Place:Muston, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Muston is now a village and civil parish, in the Scarborough District of North Yorkshire, England. The village is situated 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest from the centre of the coastal town of Filey, and on the A1039 road. According to the 2011 UK Census, Muston parish had a population of 339, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 325.

Prior to the nationwide municipal reorganization of 1974, Muston was located in Bridlington Rural District, having been transferred from the Sherburn Rural District when the latter was abolished in 1935. Historically, it was an ecclesiastical parish in the Dickering Wapentake.

Muston is listed in the Domesday Book as "Mustone".

In 1823 Muston was a village in the Wapentake of Dickering in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The ecclesiastical parish was a Vicarage held by the Archdeacon of Cleveland, Francis Wrangham. Population at the time was 350. Occupations included fourteen farmers, two butchers, two carpenters, three grocers, a tanner, a bricklayer, a corn miller, a shoemaker, an earthenware dealer, a tailor, a blacksmith, and a publican. A daily coach linked Muston to Hull and Scarborough. A carrier operated between the village and Bridlington, Hunmanby and Filey twice weekly.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Muston.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Muston. Sherburn is described as being in the West Riding of Yorkshire here. This is an error.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Muston provides a list of useful resources for the local area.

• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.

• Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
• Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
• Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.

• For a discussion of where to find Archive Offices in Yorkshire, see GENUKI.
• Yorkshire has a large number of family history and genealogical societies. A list of the societies will be found on the Yorkshire, England page.