Hartwith cum Winsley Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Hartwith cum Winsley is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1752 from a chapelry in Kirkby Malzeard Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Winsley, Summersbridge, Summerbridge, Newhaiths, New Laiths, Brinham, Brimham, Braisty Woods, and Braisty Wood.

lternative names: Hartwith with Winsley, Hartwith

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1751
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1755

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

HARTWITH, a village and a parochial chapelry in Kirkby-Malzeard parish, W. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands on the river Nidd, adjacent to the Nidd Valley railway, near Daere-Banks r. station, 5 miles W of Ripley.

The chapelry contains also the hamlets of Brimham, Braisty-Woods, and Winsley; and bears the name of Hartwith-with-Winsley.  Post town, Ripley, under Leeds. Acres, 5, 470. Real property, £5, 651; of which £50 are in mines. Pop. in 1851, 1, 162; in 1861, 1, 227. Houses, 225. There are three chief landowners. Brimham Rocks, noticed in our article BRIMHAM, are very curious. Flax spinning is carried on.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patron, alternately the Rev. D. R. Roundell and S. Swire, Esq. The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1831.

There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a free school, and charities £20.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Hartwith – Census ( 1 )
Census returns for Hartwith with Winsley, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Hartwith – Church records ( 4 )
Bishop’s transcripts for Hartwith, 1869-1900
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Hartwith (Yorkshire)

Circuit baptismal register, 1848-1870
Author:    Yorkshire Circuit (Primitive Methodist)

England, Yorkshire, Hartwith, parish registers, 1751-1931
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Hartwith (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Parish register transcripts, 1751-1812
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Hartwith (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Hartwith – Church records – Indexes ( 1 )
Computer printout of Hartwith-cum-Winsley, Yorkshire, England

England, Yorkshire, Hartwith – Taxation ( 1 )
Land tax assessments for Hartwith-cum-Winsley township, 1781-1832
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Pateley Bridge
  • Probate Court:    Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Masham
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Catterick
  • Poor Law Union:    Pateley Bridge
  • Hundred:    Claro
  • Province:    York