Speeton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Speeton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1734 from a chapelry in Bridlington Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Speeton and Grindall

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1636
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

SPEETON, a township-chapelry, with a r. station, in Bridlington parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, and on the Hulland Scarborough railway, 4½ miles NNW of Bridlington. Post town, Bridlington.

Acres, 1,962; of which 142 are water. Real property, £1,954. Pop., 140. Houses, 22. The manor belongs to Lord Londesborough. Cliffs here abound in fossils, and swarm with sea-fowl.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £50. Patron, Lord Londesborough. The church was rebuilt in 1833.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Speeton – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Burton Fleming, Boynton, Grindale & Speeton, monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society

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

England, Yorkshire, Speeton – Church records ( 3 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Bridlington, 1600-1873
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Bridlington (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Speeton, 1600-1691
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Speeton (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Speeton, parish registers, 1636-1992
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Speeton (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

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

England, Yorkshire, Speeton – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Speeton, 1783-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Maps

Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time

Administration

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