Great Ouseburn Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/GilU/PLU)

Created: 1837   Abolished: 1930

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'
Gilbert Union GilU   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991) Permission granted to project.
Poor Law Union PLU 1854   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
BOROUGHBRIDGE Registration sub-District 0-8-1854   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'.
POPPLETON Registration sub-District     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'.
WHIXLEY Registration sub-District 0-8-1854   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'.
ACOMB CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 502.
ALDBOROUGH AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 504.
ALLERTON MAULEVERER WITH HOPPERTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 505.
ARKENDALE CP/Ch Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 507.
ARKENDALE CP/Ch Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 507.
BALDERSBY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 509.
BICKERTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 513.
BOROUGHBRIDGE Ch/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 517.
BURTON LEONARD AP/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 524.
CATTAL CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 526.
CLARETON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 528.
CLARETON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1854 1888 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 528.
CONEYTHORPE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   1888 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 530.
CONEYTHORPE AND CLARETON CP Parish-level Unit 1888 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 530.
COPGROVE CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 530.
DISHFORTH CP/Ch Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 535.
ELLENTHORPE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 01 Nov 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 540.
FARNHAM CP/AP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 542.
GOLDSBOROUGH AP/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 549.
GREAT OUSEBURN CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 591.
GREAT RIBSTON WITH WALSHFORD Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 596.
GREEN HAMMERTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 553.
HELPERBY CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   01 Jul 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 557.
HESSAY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 558.
HUMBERTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 563.
HUNSINGORE AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 564.
HUTTON CONYERS ExP/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 564.
KIRBY HALL Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 569.
KIRBY HILL Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   01 Nov 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 569.
KIRK HAMMERTON Tn/AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 553.
KNAPTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 571.
LANGTHORPE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 572.
LITTLE OUSEBURN CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 591.
LITTLE RIBSTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 596.
LOWER DUNSFORTH CP/Tn Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 537.
MARKINGTON WITH WALLERTHWAITE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 580.
MARTON CUM GRAFTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 580.
MARTON LE MOOR Ch/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 580.
MILBY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 584.
MINSKIP CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 584.
MOOR MONKTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 585.
NETHER POPPLETON AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 594.
NORTON LE CLAY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   01 Nov 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 589.
NUN MONKTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 585.
RAINTON WITH NEWBY CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 595.
ROECLIFFE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 597.
RUFFORTH CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 599.
SHIPTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   01 Jul 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 606.
SICKLINGHALL Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   1854 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 606.
SKELTON Ch/CP Parish-level Unit   01 Jul 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 607.
STAVELEY AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 613.
THORNTON BRIDGE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 01 Nov 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 777.
THORNVILLE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1869 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 618.
THORPE UNDERWOODS CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 619.
TOLLERTON CP/Tn Parish-level Unit   01 Jul 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 620.
UPPER DUNSFORTH WITH BRANTON GREEN CP/Tn Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 537.
UPPER POPPLETON Ch/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 594.
WESTWICK Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1854 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 625.
WHIXLEY AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 626.
WIDDINGTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 626.
YOULTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit   01 Jul 1895 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 633.

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. 777.
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
08 Jun 1854 was created from part of KNARESBOROUGH RegD/PLU   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Sep 1856 was enlarged by gaining part of KNARESBOROUGH RegD/PLU Townships of Clareton and Coneythorpe   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
21 Aug 1869 was enlarged by the abolition of KIRKDEIGHTON RegD The abolished RD of Kirkdeighton lost the townships of Cattal,Great Ribstone with Walshford,Hunsingore, and Thornville to Whixley   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jul 1895 was reduced to enlarge EASINGWOLD RegD/PLU Helperby, Tollerton, Youlton and Skelton   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jul 1895 was reduced to enlarge RIPON RegD/PLU Skelton   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jul 1895 was reduced to enlarge THIRSK RegD/PLU Ellenthorpe, Kirby Hill, Langthorpe, Norton le Clay and Thorton Bridge   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Nov 1895 was reduced to enlarge THIRSK RegD/PLU Humberton and Milby   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

Boundary Map of Great Ouseburn Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/GilU/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, Great Ouseburn Poor Law Union/Registration District (RegD/GilU/PLU) through time, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10112175

Date accessed: 08th April 2026