GENUKI: Cayton

The Ancient Parish of CAYTON

[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"CAYTON, a parish in the wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; 4 miles S. of Scarbro'. Here is an ancient church, dedicated to St. Leonard, also a small neat Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapel, and a school with an endowment of 1½1. per ann. Population, with Deepdale & Killerby, 447."

"DEEPDALE, 2 farm houses in the parish of Cayton, wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; 1½ miles NNW. of Cayton, 2½ miles S. of Scarborough."

"EASTFIELD, a village in the parish of Cayton, did not exist pre 1900. The following Eastfield information was kindly supplied by Tina Morgan in 2007:
The Council estate was started about 1950 and Holy Nativity's foundation stone was laid in 1953 and was opened 1954 (not sure of the exact dates), there is a certificate on the wall which says 25th May 1954 (if I remember corectly.) Before 1950 there was a farm which was used later by the Council as a storage/works/office until about late 1980's when everythig was transfered to another building. The farm was owned by a family called Jackson who had it for many years, I cannot recall what the farm was called (I have tried to do some research on it for another party who was interested in its history). The barn to the farm was once used by a dance school (circa 1957) and run by a Miss Popplewell (now Mrs Mennell)."

"KILLERBY, in the parish of Cayton, wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; ½ mile ESE. of Cayton, 4 miles ESE. of Scarborough."

"KILLERBY HALL, a farm house in the township and parish of Cayton; ½ mile ESE. of Cayton, 4 miles from Scarborough."

"OSGODBY, in the parish of Cayton, wapentake and liberty of Pickering Lythe; ¾ mile N. of Cayton, 3 miles S. of Scarborough. Pop. 72."

Cemeteries

Photographs of over 350 gravestones in Cayton Cemetery with a surname index and name listing.
Photographs of over 250 gravestones in Cayton Churchyard with a surname index and name listing.

Churches

Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- St John the Baptist's Church, Cayton.
- A different view of St John the Baptist's Church, on a winter morning.
- The Methodist Church, Cayton. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Church of the Holy Nativity, Eastfield.
- The Roman Catholic Church of St. George, Eastfield.

Church Records

Transcriptions of the Bisphop's Transcripts 1812 to 1860 have been supplied by Jean Schorfheide.
Please note that the records for 1 April 1817 to 31 May 1818, and 1838-1859 are missing.
- Baptisms
- Marriages
- Burials
- Church Officials.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Cayton.

Directories

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 White's Directory of 1840, Yorkshire section.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Bulmers Directory of 1890. of the North Riding.
Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the The Scarborough Gazette of 1905,

Gazetteers

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.

Maps

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.

Names, Geographical

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:
- (TA038838) Eastfield

Societies

This parish is covered by the following Society:
- East Yorkshire FHS

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