Rawcliffe, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Rawcliffe is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1813 from Snaith Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Snaith St James, Rawcliffe near Snaith
Parish church: St. James
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1689
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1631
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RAWCLIFFE, a chapelry, in the parish of Snaith, union of Goole, Lower division of the wapentake of Osgoldcross, W. riding of York, 11 miles (S. E. by S.) from Selby; containing 1506 inhabitants.
The chapelry comprises by estimation 4258 acres, of which the far greater part is arable, about 40 acres woodland, and the remainder pasture. A considerable tract of low marshy ground has been brought into profitable cultivation by means of warping, a process begun on a small scale about 1760, and much improved upon by the late Ralph Creyke, Esq. The Aire, the Dutch-river, and the Aire and Calder canal, intersect the district.
Rawcliffe Hall, a handsome mansion, pleasantly situated in fine grounds verging on the Aire, is the seat of Ralph Creyke, Esq., who is lord of the manor, and proprietor of a great portion of the soil.
The village is large, and neatly built round a spacious green; the inhabitants are partly employed in the manufacture of sacking. About 1¾ mile from the village, on the Dutch-river, is the hamlet of Rawcliffe-Bridge.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £106; patron, N. E. Yarburgh, Esq., who is impropriator of the small tithes; impropriator of the great tithes, Randal Gossip, Esq. The church, rebuilt in 1842, at an expense of £1850, raised by subscription, is dedicated to St. James, and is a handsome structure in the early English style.
There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.
A free school, founded in 1697 by Francis Boynton, who endowed it with lands and tenements now producing £42 per annum, is further supported by subscription.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Goole
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of Snaith
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Goole
- Hundred: Osgoldcross
- Province: York