Bickerton, North Yorkshire

Bickerton is a village on the B1224 road, in the civil parish of Bilton-in-Ainsty with Bickerton, in North Yorkshire, England. The nearest town is Wetherby. There is a plantation nearby called Bickerton Plantation.

History

Bickerton is mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Gospatric and having four villagers. The name of the village derives from the Old English of bīcere and tūn; the town of the bee-keepers. Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Ainsty, in what was the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is some west of York, and north-east of Wetherby. The road to the immediate south of the village was part of the Bickerton and Rufforth Turnpike trust, and in the 1820s, Bickerton was a stop on the coaching route between Leeds and York. The modern day designation of the road is the B1224, which runs between York and Wetherby.
Bickerton was formerly a township in the parish of Bilton, in 1866 Bickerton became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished and merged with Bilton. In 1931 the parish had a population of 140.
From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.