Ramsgill, Yorkshire Family History Guide
Ramsgill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1844 from Middlesmoor Ecclesiastical Parish.
Alternative names: Middlesmoor St Mary, Ramsgill in Stonebeck-Down
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1847
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1847
Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RAMSGILL, a village and a chapelry in Kirkby-Malzeard parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Nidd, 5 miles N W by N of Pateley-Bridge r.station; was the birth-place of Eugene Aram; and is picturesque.
The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Pateley-Bridge, under Leeds. Pop., 523. Houses, 106. Gowthwaite Hall is a chief residence. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £140. Patron, the Vicar of Masham. The church was built in 1842, is in the pointed style, and has a tower.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
STONEBECK, DOWN, a township, in the chapelry of Middlesmoor, parish of Kirkby-Malzeard, union of Pateley-Bridge, Lower division of the wapentake of Claro, W. riding of York, 14 miles (W. by S.) from Ripon; containing 429 inhabitants.
It is situated on the southern side of the valley of the river Nidd, and comprises 14,710 acres, of which 8650 are common or moor-land, 5592 meadow and pasture, 286 arable, and 182 wood. A valuable lead-mine is wrought, and the substratum of the township contains much ironstone, but it is not worked: there is also a quarry of marble.
John Yorke, Esq., is lord of the manor; and in the centre of the township is Gowthwaite Hall, the ancient residence of his family, presenting a venerable appearance, and now inhabited by three families who hold farms under Mr. Yorke. The impropriate tithes have been commuted for £54, and the vicarial for £44.
A neat district church was built at Ramsgill in 1842, near the site of an old chapel, of which the east end is preserved; the cost of its erection, £686, was raised by subscription, as was also a fund of £790 for endowment and repairs. The living is in the gift of the Vicar of Kirkby-Malzeard. Gowthwaite Hall was the birthplace of William Craven, D.D., master of St. John’s College, Cambridge, an eminent scholar and divine, who died in 1815, aged 84.
At Ramsgill was born Eugene Aram, executed at York, in 1757, for the murder of Daniel Clarke.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Pateley Bridge
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Catterick
- Poor Law Union: Ripon
- Hundred: Claro
- Province: York