Leeming Yorkshire Family History Guide
Leeming is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1755 from Burneston Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Leeming Lane, Newton, and Exelby.
Alternative names: Burneston St John the Baptist
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1823
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1823
Nonconformists include: Â Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
LEEMING, a hamlet and a chapelry in Burneston parish, N. R. Yorkshire.
The hamlet lies on Erminestreet, here called Leeming Lane, 1 mile SSE of a station of the name of Leeming-Lane on the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, and 2 miles NE by E of Bedale.
The chapelry is conterminate with the township of Exelby, Leeming, and Newton. Post town, Bedale. Acres, 2, 331. Pop., 780. Houses, 179.
The name Leeming signifies a stone way, and alludes to the stone paved Ermine street.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £130. Patron, the Vicar of Burneston. The church is an edifice of red brick.
There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school.
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: Bedale
- 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: Bedale
- Hundred: Hallikeld
- Province: York