Whenby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Whenby, a village and a parish in N.R. Yorkshire, 5 miles from Flaxton station on the N.E.R. and 13 from York. Post town, York; money order office, Sheriff Hutton; telegraph office, Flaxton. Acreage, 1042; population, 97. The manor belongs to the Fitzwilliam family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £100 with residence. The church is an ancient building in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, and western tower, and was restored in 1871.
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 | Whenby St. Martin | |
Poor Law union | Easingwould | |
Riding | North | |
Wapentake | Bulmer |
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 Whenby:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1568-1914 | 1824-1901 | 1556-1929 | 1557-1812 |
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 Whenby from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whenby (St. Martin))
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 Whenby 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: