Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes K-R  North Riding  Pateley Bridge

Parish History
PATELEY-BRIDGE, a market-town, and the head of a union, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, W. riding of York, 12 miles (W. S. W.) from Ripon, and 224 (N. N.W.) from London; containing 797 inhabitants. The parochial chapelry of Pateley comprises the townships of Bewerley, and High and Low Bishopside. The town is situated on the northern bank of the river Nidd, and is indebted for its importance to the adjacent lead-mines, which, though now partially exhausted, were formerly worked to a very great extent. The spinning of flax and the weaving of linen are carried on; and in the vicinity are quarries of excellent freestone, and clay forbrick-making. A market, granted by Edward II., in1324, is held on Saturday; and there are fairs on Easter and Whitsun eves, May 11th, Sept. 17th (if on a Saturday, otherwise on the following Saturday), the Monday after Oct. 10th, and on Christmas-eve. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £150; patrons,the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. A church, dedicated toSt. Mary, was erected in 1827, partly by a grant of £2000 from the Parliamentary Commissioners, and partly by subscription; it is a handsome structure in the later English style.There are places of worship for Independents and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. An ancient foundation, called Rake's school from the site of ground on which it stands, was augmented in1806, with a bequest of £1800 stock, by Mrs. Alice Shepherd. The poor-law union of Pateley-Bridge comprises ten chapelries or townships, containing a population of 7999.

From: Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 537-540. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51205 Date accessed: 22 September 2011.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
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