Place:Dishforth, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameDishforth
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates54.091°N 1.25°W
Located inNorth Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
North Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoTopcliffe (near Thirsk), North Riding of Yorkshire, Englandancient parish in which it was a chapelry
Hallikeld Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, Englandearly county divisione in which it was located
Wath Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia

Dishforth is now a civil parish and a village in the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish as taken at the 2001 UK census was 719 and had risen to 905 by the time of the 2011 census.

The village is just north of Dishforth Airfield, which up until April 2016 was an Army Air Corps helicopter station. The village is close to the A1(M) motorway and the [[wikipedia:A168 road|A168 road. The original route of the Great North Road runs through the village but RAF Dishforth was built over the old road which used to be the A1 major road and later the A167. The closest town is Boroughbridge 3 miles (4.8 km) to the south. The village has a small Methodist church.

Before 1974 Dishforth was in the Wath Rural District in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Historically Dishforth was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Topcliffe (near Thirsk). Dishforth was in the Hallikeld Wapentake, but Topcliffe was in the Birdforth Wapentake.

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Research tips

This is by far the most complete history of the parishes of the North Riding to be found online. The volumes are divided into sections by wapentake (early divisions of the county) and the parishes within each wapentake follow in alphabetical order. The links above open to the indexes covering all the wapentakes in the volume.
  • GENUKI has a page on all three ridings of Yorkshire and pages for each of the ancient or ecclesiastical parishes in the county. Under each ancient parish there is a list of the settlements (townships and chapelries) within it and brief description of each. Many of these secondary settlements became civil parishes during the latter half of the 19th century.
These notes are based on a gazetteer dated 1835 and there may have been a number of alterations to the parish setup since then. However, it is worthwhile information for the pre civil registration era. GENUKI provides references to other organizations who hold genealogical information for the local area. There is no guarantee that the website has been kept up to date and the submitter is very firm about his copyright, but this should not stop anyone from reading the material.
  • The FamilyTree Wiki has a series of pages similar to those provided by GENUKI which may have been prepared at a later date. The wiki has a link to English Jurisdictions 1851 which gives the registration district and wapentake for each parish, together with statistics from the 1851 census for the area.
  • A Vision of Britain through Time, Yorkshire North Riding, section "Units and Statistics" leads to analyses of population and organization of the county from about 1800 through 1974. There are pages available for all civil parishes, municipal boroughs and other administrative divisions which also include historical population and area statistics. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72.
  • Map of the North Riding divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
  • Map of North Riding divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
  • Another provider of maps is the National Library of Scotland. In this index the Scottish provision precedes the English one, but the choice of maps for England is still quite vast.
  • Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.
  • In March 2018 Ancestry announced that its file entitled "Yorkshire, England: Church of England Parish Records, 1538-1873" has been expanded to include another 94 parishes (across the three ridings) and expected it to be expanded further during the year. The entries are taken from previously printed parish registers.