Wetherby Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU)

Created: 0-8-1854  

Statistics

Population

Population

Densities and rates of growth. Age structure: concentrations of young people, and of the old.
Industry

Industry

How people made their living: identifying farming communities, pit villages, mill towns and so on.
Life & Death

Life & Death

Numbers of babies born. Deaths, especially infant deaths. Causes of death by age and gender.
Work & Poverty

Work & Poverty

Unemployment rates and poor relief. What proportions of men and of women did paid work?
Housing

Housing

Numbers of houses. Overcrowding: persons per room. Amenities: central heating, baths and WCs.
Birthplace & Religion

Birthplace & Religion

Numbers going to church, and the kinds of churches they went to. The different religions of modern Britain.
Place marker map of Great Britain and Ireland

The unit has had the following statuses:

Status Abbreviation Start End Authority
Registration District RegD 0-8-1854   1911 Census of England and Wales, Population tables 2, Table 5 , 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'
Poor Law Union PLU 1861   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) Permission granted to project.

This unit contained the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
BOSTON Registration sub-District   01 Jun 1897 Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
WETHERBY Registration sub-District 28 May 1861   1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
ANGRAM CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 506.
BARDSEY CUM RIGTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 510.
BICKERTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 513.
BILTON IN AINSTY CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 514.
BOSTON SPA CP Parish-level Unit 1896 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 517.
BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 519.
CLIFFORD CP Parish-level Unit 1896 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 528.
CLIFFORD WITH BOSTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1896 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 528.
COLLINGHAM AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 529.
COWTHORPE CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 531.
DUNKESWICK CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 537.
EAST KESWICK CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 566.
HAREWOOD Tn/AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 553.
HUTTON WANDESLEY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 565.
KEARBY WITH NETHERBY CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 566.
KIRKBY OVERBLOW AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 570.
KIRK DEIGHTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 534.
LINTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 576.
LITTLE RIBSTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 596.
LONG MARSTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 580.
MICKLETHWAITE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
NORTH DEIGHTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 534.
NORTH RIGTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 596.
SCARCROFT CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 602.
SHADWELL CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 21 Aug 1869 1912 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 603.
SICKLINGHALL Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 606.
SPOFFORTH WITH STOCKELD Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 610.
THORNER CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 617.
THORP ARCH CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 618.
TOCKWITH Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 620.
WALTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 622.
WEARDLEY CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 624.
WEETON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 624.
WETHERBY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 625.
WIGHILL AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 627.
WIGTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 627.
WILSTROP CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 627.
WOTHERSOME CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1861 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 630.
WYKE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 630.

This unit was part of the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
WEST RIDING Poor Law/Registration County 1850   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 780.
WEST RIDING Administrative County     Ministry of Health, Persons in Receipt of Poor-Law Relief (England and Wales) (H.M.S.O.)

This unit was affected by the following changes:

Date Type of change Other unit involved Area transferred Authority
28 Jun 1861 was reduced to create KIRKDEIGHTON RegD Great Ribston with Walshford, Hunsingore, Cattal, Thornville, Kirkdeighton transferred to new RD of Kirkdeighton   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
28 May 1861 was enlarged by gaining part of KNARESBOROUGH RegD/PLU The sub-district of Wetherby went to create part of the new district of Wetherby   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
28 May 1861 was enlarged by gaining part of OTLEY RegD Rigton and Weardley transferred to newly formed RD of Wetherby   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
28 May 1861 was created from part of TADCASTER RegD/PLU Newly formed RD of Wetherby gained Bardsey with Rigton, East Keswick, Scarcroft , Wathersome, Bilton, Healaugh, Wighill, and Bickerton from Tadcaster   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
28 May 1862 was enlarged by gaining part of YORK RegD/PLU Angram   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
06 Aug 1869 was enlarged by gaining part of KIRKSTALL RegD Shadwell transferred as part of the dissolution of Kirkstall   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
21 Aug 1869 was enlarged by gaining part of BRAMHAM RegD Bilton, Long Marston, Tockwith, Wilstrop, Branham with Oglethorpe, Clifford with Boston, Collingham, Thopr Arch, and Thorner   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
21 Aug 1869 was enlarged by the abolition of OTLEY RegD Dunkeswick, Weeton, Harewood, Wigton, and Wilke   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
21 Aug 1869 was enlarged by gaining part of YORK RegD/PLU Hulton Wandesely   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
21 May 1869 was enlarged by gaining part of KIRKDEIGHTON RegD Kirkdeighton township transferred as part of the dissolution of Kirkdeighton   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Feb 1913 was reduced to enlarge LEEDS RegD/PLU/PLPar/PLPar Area: 1164 acres. Population in 1921: 1234.   1921 Census of England and Wales, Table 6, 'Intercensal Changes in Boundaries, 1911-21'.; Registrar General's Order

Boundary Map of Wetherby Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU)

If the boundaries of the Poor Law Union/Reg. District changed over time, this map will show all the different boundaries.

Maps Census reports

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Wetherby Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/PLU) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10087661

Date accessed: 08th April 2026