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34-547: Frederick Apthorp Paley (14 January 1815 – 8 December 1888), was an English classical scholar. Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire , to Rev. Edmund Paley and Sarah (née Apthorp), he was the grandson of William Paley , and brother of architect E.G. Paley, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1838). His conversion to Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846, but he returned in 1860 and resumed his work as "coach," until in 1874 he

68-508: A board of guardians . A parish large enough to operate independently of a union was known as a poor law parish. Collectively, poor law unions and poor law parishes were known as poor law districts. The grouping of the parishes into unions caused larger centralised workhouses to be built to replace smaller facilities in each parish. Poor law unions were later used as a basis for the delivery of registration from 1837, and sanitation outside urban areas from 1875. Poor law unions were abolished by

102-544: A dispensary or registrar's district. The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 divided administrative counties into urban and rural districts , with each rural district corresponding to the non-urban portion of a poor law union within the county. In the Irish Free State , poor law unions and rural districts were abolished in 1925 and the powers of boards of guardians transferred to the county councils' Board of Health. In Northern Ireland , poor law unions survived until

136-483: A poor rate extracted by local poor law valuations (ratings of rate payers). The name "union" was adopted from the English model although boundaries were unrelated to civil parishes . A union was named after the town on which it was centred, usually where its workhouse stood. Unions were defined as groups of poor law electoral divisions , in turn groups of townlands . Electoral divisions returned members (guardians) to

170-532: A number of local retail businesses in the town. The number of public houses has significantly reduced since the 19th century, when there were also a number of local brew houses, the names of which can still be seen on local houses. Easingwold is served by bus services to nearby villages, towns and the city of York. This includes services formerly partly run by the local coach business, Stephenson's of Easingwold, now fully run by Reliance Motor Services. The Cabinet Office have their Emergency Planning College at

204-472: Is Easingwold Golf Club. A church in the town is dedicated to St John and All Saints. There has been a church here since Saxon times, though the present building dates from the 15th century. St John's Church, Easingwold , the Catholic church on Long Street, was erected in 1833, and served by Benedictine Monks of Ampleforth Abbey . It was designed by Charles Hansom, the brother of Joseph Hansom who invented

238-683: Is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire , England. Historically, part of the North Riding of Yorkshire , it had a population of 4,233 at the 2001 census, increasing to 4,627 at the 2011 Census. It is located about 12 miles (19 km) north of York , near the foot of the Howardian Hills . The town is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Eisicewalt" in the Bulford hundred. At

272-733: Is part of the York NHS Foundation and is located in Long Street. It has no Accident & Emergency facilities. Hambleton District Council has local offices in Church Hill. The town has a public library situated in Tanpit Lane, just off the Market Place. The tourist information office for the area is located in Chapel Lane. In 1781, a grammar school was founded in the town, which is now

306-713: Is served by the local newspaper, the Easingwold Advertiser . Characters of servants in Downton Abbey refer to attending church in Easingwold. The historical drama also mention nearby Thirsk and Ripon . Easingwold Town AFC were founded in 1892 and were a founder member of the York League . They won the York FA Senior Cup in the 1971–72 season and have been finalists on two other occasions. The Junior side won

340-521: The 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies ; it was previously in the Thirsk and Malton constituency. The town gives its name to the electoral division of North Yorkshire Council in which it resides. It was part of the Hambleton District from 1974 to 2023. The town has its own Town Council made of 11 councillors, with three attendees who are District Councillors. The town was bypassed by

374-572: The A19 in November 1994. The town is the focal point for many nearby villages and the nearest larger settlements are York 12 miles (19 km) to the south; Boroughbridge 8 miles (13 km) to the west; Thirsk 10 miles (16 km) to the northwest and Malton 16 miles (26 km) to the east. The highest point in the town is at the town's edge on the Oulston Road at 200 feet (60 m). According to

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408-623: The Hansom cab . A school was attached to the church in 1871. There has been a Wesleyan chapel in the town since 1786. The location has changed several times, with the second building being erected in 1815 with a school added in 1860, and finally finding a home in Chapel Street in 1975. There used to be a Primitive Methodist chapel in the town, built in 1870. Poor law union Poor law unions existed in England and Wales from 1834 to 1930 for

