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Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the
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of
Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton is a civil parish in the county 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 Bickerton, North ...
, in
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, England. The nearest town is
Wetherby Wetherby ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is close to West Yorkshire county's border with North Yorkshire and lies approximately from Leeds city centre, from ...
. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation.


History

Bickerton is mentioned in the
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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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of
Ainsty The Ainsty or the Ainsty of York was a historic district of Yorkshire, England, west of the city of York. Originally a wapentake or subdivision of the West Riding of Yorkshire it later had a unique status as a rural area controlled by the corpo ...
, in what was the
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. It is 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. Bickerton was formerly a
township A township is a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision. Its exact definition varies among countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, this tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Canad ...
in the parish of Bilton, in 1866 Bickerton became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bilton. In 1931 the parish had a population of 140. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the
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, it is now administered by the unitary
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.


Location grid


See also

* Listed buildings in Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton


References


External links


Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton parish website
{{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Former civil parishes in North Yorkshire