Rillington is both a village and civil parish in the Ryedale District of North Yorkshire, England. Like many English villages, it endured major upheavals in the past including the Norman Conquest, the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the Enclosure Awards, the Industrial Revolution and the coming of the Railways.
The Rillington One-Place Study began in 2004 and is a synthesis of local history, family history, house history and population studies captured in a timeline from Domesday to the present day. It focuses on the parish of Rillington which includes the township of Rillington and the Chapelry of Scampston whose joint history is inextricably linked. This rural community emerged due to the presence of fertile soil conditions left by the glacial Lake Pickering and to this day remains an active farming community. Situated at the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds on the A64, Rillington is 5 miles from the nearest town of Malton and 12 miles from the East Yorkshire coastal towns of Scarborough and Filey.
Historical records, where extant, are kept for every single member of the past community. They identify individuals in family groups, as well as an holistic overview of the population as a whole. This enables analysis of outcomes such as mortality, migration, occupations and land transfer which in turn records societal change. Whilst these are the same records used by family historians, for one-place studies they are applied to the whole community and are held within a Name & Place database. Images, old postcards, maps, newspaper articles, parish magazines, ephemera, oral testimony and reminiscence all have a place in the jigsaw that glues a community together. Research is also topic-based and encompasses education, religion, poor relief and entertainment.
Rillington was mentioned in the Domesday Survey in 1086 and rural life was relatively unchanged until the coming of the railway in 1845. Our study includes the following record sources: Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, Births, Marriages and Deaths (Civil Registration), Census 1801-1921, Deeds, Glebe terriers, Hearth Tax 1672, Listed Buildings, National Register 1939, National Farm Survey of England and Wales 1941-1943, Memorial and Monumental inscriptions, Manorial records, Maps including: Tithe Map 1848, OS Yorkshire Series 1854, 1890-91, 1911, 1972, Public Footpaths 1949, Nonconformist records, Tithe Apportionment Schedules 1848, Trade Directories, Valuation Office Survey 1910 and Wills.
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