Great Smeaton Yorkshire Family History Guide
Great Smeaton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Appleton Wiske is a chapelry of Great Smeaton.
Other places in the parish include: Hornby near Northallerton, Hornby, and Enter Common.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1573
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1679
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
- Deighton
- Croft
- Birkby
- Sockburn Durham
- Eryholme
- East Cowton
- High Worsall
- Sockburn
- Welbury
- Appleton Wiske
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SMEATON (Great), a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Darlington district, but all in N. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies near the river Tees, 2¼ miles ENE of Cowton r. station, and 7 N by W of Northallerton. Acres, 3,315. Real property, £2,588. Pop., 208. Houses, 49.
The parish contains also the chapelry of Appleton-upon-Wiske, which has a post-office under Northallerton, the township of Hornby, and part of the t. of Croft; and comprises 1,192 acres. Pop., 927. Houses, 221. The property is divided among a few. The surface commands fine views.
The living is a rectory, in the diocese of Ripon, united with Appleton-upon-Wiske, in the diocese of York. Value, £700. Patron, the Rev. S. Tenison Mosse. The church is ancient. There is a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Northallerton
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Richmond
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Richmond
- Poor Law Union: Northallerton
- Hundred: East Gilling
- Province: York