Long Preston Yorkshire Family History Guide

Long Preston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Wigglesworth, West Halton, Newton, Hellifield, and Deepdale Head.

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1563
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Particular Baptist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

PRESTON (Long), a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Settle district, W. R. Yorkshire.

The village stands on the river Ribble, and on the Leeds and Lancaster railway, 4 miles S by E of Settle; and has a station on the railway, a post-office under Leeds, and fairs on 1 March, 28 Feb., and 4 Sept.

The township comprises 3, 533 acres. Real property, £5, 364. Pop., 536. Houses, 156.

The parish contains also the townships of Wigglesworth, Hellifield, and West Halton, and comprises 13, 212 acres. Real property, £14, 338. Pop. in 1851, 1, 341; in 1861, 1, 206. Houses, 293. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to the Duke of Devonshire. Hellifield Peel is the seat of J. Hammerton, Esq.

The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £302. Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The church is old; was recently repaired; and consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with porch and low tower.

There are-chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, six church schools, a mechanics’ institute, ten alms-houses, and aggregate charities £206.

The sub-district contains also Tosside parish, and two townships of Gisburn. Acres, 14, 823. Pop., 1, 358. Houses, 319.

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

Parish Registers

Paver’s Marriage Licences

It would appear that a good many licences were never used. So genealogists should exercise a little care in their acceptance of the licenses.

1630 Francis Wilson and Catherine Bell, Long Preston—there. 

Source: The Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series Vol XL for the Year 1908; Edited by John WM. Clay, F.S.A., Vice-President of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society; Printed for the Society 1909.

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – Cemeteries ( 1 )
Long Preston, St. Mary the Virgin / transcribed by the following members of the Ribble Valley Branch of the Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society: Margaret Cartwright … [et al.] ; typed and indexed by Dorothy Farrow. Long Preston, Baptist Church
Author:    Cartwright, Margaret; Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society. Ribble Valley Branch; Hull, Norah; Hull, Roland

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – Census ( 2 )
Census returns for Long Preston, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

Census returns for West Halton, 1841-1891
Author:    Great Britain. Census Office

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – Church records ( 9 )
Births, 1814-1836
Author:    Baptist Church (Hellifield, Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Long Preston, 1600-1868
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Long Preston (Yorkshire)

Bishop’s transcripts for Settle, 1838-1868
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Settle (Yorkshire)

Church roll, 1849-1946
Author:    Baptist Church (Long Preston, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Hellifield, parish registers, 1914-1992
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Hellifield (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston, parish registers, 1563-1907
Author:    Church of England. Parish Church of Long Preston (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Rathmell, parish registers, 1856-1979
Author:    Church of England. Chapelry of Rathmell (Yorkshire); North Yorkshire County Record Office (Northallerton, Yorkshire)

Long Preston Baptist Church , 1834-1957, 1884-1957
Author:    Hull, Nora; Hull, Roland; Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society. Ribble Valley Branch

Long Preston Baptist Church burial register transcription, 1836-1985
Author:    Hull, Norah; Hull, Roland; Long Preston Baptist Church (Yorkshire)

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – Church records – Indexes ( 3 )
Computer printout of Hellifield and Long Preston, Baptist, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Long Preston, Yorks., Eng

Computer printout of Settle, Yorks., Eng

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – History ( 1 )
Halton West 2000
Author:    Cooper, Anne Ashley

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – Probate records – Indexes ( 1 )
Lancashire West Craven wills proved at York, 1688-1799
Author:    Stott, Brian

England, Yorkshire, Long Preston – Taxation ( 4 )
Land tax assessments for Hellifield township, 1781-1830
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Long Preston township, 1781-1828
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for West Halton township, 1781-1831
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Land tax assessments for Wigglesworth township, 1781-1827
Author:    Great Britain. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Yorkshire)

Administration

  • County:    Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District:    Settle
  • Probate Court:    Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese:    Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery:    Craven
  • Poor Law Union:    Settle
  • Hundred:    Staincliff and Ewcross
  • Province:    York