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Genuki Yorkshire, Additional information.

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  • Navigating the site: The whole of the Genuki site is built in a strict hierarchical manner. Once you understand how the hierarchy is arranged, you will find it fairly easy to navigate the site. I have drawn a diagram showing the hierarchy of the Genuki and Genuki Yorkshire pages and also a page giving information about how these pages were developed with what you will find (and what you won't find) within these pages. The old county of Yorkshire was unusual in not only being split into 4 (3 Ridings and the Ainsty), but also in having some very large parishes. With some counties (such as Cheshire) virtually every village was also a parish, however this is not the case with Yorkshire and so some means of finding out which town, village or hamlet is in which parish was needed. To this end I developed the "Where is it in Yorkshire" pages which will take you directly to the relevant Riding and parish, but please read the notes on the main page before jumping in at the deep end!
  • Navigating the old pre 1974 Yorkshire: The modern Yorkshire bears little resemblance to the old Yorkshire of pre 1974 times. Of course the places haven't moved, just the boundaries. Please do not confuse "North Yorkshire" with "The North Riding", "East Yorkshire" (or even the modern East Riding) with "The East Riding", etc. etc. they are by no means the same. To assist in navigation around the county you will find maps of Yorkshire on the main Yorkshire page: a detailed map, maps of parishes for each Riding, and a map showing the wapentakes. On each of the parish pages you will find a map showing the position of the parish in the Riding, and a link to various map sites (such as "Old Maps", Google maps etc) which uses the Grid reference of the parish and the places within it to give positional information when fetching the map(s).
  • Grid References: most of the places listed on this site have associated Ordnance Survey Landranger map Grid References associated with them. These are currently most obvious under the heading of "Names (Geographical)" on the relevant parish pages, where I have no information on the places listed other than the LR Grid Reference. These, and the other grid references, are used by the "Nearby Places" search engine (there's a link to this at the top of each parish page) in order to ascertain which places are within the appropriate radius of the given parish town, and the grid references of each place will be found on the results page. (It is my intention when time allows to add all the grid references to the parish pages). Definitions of terms: Yorkshire, along with other northern counties in England used Wapentakes as administrative areas (instead of "Hundreds"), and you will also find the term "Dale", "Wolds" etc. used within the text.
  • If you come across a term that you don't understand, then please have a look on the " definitions of terms" pages.
  • If you get confused with (or don't understand at all) any of the ecclesiastical terms, then try the church definitions page.
  • Don't forget about the Genuki Yorkshire search engine. This search engine searches only the Genuki pages. There is a link to the Genuki search engine at the top of all the Genuki pages.



Written by Colin Hinson © 2001