Weston Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Weston is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Upper Snowden, Lower Snowden, Asquith, Askwith with Upper and Lower Snowden, and Askwith.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1672
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1604

Nonconformists include: Society of Friends/Quaker and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Weston Parish Registers

Yorkshire Weston Parish Register, 1639-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WESTON, a township and a parish in Otley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Wharfe, 2 miles WNW of Otley r. station. Acres, 1,372. Real property, £1,940. Pop., 112. Houses, 19. The parish includes Askwith township, and comprises 4,552 acres. Post town, Otley. Pop., 450. Houses, 95. The manor is divided among three; and W. Hall is the seat of Dawson, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £104. Patron, W. V. Carter, Esq. The church is Norman and early English.

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

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: Wharfedale
  • Hundred: Claro
  • Province: York