Wetwang is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Fimber is a chapelry of Wetwang.
Alternative names: Wetwang with Fimber
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1632
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WETWANG, a village, a township, and a parish, in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the Wolds, near the Thirsk and Driffield railway, 5¾ miles W by N of Great Driffield; and has a post-office under Driffield, and a r. station.
The township comprises 3,900 acres. Real property, £3,917. Pop., 623. Houses, 126.
The parish includes Fimber township, and comprises 5,740 acres. Pop., 827. Houses, 160. The greater part of the property belongs to Sir T. Sykes, Bart.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £420. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is good. A handsome new church was built at Fimber in 1869.
There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and two Church schools. A museum, with fine collection of local fossils and antiquities, is at Fimber.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang – Cemeteries ( 2 )
Fridaythorpe & Fimber, monumental inscriptions Author: East Yorkshire Family History Society
Wetwang, monumental inscriptions Author: East Yorkshire Family History Society
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Wetwang, 1841-1891 Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Wetwang, 1632-1868 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wetwang (Yorkshire); Church of England. Parish Church of Fimber (Yorkshire)
Churchwardens accounts, 1820-1868 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wetwang (Yorkshire)
Driffield Wesleyan (later Trinity) Methodist Circuit baptisms 1878-1891 : Circuit eventually comprised chapels at Bainton, Beeford, Brigham, Cranswick, Driffield, Fimber, Frodingham, Foston, Fridaythorpe, Garton, Lockington, Lund, Middleton, Nafferton, North Dalton, Skerne, Sledmere, Southburn, Tibthorpe, Wansford, Wetwang Author: Petch, Della
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang, parish registers, 1837-1966 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wetwang (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)
Parish registers for Wetwang, 1653-1891 Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Wetwang (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Wetwang with Fimber, Yorks., Eng
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang – Probate records ( 2 )
Original wills, bonds, inventories, 1528-1850 Author: Church of England. Prebendal Court (Wetwang)
Wills, 1539-1555 Author: Church of England. Peculiar Court of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St. John (Beverley)
England, Yorkshire, Wetwang – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Fimber, 1783-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Land tax assessments for Wetwang, 1783-1832 Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Driffield
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Wetwang, Court of the Peculiar of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John, Beverley
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Buckrose
- Poor Law Union: Driffield
- Hundred: Buckrose
- Province: York
