Marton cum Moxby Yorkshire Family History Guide
Marton cum Moxby is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Throwthorpe and Moxby.
Alternative names: Marton, Marton in the Forest, Marton Lordship
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1539
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1601
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARTON-IN-THE-FOREST, a parish in Easingwold district, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Foss, and within the old forest of Gartree, 4½ miles WNW of Flaxton r. station, and 5 ESE of Easingwold.
It contains the hamlet of Moxby; and its Post town is Easingwold. Acres, 2,370. Real property, £3,396. Pop., 168. Houses, 29. The manor belongs to the Archbishop of York. An Augustinian priory was founded at Marton, in the time of King Stephen, by Bertram of Bulmer; and a nunnery was founded at Moxby by Henry II.
The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Farlington, in the diocese of York. The church is ancient.
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: Easingwold
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Bulmer
- Poor Law Union: Easingwold
- Hundred: Bulmer
- Province: York