Patrick Brompton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Patrick Brompton



Parish History
Patrick Brompton St Patrick is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Arrathorne, Newton le Willows, Patrick Brompton East, Scotton near Cattrick, Ruswick, Scotton, and Patrick Brompton West. BROMPTON-PATRICK (St. Patrick), a parish, in the union of Leyburn; comprising the townships of Brompton-Patrick and Newton-le-Willows, and part ofthose of Arrowthorne and Scotton, in the wapentake of Hang-East, and part of the chapelry of Hunton in the wapentake of Hang-West, N. riding of York; and containing, with the whole of Arrowthorne, Hunton, and Scotton, 1130 inhabitants, of whom 181 are in the township of Brompton-Patrick, 3¾ miles (N. W. by W.) fromBedale. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income,£100; patron, the Bishop of Chester: C. H. Elsley, Esq.,is impropriator of the lay rectory, which is valued in the king's books at £34. 13. 1½. Mr. Elsley's tithes in the township of Brompton-Patrick have been commuted for£81, and his glebe consists of 91 acres. The church isan ancient edifice in the decorated English style, and the chancel is particularly admired, but the tower is considered a deformity: tradition relates that the original one having been blown down in a storm, the present was erected, in 1572.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 395-400. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50834 Date accessed: 09 May 2011.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Patrick Brompton like this:

BROMPTON-PATRICK, a township and a parish in Leyburn district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the river Swale, near the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, 4 miles NW by W of Bedale. Acres, 1,280. Real property, £2,341. Pop., 205. Houses, 43. The parish contains also the townships of Newton-le-Willows, Hunton, and Arrathorne; the first of which has a station on the railway, and the second a post office under Catterick. Acres, 5,757. Real property, £10,035. Pop., 1,216. Houses, 266. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Hunton, in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is good; and there are charities £27.

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Poor Law Unions
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Probate records
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