Kelly's Directory of the North & East Ridings of Yorkshire: 1925
AUGHTON is a township, parish, and village, on the east side of the river Derwent, 2 miles north from Bubwith station and 2½ miles north from Highfield station, both on the Selby and Market Weighton branch of the North Eastern railway, and 8 miles north-west from Howden, in the Howdenshire division of the Riding, petty sessional division of Holme Beacon, Harthill wapentake, Howden union and county court district, rural deanery of Market Weighton, East Riding archdeaconry, and diocese of York. The church of All Saints is a building of stone, chiefly in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 2 bells; between the nave and the chancel is a fine Norman arch, and in the chancel is a brass, with effigies of the fifteenth century, to Richard Aske esq. and his wife: the church was thoroughly restored in 1891 at a cost of about £1,200, and affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1610. The living is a discharged vicarage, annexed with the chapel of Cottingwith, to the vicarage of Ellerton, joint net yearly value of £305, including glebe and residence, in the gift of J. J. D. Jefferson esq. J.P. and T. H. Newsome esq., and held since 1921 by the Rev. Frederick Charnock Bamford Darwent, of St. Aidan’s, who resides at Ellerton. There is a small farm at Bubwith producing about £30 yearly for the maintenance of the church fabric. The trustees of the late J. E. Newsome esq. are lords of the manor and principal landowners. The soil is loamy and clayey, and the subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, turnips, and seeds. The area of the township, 1,947 acres of land and 4 of tidal water; rateable value, £1,912; the population of the township in 1921 was 91, and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1911, 473.
Parish Clerk & Sexton, Christopher Massam
Letters through York via Wheldrake. The nearest money order and telegraph office is at Bubwith, 2½ miles distant.
East Cottingwith township, which is in this parish, will be found under a separate heading.
Laytham or Latham is a village and township in the parish of and 3 miles east from Aughton,and 8 north from Howden. G. W. Lloyd, esq., J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 1,435 acres; rateable value, £773; the population in 1921 was 82.
Letters through Ellerton, York. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Bubwith, about 4 miles distant, & posting box at Foggathorpe.
Aughton.
Nutt William, The Hall
Sargant James, The Vicarage
COMMERCIAL
Marked thus* farm 150 acres or over.
Bradley Arth. farmer, Aughton Grange
Gowthorpe George, farmer, Glebe frm
Harrison William Robert, blacksmith
* Nutt Richard, farmer
Nutt Robert, farmer
Slack Thomas Brownbridge, farmer
Smith Harold, farmer, Aughton Ruddings
* Tattersall Fred Harper, farmer, Staincliffe lodge
Wake Benjamin Newham, farmer, Aughton house
Laytham.
Marked thus* farm 150 acres or over.
* Appleyard Thos. frmr. Lowther frm
Dobson Tom, frmr Laytham grange (postal address, Seaton Ross, York)
* Harrison Tom, farmer, Favin farm
Jefferson Charles, farmer, Bell farm
Jefferson Joseph, farmer
Knapton Fredk. Wm. frmr. The Hall
* Lilley Edward, farmer, Manor Farm
* Pears Edwin, farmer, Green farm
* Rickatson Robert, farmer
EAST COTTINGWITH is a township, parochial chapelry and village, in the parish of Aughton, pleasantly seated on the east bank of the navigable river Derwent, across which is a ferry to this place from West Cottingwith, 4½ north from Bubwith station on the Selby and Market Weighton branch of the North Eastern railway, 2½ miles north from Aughton, 9 south-west from Pocklington, and 12 south-east from York, in the Howdenshire division of the Riding, petty sessional division of Holme Beacon, Holme Beacon division of Harthill wapentake, Pocklington union and county court district, rural deanery of Market Weighton, archdeaconry of the East Riding and York diocese. The Pocklington Canal communicates with the river Derwent near here. The chapel of St. Mary, rebuilt about 1780, is a small and plain edifice of brick, consisting of chancel, nave and a low tower surmounted by a cupola and containing 2 bells: the interior was re-seated about 1845, and affords 175 sittings. The register dates from the year 1715. The living is a chapelry, annexed, with the vicarage of Aughton, to the vicarage of Ellerton, joint net yearly value £305, with residence, in the gift of J. J. D. Jefferson, esq., and T. H. Newsome esq., and held since 1921 by the Rev. Frederick Charnock Bamford Darwent, of St. Aidan’s, who resides at Ellerton. There is a small Wesleyan chapel here. The poor have 10s. yearly, derived from land left about 1719 by Mr. Ellis Bradley. The land is divided among numerous freeholders. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The area is 1,238 acres of land, 6 of water and 7 of tidal water; rateable value, £1,870; the population in 1921 was 212.
Post Office.—Alexander Brown, sub-postmaster Letters through York. West Cottingwith, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Conveyance.—W. & P. Gorwood & R. Hawe, motor omnibuses to York & Selby
Public Elementary School (mixed), for 80 children; Miss May Joughin, mistress; the school is under the control of six managers
COMMERCIAL.
Atkinson Thomas, farmer
Beilby Mrs. shopkeeper
Bell Charles, farmer, Hall Garth fm
Brown Alex. shoe ma.& sub-postmstr
Brown John, barge owner
Featherby Sarah (Mrs.), farmer
Davis Joseph, farmer
Fratson Arthur, Blue Bell P.H
Gorwood William, carrier
Hawe William, Ship inn
Houseman Geo. threshing machine owner
Houseman John, farmer
Houseman Robert, threshing machine owner
Jennings Clifford, farmer
Maltby Robert William, farmer
Moore Henry, farmer
Outhwaite Joseph, farmer
Pears Bernard, farmer, Cottingwith Grange farm
Room William, farmer, The Elms
Ross George, farmer, Hall Garth
Slights John Thomas, blacksmith
Swales Thomas, farmer, Redcap frm
Witty Herbert, farmer
Young Nicholas Maud, farmer, White House farm