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The following appear as names for West Riding. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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WEST RIDING YORKSHIRE | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
YORKSHIRE | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with West Riding. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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WEST RIDING | Administrative County | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 765. |
Division of Ancient County (Riding) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 770. | |
Poor Law/Registration County | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 495. | |
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE EASTERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE MID | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE NORTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE SOUTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
YORK COUNTY WEST RIDING | 1841 Occupation reporting area | 1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'. |
YORKSHIRE EASTERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
YORKSHIRE NORTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
YORKSHIRE SOUTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) |
YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING | Administrative County | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 790. |
Constituency (PDivCon) | Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998) | |
Poor Law/Registration County | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'. | |
YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING EASTERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1977) |
YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING NORTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1977) |
YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING SOUTHERN | Constituency (PDivCon) | F.W.S. Craig (ed.), British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885 (London: The Macmillan Press Ltd, 1977) |
YORK WEST RIDING | Division of Ancient County (Riding) | 1801 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with West Riding, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of West Riding, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of West Riding, in Leeds and Yorkshire | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20118/names
Date accessed: 18th April 2024