England
& Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Grinton occupies much of northwestern Yorkshire forming, together with its chapelry at Muker, an extensive portion of the border with neighbouring Westmorland. Whilst the parish is nominally Grinton, and Grinton village has the church, it covers almost the whole of Swaledale right to the watershed of the Pennine range and includes besides Muker the large village of Reeth as well as numerous other settlements along the Swale. Grinton, itself, is located roughly 9 miles west of the market town of Richmond and sits on the B6270 road which heads west from Richmond and follows the Swale before crossing the high Pennines to Kirkby Stephen. Whilst this is largely an upland parish with much land either bleak moorland run with sheep, the Swale valley offered rich grazing for cattle and its characteristic barns dot the landscape of this attractive area. Farming, however, was not the mainstay of this parish's economy as the hills up-valley were mined extensively as one of the largest lead producing areas of England, whilst this industry has now ceased the scars remain in the form of Swaledale's industrial archaeology, from the scarred hillsides where dammed water was released to expose the ore veins through to the semi-derelict crushing mills this was, at one time, a deeply industrial valley. Today, of course, it is a tourist centre first and foremost with hiking dominating, the renowned Coast to Coast path traverses the parish from the watershed through to Richmond and beyond. Another major land use is that of grouse shooting with many major estates being based on the moorland around. The Swale drains the parish eastwards, crossing the Vale of York to the North Sea through the Humber Estuary. Grinton village is sited at 180 metres above the sea but this is very much an upland parish land rises to the main heights of the Pennines where the parish tops out at over 700 metres at the Pennine watershed in places. Grinton parish was one of the most extensive, not only in Yorkshire but in England, covering an estimated 53,000 acres (including Muker's acreage) it would have supported a population of just about 4,800 parishioners. In Domesday time Grinton was on the northern limits of Norman influence and whilst Grinton is recorded as an asset of Count Alan of Brittany its resources were not itemised and it was describes as largely "waste". |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 1754 - 1758 | West Yorkshire Archive Service - Leeds | Bishop's Transcripts on loose-leaf folios | Grade 5 Register - the condition of this register is such that the transcript carries a "health warning" as to the likelihood of being substantially incorrect | The BTs are necessary to replace missing pages from the 1st register below, sadly half of 1757 is still missing and the entries for 1756 are incompletely dated, the quality is mixed from poor to good |
2 | 3rd September 1759 - 14th October 1802 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Reference - PR/GR
1/13 |
Standard preprinted and self-numbered combined Banns & Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
3 | 26th October 1802 - 29th December 1812 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Reference - PR/GR 1/14 | Standard preprinted and self-numbered Marriage register with 4 entries per page | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
4 | 11th January 1813 - 29th January 1829 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Reference - PR/GR 1/15 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
5 | 17th February 1829 - 13th June 1837 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Reference - PR/GR 1/16 | Nonstandard Rose style preprinted Marriage register, it is nonstandard in not being pre-stamped with its numbering that being left to the clerk to complete | Grade 3 Register - there are sufficient quality issues with this register to indicate that some misreads will occur albeit few in number | Poor handwriting may lead to one or two misreads |
Kirkby
Stephen St Stephen, Westmorland
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Kirkby
Stephen St Stephen, Westmorland
Mallerstang St Mary, Westmorland Muker St Mary |
Marrick
St Andrew
Downholme St Michael |
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Lunds
St Oswald
Aysgarth St Andrew |
Hardraw
St Mary & St John
Hawes St Margaret Askrigg St Oswald Aysgarth St Andrew |
Wensley
Holy Trinity
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