Bickerton, North Yorkshire

Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the civil parish of Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, in the Harrogate district, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The nearest town is Wetherby. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation.[1]

Bickerton
Village
Main Street in Bickerton
Bickerton is located in North Yorkshire
Bickerton
Bickerton
Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSE450506
Civil parish
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
PoliceNorth Yorkshire
FireNorth Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire

History

Bickerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers.[2] The name of the village derives from the Old English of bīcere and tūn; the town of the bee-keepers.[3][4] Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Ainsty, in what was the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is now in the Borough of Harrogate of North Yorkshire, some 9 miles (14 km) west of York, and 3.75 miles (6.04 km) north-east of Wetherby.[5][6] The road to the immediate south of the village was part of the Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike trust, and in the 1820s, Bickerton was a stop on the coaching route between Leeds and York.[7][8][9] The modern day designation of the road is the B1224, which runs between York and Wetherby.[10][11]

Location grid

References
  1. "Bickerton Plantation". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. "Bickerton | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  3. "Bickerton :: Survey of English Place-Names". epns.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  4. Ekwall, Eilert (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names (4 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-19-869103-3.
  5. "Genuki: BILTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (Ainsty)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  6. "Bickerton, Harrogate". visionofbritain.org.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  7. "BICKERTON AND RUFFORTH TURNPIKE TRUSTYORKSHIRE - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  8. "Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike Trust". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  9. Bradley, Tom (1968) [1889]. The old coaching days in Yorkshire. East Ardsley: S. R. Publishers. p. 180. OCLC 10661494.
  10. "Bickerton, Harrogate". getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  11. "Parish History – Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton". biltoninainstywithbickerton-pc.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
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