Place:Gilling East Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

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NameGilling East Wapentake
Alt namesEast Gilling Wapentakesource: alternate name
TypeHundred
Located inNorth Riding of Yorkshire, England     ( - 1974)
Also located inYorkshire, England    

For a definition of "wapentake", see the article entitled Hundred (county division) in Wikipedia.

Wapentakes, the Old Norse form of the Anglo-Saxon "hundred", are dealt with in Section 1.4, but Sections 1.1 (Hundred courts) and 1.2 (Administrative functions) deal with the concept and purposes of wapentakes along with those of "hundreds" used in English counties further south.

A Vision of Britain through Time refers to Langbargh Wapentake as a "Liberty" and provides a definition.

Gilling East Wapentake was located in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was bounded by Allerton on the east, on the south by Hallikeld and Hang West, by Gilling West and Hang East on the west, and by County Durham on the north. The division between Hang East and Gilling East Wapentakes varied over time.

The parishes of Gilling East were not contiguous. Gilling East Wapentake is sometimes known as East Gilling Wapentake.

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List of Ancient Parishes

Ancient ParishParish StatusSubsidiary Places  Subsidiary Place Status
Ainderby Steepleancient parish, civil parish Morton upon Swale township, civil parish
Thrintoft township, civil parish
Warlaby township, civil parish
Barton (near Darlington) ancient parish, civil parishNewton Morrelltownship, civil parish
Bolton upon Swale chapelry in CatterickEllerton on Swaletownship, civil parish
Cleasby ancient parish, civil parish none
Croft on Teesancient parish, civil parish Dalton upon Tees township, civil parish
Stapleton (near Darlington) township, civil parish
Danby Wiske ancient parish, civil parish Yafforth chapelry, civil parish
East Cowton ancient parish, civil parish none
Great Smeatonancient parish, civil parish Appleton Wiske chapelry, civil parish
Hornby (near Northallerton) township, civil parish
Kirby Wiskeancient parish, civil parish Maunby township, civil parish
Newby Wiske township, civil parish
Newsham with Breckenbrough township, civil parish
Langton upon Swaleancient parish, civil parish Great Langton township, civil parish
Little Langton township, civil parish
Manfield ancient parish, civil parish Cliffe (near Darlington) township, civil parish
Middleton Tyas ancient parish, civil parish Moulton township, chapelry, civil parish

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.