Bickerton is a village on the

B1224 road B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Gr ...

, in the civil parish of

Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton is a civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 512, reducing to 463 at the 2011 Census. The parish contains Bilton-in-Ainsty and Bic ...

, in the

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district, in the

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county of

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. The nearest town is

Wetherby Wetherby () is a market town and civil parish in the City of Leeds district, West Yorkshire, England, close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire, and lies approximately from Leeds City Centre, from York and from Harrogat ...

. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation.

History

Bickerton is mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers. The name of the village derives from the

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of ''bīcere'' and ''tūn''; the town of the bee-keepers. Historically, the village was in the

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, in what was the

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. It is now in the

Borough of Harrogate The Borough of Harrogate is a local government district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England. Its population at the census of 2011 was 157,869. Its council is based in the town of Harrogate, but it also includes surrounding towns and v ...

of North Yorkshire, some west of York, and north-east of Wetherby. The road to the immediate south of the village was part of the Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike trust, and in the 1820s, Bickerton was a stop on the coaching route between Leeds and York. The modern day designation of the road is the B1224, which runs between York and Wetherby.

Location grid

References

External links

Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton parish website
{{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Borough of Harrogate