Rudston, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Rudston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Caythorpe and Thorpe.
Alternative names:
Parish church: All Saints
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1550
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1599
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RUDSTON (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Bridlington, wapentake of Dickering, E. riding of York, 5 miles (W.) from Bridlington; containing 541 inhabitants.
The parish is on the road to Sledmere, and comprises 5060 acres of land, chiefly arable, with a moderate portion of meadow and pasture. The surface is boldly undulated; the higher grounds are embellished with thriving plantations, and the vale is intersected by a stream whose banks form luxuriant pastures.
Thorpe Hall, the seat of A. W. Bosvile, Esq., is a handsome mansion beautifully situated in grounds tastefully laid out: in enlarging the fish-ponds, in 1830, some Roman relics, consisting of urns, swords, and spurs, were discovered.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £9. 13. 6½.; net income, £236; patron, the Archbishop of York; impropriator, Sir Henry Boynton, Bart. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1774. The church is an ancient structure with a square tower, situated on the brow of a hill; in the churchyard is an obelisk, about thirty feet in height, exclusively of a considerable portion buried in the ground.
There are places of worship for Primitive Methodists and Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bridlington
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Dickering
- Poor Law Union: Bridlington
- Hundred: Dickering
- Province: York