Goldsborough, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Goldsborough, a village, a township, and a parish in W.R. Yorkshire. The township lies adjacent to the York and Harrogate railway, near the river Nidd, 2¾ miles E by S of Knaresborough, and has a station on the railway, and a post and telegraph office under Knaresborough; money order office, Knaresborough. The parish includes also the townships of Flashy and Coneythorpe. Acreage, 1785; population of the civil parish, 225; of the ecclesiastical, 373. Goldsborough Hall, an edifice of the time of James I., with spacious courtyard, is the seat of the Earl of Harewood, the lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ripon. Patron, the Earl of Harewood. The church is ancient, has a square tower, shows some interesting architectural details, contains effigies of two Knights Templars, and was restored in 1859.
Church Records
Findmypast, in conjunction with various Archives, Local Studies, and Family History Societies have the following parish records online for Goldsborough:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1707-1880 | 1708-1930 | 1707-1965 |
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
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 Goldsborough 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: