Garsdale Yorkshire Family History Guide
Garsdale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1734 from a chapelry in Sedbergh Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Grizedale and Garsdale with Grizedale.
Alternative names:
Parish church: St. John the Baptist
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1693
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1694
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
GARSDALE, a township-chapelry and a sub-district in Sedbergh parish and district, W. R. Yorkshire. The chapelry lies on the Clough river, under Baugh fell, 4 miles NE of Dent, and 9 ESE of Sedbergh r. station; and includes the lordship of Grizedale. Post town, Dent, under Kendal.
Acres, 8, 280. Real property, £3, 203. Pop., 618. Houses, 137. The property is much subdivided. A great proportion of the surface is moor and mountain. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £77. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is modern. There are chapels for Quakers, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists.
The sub-district is conterminate with the chapelry.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
GARSDALE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Sedbergh, W. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York, 6 miles (E.) from Sedbergh; containing 681 inhabitants.
It comprises 8599 acres, of which only 20 are arable, and 200 woodland; about 5000 acres are mountain moor, rising on each side of the dale. Some coal-mines are in operation, employing about 40 hands; and there are quarries of marble, a grey fossil of superior quality, but not at present worked. The river Clough, which has its source on Baugh fell, runs through the valley, and falls into the Rothay or Rathay, a little above Sedbergh.
The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £4 yearly by Edward VI. in 1552, and in the patronage of the Crown, with a present net income of £77: the tithes have been commuted for £51. 19. 6. payable to Trinity College, Cambridge, and £6. 19. 9. to the vicar, who has a glebe of 16 acres. The chapel, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a small ancient building.
There are places of worship for Independents, Methodists, and the Society of Friends; and a school partly supported by an endowment of £9 per annum. A former monastic cell, belonging to Coverham Abbey, near Middleham, is now a farmhouse. On a hill which separates Dent from Garsdale, is a fine chalybeate spring.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Sedbergh
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Western Deaneries – Lonsdale
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Clapham
- Poor Law Union: Sedbergh
- Hundred: Staincliff and Ewcross
- Province: York