Kettlewell with Starbotton Yorkshire Family History Guide

Kettlewell is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Starbotton, Starbottom, and Scale Park.

Alternative names: Kettlewell with Starbotton

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Parish registers: 1698
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.

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Adjacent Parishes

Kettlewell with Starbotton Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Kettlewell with Starbotton. The index includes information from Quarter Sessions Records Vol. IX Edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L. Published by The North Riding Record Society for the publication of original Documents relating to the North Riding of York. 1892.

Quarter Sessions Records

The records below have been extracted from the book Quarter Sessions Records Vol. IX Edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L. Published by The North Riding Record Society for the publication of original Documents relating to the North Riding of York. 1892.

Presentments at Beedall, July 21, 1691. Tristram Blith, late of Starbotton, yeom., for buying and getting
into his hands twenty rough hides, value 6s. each, and selling them again without tanning them.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

KETTLEWELL, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in Skipton district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands between the mountains Whernside and Hardflask, near the river Wharfe, 13 miles NE of Settle r. station and 14 N of Skipton; was nearly inundated by rain floods in 1686; and has a post office under Skipton, two inns, a church, a Wesleyan chapel, a mechanics’ institute, an endowed school, a weekly corn market on Thursday, and cattle fairs on 6 July, 2 Sept., and 23 Oct.

The church was rebuilt in 1820; comprises nave, aisle, transept, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains several mural monuments, and a font of 1100. The township comprises 5,507 acres. Pop., 485. Houses, 116.

The parish includes also the township of Starbottom, and comprises 8,455 acres. Real property, £4,349. Pop., 646. Houses, 154. The property is much subdivided. The land is chiefly moor and upland pasture; and it exhibits much interesting mountain landscape. There are lead mines; and more of them were worked formerly than now. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £120. Patron, R. Foster, Esq.

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