Place:Elvington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Elvington is a village and civil parish situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south-east of York, England, on the B1228 York-Howden road. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,212. The River Derwent forms part of the parish boundary and an ancient stone bridge connects Elvington with Sutton-upon-Derwent. The village has three separate large industrial estates including a site for a Norwegian chemical company.

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From 1894 until 1935, Elvington was located in Escrick Rural District. In 1935 the Escrick Rural District was abolished and its place was taken by Derwent Rural District which administered the local area until the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974. From 1974 until 1996, Elvington was in the Selby District of North Yorkshire. In 1996 the City of York, a unitary authority, expanded its borders to include Elvington.

Historically, Elvington was an ecclesiastical parish in the wapentake of Ouse and Derwent.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Elvington, City of York.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Elvington. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Elvington provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• British History Online has an article from the Victoria County Histories on Elvington
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Elvington.
• 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.