Letwell Yorkshire Family History Guide
Letwell is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Letwell with Gildingwells Ecclesiastical Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Gildingwells.
Alternative names: Laughton en le Morthen St Peter
Parish church: St Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1813
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LETWELL, a township-chapelry in Laughton-en-le-Morthen parish, W. R. Yorkshire; adjacent to the boundary with Notts, 4 miles SSW of Tickhill, and 5 N of Shireoak r. station. It has a post office under Worksop.
Acres, 1,090. Real property, £1,380. Pop. in 1851, 115; in 1861,139. Houses, 27. The manor belongs to Sir Thomas W. White, Bart. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Firbeck, in the diocese of York. The church consists of nave, N aisle, and chancel, with a tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Worksop
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Chancellor of York with the Prebendal
- Jurisdiction of Laughton en le Morthen
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Doncaster
- Poor Law Union: Worksop
- Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
- Province: York