442-672: The Local Government Act 1929 , which transferred responsibility for public assistance to county and county borough councils. The English Poor Laws laid out the system of poor relief that existed in England and Wales from the reign of Elizabeth I until the emergence of the modern welfare state after the Second World War. Historian Mark Blaug has argued that the Poor Law system provided "a welfare state in miniature, relieving

476-663: The Poor Law Board to include these parishes in unions. Until 1894 the guardians consisted of justices of the peace along with other members elected by rate-payers, with higher rate-payers having more votes. JPs were removed and plural voting stopped in 1894, but nobody actually receiving poor relief was allowed to vote. Their areas were espoused for other functional districts, such as civil registration of all births, marriages and deaths which became law from 1837 and rural sanitary districts established in 1875. In 1894 rural districts and urban districts were set up based on

510-540: The Woodland Trust . The park is bounded to the west by a hawthorn hedge, to the north by a stock proof fence and by the housing estate around the rest. There are a number of informal footpaths across the site as well as the Sustrans National Cycle Route 65 . Among the tree species planted here are sessile oak , cherry , field maple , ash , birch , rowan , walnut , whitebeam and larch . Some of

544-485: The 1881 UK Census, the town had a population of 2,044. According to the 2001 UK Census the population was 4,233, of which 3,428 were over the age of sixteen. Of those 1,843 were in employment. The 2011 Census showed the population as 4,627. After the closure of the Claypenny Hospital, the land was developed into a housing estate with a 34-acre parkland in between called Millfields Park opened in 1999 and now run by

578-593: The Earl at Pontefract . The manor was restored to the Earl's brother some six years later, but he left no male heir, so the lands passed to his son-in-law, John of Gaunt in 1361. The lands were next granted to his son-in-law, Ralph Neville . Following the War of the Roses , the lands were declared forfeit to the Crown until 1633, when they were granted to Thomas Belasyse and subsequently became

612-641: The Forest CE Primary Schools. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and BBC North East and Cumbria on BBC One and ITV Yorkshire and ITV Tyne Tees on ITV1. Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Bilsdale transmitters. Local radio stations are BBC Radio York on 103.7 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire (formerly Minster FM ) on 104.7 FM, YO1 Radio on 102.8 FM and YorkMix Radio which broadcast from York on DAB . The town

646-517: The Hawkhills, Easingwold. The town also has its own local newspaper, the Easingwold Advertiser , which provides local news and interest pieces for the town and surrounding villages. The police station on Church Avenue is only open on part-time basis on request. The fire station on Stillington Road is a retained station, which is staffed by crews of firefighters who provide on-call cover from home or their place of work. St Monica's Community Hospital

680-753: The Parish Church and Church Hill; Uppleby and the market place are all within the Easingwold Conservation Area. In 1908 Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell , the founder of the Scout Movement , visited Easingwold as commander of the Northumbrian division of the newly formed Territorial Force. Easingwold's Scout Group was founded two years later. The town is situated within the Wetherby and Easingwold UK Parliament constituency, created in 2024 following

714-507: The York FA Junior Cup in the 1961–62 season and were finalists on one other occasion. The Galtres Centre provides activities including badminton, tennis, netball and gymnastics, and contains an indoor shooting range operated by the local rifle and pistol club. Easingwold Cricket Club play at Memorial Park on Back Lane, and in the York & District Senior League. To the south of the town

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748-559: The administration of poor relief . Prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 the administration of the English Poor Laws was the responsibility of the vestries of individual parishes, which varied widely in their size, populations, financial resources, rateable values and requirements. From 1834 the parishes were grouped into unions, jointly responsible for the administration of poor relief in their areas and each governed by

782-552: The board of guardians, to which ratepayers who paid higher rates had more votes . During and after the Great Famine , the impoverished west was redrawn to create more unions for easier administration and for computation of where suffering was most endemic. When the Irish General Register Office was established in 1864, each union became a superintendent registrar's district, thus electoral divisions together formed

