Place:Humberton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia Humberton (#17 on map) is now a civil parish and a hamlet in the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) east from Boroughbridge (in the West Riding) and on the north side of the River Ure. The hamlet lies about one mile to the west of the Swale, and comprises 2,320 acres (9 km2) of land. The Ure, which separates the township from Aldborough, was crossed by a wooden bridge, at Milby, before the Conquest, and some remains of the bridge are still visible when the water is low. The name Humberton means 'Hund's fortified farm/settlement' or 'Hundr's fortified farm/settlement'. Humberton had a population of 111 according to the 2011 UK census – 68 male and 43 female – within 45 dwellings. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Humberton. A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Humberton from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72: "HUMBERTON, a township in Kirby-Hill and Aldborough parishes, [North Riding of] Yorkshire; near the rivers Ouse and Swale, 2¼ miles NNE of Boroughbridge. Acres, of the Kirby-Hill part: 610. Real property of the whole: £1,788. Population of the [Kirby Hill] part: 41. Houses: 5. Population of the whole: 57. Houses: 8." GENUKI describes Humberton as being in the ecclesiastical parish of Kirby Hill (Kirby on the Moor) in Halikeld Wapentake. Kirby Hill is a small parish on the border between the West Riding of Yorkshire and the North Riding. A Vision of Britain through Time states that Humberton was only a part of Great Ouseburn Rural District for a year. In 1895 the whole was transferred to Thirsk Rural District in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Historically, Humberton was in the ecclesiastical parish of Aldborough (in the West Riding, not on map) in Halikeld Wapentake. From 1894 until 1974, Humberton was located in the detached section of the Thirsk Rural District. In 1974 the area became part of the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Humberton. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Kirby on the Moor provides a list of useful resources for the local area. Note that the FamilySearch Wiki uses the alternate name for Kirby Hill.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Humberton.
• 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.