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North Yorkshire County Record Office
County Record Office
Malpas Road
Northallerton, North Yorkshire DL7 8TB UK
Telephone: 01609 777585
Email: archives@northyorks.gov.uk
Website
Collections in our custody include:

records of the North Riding of Yorkshire County Council and North Yorkshire County Council;
records of the boroughs of Harrogate, Richmond, Ripon and Scarborough;
records of over 40 different urban and rural district councils established under the 1894 Local Government Act;
parish records from almost 300 separate parishes;
court records including those of the North Riding of Yorkshire Quarter Sessions dating from the sixteenth century onwards;
records from many of North Yorkshire's landed estates and prominent families;
records of 24 different Poor Law Unions;
the North Riding Registry of Deeds spanning the years 1736 to 1970 and containing over a million entries; and
historic maps and plans of North Yorkshire including over 350 parish tithe maps, enclosure maps, mine plans, railway plans and architect's drawings.

Borthwick Institute
University Library and Archives
University of York
Heslington, York YO10 5DD UK
Telephone: 01904 321166
Email: borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk
Website
Church of England and nonconformist records

The Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society
Suite 10E
Joseph's Well
Hanover Way
Leeds, Yorkshire LS3 1AB UK
Telephone: 0113 245 7910
Email: yas.secretary@gmail.com
Website

The Society’s archives include remarkably varied and fascinating collections of maps, diaries, letters, prints, photographs, deeds, wills, manorial records and rare or early printed books which altogether offer insight into the archaeology and history of the historic county of York from prehistoric to modern times.

Explore York Libraries & Archives
York Explore Library Learning Centre
Museum Street
York, North Yorkshire YO1 7DS UK
Telephone: 01904 552800
Email: archives@exploreyork.org.uk
Website

Great Ayton Discovery Centre
105b High Street
Great Ayton
Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire TS9 6NB UK
Telephone: 01642 723268
Email: greataytondisco@outlook.com
Website
Information and facilities at the discovery centre:

family history
free online access to Ancestry.com, Find My Past, the British Newspaper Archive and Access to Research
local studies
newspapers

Libraries

North Yorkshire Libraries

Museums

For a long list of North Yorkshire museums, go to List of museums in North Yorkshire in Wikipedia.

Civil Registration Offices

The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, marriage, and death registrations in England. These certificates can be ordered from their website (a login is required but it is free to register and search). However, in some cases research can be more efficient working with the smaller, more specific records collections of county/district registry offices.

Sometimes research might be required to determine where a town or parish was in a former registration district, or even its current district. For a list of the historic and current registration districts and their parishes, see Civil Registration Districts in Yorkshire North Riding.