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The Ancient Parish of PICKERING

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"PICKERING, a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; 8 miles from Kirkbymoorside; 9 from Malton; and 18 from Scarbro'. Market Monday, Fairs, Monday before February 14, Monday before May 13, September 25, Monday before November 23, for horned cattle horses, sheep, and pigs. Principal Inns, Black Swan, and White Swan." (There is further information for Pickering).

Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.

Blansby Park Goathland High Kingthorpe High Marishes

Hunt House Newton Dale Newton On Rawcliffe West Marishes

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
  • St Peter and St. Paul's Church, Pickering.
  • The Primitive Methodist Church, Pickering, founded in 1855.
  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Pickering.
  • The United Reformed Church, Pickering.
  • Pickering Carr Methodist Chapel, Pickering Carr.
  • St. John's Church, Newton Upon Rawcliffe.
  • The Methodist Church, Newton on Rawcliffe.
  • St. Mary's Church, Goathland.
  • The C of E Chapel at Low Marishes, Low Marishes.
• The following Churches have their own websites:
  • St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Pickering

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Goathland.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Pickering.
• A transcription of the List of Vicars in St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Pickering.

Description and Travel

• There are photographs of the Goathland area available for free download from the freefoto.com website.
• Goathland (on the Yorkshire tour.co.uk site)
• Goathland and North Yorks Moor Railway (on the Yorkshire tour.co.uk site)
• Pickering (on the Yorkshire tour.co.uk site)

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory of 1823.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1829.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Pigot's Directory of 1834.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in White's Directory of 1840.
• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Bulmers Directory of 1890.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1829 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from Pigot's 1834 Directory Yorkshire section.
• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.
• There is further information about this parish from Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.

History

• Between 1834 and 1890 the township of Goathland (in this parish) became a parish in its own right. See Goathland Parish.

Maps

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• For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
• For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
• Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
• View maps of Pickering and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the 1914 to 1918 War Memorial Plaque in St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Pickering.
• A transcription of the 1939 to 1945 War Memorial Plaque in St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Pickering.

Names (Geographical)

• The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
  • (SE805940) Raindale

Poorhouses and Poor Law Etc

• Carol Bartlett has transcribed the Pickering Union Workhouse Admission & Discharge Books and an index of names in the Minute Books of the Pickering Board of Guardians. There are a very large number of names in these, and they are split into sections of alphabetical surnames.

Societies

• This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
  • East Yorkshire FHS
  • The Ryedale Family History Group