Clayton with Frickley, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Clayton with Frickley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Frickley.

Alternative names: Clayton, Frickley with Clayton

Parish church: All Saints

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1577
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1602

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Clayton with Frickley Parish Registers

Yorkshire Frickley-with-Clayton Parish Register, 1577-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

CLAYTON-WITH-FRICKLEY, a parish in Doncaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3½ miles NE of Darfield r. station, and 8 NW of Doncaster. Post town, Darfield, under Barnesley. Acres, 1,640. Real property, £2,273. Pop., 312. Houses, 62. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of York. Value, £140. Patron, W. Aldam, Esq. The church is Norman; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

FRICKLEY, with Clayton (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Doncaster, N. division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, W. riding of York, 8 miles (W. N. W.) from Doncaster; containing 316 inhabitants.

This place is chiefly remarkable as the seat of the family of Anne, of whom mention first occurs in the time of Edward II. and III., when Sir William Anne took a considerable part in public affairs, greatly aiding in the suppression of the rebellion of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and afterwards serving in parliament: the family ceased to have any connexion with Frickley towards the close of the last century.

The parish comprises 1640 acres, of which rather more than one-half is arable, and about 20 acres are woodland; of the soil, one-third is a tenacious clay, and the remainder rests on an inferior gritstone.

The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Clayton annexed; net income, £69; patron and impropriator, St. A. Warde, Esq.: the tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1814. The church is a small ancient structure, with a tower, and is supposed to have been surrounded by a village which has disappeared: in the interior are some cylindrical columns, and between the nave and chancel is a handsome Norman arch.

There is a place of worship used by various denominations of dissenters. An old chapel, erected at the period of the Commonwealth, and then used for divine service, has been rebuilt by the incumbent, for a day and Sunday school.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Doncaster
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Doncaster
  • Poor Law Union: Doncaster
  • Hundred: Strafforth and Tickhill
  • Province: York