816-482: The elderly, widows, children, the sick, the disabled, and the unemployed and underemployed". The functions of poor law unions were exercised by boards of guardians , partly elected by ratepayers , but also including magistrates . Some parishes, many in the metropolitan area of London, were able to avoid amalgamation into unions because of earlier local acts that regulated their poor law administration. The Metropolitan Poor Act 1867 ( 30 & 31 Vict. c. 6) allowed

850-411: The former part being a Saxon family name, possibly Esa . King John had a hunting lodge there and the royal Forest of Galtres once surrounded the area. The market place was the site of an old toll booth. The base of the old market cross still exists next to Easingwold Town Hall , which was built as a public hall. It replaced an old row of 'shambles' where butchers sold their wares. The market place

884-504: The main line pass through or closer to the town. The line ran a passenger service until 1948 and a goods service until its final closure in 1957. The station was located in what is now Station Court. All that remains is the old station house following a fire in 1967 that resulted in its demolition. There are 51 Grade II listed buildings in Easingwold, including five mileposts and the telephone kiosk in Back Lane. The areas of Long Street;

918-462: The possession of the Wombwell family. The town is an amalgamation of two smaller villages, Uppleby and Lessimers . The former being a settlement, or -by of a Dane called Upple , and the latter being an Angle settlement on the lease-mires , meaning leased land frequently waterlogged. The name of Easingwold is Anglo Saxon in origin, with wold being a derivation of wald meaning forest , and

952-466: The sanitary districts (and therefore indirectly on the unions). In 1930, under the Local Government Act 1929 , the poor law unions were finally abolished and their responsibilities transferred to the county councils and county boroughs . Under the Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 , three Poor Law Commissioners divided Ireland into poor law unions, in which paupers would receive poor relief paid for by

986-491: The shrub species found here are holly , hazel , hawthorn, blackthorn and dogrose . Supported by the council and local community, Millfields Park hosts the 5 km Millfield parkrun every Saturday at 9 am. Towards the centre of the town is Memorial Park. The site was formerly occupied by private tenants, a tennis club and a garage. After several years of planning and delay, the park was opened in September 1955. There are

1020-472: The site of Easingwold Community Primary School. A National School was built in 1862 in the town, but now houses the town library. In 1954 a secondary school, Easingwold School, was built, and is now known as Outwood Academy Easingwold , with a pupil roll of around 1,000 pupils. Its catchment area includes Alne Primary, Crayke CE, Easingwold, Forest of Galtres Anglican/Methodist, Huby CE, Husthwaite CE, Linton on Ouse, Sheriff Hutton, Stillington and Sutton on

1054-543: The time of the Norman conquest , the manor was owned by Earl Morcar , but subsequently passed to the King. In 1265 the manor was passed to Edmund Crouchback by his father, Henry III . The manor was caught up in the dispute between the 2nd Earl of Lancaster and Edward I and the manor passed back to the crown following the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322 which resulted in the execution of

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1088-571: Was also the site of a bullring used for baiting. Records show that markets have been held in the town since 1221, but were formalised under letters patent from Charles I . In the 18th century, two coaching inns served the town: the New Inn , and the Rose and Crown . Under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 a Poor law union was established in Easingwold in 1837. The town had a workhouse built in 1756 on Oulston Road. In 1934, Easingwold Union Workhouse

1122-479: Was appointed by Mgr Thomas Capel as professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman Catholic University at Kensington . This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe , where he lived until his death. His most important editions are: He possessed considerable knowledge of architecture, and published a Manual of Gothic Architecture (1846) and Manual of Gothic Mouldings (1845). Easingwold Easingwold

1156-454: Was converted into a hospital for the mentally handicapped and known as Claypenny Colony until 1952 and then as Claypenny Hospital until the majority of the site was sold and redeveloped as residential accommodation towards the end of the 20th century. In 1891 a privately owned branch line was opened from the town to the London - Edinburgh main line at Alne after many failed attempts to have

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