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• Total Population 1801 to 1911: Population grew from 14,523 in 1801 to 33,052 in 1911.
• Age Structure, in 5-year bands, from 1851 to 1911: In 1851, 5.9 per cent of the population were aged 65 and over, but by 1911 only 4.71 per cent were.
• Infant Mortality Rate 1871 to 1911: The highest rate recorded was 164.85 infant deaths per thousand live births in 1891, and the lowest was 128.51 in 1881.
• Occupational Structure in 1881:

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Alternative names

We know of no alternate names.

Unit associations

We know of no associations with other units.

Unit history

This unit was part of the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
WEST RIDING	Poor Law/Registration County	1850		F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 779.
WEST RIDING	Administrative County			Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)

Boundary changes

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date	Type of change	Other unit involved	Area transferred	Authority
28 May 1861	was reduced to create	WETHERBY RegD/PLU	Newly formed RD of Wetherby gained Bardsey with Rigton, East Keswick, Scarcroft , Wathersome, Bilton, Healaugh, Wighill, and Bickerton from Tadcaster	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
26 Mar 1862	was enlarged by gaining part of	HUNSLET RegD/PLPar/PLU	Austhorpe	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
26 Mar 1862	was enlarged by gaining part of	PONTEFRACT RegD/PLU	Townships of Newthorpe, Huddleston and Lumby	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
28 May 1862	was reduced to create	BRAMHAM RegD	New RD of Bramham formed as follows: Barwick-in-Elmet, Barkston Ash, Kirk Fenton, Saxton-with-Scarthingwell, Newton Kyme with Toulston, East Tadcaster and Ulleskelf, Bilborough, Catterton, Acaster, Selby, Appleton Roebuck, Bolton Percy, Steeton, Braham wi??	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
22 Mar 1865	was enlarged by gaining part of	BRAMHAM RegD	East Tadcaster	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
31 May 1865	was enlarged by gaining part of	BRAMHAM RegD	Catterton	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
06 Aug 1869	was enlarged by gaining part of	KIRKSTALL RegD	Whitkirk lost the parish of Swillington to Aberford as part of the dissolution of Kirkstall	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
16 Aug 1869	was enlarged by the abolition of	BRAMHAM RegD	All of Bramham merged back into Tadcaster	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
16 Aug 1869	was reduced to enlarge	SELBY RegD/PLU	Biggin and Little Fenton	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
16 Aug 1869	was enlarged by gaining part of	SELBY RegD/PLU	Selby lost the township of Ryther-with-Ossendike to Appleton Roebuck	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
23 Aug 1869	was enlarged by gaining part of	PONTEFRACT RegD/PLU	The parish of Garforth and the townships of South Milford, Allerton Bywater, Great and Little Preston, Kippax, Ledsham, Ledstone, and Micklefield transferred. Many of these	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Feb 1913	was reduced to enlarge	LEEDS RegD/PLU/PLPar/PLPar	Area: 228 acres. Population in 1921: 2207.	1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 6, 'Intercensal Changes in Boundaries, 1911-21'.; Registrar General's Order

Lower level units

This unit contained the following units:

Name	Type	Start	End	Authority
ABERFORD	Registration sub-District			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'.
BILTON	Registration sub-District		28 May 1862	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
BRAMHAM	Registration sub-District		28 May 1862	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
SHERBURN	Registration sub-District			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'.
TADCASTER	Registration sub-District			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'.
ABERFORD AP/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 502.
ACASTER SELBY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 502.
ALLERTON BYWATER CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 504.
APPLETON ROEBUCK CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 506.
ASKHAM BRYAN AP/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 507.
AUSTHORPE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 508.
BARKSTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 510.
BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES AP/CP	Parish-level Unit	16 Aug 1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 511.
BILBROUGH CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 514.
BOLTON PERCY CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 517.
CATTERTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	31 May 1865	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 526.
CHURCH FENTON AP/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 543.
COLTON Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 529.
GARFORTH CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 547.
GREAT AND LITTLE PRESTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 594.
GRIMSTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 550.
HEALAUGH CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1864	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 555.
HUDDLESTON CUM LUMBY CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 563.
KIPPAX AP/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 568.
KIRKBY WHARFE AND NORTH MILFORD CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 570.
LEAD Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 573.
LEDSHAM CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 573.
LEDSTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	soon after 1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 574.
LOTHERTON CUM ABERFORD Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 577.
MICKLEFIELD Ch/Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
NEWTHORPE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 587.
NEWTON KYME CUM TOULSTON CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 588.
OXTON Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 592.
PARLINGTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 592.
RYTHER CUM OSSENDYKE Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 599.
SAXTON WITH SCARTHINGWELL CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 601.
SHERBURN IN ELMET AP/CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 605.
SOUTH MILFORD CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 584.
STEETON Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 613.
STURTON GRANGE CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 614.
STUTTON WITH HAZLEWOOD ExP/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 614.
SWILLINGTON CP/AP	Parish-level Unit	16 Aug 1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 615.
TADCASTER EAST CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 615.
TADCASTER WEST Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1862	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 615.
TOWTON CP/Tn	Parish-level Unit			F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 621.
ULLESKELF Tn/CP	Parish-level Unit	1869	1930	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 621.