Our holdings include:

• Archives of the North Riding court of quarter sessions from 1605;
• Archives of the North Riding and North Yorkshire County Councils;
• Records of local courts;
• Archives of district, borough and parish councils;
• Archives of hundreds of landed families, individuals and institutions from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries;
• Parish registers and other ecclesiastical records;
• Registers of the North Riding Register of Deeds containing approximately 1.25 million deeds made between 1736 and 1970;
• Manuscript maps from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries; and
• Other business records, etchings, drawings, scrapbooks and cartoons.

We hold millions of documents that can be used for personal, legal, administrative and historical purposes, such as:

• tracing ancestors;
• family history and genealogy;
• tracing ownership of property;
• determining the status of rights of way;
• discovering the position of boundaries; and
• helping people to understand life, work and people in the past

Search our catalogue online

You can search our online catalogue using keywords, document reference, title or date. There is also a detailed help section to aid you in your search as well as providing information on how to interpret the search results.  Please note that the catalogue will not be available from Wednesday 27th February to Friday 29th February 2013 whilst we undertake an upgrade to the database.

Historic maps online

You can explore a range of interactive historic maps using our online mapping system.

County Record Office online catalogue Search through our catalogue of over 4,000 summary descriptions from all our archive collections and item level descriptions of selected collections

Useful downloads List of County Record Office publications and order form [67kb] [pdf] This document provides a list of County Record Office publications available for purchase. An order form is included at the end. Please follow the instructions to order items from the County Record Office.   Weblinks Please note: All external websites open in a new browser window and NYCC is not responsible for the content of external websites. A2A: Access to Archives A2A is part of the UK archives network. The A2A database contains catalogues describing archives held locally in England and Wales and dating from the eighth century to the present day. Archives Hub A national searchable database of archive collections in UK universities and colleges. GENUKI - UK & Ireland genealogy A large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. The National Archives The National Archives is the UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history, from the Domesday Book to the present day. Contacts County record office archives@northyorks.gov.uk Tel: 01609 777585 Fax: 01609 777078 Full details for County record office