High Worsall Yorkshire Family History Guide

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High Worsall is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1719 from a chapelry in Northallerton Ancient Parish.

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1720
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1729

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

Adjacent Parishes

High Worsall Parish Registers

Bishops Transcripts

Explore the Bishops’ Transcripts for the Diocese of Durham (1639–1919) – This collection offers parish register copies submitted annually to the Bishop, covering baptisms, marriages, and burials across Durham, Northumberland, and parts of Yorkshire and Cumberland. Ideal for tracing ancestors when original registers are missing or incomplete.

High Worsall Bishops Transcripts 1729-1808

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

WORSALL (High), a chapelry in Northallerton parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Tees, 3 miles SW of Yarm r. station. Post town, Yarm. Acres, 1,511. Real property, £1,193. Pop., 109. Houses, 23. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £80. Patron, the Vicar of Northallerton.

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

Maps

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

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Stockton
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Bishop of Durham and the Dean and Chapter in Allerton and Allertonshire
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Cleveland
  • Poor Law Union: Stockton
  • Hundred: Allertonshire
  • Province: York