Kelly's Post Office Director of the North & East Ridings of Yorkshire: 1879


AUGHTON is a township, parish, and village, on the east side of the river Derwent, distant. 8 miles north-west from Howden, and 2 north from Bubwith station on the Selby and Market Weighton Railway, in the 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 an old stone building, chiefly in the Norman style, having chancel, nave, and tower contains 2 bells; between the nave and the chancel is a fine Norman arch in good preservation: there is a brass, bearing date 1500, on which are elaborately cut the effigies of Richard Aske and lady. The register dates from the year 1610. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the curacy of Cottingwith annexed, joint annual value of £150, in the gift of A. J. Fletcher, esq., and held by the Rev. Robert Simpson, of St. Bees. There is Wesleyans chapel, erected in 1844.  A. James Fletcher, esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is loamy and clayey, and the subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, potatoes, turnips, and seeds. The population of the township of Aughton in 1871 was 178; the area is 1,790; and rateable value, £2,124; the area of the entire parish is 4,295 acres; and the population in 1871 was 560.

 

Letters received through York by foot post, arrive at 11.30 a.m; dispatched at 1.30 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Bubwith.

 

National School, Robert Banks, master

 

COTTINGWITH township, which is in this parish, will be found under a separate heading.

 

Laytham is a village and township in the parish of Aughton, 3 miles east from Aughton,and 8 miles north of Howden. Amos James Fletcher, esq., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 1,365 acres; rateable value, £1,244; and the population in 1871 was 98.

 

Parish Clerk, Robert Banks.

 

Letters received through York. The nearest money order office is at Bubwith.

 

CARRIERS TO:-

HOWDEN - Thomas Thompson, on saturday

YORK – Edward Thompson, on saturday.

 

Aughton.

Simpson Rev. Robert, Vicarage

 

COMMERCIAL

Blanshard Rd. Raimes, farmer,The Hall

Brownbridge John, farmer

Collins James, farmer

Falkingham Robert, farmer

Longbones Thomas, farmer

Longhorn Richard, brick maker

Nutt Thomas, farmer

Precious George, farmer

Sanderson William, Plough inn

Slack Samuel (Mrs.), farmer

Stephenson Francis, farmer, Ruddings

Watson Thomas, farmer

Wilson Leonard, shopkeeper

 

Laytham.

Brabbs John, farmer

Exelby Joseph, farmer

Hare Leaton,

Perkin George, blacksmith

Robinson Richard, farmer

Thompson George, farmer

Thompson John, farmer

Todd Thomas, farmer

 

 

EAST COTTINGWITH is a township, parochial chapelry and village, in the parish of Aughton, from which place it is 2½ miles north, 9 south-west from Pocklington, 12 south-east from York, and 4½ north from Bubwith station, 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, pleasantly seated on the east bank of the navigable river Derwent, across which is a ferry to this place from West Cottingwith. The Pocklington Canal communicates with the river Dement near here. Here is a Parochial chapel, which was rebuilt about the year 1780, and is a small plain brick building, consisting of chancel, nave and low tower containing 2 bells, and surmounted by a spherical cupola; the interior was re-seated about 1845: the font is octagonal. The register dates from the year [ blank ]. The living is a chapelry, annexed to Aughton, yearly value £150, in the gift of A. J. Fletcher, esq., and held by the Rev. Robert Simpson, of St. Bees. There is a Friends’ Meeting-house in the village, built about 1790; the Wesleyans also have a small chapel here. The land is divided among a numerous body of small freeholders. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The acreage is 1,140; rateable value, £2,181; and the population in 1871 was 278

 

Parish Clerk, John Wilson.

 

Letters received by foot post from Selby via Bubwith, which is the nearest money order office. There is not a post office here

 

CARRIER TO YORK. – James Pears, every saturday

 

COMMERCIAL.

Bean George, carrier

Bell Richard, coal merchant

Brown Alexander, shoe maker

Danton Jas. farm bailiff to Mr. Walker

Gell Thomas, farmer

Hemingway John, carpenter

Hewson George, bricklayer

Houseman John, farmer and Ship inn

Laverick Camidge, farmer

Overend William, shoe maker

Pacey Robert, farmer

Pears James, shopkeeper & carrier

Precious John, farmer

Radcliff  William, farmer

Room John, farmer

Room Robert, farmer

Room Thomas, farmer

Rydar Mary (Mrs.), farmer

Seymour Benjamin, farmer

Slights James, basket maker

Slights Snowden, basket maker

Slights Thomas, blacksmith

Smith George, farmer

Sumpton Hannah (Mrs.), Blue Bell inn

Turner James, grocer

Wilson Richard, farmer