This database was compiled as part of a project preparing a scholarly printed edition of the clergy visitation returns at Archbishop Thomson's Primary Visitation in 1865. The database provides information on 659 returns from the Diocese of York in 1865 under the following headings: number and name of parish, type of incumbency, name of incumbent, population, patron, date of induction, value of living, whether resident, whether Glebe House, whether Pluralist, other duties, curates, church services, size of congregations, sermons, schools of various types, charities supported, catechizing practices, dissenters, frequency of communions and number of communicants, condition of curch building, impediments to church progress.