Place:Low Catton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Low Catton is now a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) northwest of the market town of Pocklington and about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village of Stamford Bridge. It lies on the east bank of the River Derwent. Together with High Catton it now forms the civil parish of Catton (near Pocklington).

Before the 1066 Norman conquest of England there was little reference in records or church censuses to the village or church parish of Catton. However, in that year the village played host to perhaps its best known historical event, the nearby Battle of Stamford Bridge, which planted it on the map for the first time. Little is known about the village's exact role in events however, although its prominent position on the banks of the important trade route, the River Derwent, is thought to be the major reason for the settlement's importance.

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Historically, Low Catton was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Catton in the wapentake of Harthill. From 1894 until 1935 (the date of its merger with High Catton), Low Catton was located in Pocklington Rural District.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Low Catton. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• Catton,_Yorkshire The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Low Catton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Low Catton. (The entry for Low Catton, High Catton and Catton is combined.)
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.