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The Ancient Parish of MOOR MONKTON
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"MOOR MONKTON, a parish, 8 miles NW. of York, a small village, situated on the banks of the river Nidd, anciently belonging to the family of the Ughtreds, but has for several centuries belonged to that of the Slingsbys. Sir Thomas Slingsby, Bart. is the present lord of this manor. The Church, a rectory dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph) is an ancient neat structure, situated about half a mile from the village, on the road leading to Hessay; incumbent the Rev. Thomas Beckwith. Here is a good schoolhouse, founded by Sir Thomas Slingsby, for twelve poor children. Red house, built by Sir Henry Slingsby, in the reign of Charles I. is situated in this parish, and from the terrace is a fine view of York, its cathedral, and surrounding country. -Population 269."Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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[Description(s) edited mainly from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson. ©2010]
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- Here are photographs of Churches in the parish:
- All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton.
- St. John the Baptist's Church, Hessay. (With short history).
- The Methodist Church, Hessay. (With short history). (The Church's website is here.)
- Transcript of the entry for Moor Monkton in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Moor Monkton.
- 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 Bulmers Directory of 1890. of the North 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 1835,, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Bulmer's 1890 History and Directory of the North Riding.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Moor Monkton 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 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 SE507568 (Lat/Lon: 54.004744, -1.227957), Moor Monkton 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:
- (SE513550) Moor Monkton Moor
- This parish is covered by the following Society:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.