Kirk Hammerton Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kirk Hammerton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Wilstrop.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1714
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1674
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HAMMERTON (KIRK), a village and a township in Knaresborongh district, and a parish partly also in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the river Nidd, near Hammerton r. station, 8 miles E of Knaresborongh; and has a post office under York.
The township comprises 996 acres. Real property, £, 201. Pop., 310. Houses, 71.
The parish includes also the township of Wilstrop, and comprises 2, 018 acres. Real property, £, 419. Pop., 400. Houses, 89. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Col. Thomson.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £132. Patron, the Rev. N. Paulet. The church is ancient, in tolerable condition; and has parts of different dates and characters. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £6.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Knaresborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Boroughbridge
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Boroughbridge
- Poor Law Union: Great Ouseburn Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Claro; York (Ainsty)
- Province: York