Gilling near Richmond, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  North Riding  Gilling near Richmond



Parish History
Gilling West St Agatha (near Richmond) is an Ancient Parish. Other places in the parish include: Barforth, Barton, Eppleby, Hartforth, Ledbury, Little Hutton, West Layton, Newton Morrell, North Cowton, Ovingham, Ovington, Sedbury, Stapleton, and Newton Morrel.

GILLING (St. Agatha), a parish, in the unions of Richmond, Northallerton, and Darlington,chiefly in the wapentake of Gilling-East, but partly in that of Gilling-West, N. riding of York; comprising the townships of North Cowton and Gilling,and the chapelries of South Cowton and Eryholme;and containing 1618 inhabitants, of whom 981 are inthe township of Gilling, 3 miles (N. by E.) from Richmond. This is a place of great antiquity, and remarkable as the scene of the murder of Oswy, King of Deira,by his host, Oswin of Bernicia; in expiation of which crime, a monastery was founded on the spot by Queen Eanfleda; but not the slightest vestige of it can now be traced. There are quarries of excellent freestone. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at£23. 11. 5½.; net income, £1029; patron and impropriator, John Thomas Wharton, Esq. The tithes were commuted for land and money payments, under an actof inclosure, in 1815. The church, which retains some traces of Norman architecture, was appropriated in 1224 to the monastery of St. Mary, York. South Cowtonand Eryholme are separate incumbencies. There is aplace of worship for Wesleyans. Sir Thomas Wharton,in 1678, founded Hartforth free school here, and endowed it with an estate now producing about £125 ayear.

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 291-294. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50980 Date accessed: 30 April 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in date.

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Poor Law Unions
Richmond Poor Law Union, Yorkshire

Probate records
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