Eskdaleside Yorkshire Family History Guide
Eskdaleside is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1735 from Whitby Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Eskdaleside with Ugglebarnby, Sleights, Whitby St John the Evangelist
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1723
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1636
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
ESKDALESIDE, or Sleights, a township-chapelry in Whitby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Esk, and on the Pickering and Whitby railway, 4 miles SW by W of Whitby.
It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Whitby, both of the name of Sleights. Acres, 3, 740. Real property, £3, 060; of which £420 are in quarries. Pop., 814. Houses, 164. Building-stone is worked; mineral springs occur; and alum is found. There was anciently a small cell here to Whitby abbey.
The living is a p. curacy, united with the p. curacy of Ugglebarnby, in the diocese of York. Value, £329. Patron, the Rev. T. Walker. The church was built in 1767. Charities, £55.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Maps
Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Whitby
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Cleveland
- Poor Law Union: Whitby
- Hundred: Whitby Strand
- Province: York