England &
Wales Hardwicke Marriage Index |
The ParishThe parish of Scawton lies in the central portion of North Yorkshire, Scawton is located roughly 7 miles east of the market town of Thirsk. Scawton is a rather small village, little more of a hamlet which lies within the North Yorkshire Moors National Park about a mile north of the A170 road which links Thirsk with Helmsley. There is really not much to present day Scawton, a mere scatter of farms and cottages along a narrow winding lane which rises from the valley of the River Rye to join the A170 on the heights of Scawton Moor. The main occupation of this parish would have been pastoral farming, much of the land (roughly a 1/3rd was poor quality heather moorland) would have been put to sheep with a few cattle and some arable crops in the valley. A series of deeply incised dales drain the parish northeastwards to the Rye, this is headed eastwards to join the Derwent at Malton and from there head to the sea through the Humber Estuary. Scawton is sited at around 200 metres above the sea and much of the parish is higher still, rising a further 60 metres to the A170. By the standards of the North Yorkshire Moors Scawton was a small parish yet it still covered almost 2,800 acres and supported around 140 parishioners. In Domesday times Scawton was held jointly by one Count Robert of Mortain & Robert Malet, the assets of the parish were not explicitly stated but the tax of 5 geld units was above that expected of today's settlement. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 17th August 1754 - 7th November 1812 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Reference - PR/SCN/1/2 |
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 |
2 | 1st December 1814 - 30th January 1836 | North Yorkshire Record Office - Reference - PR/SCN/1/3 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
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Kirby St Michael
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Cold Kirby
St Michael
Old Byland All Saints |
Helmsley
All Saints
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Cold Kirby
St Michael
Kilburn St Mary |
Helmsley All
Saints
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Kilburn
St Mary
Ampleforth St Hilda |
Helmsley
All Saints
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