Pool, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Pool is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1749 from Otley Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Otley St Wilfrid, Pool in Wharfedale, Poole
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1787
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
POOLE, a chapelry, in the parish of Otley, Upper division of the wapentake of Skyrack, W. riding of York, 2½ miles (E.) from Otley; containing 363 inhabitants.
It comprises about 810 acres; the soil is fertile, and the prevailing scenery of pleasing character. Here are some quarries of good building-stone.
The village is situated on the south bank of the river Wharfe, over which is a bridge; it has a corn-mill, two papermills, and a scribbling and fulling mill.
The chapel, rebuilt in 1840, is a neat structure with a campanile turret, and contains 200 sittings, of which 80 are free; the living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £59; patron, the Vicar of Otley; impropriators, Mr. Fawkes and others.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Otley
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Carlton Gilbert Union
- Hundred: Skyrack
- Province: York