Burley Bar Stone - and the rest

Si · Post by Si » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 3:37 pm

Uncle Mick's right. It means a third. There never was a South Riding.A wapentake is an administrative area, going back to pre-Norman times, like a Hundred. There were nine in the West Riding. Leeds came mainly under the Skyrack wapentake, with parts in the Agbrigg & Morley wapentake.

LS1 · Post by **LS1** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 3:43 pm

Work House was further down Lady lane I think, at the JN of Edward St and Lady Lane. Car Park is there now. Even if the North Bar is in the old bus station its in a brick wall according to the pic posted about of the guy cementing it in. The corner has a marble effect where the wooden board is.It's not behind there though - there is a drainpipe to the left of it and on the existing building there is no provision for a drainpipe. I think it must be further round the back...

book · Post by **book** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 4:26 pm

Si wrote: Uncle Mick's right. It means a third. There never was a South Riding.A wapentake is an administrative area, going back to pre-Norman times, like a Hundred. There were nine in the West Riding. Leeds came mainly under the Skyrack wapentake, with parts in the Agbrigg & Morley wapentake. Then came local government and authorities with the growth of sanitation.

Caron · Post by **Caron** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 4:27 pm

Thanks all for replies. Really interesting!

book · Post by **book** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 4:39 pm

Hi Si, what were the 9 wapetakes ? Thanks

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 5:04 pm

book wrote: Hi Si, what were the 9 wapetakes ? Thanks Have a look herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 5:22 pm

uncle mick wrote: Caron wrote: This seems a good thread to ask my question (hopefully).East, West, North Riding I have heard of since my childhhod but I have never heard of a South Riding. Was there one? Thanks. Only on the telly It was a book by Winifred Holby, written in 1937, and is in part a novel about local government in the 1930s. The South Riding is sort of east of Doncaster and south of Selby.

BarFly · Post by **BarFly** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 5:26 pm

Not about Leeds I know but I ofthe wodered how there was a Wessex and is a Sussex, Essex and Middlesex but no Norssex?

uncle mick · Post by **uncle mick** » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 5:29 pm

BarFly wrote: Not about Leeds I know but I ofthe wodered how there was a Wessex and is a Sussex, Essex and Middlesex but no Norssex? That's me these days "Norssex"

Si · Post by Si » Fri 21 Sep, 2012 6:28 pm

book wrote: Hi Si, what were the 9 wapetakes ? Thanks WEST RIDING - 1. Agbrigg & Morley (Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds suburbs, Wakefield); 2. Barkston Ash (Selby, Tadcaster); 3. Claro (Ripon, Knaresborough); 4. Ewcross (Dent, Ingleton, Sedbergh); 5. Osgoldcross (Pontefract, Goole, Snaith); 6. Skyrack (Leeds); 7. Staincliffe (Keighley, Settle, Skipton, Stainburn); 8. Staincross (Barnsley); 9. Strafforth and Tickhill (Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield).