Skelton, West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Skelton, a township and an ecclesiastical parish in Ripon parish, in the W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Ure, 2¼ miles WNW of Boroughbridge station on the N.E.R., with a post office under York; money order and telegraph office, Boroughbridge. Acreage, 926; population, 281; of the ecclesiastical parish, 384. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £260 with residence. The church is in the Early Geometric style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, and tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Ripon | |
Liberty | Ripon | |
Riding | West |
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 Skelton:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1574-1915 | 1653-1847 | 1568-1930 | 1568-1969 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Skelton from the following:
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 Skelton 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: