Cold Coniston, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Coniston is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1840 from Gargrave Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Bell Busk.
Alternative names:
- Gargrave St Peter
- Cold Coniston
- Cold Coniston with Bell Busk
- Coniston Cold
Parish church: St. Peter
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1846
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
CONISTON-COLD, a township in Gargrave parish, and a chapelry in Gargrave and Kirkby-in-Malhamdale parishes, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township lies on the river Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool canal, and the Bradford, Skipton, and Colne railway, 2 miles WNW of Gargrave r. station, and 6 WNW of Skipton. It includes the hamlet of Bell-Busk; and has a post office under Skipton. Acres, 1, 282. Real property, £1, 768. Pop., 238. Houses, 47.
The chapelry was constituted in 1847. Rated property, £1, 832. Pop., 265. Houses, 51. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Ripon. Value, £90. Patron, P. Garforth, Esq. The church is modern; and there are charities £22.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
CONISTON, COLD, a township, in the parish of Gargrave, union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 7 miles (W. N. W.) from Skipton; containing 242 inhabitants.
This place was distinguished during the Border warfare for the intrepid conduct of its inhabitants, who in an attempt to resist the progress of an army of Scottish invaders at a spot called Sweep Gap, on the northern side of Coniston Moor, were nearly all killed.
The township comprises by computation 1710 acres, chiefly moorland affording excellent pasture; the village is situated on the road to Settle, and the surrounding scenery is pleasingly diversified.
Here is a church dedicated to St. Peter, the living of which is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of J. G. Garforth, Esq.: a consolidated chapelry is annexed, comprising part of the parishes of Gargrave and Kirkby-Malhamdale.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Skipton
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Craven
- Poor Law Union: Skipton
- Hundred: Staincliff and Ewcross
- Province: York