Cleasby, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Cleasby is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1715 from a chapelry in Stanwick Ancient Parish.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1712
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1791
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CLEASBY, a parish in the district of Darlington and N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Tees, at the boundary with Durham, near the York and Berwick railway, 2½ miles WSW of Darlington. It has a post-office under Darlington. Acres, 970. Real property, £2, 079. Pop., 189. Houses, 40. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £188. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. The church was built by Bishop Robinson, a native; and is good.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CLEASBY, a parish, in the union of Darlington, wapentake of Gilling-East, N. riding of York, 3½ miles (W. by S.) from Darlington; containing 164 inhabitants.
The parish is bounded on the north by the river Tees, and comprises by computation 839 acres, mostly arable land; the surface is generally flat, but with a singular and very high embankment, which runs through the parish on the south side.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £188; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. The old church, a small and inferior structure, built, with the parsonage-house, by Dr. John Robinson, a native of the parish, a distinguished plenipotentiary, and Bishop of London, was replaced in 1828 by an edifice in a superior style of architecture, containing a curious monument to the prelate.
Dr. Robinson also founded a school in 1723, and endowed it with 16 acres of grass land, of the annual value of £22, free for six boys. Mrs. Cornwallis, a step-daughter of the bishop, left in 1785 funds now producing £10. 15. for the relief of poor housekeepers.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Darlington
- 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: Darlington
- Hundred: East Gilling
- Province: York