Pockley, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Pockley is a chapelry of Helmsley with Sproxton, Rievaulx and Carlton Ancient Parish in Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Eastmoors and East Moors.
Alternative names: Helmsley St John the Baptist, Pockley cum Eastmoors
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
POCKLEY, a township-chapelry in Helmsley parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on a branch of the river Rye, 1½ mile N E of Helmsley, and 6 N by E of Gilling r. station. Post-town, Helmsley, under York. Acres, 2, 392. Real property, £1, 327. Pop., 199. Houses, 41. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Helmsley, in the diocese of York. The church is modern.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
POCKLEY, a township, in the parish and union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 2¼ miles (N. E. by E.) from Helmsley; containing 210 inhabitants. It comprises by computation 3560 acres, including part of East-moor: the village is seated a little eastward of the Rical rivulet. A neat chapel of ease was erected in 1822, by C. Duncombe, Esq., afterwards Lord Feversham.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Helmsley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: Riddal
- Poor Law Union: Helmsley
- Hundred: Ryedale
- Province: York