Parish records of Whitwell on the Hill

Includes register of marriages, 1861-1972; register of services, 1914-1960; churchwardens' records, including accounts, 1860-1922, and fabric papers, 1905-1961; school records, including managers' minutes of meetings, 1903-1945; Vestry minutes of meetings, 1860-1922.

Whitwell on the Hill was an extra-parochial area until 1861 when it was constituted as an ecclesiastical district. A parish church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was built to serve the area in 1858-1860 by architect George Edmund Street, at the expense of Lady Louisa Lechmere. Prior to this, inhabitants attended the parish church at Crambe.
Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Harton, which also includes Bossall, Buttercrambe, Crambe, Flaxton, Foston, Gate Helmsley, Howsham, Sand Hutton, and Upper Helmsley.

This arrangement was designed to reflect the principal activities of the parish and its associated organisations, and to aid researchers in identifying the records these activities generate. This arrangement was introduced in 2020. Records are arranged within the following alphabetical series but retain their original archival reference at file/item level:
A: Parish Registers
B: Church Ceremonial
C: Parish Clergy
D: Property - Religious
E: Property - Secular
F: Parish Administration and Officers
G: Parish Social and Evangelical Activities
H: Overseer of the Poor and Parish Charity
J: Schools
K: Promotional and Informational Material

Records are open to the public, subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws. 24 hours' notice is required to access photographic material.

The archive was deposited at the Borthwick Institute in 1978. A further addition was made to the archive in 1982.

Whitwell on the Hill was an extra-parochial area until 1861 when it was constituted as an ecclesiastical district. A parish church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was built to serve the area in 1858-1860 by architect George Edmund Street, at the expense of Lady Louisa Lechmere. Prior to this, inhabitants attended the parish church at Crambe.
Today the parish is part of the united benefice of Harton, which also includes Bossall, Buttercrambe, Crambe, Flaxton, Foston, Gate Helmsley, Howsham, Sand Hutton, and Upper Helmsley.

A typescript finding aid, to file level, is available for consultation in the searchroom of the Borthwick Institute. This includes all material received up to and including 1982.

The register of marriages, 1861-1885, is also available on microfilm at the Borthwick Institute (References: MF 813).
Our collection of parish baptism, marriage and burial registers has been digitised by both Ancestry and Find My Past. Copies of digitised records can be viewed online on Ancestry or Find My Past, as part of larger UK-wide parish registers datasets. You can find out more about these record sets, and how to find our registers, here: https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/are-you-looking-for-parish-registers.

Created by S. A. Shearn, 21.03.16.
Revised (Schema arrangement and retroconversion) 01.2021 by N Adams

A reprographics service is available to researchers subject to the access restrictions outlined above. Copying will not be undertaken if there is any risk of damage to the document. Copies are supplied in accordance with the Borthwick Institute for Archives' terms and conditions for the supply of copies, and under provisions of any relevant copyright legislation. Permission to reproduce images of documents in the custody of the Borthwick Institute must be sought.

Further accruals are expected.

For baptisms, marriages, burials and other parish records relating to Whitwell on the Hill, see the parish records of Crambe.

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