Bilton (near Wetherby), Yorkshire Family History Guide
Bilton (near Wetherby) is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Tockwith, Syningwate, and Bickerton.
Alternative names: Bilton in Ainsty with Bickerton
Parish church: St. Helen
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1571
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1626
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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Adjacent Parishes
- Hunsingore
- Wetherby
- Walton
- Whixley
- Thorp Arch
- Kirk Deighton
- Kirk Hammerton
- Wighill
- Cowthorpe
- Healaugh
- Long Marston
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BILTON, a township, a parish, and a subdistrict in the district of Tadcaster, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the York and High Harrogate railway, near Hammerton station, 5 miles ENE of Wetherby; and has a post office under York. Acres, 1,460. Real property, £2,606. Pop., 242. Houses, 44.
The parish includes also the townships of Bickerton and Tockwith. Acres, 4,150. Real property, £6,894. Pop., 926 Houses, 201. A Cistertian nunnery was founded here, at Symingthwaite, about 1,160, by Bertram de Haget.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York Value. £300. Patron, the Prebendary of Bilton. Tockwith was made a separate benefice in 1867.
There are two Wesleyan chapels and an endowed school.
The subdistrict comprises two parishes and two parts. Pop., 1,493.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BILTON (St. Helen), a parish, in the Ainsty wapentake, W. riding of York; containing 881 inhabitants, of whom 214 are in the township of Bilton, 9 miles (W. by S.) from York.
The parish includes the townships of Bickerton and Tockwith, and comprises by computation 4939 acres, of which 2167a. 1r. 38p. are in Bilton township; the soil is fertile, and well cultivated. The road from York to Wetherby runs through the parish.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the patronage of the Prebendary of Bilton in the Cathedral of York, valued in the king’s books at £3. 16. 0½., and with a net income of £131: allotments of land were assigned in lieu of tithes for the township in 1776.
At Syningthwaite, in the parish, Bertram Haget in 1160 founded a Cistercian nunnery for a prioress and twelve nuns, in honour of the Blessed Virgin. Upon its dissolution it had a revenue of £62. 6., and was granted to Sir Thomas Tempest; the estate is at present the property of the trustees of Lord Wharton’s Bible charity, and the remains of the nunnery, now a farmhouse, are surrounded by a moat inclosing 8 acres.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Tadcaster
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Bilton
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: City of York and Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Barwick Gilbert Union
- Hundred: York (Ansty)
- Province: York