Bellerby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Bellerby, a township, a parish, and a village in the N.R. Yorkshire, 1½ mile N of Leyburn railway station, with a post office under Leyburn (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3063; population, 314. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £96. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Spennithorn | |
Poor Law union | Leyburn | |
Riding | North | |
Wapentake | Hang-West |
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 Bellerby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1847-1876 |
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 Bellerby from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the North Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bellerby 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 North Riding newspapers online: