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TENTERGATE, with Scriven, a township, in the parish of Knaresborough, Lower division of the wapentake of claro, W. riding of York; containing 1435 inhabitants. The township comprises about 1598 acres, and Tentergate forms that part of the borough of Knaresborough usually called Bond-End; it is chiefly the property of Sir Charles Slingsby, Bart.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.

TEMPLE-NEWSOM, a township, in the parish of Whitkirk, Lower division of the wapentake of Sky-rack, W. riding of York, 4 miles (E. by S.) from Leeds; containing 1428 inhabitants. This place derives the prefix to its name from the Knights Templars, who had a preceptory here, which, at the suppression of their order in 1311, was granted by Edward III. to Sir John D’Arcy, whose descendant, Thomas, Lord D’Arcy, was beheaded in the reign of Henry VIII. for joining the “Pilgrims of Grace.”

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TANSHELF, a township, in the parish of Pontefract, Upper division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, ¼ of a mile (W. by S.) from Pontefract; containing 502 inhabitants. This township, which adjoins the end of the town of Pontefract, comprises about 275 acres, and consists chiefly of neat houses and villas, occupied by families connected with the borough, to which it forms a pleasing appendage.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis Fifth Edition Published London; by S. Lewis and Co., 13, Finsbury Place, South. M. DCCC. XLV.