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The Ancient Parish of BRAYTON
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"BRAYTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 1 mile S. of Selby, 7 from Snaith, 11 from Pontefract, 16 from York. Pop. 253. The Church (see Churches for photograph) is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Wilfrid, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, ~£7. 14s. 4½d. Patron, the Hon. E. Petre.""BARLOW, in the parish of Brayton; wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles SE. of Selby, 5 from Snaith, 13 from Pontefract. Pop. 175."
"BURN, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 3 miles S. of Selby, 7 from Snaith, 8 from Pontefract. Pop. 238."
"BURTON HALL, a single house in the township of Gateforth, and parish of Brayton; 3 miles S. of Selby."
"GATEFORTH, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 5 miles SW. of Selby, 6 from Ferrybridge, 8 from Pontefract. Pop. 192."
"HAMBLETON, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston Ash; (Hambleton House, the seat of Samuel Smith, Esq.) 3½ miles SW. of Selby, 7 from Ferrybridge, 9 from Pontefract. Pop. 488."
"LUND, a hamlet in the township of Gateforth, and parish of Brayton; 4 miles SW. of Selby."
"THORPE WILLOUGHBY, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles WSW. of Selby, 9 from Ferrybridge, 11 from Pontefract. Pop. 144."
[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- St. Wilfrid's Church, Brayton. (The Church's website is here.)
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The Methodist Chapel, Brayton.
- St. Mary's Church, Hambleton.
- St. Mary's Church, Hambleton in April.
- St. Mary's Church, Hambleton at the end of May.
- The Methodist Church, Hambleton.
- The Wesleyan Sunday School, Hambleton, opened 1876.
- The Methodist Church, Burn, opened 1894, originally Wesleyan.
- The Anglican Methodist Church, Thorpe Willoughby. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Chapel of Ease, Barlow. (The Church's website is here.)
- The former Methodist Chapel, Barlow, now a private house.
- St. Wilfrid's Church, Brayton. (The Church's website is here.)
- Transcript of the entry for Brayton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Hambleton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Barlow in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Gateforth in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Brayton.
- The List of Incumbents of St. Wilfrid's Church, Brayton.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West 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, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer 1750, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Brayton 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 SE600305 (Lat/Lon: 53.7674, -1.091224), Brayton 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 War Memorial Plaque of St. Wilfrid's Church, Brayton.
- 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:
- (SE556298) Hambleton Hough
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.