Kilham Yorkshire Family History Guide
Kilham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1622
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KILHAM, a village and a parish in Driffield district, E. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on the Wolds, near the source of the river Hull, 3½ miles NNW of Lowthorpe r. station, and 5½ NE by N of Great Driffield; consists chiefly of one straggling street, about a mile long; was once a market town; and has a post office under Driffield, and fairs on 21 Aug. and 12 Nov.
The parish comprises 7, 660 acres. Real property, £12, 656. Pop., 1, 252. Houses, 274. The manor belongs to W. S. D. Duesbery, Esq. About 350 acres are under wood. A mineral spring is near Rudston road, and a remarkable intermitting spring is at Hempit-hole. Brewing and brick making are carried on.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is mainly early English; has a beautiful Norman door, and a massive tower; and contains sedilia, a piscina, and monumental tablets to the Andersons, the Thomsons, and others.
There are chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, a grammar school with £30 a year from endowment, national schools, a mechanics’ institute, and charities £8.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Driffield
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Dickering
- Poor Law Union: Driffield
- Hundred: Dickering
- Province: York