Claxton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Claxton is a chapelry of Bossall with Buttercrambe Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.

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Nonconformists include: Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

CLAXTON, a chapelry, in the parish of Bossall, union of York, wapentake of Bulmer, N. riding of York, 8½ miles (N. E. by E.) from York; containing 168 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 813 acres of land: the village is situated about a mile to the east of the road between York and Malton. The petty sessions for the division are held at Lobster House. The chapel is a small edifice. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

Administration

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