Bolton Percy

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Bolton Percy
Bolton Percy shown within North Yorkshire
Population	305 (2001 Census)
OS grid reference	SE533413
- London	206.6 miles (332.5 km) SSE
Parish	Bolton Percy
District	Selby
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	YORK
Postcode district	YO23
Dialling code	01904
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
European Parliament	Yorkshire and the Humber
UK Parliament	Selby
List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire

Coordinates: 53°51′56″N 1°11′27″W / 53.865671, -1.190754

Bolton Percy is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 305.^[1] The village is about four miles east of Tadcaster.

[edit] History

During the first years after the Norman Conquest, when William de Malet served as the county's first High Sheriff, the village of Bolton Percy was held by Malet himself. At that time, and for some subsequent years, the village was quite well-to-do, as manifest in the village's ancient church, one of the most elaborate in the ainsty of York. Later the lordship of the manor fell to the powerful Percy family, as was noted by Kirkby's Inquest of 1284, and the name of this Norman family became the manorial affix to Bolton.^[2]

The current All Saints Church, Bolton Percy, dates from 1424

The lordship of the manor next came to the Vesci family, powerful in South Yorkshire near Roche Abbey, and in 1290 John Lord Vesci contributed towards the marriage of King Edward I's eldest daughter, as was mandated by Lord Vesci's holding of knights fees on his manor of Bolton Percy. The lordship of Bolton Percy next passed to their relatives the Beaumonts on the death of a de Vesci heir. Still later the lordship of Bolton Percy passed to the Fairfax family, who were intimately identified with the village for several centuries and whose family memorials grace the village church.