Hugill, Westmorland Family History Guide
Hugill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Westmorland, created in 1743 from a chapelry in Staveley Ecclesiastical Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Reston Scar, Reston, Over Staveley, Grass Garth, and Borwick Fold.
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Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1732
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HUGIL, a township and a chapelry in Kendal parish, Westmoreland. The township lies on the Kendal and Windermere railway, 2 miles E of Windermere; and contains the hamlets of Ings, Grass-Garth, and Borwick-Fold. Post town, Kendal. Real property, £2, 069. Pop., 391. Houses, 71.
Hugil Hall was the seat of P. Collinson, the naturalist and antiquary. Reston Scar is a prominent feature in the valley.
The chapelry includes parts of Hngil and Over-Staveley; and is sometimes called Ings.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Kendal. The church is at Ings; and was built in 1743, by Bateman, a wealthy merchant and a native. Bateman’s almshouses have £67 a year, and Wilson’s school has £12.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Census returns for Hugil, 1841-1891
Bishop’s transcripts for Hugil, 1813-1862
Bishop’s transcripts for Kendal, 1721-1845
Parish registers for Hugil, 1813-1852
Parish registers for Kendal, 1558-1907
Parish register printouts of Hugill, Westmoreland, England ; christenings, 1813-1862
Administration
- County: Westmorland
- Civil Registration District: Kendal
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Kendal
- Diocese: Chester
- Rural Deanery: Kendal
- Poor Law Union: Kendal
- Hundred: Lonsdale
- Province: York