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Bolton 1841 Tithe Apportionment

Mike Silburn and John Nottingham have produced a map of the tithe apportionment for the parish and village of Bolton, dated 1841. As usual they have overlaid the network of closes (fields) over modern satellite imagery and have provided an accompanying table of landowners and occupants so you can determine whether your ancestors owned land or lived in the parish, and where. At 903 acres, the then parish was rather smaller than its neighbours and, indeed, most of the area was transferred to Fangfoss in 1935.

Bolton was perhaps unusual in that no members of the aristocracy owned land there. Indeed, roughly half of the total acreage was owned by only 3 worthies: Henry Thompson Esq (242 acres), Mary Taylor of Bolton Hall (155 acres) and farmer Richard Leak (110 acres). Henry Thompson appears to have been an absentee owner (an 'Independent' residing in York), but many of the smaller landowners were local farmers from Bolton itself or its neighbours. The Rev. G A Cockburn owned some 13 acres in the parish and was vicar of Pocklington 1834 - 1840.

It would be another 6 years before the Stamford Bridge to Pocklington railway cut through Bolton parish, with a level crossing over the Bolton-Wilberfoss road. Closed in 1965 and the rails lifted, the route is still evident on the satellite imagery.

To view the map at full-scale, please click on the ‘View fullscreen’ link. Then zoom in and scroll around to see the parish map, the village inset, and the table of landowners and occupiers in more detail.

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