of Low Catton. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Low Catton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• British History Online has three articles on this area: an introductory one entitled Catton, followed by one on High and Low Catton and Stamford Bridge (discussing the area east of the Derwent), and on on Kexby, Scoreby and Stamford Bridge West (discussing the west side of the Derwent). Both of the latter articles described in great detail the terrain, and the local history including the ownership of manors and estates.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Catton.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.