Coniston Cold
CONISTON (COLD), a township in the parish of GARGRAVE, eastern division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE and EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK,5 miles (N. W. by W.) from Skipton, containing 345 inhabitants. On a lofty mount near the village is an oval encampment, supposed to be Danish. Tradition relates that at a place called Sweet-Gap, on the northwestern side of Coniston moor, the inhabitants endeavoured to arrest the progress of a party of Scottish invaders,and nearly the whole of them were killed.
Samuel Lewis “Topographical Dictionary of England” 1831
Coniston Cold is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the Staincliffe Wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village lies 7 miles (11 km) north-west of Skipton along the A65.[2] According to the 2001 UK census, Coniston Cold parish had a population of 186,[3] increasing to 203 at the 2011 Census.[1] (Wikipedia.com 2024).
Coniston Cold is not part of the original Parish of Kirkby Malhamdale, being originally in the parish of Gargrave before St Peter’s church was built in 1846. It was united with the ecclesiastical parish of Kirkby Malham in 1987 and is include here because of it’s geographical location.
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| People & Families | Note: this section is deliberately empty as the entries are duplicated in the section for Bell Busk.:Jump to Bell Busk township here: |
| Tithe Commissioner’s Field Bookhttp://www.bl.yascollections.org.uk/index.php?secid=02&id=1778Please copy this ‘new’ (2024) link into a new tab in your web browser.
: Gives name of land owners and occupiers, number referring to plan, description of premises, state of cultivation and acreage. Example and transcript from the YAS Bradfer-Lawrence collection. Map below gives a flavour of documents available within this website which is fully searchable.
copyright Bradfer-Laurence collection Chapelry of Coniston https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20742/page/2087 Please copy this link into a new tab in your web browser. Please note, this gazette is fully searchable and contains a large number of documents relating to Coniston Cold amongst many other places. Search page snip illustrated below: : Act describing the boundary
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| Genealogy & BiographyFor all sections below please refer to Bell Busk township or ‘Malhamdale in General’ section. | |
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St Peter’s Church Coniston Cold – copyright Grey Arrows Drone Club |
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Google Maps 2024 Coniston Cold
Malhamdale Local History Group 