Coxwold, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Coxwold is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Yearsley, Wildon Grange, Wass, Thornton on the Hill cum Baxby, Thornton on the Hill and Baxby, Thornton on the Hill, Thornton cum Baxby, Oulston, Newburgh, Newbrough, Grange Angram, Byland cum Membris, Byland Abbey, Baxby, and Angram Grange.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Michael
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1583
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
COXWOLD (St. Michael), a parish, partly in the union of Easingwould, and partly in that of Helmsley, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York; containing 1076 inhabitants, of whom 325 are in the township of Coxwold, 6 miles (N.) from Easingwould.
The parish comprises the townships of Angram-Grange, Birdforth, Byland cum Membris, Coxwold, Newbrough, Oulston, Thornton cum Baxby, Wildon-Grange, and Yearsley, and consists of 12,025a. 2p. of fertile land, whereof about 3005 acres are arable, 7919 grass land, and 1099 wood, water, common, &c.; the township of Coxwold contains 1369a. 1r. 21p.
The village is pleasantly situated on an eminence, amidst beautiful scenery of hill and dale, and woodland, and about 6 miles to the east of the York and Newcastle railway: there is a large cattle and sheep fair on the 25th of August, and races are held on the Monday after Michaelmas-day.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £351; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose tithes in Coxwold township have been commuted for £353. The church is a small ancient structure, with an octagonal tower, and is said to have been erected so early as 700; the chancel was rebuilt in 1777, by the Earl of Fauconberg: there is some stained glass in the windows, and the building contains many handsome monuments of the Belasyse family. A chapel of ease was built at Yearsley, in 1839; and there is a separate incumbency at Birdforth.
A free grammar school was founded in 1603, by Sir John Harte, alderman of London, who endowed it with £36. 13. 4. per annum; and an hospital for ten poor men was founded in 1696, by Thomas, Earl of Fauconberg, the endowment of which consists of a rent-charge of £59. There are several other charities. Sterne wrote his Tristram Shandy and some other works at Shandy Hall, in the village, where he resided about seven years.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Easingwold
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Bulmer
- Poor Law Union: Easingwold
- Hundred: Birdforth
- Province: York