Saxton, Yorkshire Genealogy

Guide to Saxton, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
SAXTON (All Saints), a parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Barkstone-Ash, W. riding of York; containing Towton township, and the township of Saxton with Scarthingwell, 4¼ miles (S. by W.) from Tadcaster. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans

Church Records
Saxton parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

To find the names of the neighboring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851 Map. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes.

Records are also available at the West Yorkshire Archive Service.