Long Riston Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Long Riston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Long Riston with Arnold and Arnold.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1653
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

RISTON (Long), a parish, with a village, and with part of Arnold hamlet, in Skirlaugh district, E. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles WNW of Whitedale r. station, and 6½ E N E of Beverley. Post-town, Beverley.

Acres, 3, 490. Rated property, £3, 115. Pop., 401. Houses, 94. The property is divided among a few. Riston-Grange is the chief residence.

The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Hornsea, in the diocese of York. The church was recently restored.

There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, and an endowed school.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Long Riston – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Long Riston monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

England, Yorkshire, Long Riston – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Long Riston, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Long Riston – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Long Riston, 1600-1845
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Long Riston (Yorkshire)

Churchwardens accounts, 1823-1862
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Long Riston (Yorkshire)

Parish registers for Long Riston, 1653-1891
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Long Riston (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Long Riston – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Long Riston, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Long Riston – Taxation ( 2 )
Land tax assessments for Arnold, 1782-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Long Riston, 1782-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Skirlaugh
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    North Holderness
  • Poor Law Union:    Skirlaugh
  • Hundred:    Holderness
  • Province:    York