Pontefract Park, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Pontefract Park is an extra-parochial place.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
PONTEFRACT-PARK, an extra-parochial liberty, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, ½ a mile (N. W. by N.) from Pontefract; containing 96 inhabitants.
The park comprises about 325 acres. It is managed by 24 resident persons who are the highest rate-payers, and is thrown open from the 12th of May till the 10th of October for the benefit of those inhabitants of Pontefract, Pontefract Park, and Tanshelf, who have been resident three years. About 300 head of cattle are annually taken in, the number being fixed by the trustees; the pasture of a horse is 21s., that of a cow 12s., and any person stocking the park with cattle not bonâ fide his own property, forfeits his right of pasture for a given period.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Pontefract
- Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Barwick Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Osgoldcross
- Province: York