Spofforth, North Yorkshire

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Spofforth is a village in North Yorkshire

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Spofforth within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Spofforth in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Spofforth, par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire - par., 13,062 ac., pop. 3745; township (Spofforth with Stockeld), partly also in Kirk Deighton par., 5466 ac., pop. 856; vil., 3½ miles NW. of Wetherby by rail; P.O., T.O.; on an eminence at SW. side of vil. stand the ruins of Spofforth Castle (1309); in vicinity is Spofforth Hall, seat.

Spofforth in the Domesday Book

A village in Burghshire hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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