Middleton with Cropton and Lockton, Yorkshire Genealogy

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Parish History
Middleton with Cropton and Lockton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Lockton, Yorkshire is a chapelry of Middleton with Cropton and Lockton.

Other places in the parish include: Aislaby, Aislaby near Pickering, Cawthorn, Cawthorne, Wrelton, Hartoft, Middleton and Aislaby, Middleton with Cropton St Gregory, and Cropton.

MIDDLETON, a parish, in the union and lythe of Pickering, N. riding of York; containing, with the chapelries of Cropton, Lockton, and Rosedale East Side, the townships of Aislaby, Cawthorn, Hartoft, and Wrelton, and the extra-parochial place of Turnhill, 1874 inhabitants, of whom 261 are in the township of Middleton, 1 mile (W. N. W.) from Pickering, on the road to Helmsley. The surface of the parish is undulated, and the scenery beautiful; the soil is various: good stone is obtained for burning into lime. The Whitby and Pickering railway passes through the township of Lockton. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £10. 11. 8.; net income, £100; patrons and impropriators, the family of Wrangham, and T. Smith, Esq. The church is an ancient edifice with a square tower. There are chapels of ease at Cropton and Lockton, and a separate incumbency at Rosedale.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 306-310. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51148 Date accessed: 07 May 2011.

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

CROPTON, a township in Middleton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Severn, 4½ miles NW by N of Pickering. Acres, 3, 810. Real property, £1, 993. Pop., 360. Houses, 83. Here are some ancient British earth-works, and traces of an ancient road.



Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Poor Law Unions
Pickering Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Probate records
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Maps and Gazetteers
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