Burneston, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Burneston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Theakstone, Theakston, Swainby with Allerthorpe, Londonderry, Gatenby, Exelby, Leeming and Newton, Excelby, Leeming and Newton, Exelby, Carthorpe, and Carthop.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Lambert
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1566
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1615
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BURNESTON (St. Lambert), a parish, in the union of Bedale, wapentake of Hallikeld, N. riding of York; containing 1494 inhabitants, of whom 351 are in the township of Burneston, 4 miles (S. E. by E.) from Bedale.
The parish is situated between the river Swale and the Ure, in the rich and fruitful vale of Mowbray, and comprises the five townships of Burneston, Carthorp, Gatenby, Theakstone, and Exelby with Leeming and Newton; the whole forming an area of 7351a. 2r. 37p., of which there are in Burneston township 726 acres of arable, and 400 of meadow and pasture. The soil for the most part is of good quality, and favourable for the growth of wheat, barley, and turnips; the surface is level, having itself no picturesque beauty, but commanding a view of the Wensleydale and Masham hills on the west, and of the Hambleton hills on the east.
The living is a vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £37. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Duke of Cleveland, to whom, and W. R. L. Sergeantson and E. J. Carter, Esqrs., the impropriation belongs: the great tithes have been commuted for £772. 2. 6., and the vicarial for £600; and there are 3½ acres of glebe. A church was built in the time, and partly by the bounty, of Ribald and Hugh Fitzhugh; but the rude structure of the Norman founders gave place, probably about the close of Edward III.’s reign, to the present spacious structure, the choir of which is both tasteful and beautiful. The ancient chapel of ease at Leeming has been rebuilt. There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bedale
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Catterick, Court of the Peculiar of St Leonard’s Hospital, York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Catterick
- Poor Law Union: Bedale
- Hundred: Hallikeld
- Province: York