Place:Pocklington Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Pocklington Rural District was a rural district in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England from 1894 to 1974. The district surrounded but did not originally include Pocklington, which formed a separate urban district.

The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894. In 1935 it absorbed all of Pocklington Urban District and a small part of Escrick Rural District. These two districts were abolished by a County Review Order made under the Local Government Act 1929. At the same time Pocklington Rural was reduced in area as parts of the district were transferred to Driffield and Norton rural districts.

Humberside 1974-1996

In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").

Civil Parishes

• Allerthorpe (enlarged 1935 by the addition of Waplington)
• Barmby Moor
• Bielby
• Bishop Wilton (created 1935 from Bishop Wilton with Belthorpe, Youlthorpe with Gowthorpe, and Bolton)
• Bishop Wilton with Belthorpe (abolished 1935 to create Bishop Wilton)
• Bolton (near Pocklington) (abolished 1935 to create Bishop Wilton)
• Bugthorpe
• Burnby (abolished in 1935 to expand Hayton)
• Catton (created 1935 from High Catton and Low Catton)
• Cottingwith (created 1935 from East Cottingwith and Storwood)
• East Cottingwith (abolished 1935 to create Cottingwith)
• East Stamford Bridge (abolished to create Stamford Bridge in 1935)
• Everingham (enlarged 1935 by the addition of Harswell)
• Fangfoss
• Fridaythorpe (transferred to Driffield Rural District in 1935)
• Full Sutton
• Goodmanham
• Great Givendale with Grimthorpe (abolished 1935 to create Millington)
• Harswell (abolished 1935 to enlarge Everingham)
• Hayton (enlarged 1935 by the addition of Burnby)
• High Catton (abolished 1935 to create Catton)
• Huggate
• Kilnwick Percy (abolished 1935 to enlarge Nunburnholme)
• Kirby Underdale (part transferred to Norton RD 1935)
• Londesborough
• Low Catton (abolished 1935 to create Catton)
• Market Weighton
• Melbourne
• Millington (created 1935 from Great Givendale with Grimthorpe, Millington with Little Givendale, Ousethorpe and part of Bishop Wilton with Belthorpe)
• Millington with Little Givendale (abolished 1935 to create Millington)
• Newton-upon-Derwent (abolished 1935 to enlarge Wilberfoss)
• North Cliffe (abolished 1935 to enlarge South Cliffe)
• Nunburnholme (enlarged 1935 by the addition of Kilnwick Percy)
• Ousethorpe (abolished 1935 to create Millington)
• Pocklington (previously an urban district, joined the rural district in 1935)
• Sancton
• Scrayingham (transferred to Norton Rural District in 1935, where it added Leppington and Howsham)
• Seaton Ross
• Shiptonthorpe
• Skirpenbeck
• South Cliffe (enlarged 1935 by the addition of North Cliffe)
• Stamford Bridge (created 1935 from East Stamford Bridge and part of West Stamford Bridge with Scoreby--the latter from Escrick Rural District)
• Storwood (abolished 1935 to create Cottingwith)
• Sutton-upon-Derwent
• Thixendale (transferred to Norton RD 1935)
• Thornton (near Pocklington)
• Thorpe le Street (abolished 1935 to enlarge Hayton)
• Waplington (abolished 1935 to enlarge Allerthorpe)
• Warter
• Wilberfoss (enlarged 1935 by the addition of Newton upon Derwent)
• Yapham
• Youlthorpe with Gowthorpe (abolished 1935 to create Bishop Wilton)

Research Tips

• A Vision of Britain through Time on Pocklington Rural District. This section provides statistics on population and industry, as well as a listing of the civil parishes and the alterations to the municipal organization.
• 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.