| Description | Registers of baptisms 1560-1986, marriages 1560-2015, banns 1754-1989 and burials 1560-2009
Churchwardens' accounts 1576-1993
Overseers of the poor records including settlement certificates and examinations, removal orders, vagrants' passes 1700-1809, bastardy papers and bonds 1720-1802, apprenticeship indentures 1725-1801and miscellaneous overseers papers 1711-1788
Schools records relating to Bedale Grammar School 1628-1936, Bedale National School 1845-1939, Leeming Bar School 1874-1939 and Bedale Public Elementary School 1938
Enclosure papers for Aiskew Moor and Mashamshire 1794-1807
Tithe records 1839-1932
Charities including Firby Hospital, Widows Hospital, Bedale and Wath Hospitals, Mrs Ewart's Legacy, Webster's Charity, Shepherd's Charity, Wetherill's Charity, Bedale Endowed/Grammar School and the Charity of Frances Countess Dowager of Warwick, Braithwaite's Charity 1616-2000
Legal papers 1693-1914
Terriers 1664-1980
Rectors' account book 1699-1945
Visitation returns 1721-1731
Bedale church papers 1718-1856
Crakehall church papers 1840-1868
Leeming Bar Mission church 1911-1952
Church fabric and furniture 1873-1976
Churchyard records 1849-1971
Advowson, benefice and glebe 1693-1971
Papers relating to incumbents 1662-1964
Parish magazines 1897-1978
Institutes including Mechanics' Institute 1850-1858, Youngmen's Institute 1883
Miscellaneous papers 1723-1983
Service registers for St Gregory's 1905-1991 and St Augustine at Leeming Bar 1938-1955
Other church registers including confirmation registers 1901-1973, communicants' register 1901-1904, choirboys' attendance register 1915-1921
Vestry and PCC minutes 1920-2000
Service sheets 1906-2014
Leeming Bar Church Council minute books 1935-1985
Leeming Bar church accounts 1976-1989
Leeming Bar Silver Jubilee committee 1977
Photographs 1957-1969 |
| Administrative history | The parish of Bedale covers around 8,000 acres and is situated around six miles from Masham and eight from Northallerton. The church there is dedicated to St Gregory and was built in the time of Edward I. A church has occupied the site from Saxon times and was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 and was restored in 1854. The parish covered the townships of Aiskew, Firby, Burrill and Cowling, Crakehall and Langthorne. On the 11th of April 1840, the townships of Great Crakehall and Langthorne which were formerly under the jurisdiction of the parish of Bedale were joined with part of East Brompton in Patrick Brompton to become their own parish. The church, built in 1839 was dedicated to St Gregory. There is also a church at Langthorne dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. This information is from the Genuki website at www.genuki.org.uk and from "A History of Yorkshire North Riding, Volume I", The Victoria History of the Counties of England, (University of London, 1968). |
| Copies | Parts of this collection have been microfilmed [MIC 995, 1161, 2094, 2100, 2106, 2112, 2957, 2976-77, 2979, 2982, 3024, 3089, 3409, 3771]. |