Rillington, Yorkshire Family History Guide

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Rillington is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.

Parish church: St. Andrew

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1638
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1626

Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist.

Adjacent Parishes

Rillington Parish Registers

Yorkshire Rillington Parish Register, 1638-1812

Parish History

A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848

RILLINGTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Malton, wapentake of Buckrose, E. riding of York; containing, with the chapelry of Scampston, 1051 inhabitants, of whom 800 are in Rillington township, 5 miles (E. N. E.) from Malton. The parish is bounded on the north by the navigable river Derwent, and comprises by admeasurement 4842 acres, of which 2460 are in the township of Rillington; of the latter, more than three-fourths are arable, and the rest pasture. The soil is generally light.

The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king’s books at £8. 14. 9½., and in the patronage of the Crown; net income, £105; impropriator, Dr. Simpson. The church, rebuilt in 1825, is a neat structure in the later English style, with a square embattled tower, and comprises 250 sittings. At the village of Scampston is a chapel. There are places of worship for Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Wesleyans.

Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848

Administration

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