Worsall Parva History
WORSALL PARVA, East of Low Worsall, a township previously in Kirk-Levington, was united in 1891 to the parish of High Worsall for ecclesiastical purposes, and is a picturesque village adjoining the river Tees on the north, and 3 miles south-west from Yarm, in the Cleveland division of the Riding, Allertonshire wapentake, petty sessional division of Yarm, union of Stokesley and county court district of Stockton, rural deanery of Northallerton, archdeaconry of Cleveland and diocese of York. The church of All Saints far High and Law Worsall, was built from plans of Mr. Armfield and Mr. Moscrop, of Darlington, architects, and consecrated in 1894, and affords 100 sittings. The register dates from the year 1720. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £170, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, who has three turns, and the vicar of Northallerton, who has one turn, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Edward Herbert Keed M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. The vicarage house was built in 1895—6. Here is also a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1885. Herbert Bainbridge esq. in lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Mrs. Temple, John Thomas Wilson esq. and William Waldy esq. and the trustees of the late George Hearse esq. The area of Low Worsall township is 1,346 acres of land, 11 of tidal water and 2 of foreshore; rateable value, £1,558; the population in 1911 was 191 in the township and 329 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Public Elementary school, under the management of a committee of 6 members, who are under the control of the North Riding County Council, built in 1873, for 80 children; average attendance, 35.