Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WEIGHTON-MARKET

WEIGHTON-MARKET, a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Pocklington district, E. R Yorkshire. The town stands on the York and Hull railway, at the junction with it of the railway from Selby, and at the terminus of the W.-M. canal, 19 miles ESE of York; dates probably from the ancient British times; contests with two other places the claim of being the Roman Delgovitia; made some figure in connexion with the Pilgrimage of Grace; was the birthplace, in 1792, of the Yorkshire giant W. Bradley; is irregularly built, but has been much improved; comprises one. principal street and several smaller streets; and has a post-office‡ under Brough, Yorkshire, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, two chief inns, an ancient church, three dissenting chapels, a slightly endowed school, national schools, charities £126, a weekly. market on Wednesday, and fairs on 14 May and 24 Sept.- The township includes the hamlet of Arras, yet is regarded as conterminate with the town. Real property, £10,838; of which £300 are in the canal. Pop. in 1851, 2,001; in 1861, 2,178. Houses, 460.—The parish contains also Shipton township, and comprises 7,248 acres. Pop. in 1861, 2,589. Houses, 564. There are barrows; and some Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300.* Patron, the Archbishop of York.—The sub-district contains 8 parishes and two parts. Acres, 32,400. Pop., 5,254. Houses, 1,078.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a small town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Market Weighton

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