Wothersome
Wothersome is a civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It is south of Wetherby, north east of Leeds and west of Bramham. It has a population of 40.[1] From the 2011 Census the village is shown as being in the Harewood ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council.
In 1848 it was described as having 3 farms totalling 600 acres (2.4 km2) and a population of 19 people. It was a township in Bardsey parish in the Skyrack wapentake, lower division, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.[2]
In 1871 the population of Wothersome was 24; in 1901 it was 28; it 1971 it was 26.[3]
In 1418, the medieval spelling, or, at least, the pronunciation, may have been Wodusom.[4]
Wothersome Grange
Wothersome Lake
Wothersome Lake lies just off Thorner Road. A new permissive path was opened by the Bramham Park Estate in 2013, linking existing public rights of way to the lake and to the village of Bramham.[6]
References
- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Leeds Archived 19 March 2015 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 10 September 2009
- ^ "Wothersome - Wrayton". A Topographical Dictionary of England. 1848. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ "A vision of Wothersome Tn/CP". A vision of Britain through time. Retrieved 11 March 2008.
- ^ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/629; IMG_0719; first entry, second line; place where Robert Mauleverer was living
- ^ Bramham Park Estate, Wothersome Anaerobic Digestion Plant Fully Operational, accessed 7 March 2019
- ^ Bramham Park Estate, Brahmam Park Estate Strategy, October 2014, accessed 7 March 2019
53°52′39″N 1°23′42″W / 53.87750°N 1.39500°W
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