Melbecks Yorkshire Family History Guide
Melbecks is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Grinton Ancient Parish, located on Low Row.
Other places in the parish include: Wintering Garths, Winserings, Smarber, Poting and Winserings, Poting, Melbecks Moor, Low Row, Longrow, Long Row, Lodge Green, Kearton, Gunnerside, Feetham, Blaides, Barfend, and Barf End.
Alternative names: Grinton Holy Trinity, Low Row
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1842
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1842
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MELBECKS, a township and a chapelry in Grinton parish, N. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the river Swale, 2 miles E of Muker, and 12 NW by W of Leyburn r. station; and contains the hamlets of Blaides, Barfend, Feetham, Kearton, Lodge-Green, Longrow, Poting, Winserings, Wintering-Garths, Smarber, and Gunnerside, the last of which has a post office under Richmond, Yorkshire.
Acres, 10,106. Real property, £4,846; of which £106 are in mines. Pop., 1,622. Houses, 326. The property is much subdivided.
The chapelry is more extensive than the township, and was constituted in 1841. Pop., 2,173. Houses, 431. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Grinton. The church is modern.
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: Reeth
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Catterick
- Poor Law Union: Reeth
- Hundred: West Gilling
- Province: York