From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 20/04/2020 05:00, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   > On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:26:15 +0100, MB  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 15/04/2020 12:45, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >>> Can anyone give me a clearer idea of where it was?   
   >>   
   >> There is more than one Ingleton   
   >>   
   >> North Yorkshire   
   >> OS Grid Ref: SD 69575 73262   
   >>   
   >> Count Durham   
   >> OS Grid Ref: NZ 17288 20545   
   >>   
   >> Then of course counties boundaries have also moved!   
   >   
   > So if someone lived in Lancashire in the 19th century and was born in   
   > Ingleton, Yorkshire, would they be more likely to have been born in   
   > the North Eiding one or the West Ruiding one?   
      
   There isn't a Ingleton in the North Riding (though there are three   
   places called Ingleby in the North Riding).  The Ingleton now in North   
   Yorkshire was in the West Riding.   The Ingleton in County Durham has   
   always been there, though it is only three miles from the border with   
   North Yorkshire and before that the North Riding.  Lancashire is much   
   closer to the Ingleton in Yorkshire, which is also the larger and better   
   known village.  (In fact, I'd struggle to describe the one in Durham a   
   village at all: it's more a hamlet.)  Of course, that doesn't   
   necessarily mean this person came from the Yorkshire one, but it does   
   tip the balance somewhat in that direction.   
      
   For more background ...  When the three Ridings (West, North and East)   
   were replaced with four modern administrative counties (South, West and   
   North Yorkshire, plus Humberside) in 1974, quite a lot of places moved   
   between them, and several more areas were removed from Yorkshire   
   altogether.  Many of these changes came about because the old county was   
   vast and the bulk of its population was in the West Riding.  South and   
   West Yorkshire were both formed out of the West Riding; most of the   
   Dales (which is the area which includes Ingleton) were transferred from   
   the West Riding to North Yorkshire; and the areas on the west of the   
   Pennine mountains were transferred to Lancashire and the new counties of   
   Greater Manchester and Cumbria.  In becoming North Yorkshire, the North   
   Riding lost Teesside to the new county of Cleveland, and Teesdale to   
   Durham, and gained the City of York which had not properly been in any   
   of the Ridings (though often counted as part of the West Riding for   
   statistical purposes).  The East Riding became the new county of   
   Humberside which also gained part of the north of Lincolnshire, which   
   change has since been undone and the county name reverted to the East   
   Riding.   There were other minor changes too.   
      
   Richard   
      
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