Place:Kettlewell with Starbotton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

Kettlewell with Starbotton is a civil parish in the Craven District of North Yorkshire. It is made up of two villages, formerly two townships: Kettlewell and Starbotton. Before 1974 the civil parish was part of Skipton Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire. As an ecclesiastical parish it was located in the Staincliffe and Ewcross Wapentake. The parish appears to have always been known as Kettlewell with Starbotton.

Kettlewell

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Kettlewell is a village in Upper Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England. ; since then it has been part of the Craven District of North Yorkshire. It lies 6 miles (10 km) north of Grassington, at the point where Wharfedale is joined by a minor road which leads northeast from the village over Park Rash Pass to Coverdale. The peak Great Whernside rises to the east.

Historically Kettlewell's economy revolved around lead mining and farming. There are several farms which mostly rely on sheep farming.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Kettlewell from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"KETTLEWELL, a village, a township, a parish, and a [registration] sub-district in Skipton [registration] district, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The village stands between the mountains Whernside and Hardflask, near the river Wharfe, 13 miles NE of Settle [railway] station and 14 N of Skipton; was nearly inundated by rain floods in 1686; and has a post office under Skipton, two inns, a church, a Wesleyan chapel, a mechanics' institute, an endowed school, a weekly corn market on Thursday, and cattle fairs on 6 July, 2 Sept., and 23 Oct. The church was rebuilt in 1820; comprises nave, aisle, transept, and chancel, with porch and tower; and contains several mural monuments, and a font of 1100.

"The township comprises 5,507 acres. Population: 485. Houses: 116.

"The parish includes also the township of Starbotton, and comprises 8,455 acres. Real property, £4,349. Population: 646. Houses: 154. The property is much subdivided. The land is chiefly moor and upland pasture; and it exhibits much interesting mountain landscape. There are lead mines; and more of them were worked formerly than now. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value: £120. Patron: R. Foster, Esq."

Starbotton

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Starbotton is a village of around 70 houses in Upper Wharfedale in the Craven District of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, by the River Wharfe. The resident population is around 75 and many village houses are used for holiday accommodation. There are two working farms - one at either end of the village, the rest having been converted for other uses. The village is on the opposite bank of the Wharfe to the Dales Way halfway between Kettlewell and Buckden.

Research Tips

• British History Online (Victoria County Histories) do not cover the West Riding of Yorkshire
• GENUKI has a page on all three ridings of Yorkshire and pages for each of the ecclesiastical parishes in the county. Under each parish there is a list of the settlements within it and brief description of each. The list is 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. 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 from more recent data. 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 West 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. Descriptions provided are usually based on a gazetteer of 1870-72.

• Map of the West Riding divisions in 1888 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Map of West Riding divisions in 1917 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time. In other counties, the map for 1900 has been used, but it is not coming up in Vision of Britain's list.
• Map of West Riding divisions in 1944 produced by UK Ordnance Survey and provided online by A Vision of Britain through Time

• The above three maps indicate the boundaries between parishes, etc., but for a more detailed view of a specific area try a map from this selection. The oldest series are very clear at the third magnification offered. Comparing the map details with the GENUKI details for the same area is well worthwhile.
• 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.