Old Parish & Official Records
This page contains details of known locations of historical parish and other official records for Arkendale. The main location of these is the North Yorkshire County Council Record Office, some are also held at the West Yorkshire Archive Service, others at The National Archives.
Arkendale parish registers
The parish registers of Arkendale (1793-1949) are available on microfilm at the North Yorkshire County Record Office. Earlier records are included in the Knaresborough parish registers.
Arkendale census returns
Census returns for Arkendale (1841-1901) are available on microfilm at Harrogate Reference Library.
See: Arkendale Parish Council Minutes - 1894 - 1996 on this site
See also:
- Hardwick,G - Monumental inscriptions from St. Bartholomew's Church and churchyard at Arkendale, North Yorkshire - Cleveland Family History Society, 1982
- Wilcock, Ruth - Local Disorder in the Honour of Knaresborough, c. 1438-1461 and The National Context - Northern History, Volume 41, Number 1, March 2004 , pp. 39-80
| North Yorkshire County Council Record Office | ||
| Reference | Dates | Items |
| PR/ARD | 1793-1949 | Registers of baptisms (including a census of the population 1811-1861) |
| PR/ARD | 1837-1979 | Registers of marriages |
| PR/ARD | 1837-2000 | Registers of burials |
| PR/ARD | 1914-1969 | Service registers |
| PR/ARD | 1876-1955 | Marriage licences and banns of marriage |
| PR/ARD | 1837-1869 | Incumbents' papers |
| PR/ARD | 1751-1970 | Churchwardens and PCC records |
| PR/ARD | 1826-1971 | Records relating to the benefice and glebe |
| PR/ARD | 1878-1959 | Records relating to the church fabric and faculties |
| PR/ARD | 1858-1862 | Charity papers |
| PR/ARD | 1904-1941 | School records from Arkendale School |
| PR/ARD | 1774 | Enclosure award |
| PR/ARD | 1837 | Correspondence with the General Register Office |
| PR/ARD | 1839 | Declaration of conformity by George Thomas |
| PR/ARD | 1851 | Declaration of conformity by George Thomas |
| PR/ARD | 1839 | Memorandum of reading of the 39 Articles |
| PR/ARD | 1844 | Licence to live at School Green |
| PR/ARD | 1851-1869 | Papers relating to the new parish of St Philip's, Leeds |
| PR/ARD | 1868 | Letter relating to the licence to the incumbency |
| PR/ARD 1/1 | 1793-1817 | Baptisms - Included at the beginning is a census of Arkendale for 1811. Some 19th century parish clerks are listed at the end |
| PR/ARD 7/2 | 1937 | Correspondence relating to the transfer of pews from St Edmund's church, Leeds, to Arkendale church |
| PR/ARD 7/4 | 1957-1959 | Catalogues, correspondence, specifications etc relating to a new organ for Arkendale church |
| PR/ARD 7/5 | 1959 | Faculty for authorising certain works in the church of St Bartholomew, Arkendale, including the installation of the new organ |
| PR/ARD 7/7 | 18xx | Subscription list for a harmonium for St Bartholomew's church, Arkendale |
| PR/ARD 9/1 | 1904-1941 | Arkendale school managers' minutes; also containing correspondence and papers relating to the school, 1870 & 1937-1941 |
| PR/ARD 11/1 | 1774 | Enclosure of open fields, stinted pasture, common and waste in Arkendale [15 membranes parchment] |
| ZGG | Wallace Gill, Solicitors, Knaresborough - Miscellaneous deeds, Arkendale manor admittances, Knaresborough Rifle Volunteers papers | |
| West Yorkshire Archive Service | ||
| Reference | Dates | Items |
| WYL555/2 | 1844 | Papers including a small sketch plan and specification of a new carriage house and stable at the parsonage house, signed by John Freeman, builder and surveyor |
| WYL501 | 1825 | Blue Bell Inn - Draft contract for sale |
| QE13/5 | 1781-1832 | Land tax returns for the townships in Claro Lower (including Arkendale) |
| WYL230/256 | 1591 | Copy of surrender - by Richard Burnham of Knaresborough, esquire, to the use of William Ingglebye of Ripley, esquire, of 2 messuages and 6 oxgangs in the townships of Arkendale and Arkendale Loftus, parcel of the monastery of Lyllyhull. |
| 15D74/15/4/16 | c1773 | Draft of the bill for enclosing the open fields in the Manor of Arkendale |
| WYL1651 | Harrogate and District Monumental Inscriptions - including St Bartholomew, Arkendale | |
| QS1/19/3/1/19 | 1680 | Indictment - John Midelton labourer of Arkendale assaulted Anna Skarr |
| QS1/19/3/1/19 | 1680 | Petition of the inhabitants of Follyfoot for the removal of Jane Canby to Arkendale |
| QS1/18/10/6/8 | 1679 | Petition of the overseers of the poor and other inhabitants of Arkendale, for discharge from the poor apprentice, Leonard Bruce. James Swale of Haypark in the constabulary of Knaresborough had refused to retake Bruce as his apprentice, who then went wandering and begging about the town |
| The National Archives | ||
| Reference | Dates | Items |
| IR 26/429 | 1808 | Will of Richard Daniel, Yeoman of Arkendale |
| OS 29/304 | 1846 | Arkendale: Ordnance Survey - Boundaries Branch - Journals of Inspection |
| IR 58/37416 | 1910 | Inland Revenue Field Books - Arkendale Assessment No. 1 - 100 |
| ED 21/64511 | 1938 | Arkendale Church of England School |