Leake Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Leake is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Little Leake, Landmoth with Catto, Landmoth cum Catto, Knayton with Brawith, Kepwick, Gueldable, Geldable, Crosby, Borrowby near Thirsk, and Borrowby.

Alternative names: Leake with Nether Silton

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1570
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1661

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

Adjacent Parishes

Leake 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.

Leake Bishops Transcripts 1661-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

LEAKE, a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies 4½ miles NE of Otterington r. station, and 5½ SE of Northallerton; and anciently contained a flourishing town, which was destroyed about the time of the Conquest. Acres, 210. Real property, £655. Pop., 17. House, 1.

The parish contains also the township of Borrowby, which has a post office under Thirsk; and contains likewise the chapelry of Nether Silton, and the townships of Gueldable, Crosby, Landmoth-with-Catto, and Knayton-with-Brawith. Acres, 7, 520. Real property, £9, 968. Pop., 1, 092. Houses, 261. The property is divided among a few. An ancient mansion, the quondam seat of the Danby family, is now a farm-house.

The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Nether Silton, in the diocese of York. Value, £310. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower. Several stone coffins, supposed to have been Saxon or Danish, have been exhumed in the churchyard. Charities, £15.

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

Administration

  • County: Yorkshire
  • Civil Registration District: Northallerton
  • Probate Court: Pre-1836 – Court of the Peculiar of the Bishop of Durham and the Dean and Chapter of Allerton and Allertonshire, Post-1835 – Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
  • Diocese: York
  • Rural Deanery: Cleveland
  • Poor Law Union: Northallerton
  • Hundred: Allertonshire; Birdforth
  • Province: York