Collingham, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Collingham is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Mickelthwaite Grange, Micklethwaite, and Beilby Grange.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. Oswald
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1579
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
COLLINGHAM, a parish in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wharfe, near the Harrogate railway, 2 miles SW of Wetherby. Post town, Wetherby, under Tadcaster.
Acres, 2, 553. Real property, £2, 005. Pop., 309. Houses, 71. The property is divided among a few.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £414. Patron, the Rev.Wheler. The church is old but good; and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
A school has £27 from endowment; and other 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
COLLINGHAM (St. Oswald), a parish, in the Lower division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 1½ mile (S. S. W.) from Wetherby; containing 324 inhabitants.
The parish is bounded on the north by the river Wharfe, and contains some beautiful scenery; it comprises about 2500 acres, of which 150 acres are woodland, and about two-thirds of the remainder arable. Sandstone of excellent quality is found in abundance.
Beilby-Grange, in Micklethwaite, the seat of Alexander Browne, Esq., was purchased from Lord Wenlock in 1841; the noble mansion is surrounded by an extensive park, and the present owner has added much to its beauty.
The living is a discharged vicarage, endowed with the rectorial tithes, valued in the king’s books at £3. 11. 5½., and in the gift of Mrs. Wheler, with a net income of £414: the vicarage-house is picturesquely situated. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1814.
A school was founded in 1738, and is endowed with £34 per annum, from funds arising from a bequest by Lady Elizabeth Hastings.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Tadcaster
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Skyrack
- Province: York