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Welcome to Knottingley.org
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Once described as the smallest town
and the largest village in the country, the Yorkshire town of
Knottingley, (including neighbouring Ferrybridge), has a history
as rich as any town in England. Fortunately, much of this material
has been documented over recent years and has now been made
available to you on the Knottingley and Ferrybridge Online website. |
The
Knottingley coat-of-arms, depicted above, symbolises aspects of
both township and district. The bridge and water beneath represent
the ancient structure over the River Aire at Ferrybridge whilst the
roses represent the county of Yorkshire. The Lacy knot was the badge
of the de Lacy family to whom the manor of Knottingley was assigned
following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The bottle refers to the
local
glass industry
which after 1871 became the principal industry within the town.
This extensive website, constructed back in May 2000, contains in
excess of 3,000 pages of
historical information,
personal recollections and
archive photographs of Knottingley and Ferrybridge that has
taken more than eight years to compile so please take some time to
fully explore everything on offer to you. |
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Knottingley Family History
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Our associated
Knottingley & Ferrybridge Family History website
has recently been updated and now contains a 'family tree' listing
more than 18,000
individuals
and 1,337 memorial stone inscriptions.
In addition we also have separate databases listing:
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- 5,250 Local Marriages
- 7,616 Local Burials
Additional records, covering
both Knottingley and Ferrybridge, are normally added on a
regular basis.
To give you some idea of the kind of information available
on the Knottingley Family History website, the image opposite is a
sample page from the family history website with the blue text
indicating linked records and associated information. There are now
more than 18,000 of these individual pages available on
Knottingley Family
History |
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