Bilsdale, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Bilsdale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1745 from Helmsley with Sproxton, Rievaulx and Carlton Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Chopgate, Chapgate, Chapelgate, Chapel Yate, Bilsdale West, Bilsdale Low Midcable, West Side, Bilsdale High, Bilsdale East-side, Crossett, Raisdale, Urra, and Bilsdale High-West-side.

Alternative names: Bilsdale Kirkham, Bilsdale Midcable, Bilsdale Priory

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1590
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1609

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

Adjacent Parishes

Parish Records

School Records

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Bilsdale – The School At Chop Gate 1877-1907 Admissions

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

BILSDALE-MIDCABLE, a chapelry, in the parish and union of Helmsley, wapentake of Ryedale, N. riding of York, 7 miles (N. N. W.) from Helmsley; containing, with Bilsdale-Kirkham, 738 inhabitants.

This place is on the east side of Ryedale, and includes the hamlets of Crosett and Chapel-Yate; it comprises by computation 8380 acres, of which a large portion is high moorland. The chapel, built about 20 years since, and dedicated to St. Hilda, is a neat structure with a square tower: the living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Vicar of Helmsley, and has a net income of £91.

There is a place of worship for the Society of Friends. Upon Studfast hill, in this district, the site of a Druids’ temple was discovered in 1824.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Helmsley
  • Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Riddal
  • Poor Law Union: Helmsley
  • Hundred: Ryedale
  • Province: York