These are some sources which you might find useful in exploring more about the history of the Bishophill area.
Parish registers
Census 1841-1911
Trade directories
British Newspaper Archive
Bishophill History Group produced a number of publications which gather together material about the history of the area
A history of Thomas Cooke, optical instrument maker to the world. The Buckingham works. Bishophill Senior. 2013
Roman Bishophill. 2015.
Richard Chicken 1799-1866: Bishophill Resident. 2015
Bishophill Resident. George Villiers. The second Duke of Buckingham. 2015
Health, disease and death in Bishophill, 2016
The York Historian
Borthwick Archive collections
City Archives collections
Charles Brunton Knight A History of the City of York (1944)
Patrick Nuttgens (ed.), The History of York (Blackthorn, 2001)
A J Peacock, Essays in York History.
Ronald Willis, The Illustrated Portrait of York (1988)
Bishophill/Clementhorpe Local Plan Study: Preliminary Report, York City Planning & Estates Office, November 1975.
Bishophill/Clementhorpe District Plan: Final Report, York City Planning & Estates
City of York Historic Environment Characterisation Statements, Bishophill no 20 and Queen’s Staithe and Skeldergate no.19
George Pace, Bishophill, York – Appraisal and Renewal (Sessions,1964).
Avril E Webster Appleton, Looking Back at Micklegate, Nunnery Lane and Bishophill: York (Reeder Publications, 2011).
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments of England An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 3, South west. (HMSO, 1972)
The 1954 Annual report of the Yorkshire Architectural & York Archaeological Society has an interesting plan of Roman Bishophill. Also a conjectural reconstruction plan of Roman York which shows Bishophill forming a major part of the Roman civil settlement or “Colonia”. It has a palace on the site of the community garden & the forum conveniently sited for the Golden Ball.
Hugh Murray Directory of York Pubs 1455-2004
Matthew Jenkins The View From the Street: Housing and Shopping in York during the Long Eighteenth Century, PHD The University of York Archaeology April 2013
Zoe Durrant-Walker Comb making industry in York during the 19th century: An Insight Report (York Archaeological Trust)
