Nun Monkton Yorkshire Family History Guide
Nun Monkton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1708
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1637
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MONKTON-NUN, a village and a parish in Great Ouseburn district, W. R. Yorkshire.
The village stands at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Nidd, near the Great North of England railway, 3 miles N by W of Marston r. station, and 7 NW of York; is a pleasant place; and has a post office under York.
The parish comprises 1,692 acres. Real property, £2,840. Pop., 323. Houses, 85. The manor, with a seat called the Priory, belongs to Isaac Crawhall, Esq. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here, in the time of Stephen, by William de Arches.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £100. Patron, I. Crawhall, Esq. The church belonged to the nunnery; retains a very fine Norman W door-way; and has a bell-turret.
There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £36 a year, and charities £10.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Knaresborough
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Boroughbridge
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Boroughbridge
- Poor Law Union: Great Ouseburn Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York