What’s in the Archive?
The Washburn Heritage Centre Archive is a collection of over 12,000 items, including:
A large number of photos
Original and copied documents, including newspaper cuttings
Other memorabilia and ephemera relevant to the Washburn Valley
Film, video and sound recordings including an extensive oral history project
Paper and electronic copies of numerous temporary exhibitions
The findings of on-site archaeological investigation
References to relevant reference books, some owned by members, some not
References to relevant websites
References to heritage items held by private individuals who may be willing to make them available for borrowing or photographing- for example wartime memorabilia and old farm implements
We welcome requests for information from our extensive Archive for personal use. We ask that an enquirer pay a set-up fee of £5 and become a member (£10 per annum) after which they may order material from our Archive handlist for a 12-month period. The minimum charge is £5. Each scanned image or scanned page is priced at £2.50 each. Please complete the form.
Commercial use
If the enquirer is requesting material for use other than personal, then permission is required and the enquirer should complete the Commercial Supply Form which indicates the scale of charges. The set-up fee is £30 and each item requested is priced at £5. On receipt of the completed form and payment, the Heritage Centre will issue a licence for the commercial use of the material.
A plan of the Graveyard is available to view here Fewston Graveyard Plan.
Please note, the Archive is a ‘live’ resource and is updated monthly by a team of volunteers, therefore it is recommended that enquirers regularly check the downloadable handlist on the website.
For Archive enquiries please email archive@washburnvalley.org
Sources
There are several open sources available to those interested in local genealogy and the history of the Washburn Valley. Some of these open sources are listed below. Click on the link to access the information.
1. GENEALOGY
Lists of Monumental Inscriptions of people buried in
Fewston Graveyard -at the “Wayback Machine” at www.archive.org
The introductory page is here https://web.archive.org/web/20041208015746/http://www.tealfamily.co.uk:80/fewstonmi.htm
The transcriptions of the Gravestones is here https://web.archive.org/web/20041206225005/http://www.tealfamily.co.uk:80/fewstoninsc.htm
A plan of the Graveyard is available to view here Fewston Graveyard Plan.
The Calverley website has transcripts of births deaths and marriages in the area http://www.calverley.info/church_menu_coe.htm
2. ONLINE BOOKS ABOUT FEWSTON
There are also a few online books about the Fewston area which can be download that you may find useful. Lays and Leaves of the Forest of Knaresborough by
Reverend Thomas Parkinson https://archive.org/details/laysleavesoffore00parkiala/page/n8
History and Topography of Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough by William Grainge https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sMFPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP14&dq=Knaresborough+forest+history+enclosures&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6j_OYppviAhVnA2MBHd-wBpEQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
The History and Topography of the Townships of Little Timble, Great Timble and Snowden by William Grainge https://archive.org/details/historytopograp00graigoog/page/n14
A picturesque history of Yorkshire by Fletcher and Smith https://archive.org/details/picturesquehisto02flet/page/n7
Nidderdale, from Nun Monkton to Whernside by Harry Speight https://archive.org/details/nidderdalefromnu00spei/page/n4
Higher Wharfeland: The Dale of Romance by Edmund Bogg https://archive.org/details/higherwharfeland00boggiala/page/n3
Nidderdale and the garden of the Nidd: a Yorkshire Rhineland by Harry Speight https://archive.org/details/nidderdaleandga00speigoog/page/n6
3. WILLS AND ADMINISTRATIONS FOR FEWSTON
Part of the parish of Fewston was in the Forest of Knaresborough. You can find Wills and administrations from the Knaresborough court rolls published by the Surtees Society on www.archive.org
Volume one Tudor wills and administrations https://archive.org/details/willsadministra02hongoog/page/n8
Volume two wills and administrations from 1603-1660 https://archive.org/details/willsadministrat02knaruoft/page/n8
4. MAPS
For maps of the local area we suggest you use the National Library of Scotland’s
online maps: The link to the area is here https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=14&lat=53.9954&lon=-1.7255&layers=102&b=1&point=0,0 Or you can use the Find by Place link here https://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=5&lat=56.0000&lon=-4.0000&layers=102&b=1&point=0,0
5. LOCAL RECORD OFFICES
You can search the Yorkshire County Record Offices collections online:
County Record Office at Northallerton online catalogue
https://archivesunlocked.northyorks.gov.uk/CalmView/default.aspx
West Yorkshire Archive Services online catalogue. https://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/calmview/
East Yorkshire online catalogue can be searched here
https://www.eastriding.gov.uk/CalmView/
6. OTHER SOURCES
The Washburn valley was in the Diocese of York. You can search the Borthwick catalogue at the University of York here https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/
The British Newspaper Archive, which includes some Yorkshire newspapers, can be searched here https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
The National Archives can be searched
here https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
The Fewston Assemblage is the name given to the sets of skeletal remains and artefacts that had to be removed from the Fewston churchyard in 2009 and 2010 to allow the Washburn Heritage Centre to be built. Read more…
