- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
High Melton is a village and civil parish now in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. Prior to 1974 it was a civil parish in the Doncaster Rural District. According to the census of 2001 it had a population of about 340.
Historically, High Melton was an ecclesiastical parish in the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill.
Research Tips
- GENUKI on High Melton. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
- The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of High Melton provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
- A Vision of Britain through Time on High Melton.
- A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to three maps for what is now South Yorkshire, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all blow up to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
- Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (the southern part of Bradford, the southern part of Leeds, the southern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the southern part of Selby, Goole Rural District, and all the divisions of Halifax, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield)
- Ordnance Survey West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
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