Rathmel in Craven Yorkshire Family History Guide
Rathmel in Craven is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1841 from Giggleswick Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Giggleswick Holy Trinity, Rathmell
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1842
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843
Nonconformists include: Presbyterian and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RATHMELL, a township, with a village, in Gigggleswick parish, and a chapelry partly also in Long Preston parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Ribble, 2¼ miles S of Settle r. station. Acres, 3, 382. Real property, £2, 990. Pop., 304. Houses, 55. The property is divided chiefly among three. The chapelry was constituted in 1844; and its post town is Settle. Pop., 342. Houses, 63. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £101. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is modern, in the pointed style; and has a low tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.
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: 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