Wilton (near Pickering) Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Wilton (near Pickering) was a chapelry of Pickering Ancient Parish in Yorkshire and ecclesiastically united with Ellerburne chapelry in 1252 creating Ellerburne with Wilton, Wilton thereafter considered a chapelry of Ellerburne. The Civil Parish of Wilton was created in 1866.

Alternative names: Wilton juxta Ellerburne

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

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

Nonconformists include: 

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WILTON, a chapelry in Ellerburn parish, N. R. Yorkshire; 3½ miles E by S of Pickering r. station. Post town, Pickering. Acres, 2,060. Real property, £1,933. Pop., 181. Houses, 35. The manor belongs to the Rev. J. R. Hill. The living is annexed to Ellerburn. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.

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

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Wilton (near Pickering) – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Allerston, Wilton & Yedingham monumental inscriptions
Author:    East Yorkshire Family History Society. Scarborough Branch

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

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Pickering
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Dean of York
  • Diocese:    York
  • Rural Deanery:    Riddal
  • Poor Law Union:    Pickering
  • Hundred:    Pickering Lythe
  • Province:    York