The wapentakes of the West Riding were Agbrigg and Morley, Barkston Ash, Ewcross, Claro, Osgoldcross, Skyrack, Staincliffe, Staincross, Strafforth and Tickhill.

Old Headingley recently won the Barkston Ash FA Cup on 9 April 2007, winning the final 2 – 0 against Sherburn White Rose.

He was Member of Parliament for Barkston Ash from the 1964 general election until that constituency was abolished for the 1983 general election, and then for Selby, from 1983 until he stood down at the 1997 general election.

In 1958 he was the Labour candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Barkston Ash, and at the 1966 general election he contested Brighouse and Spenborough as a Liberal.

The village is of ancient establishment, possibly with Roman origins and was part of the wapentake of Barkston Ash in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

In 2009 the club won both Barkston Ash District F. A senior competitions-the first time it had won both cups in the same season.

Barkston Ash is a small village and civil parish close to Selby in North Yorkshire, England.

Church of the Holy Trinity, Barkston Ash

The Barkston Ash wapentake was named after the village.

Barkston Ash was also the name of the local parliamentary constituency of Barkston Ash up until 1983, when its boundaries were redrawn to divide the area into Elmet and Selby.

* The Ancient Parish of Sherburn in Elmet at GENUKI: Barkston Ash was in this parish

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The constituency was created in 1983 from parts of the seats of Barkston Ash, Leeds East, and Normanton.

Elmet was historically always a marginal seat due to the demographic makeup of the region, in contrast to Barkston Ash which was traditionally Tory.

He was the great-great-grandson of James Fox-Lane, a nephew of the first Baron of the second creation, and was a former Member of Parliament for Barkston Ash.

Locomotives requiring to be turned had to travel to Barkston Junction to traverse the triangular layout there ( this was where Mallard with a dynamometer car attached was turned before starting out south on its record-breaking run on 3 July 1938 ).

The journey to Barkston Junction and back was a time consuming business involving a round trip of some along the busy East Coast Main Line.

In the late 1930s, an uncultivated tract of land east of Barkston village, was prepared as a relief landing ground for aircraft operating from nearby RAF Cranwell.

Barkston was made available to the United States Army Air Forces Ninth Air Force.

During its time as a USAAF airfield, Barkston Heath was designated as USAAF station 483.

Group headquarters was established at Barkston on 30 March, but the group only remained three weeks, moving to Rove / Amy, France, on 18 April.

From 2002 to 2004 the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight was temporarily based at Barkston whilst their home facilities were resurfaced.

Barkston railway station was at the junction of the ECML and Sleaford railways, near Barkston South junction.

During World War 2, Arthur Lowe, of Dad's Army, was stationed at Barkston with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, which was tasked with servicing searchlights.

The Deserted Medieval Village of Ringsthorpe was located just to the west of Barkston, on the other side of the river Witham.

Until recently it was officially called Barkston.

RAF Barkston Heath is the home of the Defence Elementary Flying Training School ( DEFTS ) which, for a period between approximately 1995-2010 operated the Slingsby T67M260 Firefly two seat trainer.

From 1990 Nottingham University Gliding Club, when affiliated with the Four Counties Gliding Club, used the airfield until 2004, when both moved to RAF Barkston Heath.

Pubs such as the King William on Barkston Avenue, the White Rose ( now demolished ) on Cornlands Road and the Beagle on Foxwood Lane can be found near these small estate shops.

A number of branch lines were opened in the 1870s, including Bourne to Sleaford in 1870, Wood Green to Enfield in 1871, Finchley to High Barnet in 1872, Highgate to Alexandra Palace and Wainfleet to Skegness in 1873, Ossett to Dewsbury in 1874, Bradford to Shipley and Sedgebrook to Barkston in 1875, Newark to Bottesford and the Pudsey Greenside branch in 1878, and finally the Queensbury to Ovenden line in 1879, which completed a new route from Bradford to Halifax.

She first lived in Longridge Road before moving to Barkston Gardens in 1889, but she kept country homes.

* Dame Ellen Terry ( 1847 – 1928 ), leading Shakespearian stage actress in Britain in the 1880s and 1890s, lived at 22 Barkston Gardens.

He rented a small ground floor flat in Barkston Gardens, Earl's Court, and remained there for the next 18 months.

With deployment of the Rapier missile to Germany, Bloodhounds were returned to England in 1983 and were in operation at four additional sites, Bawdsey, Barkston Heath, Wyton and Wattisham.

Royal Air Force Station Barkston Heath or RAF Barkston Heath is a Royal Air Force station near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.

A secondary role of RAF Barkston Heath is as a Relief Landing Ground for the flying training activities at RAF Cranwell.

With the outbreak of war in 1939, these facilities were gradually developed into Barkston Heath airfield, although the facility remained basically a satellite landing ground for use by training aircraft.

With the Ninth Air Force requirement for glider erection at Barkston Heath, four additional T-2 hangars were built during the early spring of 1944.

On 17 September, two serials of the 61st TCG left Barkston Heath with men of the British 1st Airborne Division for Arnhem.

Barkston Heath ATC.

Today, Barkston Heath remains a beautifully unspoiled Second World War airfield.