Fylingdales, Yorkshire Genealogy

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

Parish History
Fylingdales is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1786 from chapelry in Whitby, Yorkshire Ancient Parish.Other places in the parish include: Parkgate, Ramsdale, Robin Hood's Bay, Rowe, Stoupe Brow, Park Gate, Bay Ness, Fylingdales Moor, Fylingthorpe, Normanby, and Stow Brow.



FYLINGDALES (St. Stephen), a parish, in the union of Whitby, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York, 4½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Whitby; containing 1611 inhabitants.

The older St Stephen's is maintained but the parish church is located elsewhere in the village.

The parish of Fylingdales contains two churches, the older standing isolated on the hill-side above the town of Robin Hood's Bay and the later in close proximity to the railway station. Both buildings are, however, modern, the ancient church of ST. STEPHEN having been pulled down about the year 1821. It contained features of considerable antiquity, the chancel arch being a reputed work of the Saxon period. The church which took its place is a semi-classical building with plain pointed windows and flat plaster ceilings. It consists of a nave of five bays, with galleries on the north and west sides, a shallow quire, south porch and wooden cupola over the west end of the nave.

The new church of ST. STEPHEN, built in 1870 from the designs of G. E. Street, is a handsome if somewhat heavy Gothic building, consisting of a nave with south aisle, quire and tower on the south side. The quire terminates in a semicircular apse, with a ribbed stone vault, and an arcade of four bays having octagonal piers with foliated capitals separates the nave and aisle. The clearstory above consists of two-light windows alternating with quatrefoils. The circular stone font, tapering towards the base, was rescued from a local farm-yard. It has a molded rim, and apparently dates from the 13th century.

The plate is all of modern date. The registers begin in 1653.

From A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 (1923), pp. 534-537. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64704 Date accessed: 07 May 2011.

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Civil Registration
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Church Records
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Poor Law Unions
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Probate Records
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