Kirk Fenton, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Kirk Fenton or Church Fenton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Little Fenton and Biggin.

Alternative names: Church Fenton

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1627
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1600

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Kirk Fenton Parish Records

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Biggin Council School (Parish Of Church Fenton) 1882-1912 Admissions

Parish History

Kirk Fenton

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales1870

CHURCH-FENTON, or Kirk-Fenton, a township and a parish in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Great Northern railway, near the river Wharfe, 5 miles SSE of Tadcaster; and has a station on the railway. Acres, 2, 160. Real property, £2, 823. Pop., 469. Houses, 102.

The parish contains also the townships of Little Fenton and Biggin. Post town, South Milford. Acres, 4, 410. Real property, £4, 589. Pop., 711. Houses, 150. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £125. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is cruciform, of various dates, from Norman downward; and was repaired in 1859.

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

Biggin

Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales 1850

Biggin, 1 mile E. Kirk-Fenton. P. 126

Source: Leonard’s Gazetteer of England and Wales; Second Edition; C. W. Leonard, London; 1850.

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Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Tadcaster
  • Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Prebend of Fenton
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: New Ainsty
  • Poor Law Union: Barwick Gilbert Union
  • Hundred: Barkstone Ash
  • Province: York