Fylingdales Yorkshire Family History Guide
Fylingdales is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1786 from a chapelry in Whitby Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Park Gate, Normanby, Fylingthorpe, Fylingdales Moor, Bay Ness, Stow Brow, Stoupe Brow, Rowe, Robin Hood’s Bay, Ramsdale, and Parkgate.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Stephen
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1653
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FYLINGDALES, a parish in Whitby district, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 4½ miles SSE of Whitby town and r. station.
It contains the village of Robin Hood’s Bay, which has a post office under Whitby; also the hamlets of Fylingthorpe, Normanby, Ramsdale, Rowe, Parkgate, Stow-Brow, Bay-Ness, and Stoupe-Brow. Acres, 18, 458; of which 521 are water. Real property, £7, 869. Pop., 1, 721. Houses, 412. The property is much subdivided.
Alum works were here, but were stopped, prior to 1851. Much fishing is carried on. Hubba the Dane, in 867, planted his standard, bearing the raven, on a hill in this parish, hence called to this day Raven hill.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Arch-bishop of York. The church is very good; and there are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £16.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
FYLINGDALES (St. Stephen), a parish, in the union of Whitby, liberty of Whitby-Strand, N. riding of York, 4½ miles (S. E. by S.) from Whitby; containing 1611 inhabitants.
This parish takes its name from two beautiful vales, called respectively North and South Fyling dales, and intersecting the moorlands, of which the remainder of the parish principally consists. The river Derwent has its source in several springs that rise in the moors. The rocks upon the sea-coast abound with ironstone; and mines have been opened, from which materials are extracted for the making of Roman cement. The South dale contains alum, of which extensive works have been established; those called the Stoupe Brow have been discontinued, but those in the further extremity of the dale are still in operation.
The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £120; patron and appropriator, the Archbishop of York. The church was repaired and enlarged some years since.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Whitby
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Cleveland
- Poor Law Union: Whitby
- Hundred: Whitby Strand
- Province: York