In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Snaith like this:
SNAITH, a small town, a township, a sub-district, and a parish, in W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Aire and on the Goole railway, 7 miles W by S of Goole; is a seat of petty-sessions, and a polling place; underwent much recent improvement; and has a post-office‡ under Selby, a r. ...
station with telegraph, a later English church with a tower, a Wesleyan chapel built in 1863, a grammar-school with £30 a year from endowment, alms houses with £21, other charities, £240, a weekly market on Thursday, and cattle fairs on the last Thursday of Apriland 10 Aug.-The township contains also Cowick hamlet, and comprises 6,455 acres. Real property, £10,873; of which £56 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,763. Houses, 400. The manor belongs to Viscount Downe.—The sub-district contains also Raw-cliffe, Pollington, and Gowdall townships; and is in Goole district. Acres, 13,925. Pop., 4,117. Houses, 949.—The parish contains likewise Goole, Hook, and Armin townships in Goole district, Carlton township in Selby district, and Hensall, Heck, and Balne townships in Pontefract district; and is ecclesiastically cut into the sections of Snaith, Cowick, Goole, Armin, Carlton, Rawcliffe, Hook, Hensall-cum-Heck, and Pollington-cum-Balne. Acres, 32,435. Pop. in 1851, 11,365; in 1861, 12,772. Houses, 2,743. The head living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £500.* Patron, Y. Yarburgh, Esq. The other livings are separately noticed.
Snaith through time
Snaith is now part of East Riding of Yorkshire district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Riding of Yorkshire has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Snaith itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Snaith, in East Riding of Yorkshire and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14245
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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