Leeming, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Leeming, a village and an ecclesiastical parish forming-part of the township and parish of Exelby, Leeming, and Newton, in the N.R. Yorkshire. The village stands on Ermine Street, here called Leeming Lane, 1 mile SSE of a station of the name of Leeming Lane on the Northallerton and Leyburn railway, and 2 miles NE by E of Bedale. It has a post office under Bedale; money order and telegraph office, Leeming Bar. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1880. Population, 528. The name Leeming signifies a stone-way, and alludes to the stone-paved Ermine Street. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; net value, £150. Patron, the Vicar of Burneston. The church is an edifice of red brick. There are Wesleyan and Primitive 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 | |
Civil parish | Burneston | |
Poor Law union | Bedale | |
Riding | North | |
Wapentake | Hallikeld |
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 Leeming:
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Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Leeming 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 Leeming 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: