Hunton Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Hunton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1794 from Hornby Ancient Parish and Patrick Brompton Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Brompton Patrick St John

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Plymouth Brethren and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HUNTON, a village and a township chapelry in Patrick-Brompton parish, N. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands 2¼ miles N of Finghall-Lane r. station, and 6 NW by W of Bedale; and has a post office under Catterick.

The chapelry comprises 1,830 acres. Real property, £4,769. Pop., 524. Houses, 120. The manor belongs to T. Hutton, Esq.

The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Patrick-Brompton, in the diocese of Ripon. The church was rebuilt in 1794.

There is a Wesleyan chapel.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

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

England, Yorkshire, Hunton – Church history ( 1 )
Hunton Methodist Chapel, Richmond Circuit, 1829-1979

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Leyburn
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Catterick
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Catterick
  • Poor Law Union:    Leyburn
  • Hundred:    West Hang
  • Province:    York