Useful Links
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Malhamdale
GENUKI
: Malhamdale pages
GENUKI
: Yorkshire, an extensive page of links to useful family and local history sites
Keighley and District Family History Society
: Covers the families of Kirkby Malhamdale and Settle area
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Wharfedale Family History Group
: Covers the families of the adjacent Upper Wharfedale area.
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Archaeology Data Service
: Archaeological database with details of Malhamdale excavations in the ARCHsearch catalogue.
Images of England
: View details of the listed building records in the National Monuments record for Malhamdale
Yorkshire Vernacular Buildings Study Group
: Record and study buildings in the Dales
Yorkshire Archaeological Society
: Hold some maps and records for the area
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Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
: Maintain a location register for records and are creating a Name index of individuals mentioned in the Monthly Meeting minute books. For the Settle area, also check the Quaker records at
Leeds University
which also has a searchable online database.
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Access 2 Archives
: Online archive catalogue listing many Malhamdale records in record offices around the country
Manorial Documents Register
: Online catalogue listing documents of local interest in various archives
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Documents Online
: PRO’s collection of digitised records including some PCC wills for the area.
The Borthwick Institute
: Archive holding pre 1858 Yorkshire Wills and Bishops Transcripts for the old York Diocese.
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Skipton Library
: Extensive local studies collection
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Old-Maps
: 1st series 6inch OS maps for most of the country
A Vision of Britain
: View population statistics, historical gazetteer entries, Civil Parish changes and more.
Malhamdale.com
: Local news, events, accommodation and businesses in the area.
Malham Tarn
: Additional information at Wikipedia
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Bordley Township Project
: community archaeology project investigating the historic landscape of Bordley.
One Guy from Barlick
– An interesting local history site with a lot of information about the cotton industry, which carried on there into the late 20th century attracting some of the people who had worked in the Malhamdale mills.
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Gargrave – Past Times
– Section of the village web site complete with old photos.
Skipton – The Rowley Collection
– A tribute to the late Dr Geoffrey Rowley the eminent Skipton historian, who with Mr. Ken Ellwood gathered together over 500 historic old photos of Skipton, fully indexed.
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Skipton Web
– Local history with gallery of old photos.
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Cowling Moonrakers
– Website of the local history group, with plenty of information.
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Cowling Web
– This village has plenty of coverage with this second site providing more local history information with maps, booklets articles and a gallery of old photos.
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Earby and District Local History Society
– Web site with articles and pictures.
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Thornton-in-Craven
– Village web site which has good collection of old photographs and a family history section.
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Langcliffe
– Millennium project local history site.
Settle
– Includes short history of the town and links to photos on:
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The Gallery of Old Settle
Craven Herald & Pioneer
– News archive for recent events, places and names.
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North Craven Historical Research Group
Craven’s Part in the Great War
– Dedicated to the memories of the men and women from the Craven district who gave their lives for King and country in the First World War, 1914 -1919.
Wigglesworth
– A family history website with much information about Wigglesworth Hall and the Manor of Wigglesworth in downloadable booklets.
Wharfedale & Craven Genealogical Study
– An ongoing project to construct the family histories of individuals and families who may have lived the Wharfedale and Craven areas of Yorkshire.
The Upper Wharfedale Heritage Group –
Formed in 2005 with the purpose of adding to the knowledge of the archaeologically rich area of Upper Wharfedale & the surrounding landscapes
Hellifield Peel
– The restoration of which featured in the television programme Grand Designs
Kettlewell
– History section of the village website.
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Sutton-in-Craven
– Village website with a good local history section, the contributions by Nellie Stell are particularly interesting.
The Giggleswickian
– Family history site for those with Giggleswick ancestors.
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Barnoldswick History Society
– Details of the meetings plus photographs, maps etc.
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Kilnsey and Conistone
– A village information site with some history information.
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Dalehead & Stocks in Bowland
– Local history site with photographs, details of farms etc.
Cononley
– Local history and genealogy
Stainforth
– Village website with history section and some documents online.
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Burnsall
– History of St Wilfred’s church.
ARCHON
: Record repositories in the UK
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Access 2 Archives
: Online archive catalogue listing many record office catalogues from around the country
A Vision of Britain
: View population statistics, historical gazetteer entries, Civil Parish changes and more
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Archaeology Data Service
: Archaeological database with details of Malhamdale excavations in the ARCHsearch catalogue.
North Yorkshire Archives
West Dereham Heritage Group
: West Dereham Abbey held Kirkby Malham church before the Dissolution.
The British Association for Local History
: Is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians and publishes both The Local Historian , a quarterly journal and Local History News , a topical magazine
GENUKI
: Links to local and family history resources for all the UK
British Data Archive
: Census images on CD plus an online services with census indexes, images; GRO indexes and other data at :-
TheGenealogist
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RootsUK
FindMyPast.com
: GRO indexes of Births Deaths and Marriages from 1837 -2003, Census and more.
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DocumentsOnline
: search and buy copies of the PCC wills held at the National Archives
FamilySearch
: The LDS church site with the 1881 census, IGI containing many parish record extractsSearch just the extracted church records in the IGI and see just what is available via this
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Batch number web site
Ancestry.co.uk
: Indexed census images from the 1901, 1891, 1881, 1871, 1861, 1851and 1841 census with the 1901 and 1881 indexes free; plus free access to the GRO indexes to Births, Marriages and Deaths 1837-1983.
FreeBMD
: Fully searchable BMD indexes with no fee.
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Family Relatives
: another site with GRO indexes to BMDs from 1837 -2003, but it is fully indexed for a large period (approx 1860-1920).
The Origins Network
: Indexes to Yorkshire wills held at the Borthwick Institute, York.
Local History Online
: news, resources, information, calendar of events, courses and nearly 1,000 local history links.
Ancestor-Search.info
: Excellent introduction to the resources for tracing ancestors, including many helpful tips.
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: More help and tips on using various resources.
Malhamdale Local History Group 