Place:Tadcaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Tadcaster is a market town and civil parish now in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 3 miles (5 km) east of the Great North Road, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Leeds, and 10 miles (16 km) southwest of York.

It is the last town the River Wharfe passes before it joins the River Ouse about 10 miles (16 km) downstream. It is in the administrative county of North Yorkshire, although before 1974 it was split between the Ainsty of York and the West Riding of Yorkshire. Tadcaster was the largest settlement in Tadcaster Rural District during its duration 1894-1974.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Tadcaster. Tadcaster has a long and interesting history.

Research Tips

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