Arkendale Directories & Electoral Rolls This page contains information from trade directories electoral rolls for the village over the years. These details are in addition to the census information given elsewhere on this site. Arkendale Census 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891   1901   Family History Page Arkendale Directory 1861 Rev. George Creighton, Parsonage Mr Thomas Ingham Mr John Inman Thomas Baxter, farmer Richard Daniel, farmer, Fern's House Bryan Darbyshire, shoemaker Thomas Dunwell, farmer William Dunwell, famer John English, wheelwright John Fall, farmer James Harrison, farmer, Hollins House Lazenby Lorrimer, farmer William & Joseph Milthorpe, farmers John Noble, shoemaker & shopkeeper Isaac Richardson, farmer Thomas Sadler, farmer Willie Simpson, farmer Marmaduke Stephenson, farmer John Thompson, Blue Bell & farmer Thomas Thompson, farmer Francis Umpleby, blacksmith John Whincup, farmer, Brooms House Peter Whincup, shoemaker & postmaster Arkendale Directory 1887 Arkendale, pleasantly situated on a gentle acclivity, commanding a prospect over a well-cultivated country, is a village, township and parish formed from the parishes of Knaresborough and Farnham, but principally the former, 1½ miles south-east from Copgrove station on the Harrogate and Boroughbridge section (which is in Staveley village), and 3 north from Goldsborough station on the Knaresborough and Harrogate line of the North Eastern railway, 4 north-east from Knaresborough and 3 south from Boroughbridge, in the Ripon division of the Riding, Claro petty sessional division, wapentake of Claro, union of Great Ouseburn, county court district of Knaresborough, rural deanery of Knaresborough and archdeaconry and diocese of Ripon. The church of St. Bartholomew, rebuilt in 1836, and consecrated 16th January, 1837, is an edifice of white brick in the Perpendicular and Middle-Pointed styles, consisting of chancel, nave and a western tower with pinnacles, and containing a clock and one bell: the church was restored in 1888-9 at a cost of about £1,400, defrayed by the late S. Brown esq. of Loftus Hill: there are sittings for 150 persons. The register dates from the year 1793. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £202, including 76 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the vicar of Knaresborough, and held since 1881 by the Rev. Frederick Edward Crankshaw M.A. of Durham University; the tithes, amounting to £107, are impropriated. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. James Hargreaves Nussey esq. of Fawcett House, Wortley, Leeds, is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is clay; subsoil, sand. The chief crops are wheat, oats and, barley. The area of the township is 1,604 acres, of the ecclesiastical parish, 1,524 acres; rateable value, £2,030; the population in 1881 was 222. Sexton, Joseph Nicholson. Post Office: Thomas Elliott, sub-postmaster, Arkendale. Letters arrive from Knaresborough at 9am; dispatched thereto at 9am & 3.30pm in winter & 3.55pm in summer.The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Knaresborough. National School (mixed), erected in 1867, for 70 children; average attendance, 61; Thomas W. Gilleard, master. Rev. Frederick Edward Crankshaw, M.A., Vicarage Levi Atkinson, farmer Mrs Mary Carter, Blue Bell P.H.& farmer Thomas Dewes, farmer Alfred Dibbs, farmer Thomas Dibbs. farmer Thomas Elliott, shopkeeper, Post office William Fall. Farmer, Holdgate Bank farm William Fall, jun., farmer, Hollins House Joseph Greaves, farmer George Ibbetson, farmer Robert Knowles, farmer Thomas Nicholson, cowkeeper Thomas Palfreeman, farmer Simon Pickersgill, farmer Swift Powell, farmer Edward Richardson, wheelwright.& joiner Joseph Sampson, gamekeeper to H. Nussey esq Willey Simpson, farmer, The Grange William Simpson, farmer, Fern House Thomas Steele, farmer William Steele, farmer George Tebb, blacksmith Peter Thompson, farmer Sarah Thompson (Mrs.), farmer Frederick Watson, farmer John Whincup, farmer, Brooms House John Wilson, farmer, The Nest