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The Ancient Parish of HARSWELL
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"HARSWELL, a parish in the wapentake of Harthill; 4 miles WSW. of Market Weighton. The Church is a small ancient structure, dedicated to St. Peter, it is a discharged rectory, in the patronage of the Slingsby family, of which the Rev. Henry Mitton, is rector. Population 78." [Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Photographs of the over 30 plaques and gravestones in Harswell Church and Churchyard with linked surname index.
- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- St. Peter's Church, Harswell, view 1.
- Internal view looking down the aisle
- The font
- St. Peter's Church, Harswell, view 2.
- St. Peter's Church, Harswell, view 1.
- Transcript of the entry for Harswell in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The plaque about re-building of the Church in St. Peter's Church, Harswell.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Harswell.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the East Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1892. of the East Riding.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1892 History and Directory of the East Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Harswell to another place.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- 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.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE827408 (Lat/Lon: 53.856849, -0.744159), Harswell which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
- The 1834 Electoral Roll for this parish