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Easingwold Poor Law Union and Workhouse
Easingwold Poor Law Union was declared 26th January 1837, and the Workhouse
erected 1837 from designs by John and William Atkinson, architects.
The workhouse, Uppleby, erected at a cost of about £ 2000, is a structure of
brick, available for 130 inmates, & has an attached fever infirmary, built
in 1869; new vagrant cells were erected in 1901 at a cost of about £ 2000;
John Thomas LECKENBY, master; Mrs Elizabeth LECKENBY, matron; Edward Buller
HICKS, jun., L.R.C.S. & L.R.C.P. Edin., medical officer.
Easingwold union comprises 35 parishes and townships, with a population in 1901
of 9,909.
Source: Submitted by Andy Kerridge from Kelly's Directory 1909
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Page updated 06 August, 2007
by Rossbret
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