Allerton Mauleverer, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Allerton-Mauleverer, a township, a parish, and a small village in the W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the Nidd, 1 mile from Allerton railway station, and 4½ miles ENE of Knaresborough. The parish includes the townships of Clareton and Hopperton. Post town, Knaresborough, which is the money order office. Area of the parish, 2281 acres; population, 222. The property is all in one estate. It belonged anciently to the family of Mauleverer, passed to Lord Galloway, and was sold, since 1785, successively to the Duke of York, Colonel Thornton, and Lord Stourton. The mansion on it, the seat of Lord Mowbray and Stourton, is a superb structure, and was called for some time Thornville-Royal, then Allerton Hall, and now Stourton Castle. Claro Hill, on the estate, is a remarkable eminence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; value, £60. Patron, Lord Mowbray and Stourton. the church is an old cruciform building in the Norman style. The Roman Catholics have a chapel, a school, and a cemetery. An alien Benedictine priory was founded here in the time of Henry II., and given by Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge.
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 | Allerton-Mauleverer St. Martin | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Claro |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Allerton Mauleverer Parish Registers (Christenings, Marriages, Burials), 1557-1812 (£)
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Allerton Mauleverer:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1562-1913 | 1755-1921 | 1557-1930 | 1564-1966 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Allerton Mauleverer from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Allerton-Mauleverer (St. Martin))
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 Allerton Mauleverer 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: