Saxton, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes, S-Y West Riding  Saxton

Parish History
SAXTON (All Saints), a parish, in the Upper division of the wapentake of Barkstone-Ash, W. riding of York; containing, with Towton township, 573 inhabitants, of whom 427 are in the township of Saxton with Scarthingwell, 4¼ miles (S. by W.) from Tadcaster. Theparish comprises by computation 4030 acres, and is chiefly the property of the daughters and co-heiresses of R. O. Gascoigne, Esq.; the land is generally in good cultivation. Scarthingwell Hall was formerly the residence of Lord Hawke, who is a considerable landowner here; it is a neat mansion, pleasantly situated, with a park of 160 acres. The village is built on an acclivity. Here are some quarries of stone for building. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £76; patrons and impropriators, the family of Gascoigne. The churchis an ancient structure in the Norman style, and contains several monuments of the Hungate and Hawke families. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. Lords Dacre and Westmorland, with many others of the slain in the battle of Towton, were interred here.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 23-26. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51257 Date accessed: 01 November 2011.

Parish Records
This ancient parish was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1539.