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The Ancient Parish of KIRKBY MALZEARD

[Transcribed information from the early 1820s]

"KIRKBY MALZEARD, a parish-town, in the lower division of Claro, liberty of St. Peter; (Mowbray House, the seat of Tomyns Dickins, Esq.) 4 miles S. of Masham, 7 from Ripon, 10 from Pateley Bridge, 30 from York. Market, Wednesday. Fairs, Whitsun Monday, and October 2, for cattle, sheep, &c. Pop. 682. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of Catterick, diocese of Chester, value, with Masham, £301. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. It possess a peculiar exempt jurisdiction, formerly annexed to the Prebend of Masham, in the Cathedral of York, now exercised by a Commissary, appointed by Trinity College, Cambridge. The present Vicar is the Commissary." (There is further information for Kirkby Malzeard).

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

Angram Armathwaite Ashfold Side Azerley Beck Meeting Beckmeeting Biggin Bouthwaite Braithwaite Hall Brimham Brimham Crags Burnt Yates Calshaw Carlesmoor Colt Houses Covill Houses Dallow Hall Dallowgill Dowgill Hall Edgenook Fountains Earth

Galphay Gouthwaite Hall Goyden Pot Hole Graygarth Grewelthorpe Hackfall Hartwith Heathen Carr Heathfield High Dalla Holme House Kexmoor Laverton Limley Lodge Lofthouse Longside Low Laithe Mickley Middlesmoor Moss Wood Houses New Bridge

New Houses North Side Head Puddle Hole Ramsgill Redmires Regill Houses Ringbeck Sigsworth Spring House Stean Stonebeck Studfold Summerbridge Swetton Sykes Thwaite House Troop Warren Lane West Houses Westfield Winsley

Churches

• Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
  • St. Andrew's Church, Kirkby Malzeard.
  • The Methodist Church (1880), Kirkby Malzeard (built in 1880 as an Ebenezer Chapel).
  • St. Jude's Church, Hartwith.
  • St. James' Church, Grewelthorpe.
  • The Methodist Church, Grewelthorpe.
  • St. Peter's Church, Dallowgill.
  • The Methodist Chapel, Dallowgill.
  • The ex-Methodist Chapel, Galphay (now a house).
  • The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Mickley (view 1).
  • The Church of St. John the Evangelist, Mickley (view 2).
  • St. Andrew's Church, Burnt Yates (view 1).
  • St. Andrew's Church, Burnt Yates (view 2).
  • The Methodist Church, Summerbridge.
  • The ex-Bethel Wesleyan Chapel, Bouthwaite, built in 1890.
  • The ex-Wesleyan Chapel, Heathfield. Ceased to be used as a chapel in 1970.
  • St. Chad's Church, Middlesmoor.
  • St. Chad's Church, Middlesmoor, as seen on the approach to the village.
  • The Wesleyan Chapel, Middlesmoor.
  • St. Mary's Church, Ramsgill. It's not possible to take a good photograph of this church due to the Yew trees which are probably attacking the foundations of this beautiful building.
  • St. Mary's Church, Ramsgill (view 2).
  • The ex-Methodist Chapel, Laverton. This chapel was built circa 1895, and closed 20th January 2002.
  • The ex-Methodist Chapel, Laverton.
  • The Methodist Chapel, Lofthouse, formerly Wesleyan, opened October 18, 1882.
  • The Cemetery Chapel, Hogerston Hill.

Church Records

• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Hartwith.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Kirkby Malzeard.
• The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Middlesmoor.
• A transcription of the List of Vicars of St. James's Church, Grewelthorpe.

Community Websites

• Kirkby Malzeard village
• Grewelthorpe village

Description and Travel

• Kirkby Malzeard including Laverton and Dallowgill.
• Here is a photograph of The view from Middlesmoor, looking down Nidderdale.

Directories

• Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in Baines's Directory and Gazetteer Directory of 1822.

Gazetteers

• There is further information about this parish from National Gazetteer 1868 Yorkshire extracts.

Genealogy

• A combination of information and requests for information is to be found in the Family History pages of the Grewelthorpe website.

History

• A history of Kirkby Malzeard village, complete with old Postcards etc.
• Many aspects of the History of Grewelthorpe.

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 Kirkby Malzeard and places within the boundaries of its ancient parish.

Memorial Inscriptions

• A transcription of the Memorial Plaque in St. John's Church, Mickley.
• A transcription of the The War Memorial in the Churchyard at Grewelthorpe.
• A transcription of the The War Memorial in the Churchyard at Kirkby Malzeard.

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:
  • (SE124664) Ashfold Side
  • (SE138673) Heathfield
  • (SE142655) Ladies Riggs
  • (SE204743) Thwaite house

Societies

• This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
  • Ripon Historical Society & District FHG
  • Cleveland FHS