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Brotherton, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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BROTHERTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"BROTHERTON, a parish comprising the township of Brotherton in the liberty of St-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, and the townships of Byrome with Pool, and Sutton, partly in the same liberty, but chiefly in the lower division of thewapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH, West riding, of the county of YORK, and containing 1626 inhabitants, of which number, 1491 are in the township of Brotherton, laf of a mile N.N.W. from Ferry-Bridge. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York, rated in the king's books at £5. 6.. 8. The church is dedicated to St. Edward the Confessor. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This parish is bounded btt the south and west by the river Aire, and contains limestone of a fine' quality, there being various kilns for burning it. In June 1300,, Margaret, the second wife of Edward I., having been taken in labour whilst hunting in the neighbourhood, was delivered of a son at the village, to whom the name Thomas de Brotherton was given; he was created Earl of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England, and from him, in the female line, descended the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk: the house in which this event occurred is stated by tradition to have stood on part of a plot of land of about twentyacres, not far from the church, which the tenants areobliged, by the tenure of their land, to keep surrounded by a stone wall. There is an endowment of A 5>% a year for the instruction of children, arising from a bequest of £100 by Mr. Wilson, in 1731."


"BYROME, a township, joint with Pool, in the parish of BROTHERTON, partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, but chiefly in the lower division of the wapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH, West riding, of the county of YORK, if mile N.N.W. from Ferry-Bridge. The population is returned with Pool."


"POOL, a township, joint with Byrome, in the parish of BROTHERTON, partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, and partly in the lower division of the wapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH, West riding, of the county of YORK, 1 mile N.N.E. from Ferry- Bridge, containing 61 inhabitants."


"SUTTON, a township in the parish of BROTHERTON, partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, and partly in the lower division of the wapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH, West riding, of the county of YORK, 1 mile E.N.E. from Ferry-Bridge, containing 74 inhabitants."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]