High and Low Bishopside Yorkshire Family History Guide

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High and Low Bishopside is a chapelry of Ripon Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Wilsil, Whitehouses, Waths, Smelthouse, Smelt House, Raikes, Low Bishopside, and Fell Beck.

Alternative names: High Bishopside

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

BISHOPSIDE (High and Low), a township in Ripon parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Nidd, 11 miles WSW of Ripon. It includes the town of Pateley-Bridge, and the hamlets of Fell-Beck, Raikes, Smelthouse, Waths, Whitehouses, and Wilsil. Acres, 5,813. Real property, £6,180. Pop., 2,052. Houses, 439.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, High and Low Bishopside – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Bishopside, High and Low, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, High and Low Bishopside – Manors – Court records ( 1 )
Court rolls, 1762-1850
Author:    Manor of Thornton with Bishopside. Court (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Pateley Bridge
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Ripon
  • Poor Law Union:    Ripon
  • Hundred:    Ripon Liberty
  • Province:    York