Burythorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Burythorpe, a village, a township, and a parish in E.R. Yorkshire, near the river Derwent, 3½ miles E by S of Kirkham railway station, and 4 S of New Malton. The township includes the hamlet of Thornthorpe, and has a post office under York; money order office, Leavening; telegraph office, Kirkham Abbey. Acreage, 1250; population, 227. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York; gross value, £267 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church isa handsome edifice in the Early English style,and contains an ancient Norman font, which belonged to a previous church. There are also Wesleyan and United Free Methodist chapels.
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 | Burythorp All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Malton | |
Riding | East | |
Wapentake | Buckrose |
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 Burythorpe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1721-1900 | 1755-1891 | 1720-1901 | 1720-1901 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Burythorpe from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Burythorp (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the East Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Burythorpe 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 East Riding newspapers online: