Place:Tockwith with Wilstrop, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameTockwith with Wilstrop
TypeCivil parish
Coordinates53.9656°N 1.2912°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     (1937 - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
North Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoWetherby Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district in which Tockwich civil parish and its component parts were located 1894-1974
Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, Englanddistrict municipality of which it has been a part since 1974

Tockwith with Wilstrop is the name of a current civil parish in Harrogate Borough in North Yorkshire, England. The area was previously located in Wetherby Rural District. From 1894 until 1937 Tockwith, Cowthorpe, and Wilstrop civil parishes were separate entities. Cowthorpe merged with Tockwith under the name Tockwith in 1937. Since the reorganization under Harrogate District in 1974, the area covered by Wilstrop has also been merged with Tockwich, this time under the name Tockwith with Wilstrop.

Research Tips

  • A map provided by the Tockwith with Wilstrop Parish Council showing the council area in red and all the local settlements, both inside and outside the parish.
  • An article on the history of Wilstrop from the present parish council website, and the original article on which it was based.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time on the relationship of Tockwith and Cowthorpe.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time also 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. Those listed here provide data for the part of the West Riding that transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974 plus the northern parts of Leeds and Bradford. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
  • Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
  • Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1900 The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (rural districts of Sedbergh, Settle, Skipton, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Knaresborough, Great Ouseburn, Clitheroe, Wharfedale, Wetherby, York, Bishopthorpe, Keighley, the northern part of Bradford, the northern part of Leeds, the northern part of Hunslet Urban District, the northern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the northern part of Selby Rural District). [Note: this map appears to be no longer available on the Vision of Britain website. This is unfortunate because the equivalent map from 1931-44 was redrawn after the 1938 reorganization of the rural districts in the northern part of the West Riding.]
  • Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the northern part of the West Riding (mostly Settle, Skipton, Ripon and Pateley Bridge, and Nidderdale, with sections of Wharfedale and Wetherby) after the revisions of 1938.
  • Ordnance Survey Southern part of the West Riding 1944 shows the southern part of the West Riding (including the southern part of Wetherby Rural District).