Wistow Yorkshire Family History Guide
Wistow is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1590
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1635
Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WISTOW, a parish, with a village, in Selby district, W. R. Yorkshire; 3 miles NW by N of Selby r. station. It has a post-office under Selby.
Acres, 3,870. Real property, £7,327. Pop., 849. Houses, 185. The property is subdivided.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is ancient but good.
There are a Wesleyan chapel, a free school, and charities £30.
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: Selby
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Wistow
- Diocese: York
- Rural Deanery: City of York and Ainsty
- Poor Law Union: Selby
- Hundred: Barkstone Ash
- Province: York