Yorkshire: North Riding

This is a list of chapels that had been registered by 1867 in the North Riding of Yorkshire, derived from ‘A list of places of meeting for public religious worship, certified to the Registrar General’.  Most were rural although, as in most places, the areas of iron mining were well missioned.

Remember that registration was not compulsory. As registration was valid until cancelled, however, there may be duplication: i.e.  both the old and new chapels in a place may be listed. We have also discovered that the official location may not be the same as the name by which the chapel is commonly described.

The Registrar General listed two chapels, Osmotherley and Malton on Swale, as belonging to the Primitive Methodists whilst describing them as Wesleyan chapels: which is exactly what they were, so they have been excluded from this list.

Unless otherwise stated each of these places of worship is described as a chapel.

The numbers on the list relate to places, and match those on the map. Soon after the Registrar General’s list was published the Askrigg Registration District was renamed Aysgarth. The Superintendent of the Barnard Castle Circuit seems not to have registered any of the chapels in Teesdale, either side of the river.

The base map is provided under this licence

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