Gilling (near Richmond), Yorkshire Family History Guide
Gilling (near Richmond) is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: West Layton, Stapleton, Sedbury, Ovington, Ovingham, North Cowton, Newton Morrell, Newton Morrel, Little Hutton, Ledbury, Hartforth, Eppleby, Barton, and Barforth.
Alternative names: Gilling by Richmond, West Gilling
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1639
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1640
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GILLING, a village and a township in Richmond district, and a parish partly also in Northallerton and Darlington districts, N. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands on Gilling beck, 3 miles N by E of Richmond town and r. station; dates from Saxon times; and has a post office under Richmond, Yorkshire.
The township includes the village, and comprises 4, 440 acres. Real property, £7, 397. Pop., 899. Houses, 192.
The parish contains also the townships of Eryholme and North Cowton, and the chapelry of South Cowton. Acres, 10, 095. Real property, £13, 850. Pop., 1, 554. Houses, 3 41. The property, in the several townships, is divided among a few.
A castle, said to have been a seat of Saxon earls, stood on a hill nearly a mile south of the village; but has disappeared. Oswy, king of Deira, was murdered here by Oswin of Bernicia; and Queen Ethelfleda, in penance for the crime, built here a monastery, which was destroyed by the Danes. Gillingwood Hall here was a seat of the Whartons; was burnt in last century; and is now represented by a farm-house. Gilling beck is an affluent of the Swale; and has a south-eastward run of about 9 miles. Freestone, of good building quality, is quarried.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £1, 029. Patron, J. T. Wharton, Esq. The church has Norman features; contains a number of old monuments; and is good. The p. curacies of Eryholme, South Cowton, and Forcett-with-Hutton-Magna, are separate benefices. There is a Wesleyan chapel. Hartforth school has £125 from endowment; and other charities have £46.
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: Richmond (Yorkshire)
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Richmond
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Richmond
- Poor Law Union: Richmond
- Hundred: East Gilling; West Gilling
- Province: York