Fishlake, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Fishlake, a village, a township, and a parish in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Don, 1 mile ENE of Stainforth station on the M.S. & L.R, and includes the villages of Fosterhouses and Hay Green. It has a post office under Doncaster; money order and telegraph office, Thorne. Acreage, 3329; population, 450. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £270 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is old and interesting, with Norman porch and battlemented tower. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. An endowed school has £60, and other charities £87 yearly.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Fishlake St. Cuthbert | |
Poor Law union | Thorne | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Strafforth and Tickhill |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Fishlake:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1561-1921 | 1655-1891 | 1561-1930 | 1561-1989 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Fishlake from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fishlake (St. Cuthbert))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Fishlake are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: