Bickerton, North Yorkshire
{{Short description|Village in North Yorkshire, England}}
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| official_name = Bickerton
| type = Village
| country = England
| unitary_england = North Yorkshire
| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire
| region = Yorkshire and the Humber
| static_image_name = Main Street, Bickerton (geograph 2788721).jpg
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| static_image_caption = Main Street in Bickerton
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| post_town = WETHERBY
| postcode_area = LS
| postcode_district = LS22
| dial_code = 01423
| constituency_westminster = Wetherby and Easingwold
| civil_parish = Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton
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Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the civil parish of Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, in North Yorkshire, England. The nearest town is Wetherby. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation.{{cite web |title=Bickerton Plantation |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/bickerton-plantation-harrogate/?v=2021 |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}
History
Bickerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers.{{cite web |title=Bickerton {{!}} Domesday Book |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SE4550/bickerton/ |website=opendomesday.org |access-date=10 October 2022}} The name of the village derives from the Old English of bīcere and tūn; the town of the bee-keepers.{{cite web |title=Bickerton :: Survey of English Place-Names |url=https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/West+Riding+of+Yorkshire/Bilton/5328827ab47fc40c8100607d-Bickerton |website=epns.nottingham.ac.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Ekwall |first1=Eilert |author-link=Eilert Ekwall |title=The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names |date=1960 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |oclc=1228215388 |page=41 |edition=4}} Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Ainsty, in what was the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is some {{convert|9|mi}} west of York, and {{convert|3.75|mi}} north-east of Wetherby.{{cite web |title=Genuki: BILTON: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868., Yorkshire (Ainsty) |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ARY/Bilton/Bilton68 |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}{{cite web |title=Bickerton, Harrogate |url=https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11575 |website=visionofbritain.org.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}} 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.{{cite web |title=BICKERTON AND RUFFORTH TURNPIKE TRUSTYORKSHIRE - Archives Hub |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/6913b424-962c-321c-bfbe-e0791ce2f010 |website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}{{cite web |title=Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike Trust |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F151568 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Bradley |first1=Tom |title=The old coaching days in Yorkshire |date=1968 |orig-date=1889 |publisher=S. R. Publishers |location=East Ardsley |page=180|oclc=10661494}} The modern day designation of the road is the B1224, which runs between York and Wetherby.{{cite web |title=Bickerton, Harrogate |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/bickerton-harrogate |website=getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}{{cite web |title=Parish History – Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton |url=https://www.biltoninainstywithbickerton-pc.gov.uk/parish-history |website=biltoninainstywithbickerton-pc.gov.uk |access-date=10 October 2022}}
Bickerton was formerly a township in the parish of Bilton,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11575|title=History of Bickerton, in Harrogate and West Riding|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=29 November 2023}} in 1866 Bickerton became a separate civil parish,{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10398502|title=Relationships and changes Bickerton CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=29 November 2023}} on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bilton.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/wetherby.html|title=Wetherby Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=29 November 2023}} In 1931 the parish had a population of 140.{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10398502/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Bickerton CP/Tn through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=29 November 2023}}
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
Location grid
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See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.biltoninainstywithbickerton-pc.gov.uk/parish-history Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton parish website]
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