Wensley Yorkshire Family History Guide
Wensley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire.
Other places in the parish include: Preston under Soar, Preston under Scar, Preston, and Leyburn.
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1538
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1637
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Society of Friends/Quaker, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Adjacent Parishes
Wensley Parish Registers
Yorkshire Wensley Parish Register, 1538-1700
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
WENSLEY, a village, a township, and a parish, in Leyburn district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Ure, 1½ mile SW of Leyburn r. station; gives the name of Wensleydale to the Ure’s valley from its head down to Jervaux abbey; is a pretty place; and has a post-office under Bedale, and a three-arched bridge. The township comprises 1,968 acres. Real property, £2,895. Pop., 318. Houses, 61.
The parish includes Leyburn, Preston-under-Scar, Redmire, and Castle-Bolton townships; and comprises 14,281 acres. Pop. in 1851, 2,105; in 1861, 2,337. Houses, 449. The manor belongs to Lord Bolton. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £1,337. Patron, Lord Bolton. The church is of different periods, and handsome. The p. curacy of Castle-Bolton-with-Redmire is a separate benefice. There are an Independent chapel of 1865, Wesleyan chapels, national schools, and charities £70.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Leyburn
- Probate Court: Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Commissary of the Archdeaconry of Richmond Eastern Deaneries – Catterick
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Catterick
- Poor Law Union: Leyburn
- Hundred: West Hang
- Province: York