North Otterington with Thornton le Moor and Thornton le Beans Yorkshire Family History Guide

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North Otterington with Thornton le Moor and Thornton le Beans is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Other places in the parish include: Thornton le Moor, Thornton le Beans, and Crosby Cote.

Alternative names: North Otterington

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1589
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1661

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.

Adjacent Parishes

North Otterington 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.

North Otterington Bishops Transcripts 1661-1812

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

OTTERINGTON (North), a township in Northallerton district, and a parish partly also in Thirsk district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Wiske, and on the Leeds and Northallerton railway, near its junction with the main line of the North eastern, 3 miles S of Northallerton. Acres, 782. Real property, £1, 400. Pop., 66. Houses, 11.

The parish contains also the townships of Thornton-le-Beans and Thornton-le-Moor; and its post town is Northallerton. Acres, 3, 625. Real property, £5, 821. Pop., 630. Houses, 139. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £180. Patron, Christ Church, Oxford. The church was rebuilt in 1868, and is in the early English style. Charities, £4.

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: 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