Place:Colton (near Tadcaster), West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameColton (near Tadcaster)
Alt namesColetonesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 315
Coletunesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 315
Coultonsource: Family History Library Catalog
TypeVillage
Coordinates53.885°N 1.169°W
Located inWest Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inNorth Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
Yorkshire, England    
See alsoTadcaster Rural, West Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district of which it was a part 1894-1974
Selby District, North Yorkshire, Englandmunicipal district of which it has been a part since 1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


NOTE: There is also a village named Coulton which is near Helmsley in the Ryedale District of North Yorkshire.

Colton is a village in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, seven miles south-west of York. It is located in the parish of Bolton Percy,

Before 1974 it was situated in Tadcaster Rural District. Historically, it was located in the ecclesiastical parish of Bolton Percy in the Ainsty Wapentake.

GENUKI states that in the 1820s it was the the seat of Christopher Morritt, Esq.

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