Spofforth

Built-Up Area: Spofforth
Parish/Community: Spofforth with Stockeld
District/Borough: Harrogate
County: North Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°57'13"N 1°26'52"W
Eastings/Northings: 436336, 450992
OS Grid: SE363509
Mapcode Local: GBR LQBQ.CF
Mapcode Global: WHD9S.QWRB

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.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Gamalbarn of Kirkby
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William of Percy
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William of Percy
- Taxable Value: 3 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £3 in 1086
- Households: 9 villagers; 10 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 4 lord's ploughs; 4 men's ploughs (2 plough lands)
- Meadow: 4 acres
- Woodland: 1 league
- Mills: 1, value 2 shillings

British Place Names

Spofforth, North Yorkshire

Spofforth is a village in North Yorkshire

Spofforth in historic gazetteers

Spofforth in the Domesday Book