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The Ancient Parish of SKIPTON
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"SKIPTON, a market and parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's Fee, (Skipton Castle, the seat of the Earl of Thanet,) 10 miles NW. of Keighley, 11 from Guisburn, 12¾ from Colne, (Lanc.) 13 from Hopper Lane Inn, 15 from Otley and Pateley Bridge, 16 from Settle and Kettlewell, 19 from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 41 from York, 220 from London. Market, Saturday. Fairs, first Saturday after the old twelfth day, called Black Saturday, March 13, Saturday before Palm Sunday, Tuesday in Easter Week, and every other Tuesday until Whitsuntide, for lean cattle; Saturday before Whitsun eve, Saturday before Trinity Sunday, Old Saint James' Day, and Martinmas Day, viz. November 21, and 23, and every other Tuesday, throughout the year, for fat cattle, &c. Bankers, Messrs. Chippendale, Netherwood, and Carr, draw on Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co. 2, White Hart Court, Lombard Street. Principal Inns, Black Horse, Hotel, and Devonshire Hotel. Pop. 3,411. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to the Holy Trinity (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Craven, value, ~£10. 12s. 6d. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford." (There is further information for Skipton).Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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[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:
- Holy Trinity Church, Skipton (view 1).
- Holy Trinity Church, Skipton (view 2). (The Church's website is here.)
- Trintity Methodist Church, Skipton. (The Church's website is here.)
- St Stephen's Roman Catholic Church, Skipton. In 1836, having already bought the land, Charles Robert TEMPEST laid the (The Church's website is here.) corner stone of this church. He paid in excess of £900 for the building of it, his sister Frances Barbara paid £500 and his brother Walter Joseph contributed £100. The church was completed in 1843.
- Christ Church, Skipton. (The Church's website is here.)
- St. Mary and St. Cuthbert's Church, Bolton Abbey.
- St. Mary and St. Cuthbert's Church, Bolton Abbey.
- St. Mary and St. Cuthbert's Church, Bolton Abbey.
- St. Augustine's Church, Draughton. (The Church's website is here.)
- St. Mary the virgin's Church, Embsay.
- The Methodist Church, Embsay. (The Church's website is here.)
- The following Churches have their own websites:
- St. Andrew's Church, URC and Methodist, Skipton.
- Christ Church, Skipton
- A transcription of Skipton Baptist Church History
- A transcription of Belmont Baptist Church History
- A transcription of the Skipton Congregational Church History
- Transcript of the entry for Skipton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Bolton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- A transcript of the Dole Board in Holy Trinity church (by Angela Petyt).
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Skipton.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Bolton Abbey.
- Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of:
- A transcript of the Skipton entry from the British Directory for 1784 (by Angela Petyt).
- A transcript of the Skipton entry from the Universal British Directory for 1793 (by Angela Petyt).
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the West Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Craven Household Almanack 1911, XXX
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the White's 1837 Gazetteer, History and Directory, of the 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 Skipton to another place.
- The Rowley Collection - an online gallery of over 500 historic old photos of Skipton, all fully indexed and thumnbnailed. The photos in the collection include images of the Churches, but as diverse as Edwardian Skipton and local football, cricket teams of the 1920s and 30s.
- Here is the Skipton extract from " The Annals of Yorkshire" published in 1862.
- A transcription of the Skipton Congregational Church History
- 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 SD989517 (Lat/Lon: 53.961383, -2.018253), Skipton 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 World War I and II memorial at Embsay:
- The World Wars I and II memorial near the church at Skipton
- Sylvester Petyt and his Charity includes list of over 600 apprentices in the Skipton area 1726-1755.
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.