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The Ancient Parish of KELLINGTON
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"KELLINGTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 5½ miles E. of Pontefract and Snaith, 21 from York. Pop. 283. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Edmund (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Pontefract, value, ~£9. 8s. 11½d. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge.""BEAL, in the parish of Kellington, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles NE. of Pontefract, 8 from Snaith. Pop. 546."
"EGGBOROUGH, (High and Low) in the parish of Kellington, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Snaith, 8 from Pontefract. Pop. 215."
"HUT GREEN, a hamlet in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 5 miles W. of Snaith."
"KELLINGLEY, a hamlet in the township of Beaghall, and parish of Kellington, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles E. of Pontefract."
"LOW EGBROUGH, in the township of High Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 6 miles from Snaith, 8½ from Pontefract."
"ROWLE HALL, a farm-house in the township and parish of Kellington, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles NW. of Snaith."
"SAND HALL, a farm-house in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 4 miles from Snaith."
"SHERWOOD HALL, (the residence of William Morritt, Esq.) in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles WNW. of Snaith, 7 from Pontefract."
"TRANMORE, a farm-house in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 6 miles from Snaith, 7 from Pontefract."
"WHITLEY, in the parishes of Kellington and Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 6½ miles W. of Snaith; 6¾ from Pontefract. Pop. 284"
"WHITLEY THORPE, a farm-house in the township of Whitley, and parish of Kellington, liberty and bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 7 miles E. of Pontefract and 7 from Snaith."
[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 Edmund's Church, Kellington.
- St Edmund's Church, Kellington.
- All Saints' Church, Whitley.
- The Village Church, Eggborough.
- Transcript of the entry for Kellington in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Kellington.
- 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.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Kellington 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 SE552248 (Lat/Lon: 53.716703, -1.165051), Kellington 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 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:
- (SE570252) Rouall Hall
- (SE558226) Whitley Bridge
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.