Grosmont Yorkshire Family History Guide
Grosmont is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1850 from Lythe Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Gromond, Lythe St Matthew
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1850
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1850
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Land Common to Eskdaleside and Ugglebarnby
- Eskdaleside
- Whitby
- Lythe
- Egton
- Aislaby
- Goathland
- Ugglebarnby
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GROSMONT, or GROMOND, a hamlet in Lythe parish, and a chapelry in Lythe, Pickering, and Whitby parishes, N. R. Yorkshire.
The hamlet lies on the river Esk, and in the Malton and Whitby railway, 1½ mile SE of Egton, and 6¼ SW by W of Whitby; and has a station on the railway, and a post-office under York. A priory was founded here, in the time of King John; and was given, at the dissolution, to Edward Wright, Esq.; but no remains of it, of any mark, now exist.
The chapelry was constituted in 1852. Rated property, £3, 578. Pop., 841. Houses, 168. Pop. of the Lythe portion, 245; of the Whitby portion, 397. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was built in 1850.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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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: Langbaurgh
- Province: York