GENUKI: Skipton

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.

Barden
Barden Pike Lodge
Beamsley
Berwick
Bolton Abbey
Bolton Bridge
Bow Bridge
Broadshaw
Catgill
Cawder Hall
Chelker
Close House
Cobbs Houses
Cragg House

Croft House
Deerstones
Draughton
Drebley
Eastby
Embsay
Halton East
Hambleton House
Hawpike
Hazelwood
Heugh
High Gate
High Snaygill
Holme Bridge

Howgill
Ickering Gill
Lobwood
Low Snaygill
Morretts
Pace Gate
Skibeden
Stank House
Stirton
Storiths
Strid Cottage
Summerscales
Thorlby

Churches

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.

Church History

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".

Church Records

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.

Description and Travel

Garry Stockdill's Yorksview website contains a description and photographs of:
- Skipton.
- Bolton Abbey and Barden Tower

Directories

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

Gazetteers

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.

History

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

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.

Memorial Inscriptions

The World War I and II memorial at Embsay:
The World Wars I and II memorial near the church at Skipton

Occupations

Sylvester Petyt and his Charity includes list of over 600 apprentices in the Skipton area 1726-1755.

Societies

This parish is covered by the following Society:
- Airedale & Wharfedale FHS

Taxation

A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.

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