Place:Brackenholme cum Woodhall, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

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

"BRACKENHOLM-WITH-WOODHALL, a township in Hemingbrough parish, [East Riding of] Yorkshire; on the river Derwent, adjacent to the Selby and Hull railway, 4 miles NW of Howden. Acres: 1,503. Real property: £1,956. Population: 102. Houses: 19."

Historically, Brackenholme cum Woodhall was in the ancient parish of Hemingbrough in the wapentake of Ouse and Derwent. From 1894 until 1935, it was located in Howden Rural District. In 1935 the parish was transferred to Derwent Rural District. With the rest of Derwent Rural District, it became part of the Selby District of North Yorkshire in 1974.

Research Tips

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