Hampsthwaite Yorkshire Family History Guide
Hampsthwaite is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Wreaks, Brigg and Swarcliffe, West Syke Green, Swincliffe, Menwith with Darley, Felliscliffe with Kettlesing, Swincliffe and West Syke Green, Felliscliffe, and Birstwith.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1603
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1632
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HAMPSTHWAITE, a village and a township in Knaresborough district, and a parish partly also in Pateley Bridge district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the river Nidd, adjacent to the Nidd Valley railway, 2 miles SW of Ripley, and 4 NW of Harrogate; and has a station on the railway, a bridge over the Nidd, and a post office under Leeds.
The township comprises 1, 170 acres. Real property, £1, 650. Pop., 513. Houses, 118.
The parish contains also the townships of Felliscliffe, Birstwith, Menwith-with-Darley, and Thornthwaite-with-Padside. Acres, 9, 600. Real property, £10, 062. Pop., 2, 422. Houses, 561. The property is not much divided. The manors of Hampsthwaite and Menwith-with-Darley belong to the Duke of Devonshire; and that of Birstwith belongs to F. Greenwood, Esq.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300. Patrons, the Heirs of the late S. H. Shann, Esq. The church is an oblong edifice, in the pointed style; has an embattled tower; was rebuilt in 1821; and contains a few mural monuments. The vicarages of Birstwith and Thornthwaite are separate benefices.
There are three chapels for Wesleyans, two for Primitive Methodists, and one for Quakers, an endowed school with £14 a year, and a national school.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Registers
Paver’s Marriage Licences
It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.
1630 Christopher Spence, Hampsthwaite, and Isabel Wiseman, Thornthwaite—either place.
Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.
Parish Records
FamilySearch
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Knaresborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Honour of Knaresborough
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Knaresborough
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York