In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Austhorpe like this:
AUSTHORPE, a township in Whitkirk parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Selby railway, 4 miles E of Leeds. It includes the hamlets of Barrowby and Great and Little Manston. Acres, 660. Real property, £1,966. Pop., 231. Houses, 44. Smeaton, the civil engineer, born in 1724, was a native; and his monument, with a representation on it of his greatest work, the Eddystone lighthouse, is in Whitkirk church.
Austhorpe through time
Austhorpe is now part of Leeds district. Click here for graphs and data of how Leeds has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Austhorpe itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Austhorpe, in Leeds and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11244
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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