Buckrose (UK Parliament constituency)
| Yorkshire, East Riding, Buckrose Division | |
|---|---|
| Former County constituency for the House of Commons |
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| County | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| 1885–1950 | |
| Replaced by | Bridlington and Beverley |
| Created from | East Riding of Yorkshire |
Buckrose was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It was a county constituency comprising the northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, represented by one Member of Parliament, and was created for the 1885 general election.
Buckrose was abolished for the 1950 general election, when boundary changes reduced the East Riding's number of county constituencies from three to two, the eastern part of the constituency and most of the voters being included in the new Bridlington constituency and the remainder in the Beverley constituency.
1885-1918: The Sessional Divisions of Bainton Beacon, Buckrose, and Dickering.
1918-1950: The Municipal Borough of Bridlington, the Urban Districts of Filey, Great Driffield, and Norton, the Rural Districts of Bridlington, Driffield, Norton, and Sherburn.
The constituency consisted of the northern third of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The largest town in the seat was Bridlington, but it also included Filey, Driffield, and Norton, as well as numerous villages, and the rural element was predominant. At the time of the 1921 census, almost two-fifths (38%) of the occupied male population were engaged in agriculture.
Buckrose took its name from the wapentake of Buckrose, one of the medieval sub-divisions of the East Riding which, however, had long ceased to have much administrative significance by 1885, and had covered only part of the area of the constituency and a minority of its population. (The constituency also included the whole of the former wapentake of Dickering, which included Bridlington and Filey, and part of the wapentake of Harthill which included Driffield.) The name seems to have been chosen primarily to avoid offending any local sensibilities, and with little regard for comprehensibility (a criticism also levelled at many of the other new constituency names created under the 1885 Reform Act).
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