Whites Trade Directory 1853
Crofton
marked * are at Oakenshaw and + are Birkwood
John Beaumont, wheelwright ~ John Berry, corn miller ~ John Boulton, railway inspector * ~ Thomas Butcher, agricultural implement maker ~ Thomas Corbridge, shopkeeper ~ David Duncan, ironfounder and railway point & crossing manf, Oak Foundry * ~ George Holdsworth, schoolmaster ~ Alfred Larkin, station master * ~ Francis Pickering, esq. Hall ~ William Nottingham, shoemaker & post office ~ Benjamin Rowley, corn factor ~ James Seale, scythe stone maker ~ Rev John Pemberton Simpson, MA, rector ~ Samuel stocks, parish clerk ~ Thomas Stott, thrashing machine mkr ~ Edward Tew, esq, banker, Crofton Hall ~ William Ward, shoemaker ~ William Woffinden,wheelwright
Inns & Taverns
Cock and Crown, Mary Sanderson ~ Masons Arms, James Boulby, mason ~ Wilsons Arms, Thomas Gray, station *
Butchers
Robert Hartley + ~ John North
Farmers
J Atack, bailiff ~ Thomas Appleyard, bailiff ~ Edward Barber ~ George Balgue ~ Mary Beaumont ~ Joseph Beaumont ~ Thomas Berry + ~ Richard Cullingworth ~ Abraham France ~ James Furbisher ~ Thomas Gray ~ William Hampshire ~ Thomas Hampshire ~ Mary Holder + ~ George Middleton ~ Samuel Rowbottom ~ Edw. T Simpson
Railway trains from Oakenshaw Station every hour. Buss to Wakefd
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