Rawdon is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1743 from a chapelry in Guiseley Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Guiseley St Peter, Rawden
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1783
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist, Moravian/United Brethren, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
RAWDON, a chapelry, in the parish of Guiseley, Upper division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 6½ miles (N. W.) from Leeds; containing 2531 inhabitants.
The chapelry is bounded on the south by the river Aire, and comprises 1535a. 3r. 30p., of which 1248 acres are pasture and meadow, 177 arable, 82 woodland, and 20 common or waste. The substratum contains coal of inferior quality, which is wrought to a moderate extent; and there are some quarries of excellent building-stone, from which the materials for the construction of the St. Katherine’s Docks, in London, were partly supplied.
The scenery is pleasingly diversified, and enlivened with various gentlemen’s seats. Layton Hall, for centuries the seat of the Layton family, is now converted into cottages; and Rawdon Hall, which belongs to the family of Rawdon, is in a dilapidated state.
The village is situated on the north side of the road from Leeds to Guiseley, and on the brow of a lofty eminence in the valley of Airedale, commanding extensive views.
The chapel, with a parsonage, was built in 1651, chiefly at the expense of Francis Layton, Esq., whose son Thomas, the inheritor of his estates, in the year 1652 endowed it with £20 per annum for the minister, and £2 for the clerk, at the same time assigning funds for other purposes. It was thoroughly repaired in 1825.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of Mrs. Emmott, lady of the manor, and has a net income of £115: there is a glebe of 36 acres. The tithes have been commuted for £88. 12.
There are places of worship for Baptists, Friends, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans; and a school at Woodhouse Grove, founded in 1812, for the education of the sons of Wesleyan ministers. The bequest of Mr. Layton in 1652, of which the proceeds amount to £40 per annum, is appropriated, after the payments to the chapel previously noticed, to the apprenticing of children and the relief of the poor. Rawdon gives the title of Baron to the Marquess of Hastings.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
FamilySearch
England, Yorkshire, Rawden – Cemeteries ( 5 )
Friend’s burial ground, Quaker’s Lane, Rawdon : alphabetical list of burials, 1695-1976 & memorial inscriptions in the burial ground, 1830-1993
Author: Wolstenhulme, Les; Clayton, Brian
Greenhill Wesleyan Methodist Church, Rawdon : burials 1905-1961 & memorial inscriptions, 1831-1961
Author: Wolstenhulme, Les; Clayton, Brian
Index to cremations of the Rawden Crematorium, 1959-1989
Author: Rawden Crematorium (Rawden, Yorkshire)
Monumental inscriptions for Rawden Cliff Baptist Church, Yorkshire, 1712-1761
Author: Rawden Cliff Baptist Church (Rawden, Yorkshire)
Rawdon Cliffe Baptist Chapel, Cragg Baptist Church and Woodhouse Grove Wesleyan Church memorial inscriptions
Author: Wharfedale Family History Group; Blackburn, Arthur; Clayton, Brian
England, Yorkshire, Rawden – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Rawden, 1841-1891
Author: Great Britain. Census Office
England, Yorkshire, Rawden – Census – 1901 – Indexes ( 1 )
Rawdon 1901 census index
Author: Wharfedale Family History Group
England, Yorkshire, Rawden – Church records ( 10 )
Births and burials, 1756-1837
Author: Brixtone Chapel (Rawdon, Yorkshire : Baptist)
Births, 1816-1837 and burials, 1837
Author: Brixtone Chapel (Rawdon, Yorkshire : Baptist)
Bishop’s transcripts for Guiseley, 1632-1836
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Guiseley (Yorkshire)
Bishop’s transcripts for Rawden, 1813-1856
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Rawden (Yorkshire)
Guiseley parish registers including Horsforth & Rawdon chapels
Author: Wharfedale Family History Group
Marriages, births and burials, 1669-1837
Author: Society of Friends. Rawdon Preparative Meeting (England)
Minute book, 1856-1881
Author: Baptist Church (Rawden, Yorkshire)
Rawdon, St. Peter burials 1813-1956
Author: Wharfedale Family History Group
A transcript of the early registers of the parish of Guiseley in the County of York, 1584-1720 : together with a transcript of early registers of the chapelry of Horsforth, 1620-1720
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Guiseley (Yorkshire); Preston, W. E. (William Easterbrook); Rowe, Joseph Hambley; Church of England. Chapelry of Horsforth (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Rawden (Yorkshire)
A transcript of the early registers of the parish of Guiseley in the county of York, 1584-1720 : together with a transcript of the early registers of the chapelry of Horsforth 1620-1720; with notes on Guisley families
Author: Church of England. Parish Church of Guiseley (Yorkshire); Preston, W. E. (William Easterbrook); Rowe, Joseph Hambley; Church of England. Chapelry of Horsforth (Yorkshire); Church of England. Chapelry of Rawden (Yorkshire)
England, Yorkshire, Rawden – Church records – Indexes ( 2 )
Computer printout of Rawdon, Buckstone or Buxstone Baptist, Yorks., Eng
Parish register printouts of Rawdon parish, Yorkshire, England, 1684-1847
England, Yorkshire, Rawden – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Rawden township, 1781-1832
Author: Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Otley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Skyrack
- Province: York
