Askrigg Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Askrigg is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1739 from a chapelry in Aysgarth Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Wraxhall, Woodhall, Newbigging, Nappa, and Countersett.

Alternative names: Askrigg with Newbiggin, Nappa and Wraxhall, Aysgarth St Oswald

Riding: North Riding

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1701
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1624

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

Adjacent Parishes

Askrigg Parish Records

An index of parish records of people from Askrigg. The index includes information from Quarter Sessions Records Vol. IX Edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L. Published by The North Riding Record Society for the publication of original Documents relating to the North Riding of York. 1892.

Quarter Sessions Records

The records below have been extracted from the book Quarter Sessions Records Vol. IX Edited by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, D.C.L. Published by The North Riding Record Society for the publication of original Documents relating to the North Riding of York. 1892.

Presentments at Beedall, July 21, 1691. Tristram Blith, late of Starbotton, yeom., for buying and getting
into his hands twenty rough hides, value 6s. each, and selling them again without tanning them; Tho. Metcalfe and Alexander Blith, late of Askrig, yeomen, for the like.

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

ASKRIGG, a small town, a township, a chapelry, a subdistrict, and a district, N. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the left side of the river Ure, 6 miles E of Hawes, and 10½ W of Leyburn r. station; and has a post office under Bedale. It is a very ancient place; and was once much more prosperous than now. It resembles a mere village; but has a weekly market on Thursday, and fairs on 11 May, the first Thursday of June, 11 July, and 28 Oct. A moorish, upland country lies around it, and embosoms some striking scenery, with the fine waterfalls of Millgill, Whitfieldgill, and Hardraw forces.

The township includes also the hamlets of Newbigging, Nappa, and Wraxhall. Acres, 4,741. Real property, £4,357. Pop., 668. Houses, 157. The property is much subdivided. Lead ore occurs, and has been worked, but not very productively. Roman remains exist at Newbigging, Nappa, and Woodhall.

The chapelry includes the township, but is more extensive. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Aysgarth. The church is an ancient and interesting edifice, in good condition. There are Independent, Wesleyan, and Quaker chapels, an endowed school with £65 a year, and six alms-houses for widows with £60.

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

Historical Maps

Vision of Britain Historical Maps – includes topographic maps, boundary maps and land use maps

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Askrigg
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Catterick
  • Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
  • Rural Deanery: Catterick
  • Poor Law Union: Bainbridge Gilbert Union
  • Hundred: West Hang
  • Province: York