Place:Neswick, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Neswick from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"NESWICK, a township in Bainton parish, [East Riding of] Yorkshire; 4¼ miles S W of Great Driffield. Acres: 960. Real property: £1,675. Pop.: 66. Houses: 12. Neswick Hall is a chief residence."

Historically, Neswick was in the ecclesiastical parish of Bainton in the wapentake of Harthill. From 1894 until 1935, Neswick was a civil parish in Driffield Rural District. In 1935 it was absorbed back into the parish of Bainton.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Neswick. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of North Dalton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Neswick.
• 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.