•  Gargrave, West Riding

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gargrave like this:

GARGRAVE, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Aire, adjacent to the Leeds and Lancaster railway, 4½ miles WNW of Skipton; and has a bridge over the Aire, a cotton and worsted mill, a station on the railway, a post office‡ under Leeds, and fairs on 12 and 29 Dec. ...

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The township comprises 2, 536 acres. Real property, £6, 243. Pop., 1, 103. Houses, 224. The parish contains also the townships of Eshton, Cold-Coniston, Bank-Newton, and Flasby-with-Winter-burn. Acres, 11, 615. Real property, £15, 970. Pop. in 1851, 1,831; in 1861, 1, 6 41. Houses, 321. Gargrave House is a chief residence. The property is much subdivided. Much of the land is disposed in pasture. A remarkable petrifying spring is near Eshton. Remains of a Roman villa, with tesselated pavement, were found about ½ a mile from Gargrave village. The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a vicarage . in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £750.* Patron, the Rev.J. Marsden. The church is ancient but good. The vicarage of Cold-Coniston is a separate benefice. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. There are also a national school and charities £73. -The sub-district includes also parts of two other parishes. Acres, 18, 614. Pop., 1,852. Houses, 3 66.

Gargrave through time

Gargrave is now part of Craven district. Click here for graphs and data of how Craven has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gargrave itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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