Burton Leonard, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Burton Leonard is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Helen
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1672
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1632
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BURTON-LEONARD, a parish in Ripon district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the Leeds and Northallerton railway, near Wormald Green station, 4 miles SSE of Ripon. It has a post office under Ripon.
Acres, 1,739. Real property, £2,405. Pop., 507. Houses, 121. The property is much subdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £140. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is tolerable; and there are two Methodist chapels, a n. school, and charities £31.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
BURTON-LEONARD (St. Helen), a parish, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Knaresborough; containing 455 inhabitants.
It comprises 1739a. 2r. 39p., of which 1100 acres are arable, and the remainder grassland; the soil is of an inferior kind, and the surface generally undulated: stone of excellent quality is burnt for lime. Many of the inhabitants were formerly employed in the flax and linen trade, but it has entirely ceased.
The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £3. 1. 0½.; net income, £140; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of York: a glebe-house was erected in 1839, and there are 45 acres of glebe. The church is a small plain structure, built in 1782.
There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Ripon
- Probate Court: Post-1835 – Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Boroughbridge, All years – Court of the Peculiar of the Honour of Knaresborough, Pre-1836 – Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Boroughbridge
- Poor Law Union: Great Ouseburn Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York