Wressle Yorkshire Family History Guide
Wressle is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Newsholme, Newsham, Loftsome, Brind, Newsholme with Brind, and Newsholme near Howden.
Alternative names: Wressel, Wressell
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1724
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WRESSELL, a parish, with four hamlets, and with a r. station, in Howden district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the river Derwent, and on the Hulland Selby railway, 3¾ miles N W of Howden. Post town, Howden.
Acres, 3,705. Real property, £4,786. Pop., 423. Houses, 74. The manor belonged at Domesday to G. Tyson; and passed before 1315 to the Percys, and in 1750 to the Wyndhams.
W. Castle was built in 1380-90 by the Percys; formed a princely quadrangle, with towers; was dismantled by parliament in 1650, and burnt in 1796; and is now represented by only the ruin of one of its four sides.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £157. Patron, Lord Leconfield. The church is old but good.
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: Howden
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Harthill and Hull
- Poor Law Union: Howden
- Hundred: Harthill
- Province: York