Wheldrake

Other current and historical names

Coldrid

Built-Up Area: Wheldrake
Parish/Community: Wheldrake
Unitary Authority: Hambleton
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 53°53'46"N 0°57'51"W
Eastings/Northings: 468160, 444952
OS Grid: SE681449
Mapcode Local: GBR PRQD.11
Mapcode Global: WHFCK.5B2C

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

Wheldrake in historic gazetteers

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

Wheldrake, par., township, and vil., East-Riding Yorkshire - par., 5310 ac., pop. 638; township, 4517 ac., pop. 596; vil., on river Derwent, 7 m. SE. of York; P.O.

Wheldrake in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Northmann
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: William of Percy
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: William of Colleville (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 6 ³⁄₄ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 in 1066; £1 in 1086
- Households: 3 villagers; 3 smallholders
- Plough Teams: 1 lord's plough; 1 men's plough (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 20 acres
- Woodland: 1 ¹⁄₂ leagues
- Churches: 1
- Other resources: 3 fisheries

British Place Names

Wheldrake, Hambleton

Wheldrake is a village in Hambleton

Wheldrake in historic gazetteers

Wheldrake in the Domesday Book