Kirk Fenton, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kirk Fenton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Little Fenton and Biggin.
Alternative names: Church Fenton
Status: Ancient Parish
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1627
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Kirk Fenton
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales1870
CHURCH-FENTON, or Kirk-Fenton, a township and a parish in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the Great Northern railway, near the river Wharfe, 5 miles SSE of Tadcaster; and has a station on the railway. Acres, 2, 160. Real property, £2, 823. Pop., 469. Houses, 102.
The parish contains also the townships of Little Fenton and Biggin. Post town, South Milford. Acres, 4, 410. Real property, £4, 589. Pop., 711. Houses, 150. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £125. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is cruciform, of various dates, from Norman downward; and was repaired in 1859.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Biggin
Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850
Biggin, 1 mile E. Kirk-Fenton. P. 126
Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Tadcaster
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Fenton
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Barwick Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Barkstone Ash
- Province: York