Place:Downholme, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameDownholme
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Located inNorth Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    
North Yorkshire, England     (1974 - )
See alsoHang West Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, Englandearly county division in which it was located
Richmond Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, Englandrural district 1894-1974
source: Family History Library Catalog


The following description of Downholme is from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).

"DOWNHOLME, or Downham, a township in Richmond [registration] district, and a parish partly also in Reeth [registration] district, [North Riding of] Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Swale, 4¼ miles SW of Richmond [railway] station. Acres: 1,294. Real property: £1,577. Population: 138. Houses: 27.
"The parish includes also the townships of Stainton, Walburn, and Ellerton-Abbey; and its post town is Marrick, under Richmond, Yorkshire. Acres: 5,915. Real property: £2,996. Population: 241. Houses: 48. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £75. Patron: J. T. Hutton, Esq. The church is later Norman; has an old font; and is good. Charities, £8.
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