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Name | Middleton Tyas |
Alt names | Middleton-Tyas | source: hyphenated |
Type | Township, Ancient parish, Civil parish |
Coordinates | 54.446°N 1.648°W |
Located in | North Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974) |
Also located in | Yorkshire, England | | North Yorkshire, England (1974 - ) |
See also | Gilling East Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | wapentake in which it was located | | Richmond Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | rural district 1894-1974 | | Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England | district municipality covering the area since 1974 |
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Middleton Tyas is now a civil parish and a village in the Richmondshire District of North Yorkshire, England. It is located near the motorway services area named Scotch Corner.
The name Middleton is of Anglo-Saxon origin and it means "middle-farm or middle-settlement". Tyas is a Norman family name but there seems to be no evidence that Middleton Tyas once belonged to a family of that name.
The village lies on a substratum of limestone, which has been extensively quarried. Limestone quarrying still takes place at the nearby Barton roundabout. There was also an 18th-century copper mine and works near the village.
Just outside the village is the Middleton Lodge Estate. Middleton Lodge itself was built in 1760 and is a listed building. A number of Grade II listed buildings and 200 acres (81 hectares) of private parkland surround the lodge.
The parish church of St Michael and All Angels lies just outside the village on the road towards Moulton. It is an ancient structure, with Norman arches and pillars on the north side and Early English on the south. It was restored and renovated between 1867 and 1879 under the direction of the architect, Sir George Gilbert Scott.
Middleton Tyas was originally an ancient and ecclesiastical parish in the East Gilling Wapentake. Between 1894 and 1974 it was a civil parish in the Richmond Rural District. Since 1974 it has been part of the Richmondshire District in North Yorkshire.
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- 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.
Categories: North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Middleton Tyas, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Gilling East Wapentake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Richmond Rural, North Riding of Yorkshire, England | Richmondshire District, North Yorkshire, England | North Yorkshire, England
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