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

Created: 1839   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     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     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
BEDALE 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'.
MASHAM 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'.
AINDERBY MIERS WITH HOLTBY CP/Tn Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 503.
AISKEW CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1920 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 503.
BEDALE CP/Tn/AP Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 512.
BURNESTON AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 523.
BURRILL WITH COWLING CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 523.
BURTON UPON URE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 524.
CARTHORPE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 526.
CLIFTON UPON URE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 529.
CRAKEHALL CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 532.
EAST TANFIELD CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 01 Jul 1895   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'.
EXELBY LEEMING AND NEWTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 542.
FIRBY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 544.
GATENBY Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 547.
HACKFORTH CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 551.
HOWGRAVE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 01 Jul 1895   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'.
ILTON CUM POTT Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     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'.
KILLERBY CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 567.
KIRKBY FLEETHAM AP/CP Parish-level Unit 1839 1974 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 569.
KIRKLINGTON CUM UPSLAND Tn/CP Parish-level Unit soon after 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 571.
LANGTHORNE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 572.
MASHAM AP/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 581.
MASHAM MOOR PA Parish-level Unit     1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
NUTWITH AND ROOMER COMMON PA Parish-level Unit     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'.
RAND GRANGE Hmlt/CP Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 595.
ROOKWITH Tn/CP Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 598.
SCRUTON CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 602.
SNAPE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 609.
SUTTON HOWGRAVE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 01 Jul 1895   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'.
SWAINBY WITH ALLERTHORPE Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 614.
SWINTON WITH WARTHERMARSKE CP/Tn Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 615.
THEAKSTON Tn/CP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 616.
THIRN CP/Tn Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 616.
THORNTON WATLASS CP/AP Parish-level Unit 1839 1930 F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 618.
WELL CP/AP Parish-level Unit     F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 624.
WEST TANFIELD CP/AP Parish-level Unit     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'.

This unit was part of the following units:

Name Type Start End Authority
NORTH RIDING Poor Law/Registration County 1850   F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 775.
NORTH 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
01 Jan 1870 was enlarged by gaining part of LEYBURN RegD/PLU Leyburn lost the township of Burrel with Cowling to the sub-district of Bedale and the townships of Burton-upon-Ure, Clifton-upon-Ure, Rookwith, and Thirn to Masham   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
01 Jul 1895 was enlarged by gaining part of RIPON RegD/PLU West Tanfield, East Tanfield and Howgrange   Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)

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

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10155046

Date accessed: 09th April 2026