In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Buckrose like this:

BUCKROSE, a wapentake in E. R. Yorkshire. It is bounded on the N and the W, above and below New Molton, by the river Derwent; and contains twenty-eight parishes. Acres, 102,453. Pop. in 1851, 13,832; in 1861, 15,333. Houses, 2,977.

Buckrose through time

Buckrose is now part of NORTH YORKSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTH YORKSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Buckrose itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Buckrose, in North Yorkshire and East Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20150

Date accessed: 09th April 2026


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