Place:Sicklinghall, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Sicklinghall is now a civil parish and a village in the Harrogate District of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated between the town of Wetherby (3 miles (5 km) to the east) and the village of Kirkby Overblow. In the census of 2011 the population was recorded as 336.

The village is surrounded by granges; on the eastern side lie Skerry Grange and Sicklinghall Grange and on the western Addlethorpe Grange. Sicklinghall Grange is set in a 107-acre (0.43 km2) estate. However the 'big house' is Stockeld Park, a Grade I-listed palladian villa that sits at the heart of a 2,000-acre estate and is home to the Grant family.

There is a Roman Catholic convent situated by Sicklinghall's Church of the Immaculate Conception and a monastery dating from 1852 to the south of the village.

Historically, Sicklinghall was in the ancient and ecclesiastical parish of Kirkby Overblow in the Upper division of the Claro Wapentake. From 1894 until 1974, Sicklinghall was located in Wetherby Rural District. In 1974 the area was transferred to the Harrogate District in the newly formed county of North Yorkshire.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Sicklinghall. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Kirkby Overblow provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Sicklinghall.
• A Vision of Britain through Time also provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. Those listed here provide data for the part of the West Riding that transferred to North Yorkshire in 1974 plus the northern parts of Leeds and Bradford. 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 Northern part of the West Riding 1900 The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. (rural districts of Sedbergh, Settle, Skipton, Pateley Bridge, Ripon, Knaresborough, Great Ouseburn, Clitheroe, Wharfedale, Wetherby, York, Bishopthorpe, Keighley, the northern part of Bradford, the northern part of Leeds, the northern part of Hunslet Urban District, the northern part of Tadcaster Rural District, the northern part of Selby Rural District). [Note: this map appears to be no longer available on the Vision of Britain website. This is unfortunate because the equivalent map from 1931-44 was redrawn after the 1938 reorganization of the rural districts in the northern part of the West Riding.]
• Ordnance Survey Northern part of the West Riding 1944. The urban and rural districts of the northern part of the West Riding (mostly Settle, Skipton, Ripon and Pateley Bridge, and Nidderdale, with sections of Wharfedale and Wetherby) after the revisions of 1938.
• Ordnance Survey Southern part of the West Riding 1944 shows the southern part of the West Riding (including the southern part of Wetherby Rural District).