Egton Yorkshire Family History Guide

Egton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1807 from Lythe Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Newbegin, Lumberhill, Limber Hill, and Egton Bridge.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1622
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1617

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Roman Catholic.

Adjacent Parishes

• Middleton with Cropton and Lockton
• Glaisdale
• Rosedale
• Lythe
• Pickering
• Danby with Castleton
• Grosmont
• Goathland

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

EGTON, a village, a parochial township, and a sub-district in Whitby district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Esk, adjacent to the Cleveland and Whitby branches of the Northeastern railway, 7½ miles WSW of Whitby; has a post-office under York and a r. station; was once a market-town; and has still fairs on the Tuesday before 14 Feb., the Tuesday before 13 May, 4 Sept., and the Tuesday before 22 Nov.

The parochial township is in Lythe parish; and contains the hamlets of Egton Bridge, Lumberhill, and Newbegin. Acres, 15, 146. Real property, £6, 831. Pop., 1, 115. Houses, 202. The property is divided among a few.

The vale of the Esk shows very beautiful scenery; other spots also are interesting; but much of the rest of the surface is moor. Grosmont priory, on a site near Grosmont bridge and Grosmont r. station, was founded about the year 1200, but has nearly disappeared. Ironstone, of a character interesting to geologists, is worked at Grosmont. Traces of an ancient British village occur on the edge of the moors, at Egton Grange.

The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good; consists of nave, south aisle, and chancel; and has circular arches along the division between the nave and the aisle, but a pointed arch between the nave and the chancel. There are chapels for Independents and Roman Catholics; and the R. Catholic one stands at Egton-Bridge, was built in 1867, and contains 650 sittings.

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