Lockton, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Lockton, a village, a township, and a chapelry in Middleton parish, in the N.R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles SE of Levisham railway station, and 5 NE by N of Pickering, and has a post office under Pickering; money order and telegraph office, Pickering. Acreage of township, 7423; population, 352. Much of the land is moor. The living is annexed to the vicarage of Middleton in the diocese of York. The church is a small building in the Early English style. There are also 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 | Middleton | |
Riding | North |
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 Lockton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1689-1914 | 1757-1930 | 1710-1930 | 1713-1950 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lockton 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 Lockton 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: