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The Ancient Parish of DANBY WISKE
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"DANBY WISKE, a parish in the wapentake of Gilling East, and liberty of Richmondshire; 4 miles NW. of Northallerton. The living is a rectory, in the patronage of the incumbent Rev. William Cust. Pop. 328.""CATGILL HALL, a farm house in the township and parish of Danby-Wiske; 3½ miles from Northallerton."
"LITTLE DANBY, a farm house in the township of Yafforth, and parish of Danby- Wiske; 1½ miles SSE. of Danby Wiske, 3 miles from Northallerton."
"STREETLAM, in the parish of Danby Wiske, wapentake of Gilling East; 1½ miles W. of Danby Wiske, 4 miles NW. of Northallerton. Here is the Ox Inn, kept by Mr. Luke Harrison."
"YAFFORTH, in the parish of Danby Wiske, wapentake of Gilling East, & liberty of Richmondshire; 2½ miles S. of Danby Wiske, 1½ miles W. of Northallerton. Population, 149."
[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- The Parish Church, Danby Wiske. (With short history).
- Internal view looking down the aisle
- All Saints' Church, Yafforth (view 1). (With short history). (The Church's website is here.)
- All Saints' Church, Yafforth (view 2).
- The Parish Church, Danby Wiske. (With short history).
- Transcript of the entry for Danby Wiske in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Yafforth in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Danby Wiske.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Yafforth.
- Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of Danby Wiske.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory of 1823, of the North Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1890. of the North 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 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Danby Wiske 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 SE336986 (Lat/Lon: 54.381792, -1.484184), Danby Wiske 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.
- The Memorial Plaque in the Parish Church, Danby Wiske.
- This parish is covered by the following Society: