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ABBERFORD, a market-town, in the parishes of Abberford and Sherburn, wapentakes
   of Skyrack, (lower division) and Barkston-Ash, liberties of Pontefract and
   St. Peter; 6 miles from Tadcaster, 8 from Wetherby, 9 from Ferrybridge, 11
   from Leeds and Pontefract, 14 from Selby, 16 from York, 186 from London.
   --Market, Wednesday.  --Fairs, last Mondays in April and May, first Monday in
   October, first Monday after St. Luke, first Monday after All Saints, for
   horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c.; if either of the two last St. days fall on
   a Monday, the Fair will be held on that day.  --Principal Inn, the Swan.
   --Pop. Lotherton-with-Abberford, 427 -Abberford, 579 -Total, 1,006.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Richard, in the deanry of the Ainsty,
   value, +6L. 1s. 8d.  Patron Oriel-College, Oxford.  Abberford is thus
   singularly situated with respect to the townships, viz. the west-side of the
   town, from the river Cock, (south-end) is Abberford-cum-Parlington; the
   east-side of the same end, is Lotherton-cum-Abberford; and all north of the
   river is Abberford alone.

           Abberford is situated on the great north road, upon the small river
   Cock, a river rendered famous in history by the battle of Towton, in 1461, a
   village a few miles lower down; the market is almost discontinued.  At the
   north end of the town is the vestige of a Roman station, to which place the
   Roman road from Castleford runs.  Abberford had once a good trade for pins,
   but has long since fallen to decay.  On the site of the School, endowed by
   Lady Betty Hastings, in 1738, is built a National school, conducted on the
   plan of Dr. Bell.  About half a mile north from Abberford, is a farm house,
   formerly a public house and known by the name of the Black Horse, which is
   said to have been the occasional retreat of the notorious Nevison, and at
   which house he baited his favourite mare, on his expeditious journey from
   London to York.  This mare was afterwards given to the Gascoignes of
   Parlington.
        Drunken Barnaby seems to have visited this place, for he sings:
                  "Veni Aherford, ubi notum
                  Quod aciculis emunt potum,
                  Pauperes sunt et indigentes
                  Multum tamen sitientes;
                  Parum habent, nec habentur
                  Ulla, quae non tenet venter"
 
ABDY, 2 f.h. in the township oF Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of Wath-upon-
   Dearne, liberty of Tickill; 5 miles from Rotherham.

ACACIA-COT, (the seat of Richard Fawcett, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Guiseley; 4 miles from Bradford.
 
ACASTER-MALBIS, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 4.5 miles from York, 7 from Tadcaster.
   --Pop. 291.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to the Holy Trinity,
   value, p.r. !32L.  Patron, Paul Beilby Thompson, Esq.  --Bacon styles it a
   discharged vicarage, value, 5L. 6s. 5.5d.
 
ACASTER-SELBY, (Ainsty) in the parish of Stillingfleet; 6 miles from Tadcaster
   and York, 8 from Selby.  --Pop. 188.

ACKWORTH, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract;
   3 mile from Pontefract, 5 from Ferrybridge, 8 from Wakefield, 28 from York.
   --Pop. Including Low Ackworth, 1,575.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to
   St. Cuthbert, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 22L. 1s. O.5d.  Patron, the
   King, as Duke of Lancaster.  Ackworth is nominally divided into two villages,
   called High and Low, adjoining each other.  The parish and township are
   co-extensive, in which are the following seats, viz:-  Ackworth-Park, John
   Petyt, Esq. Ackworth-House, John Goldsworthy, Esq.  Ackworth-Villa, Thomas
   St. Quintin, Esq. Ackworth-Lodge.  The Rev. George Maddison; Ackworth
   Moor-Top, Thomas Gee, Esq.  Ackworth-Grange, Richard Wilson, Esq. and at
   Ackworth, D'Oyley Sanders, Esq.

           The school at this place was originally an appendage to the Foundling
   Hospital in London, and built partly by original subscription, and partly by
   aid of Parliament.  In 1777 the premises and lands were offered for sale;
   when Dr. Fothergill, and some of the Society of Friends, purchased the whole
   for 7,000L. and converted it into a seminary for the children of Quakers.
   The school has since been supported by legacies, donations, &c.  The sum paid
   for board, education, and clothes, is regulated by a committee.  There are
   generally about 300 pupils on this establishment; and nothing can exceed the
   order and regularity that prevails in the school, which stands in a beautiful
   and pleasant situation.  The management is under the direction of Mr. Robert
   Whitaker, subject to the direction of a committee.
 
ACOMB, (Ainsty) a parish-town, in the liberty of St. Peter;  2.5 miles from
   York, 8.5 from Tadcaster, 12.75 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 733.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Stephen, value, +3L. 9s. 2d. p.r. !80L.  Patron,
   the Rev. Thomas Tireman.

ACOMB, or AXEHOLME, f.h. in the township of Blaxton, and parish of Finningley,
   (Notts.) soke of Doncaster; 6.5 miles from Bawtry, 7 from Thorne.

ADDINGHAM, a parish-town, in the east division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 6 miles from Skipton, 7 from Keighley, 9 from Otley, 37 from
   York.  --Pop. 1570.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter, in the
   deanry of Craven, value, +9L. 7s. 8.5d. p.r. !122L. 18s. 10d.  Patroness, Mrs
   Mary Cuncliffe.

           The Church, one of the neatest in Craven, with the antique
   parsonage house, stands at an agreeable distance from the village, on a
   lingula of land, between the Wharfe and the deep channel of a brook, which
   unites with it immediately beneath.  --Whittaker.
 
ADEL, or ADDLE, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack; 4 miles from
   Harewood, 5 from Leeds, 7 from Otley, 24 from York.  --Pop. including Eccup,
   609, which being united, form a township.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated
   to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 16L. 3s. 4d.
   Patron, W.G. Davy, Esq. in right of his wife.

          Adel or Addle, or "the Adhill of the 'Liber Regis', which probably
   gives the true etymology of the word, the Hill of Ada, the first Saxon
   colonist of the place," and supposed to be the 'Bargo-dunum' of the Romans;
   and from the great number of antiquities discovered here at different times,
   such as fragments of urns and other Roman vessels, monuments, pillars,
   aqueducts, inscriptions, &c. we may conclude it to have been a station of
   considerable importance.  This station appears to have been about half a mile
   north of the church, for particulars of which, we must refer the reader to
   Thoresby and Whittaker.  The Church of Adel, built not long before 1100, is
   one of the must perfect and beautiful specimens of Norman architecture in the
   county particularly when we consider its exposed situation.  The rich and
   highly adorned entrance of the south side, appears to have been freed, at the
   request of Dr. Whittaker, by the present rector, the Rev. George Lewthwaite,
   in whose possession are many antquities found in the neighbouring station,
   mentioned before.  An engraving of tbe south entrance, and another of the
   beautiful enriched arch entering the choir, are given in Whitaker's 'Loidis
   et Elmete', as well as the Norman capitals, and two Roman altars.
 
ADDLETHORPE, f.h. in the township and parish of Spofforth; 2.5 miles from
   Wetherby, 6 from Knaresborough.
 
ADLINGFLEET, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 8 miles from Howden and Crowle, (Linc.) 17 from Snaith, 28 from
   York.  --Pop. 256.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the
   deanry of Pontefract, value, 9L. 12s. 11d.  Patron, the King.

ADMERGILL, f.h. in the township of Brockden, parish of Barnoldswick,
   east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 2 miles from Guisburn.
 
ADWALTON, in the township of Drighlington, and parish of Birstall,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 5.25 miles from
   Bradford, 6.75 from Leeds, 8.75 from Wakefield.  --No Market.  --Fairs, Feb.
   26, Thursdays in Easter and Whitsun Weeks, for horses and horned cattle; and
   every other Thursday until Sept 29, for lean cattle.

         A battle was fought on Adwalton Moor in 1642 between the Earl of
   Newcastle, who commanded the royalists' troops, and the Lord Fairfax and his
   son, who commanded the Parliamentarian forces; the latter were totally
   routed.  The old Lord fled to Bradford; Sir Thomas took the road to Halifax,
   but the next day joined his father at Bradford with his division, where
   Newcastle prepared to siege them in form.  Newcastle's head quarters were at
   Bowling Hall, from which place he now brought his cannon to bear upon the
   town, church, and steeple, the last of which was protected by wool sacks.
   Fairfax now saw his danger, and determined to make his escape by a sally;
   this he effected with considerable loss, and fought his way to Leeds, whence
   he retreated to Hull.  In this sally, Lady Fairfax, who had bravely
   accompanied her husband through this campaign, was taken prisoner on
   horseback, but was generously sent back with an escort by Newcastle in his
   own coach.
           The town having now fallen into Newcastle's hands, he ordered it 'tis
   said, to be given up to military execution; whether the order was really
   given or not, it certainly was not put in execution; and tradition assigns
   the following reason for his forbearence: on the night preceding, Newcastle,
   while in bed at Bowling Hall, was accosted by an apparition of a female form,
   which implored him to spare the town, and either affrighted, or melted him
   into compliance; thus saved the lives of the unarmed inhabitants, and the
   place became a garrison for the King.  Fairfax's Memoirs.  --Whitaker's
   Loidis et Elmete.
 
ADWICK-LE-STREET, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from Doncaster, 6 from Rotherham, 10
   from Pontefract, 13 from Barnsley, 32 from York.  --Pop. 346.  The Church is
   a rectory, dedicated to St. Laurence, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 4L.
   13s. 4d.  Patron, J. Kellerton, Esq.
 
ADWICK-UPON-DEARNE, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Rotherham, 8 from Doncaster, 35
   from York.  --Pop. 168.  The Church a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, !40L.  Patron, Lord Manvers.
 
AGBRIGG, ham. (which gives name to the division) in the township and parish of
   Warmfield; 1.25 mile from Wakefield.
 
AGBRIGG and MORLEY, a wapentake, bounded on the east by Osgoldcross, on the
   south by Staincross and Cheshire, on the west by Lancashire, and on the north
   by Skyrack and part of Staincliffe; it is divided into two divisions, Agbrigg
   and Morley, which may be almost considered now as two distinct wapentakes.
   It contains 5 market-towns, Halifax, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Wakefield, and
   Bradford:- in Agbrigg-division, 19 parishes, 68 townships, 18,600 inhabited
   houses, and 154,091 inhabitants.  --Morley, 4 parishes, 53 townships, 35,509
   inhabited houses, and 178,475 inhabitants-- Total, Population in the
   wapentake, 54,109 inhabited houses, and 330,566 inhabitants.

           The Fee of this wapentake was the property of Henry, Duke of
   Lancaster, who dying without issue male, his large estates were divided
   between his daughters, of whom Blanch being married to John of Gaunt, Duke of
   Lancaster, fourth son of King Edward III. had the bailiwick of this hundred
   assigned for her property with many other estates.  -Magna Brit.
 
AGDEN, s.h. in the township of Bashalleves, and parish of Mitton, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

AIKTON, in the parish of Featherstone, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; (Aikton-Hall, the seat of Sir Edmund Mark Winne,
   Bart.) 3 miles from Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield.  - Pop. 72.

        Sir Edmund Mark Winne, the seventh Baronet of this family, was born
   September 16th, 1762; succeeded his cousin, Sir Rowland, October 14th, 1805.
   --Creation 1660.

AIRMYN, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Howden, 7 from Snaith, 8 from Thorne.  --Pop. 750.
   The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Pontefract,
   value, p.r. 33L. 12s. 9d.  Patron, Henry Yarburgh, Esq.
 
AIRMYN, LITTLE, in the township of Newland, and parish of Drax, wapentake of
   Barkston-Ash; 3.25 miles from Howden, 6.25 from Snaith.
 
AIRTON, - in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale, west-division of Staincliffe,
   liberty of Clifford's-Fee; 6 miles from Settle, 8 from Skipton, 12 from
   Kettlewell.  --Pop. 187.
 
AISMUNDERBY, a part of the township of Aismunderby-with-Bondgate, in the parish
   of Ripon, lower-division of Claro, liberty of Ripon; 0.25 of a mile from
   Ripon.  --Pop. including Bondgate, 551, which being united, form a township.
 
AKETON, scattered houses, in the township of Follyfoot, and parish of Spofforth;
   3.5 miles from Knaresborough, 4 from Wetherby.
 
ALDBOROUGH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, a part in the liberty
   of St. Peter; 1 mile from Boroughbridge, 7 from Knaresborough and Ripon, 16
   from York.  --Pop. 484.  The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to
   St. Andrew in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, +9L.
   19s. 5d.  Patron, the Dean and Chapter of York.

         This was the Iseur of the Ancient Britons, and the Isurium of the
   Romans, of which scarcely a vestige of its former grandeur remains.  And this
   once celebrated city, which has ever since the days of Leland, arrested the
   attention and engaged the particular notice of British antiquaries, is now
   sunk into a small village, and in danger of losing the remains of its ancient
   grandeur.  Roman coins are frequently dug up, chiefly of Constantine and
   Carausius Maximian, Dioclesian, Valerian, Severus, Pertinax, and also of
   Faustina and Julia.  In 766, it was attacked with great fury by the Danes,
   who murdered a great part of its inhabitants, and burnt the city to the
   ground.   -Camden.  -Higden's Polychron.

           Though we have no account from history of its origin, yet we have
   incontestible evidence of its great antiquity; and that it was the metropolis
   of the Brigantes is a fact that can never be called in question.  Many
   British princes resided here, and as it flourished many ages prior to York,
   it is probable that it was the seat of government.  Venutius who opposed the
   brave Caractacus resided here in the year 50.  --Tacitus
           The brave Agricola, whose wisdom beamed a double lustre on triumphant
   Rome, after having subdued the Brigantes about the year 70, resided at York,
   and made it his head quarters, which shews that Isurium had sunk in the
   estimation of the Romans, while York was rising into eminence.
           In the time of the Romans it was defended by a strong wall, a small
   part of which is still visible, though even in Leland's time the ruins were
   slender, who observes, "Vestigia quaedam, sed tenuaria."
           The most fatal blow given to this once celebrated city, was the
   turning of the road, which went through it, by removing the bridge over the
   Ure to where it now stands at Boroughbridge, which happened during the reign
   of the Conqueror.
           In the the house famed for curiosities, may be seen a Roman pavement
   in great preservation, about 18 inches below the surface, first discovered in
   1731, and in the same room are many other ancient remains, particylarly a
   votive stone found in 1776, coins, &c.  It sends two Members to Parliament;
   the first retrun of which was in 1542.
 
ALDERMANSHEAD, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 2
   miles from Penistone.
 
ALDFIELD, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro, liberty of Ripon; 4
   miles from Ripon, 8 from Pateley Bridge, 10 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 133.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy with Studley, dedicated to St. Laurence, in
   the deanry of Ripon, value, p.r. !74L.  Patroness, Mrs. Lawrence.

           This village is situated about a mile above the venerable ruins of
   Fountains Ahbey, on the banks of the Skell, and is celebrated for its
   valuable mineral springs, which are situated on the south side of the vale
   beneath, richly clothed with wood.  This Spaw is resorted to during the
   summer months by immense numbers of people, and only wants accommodation to
   render it a fashionable watering place; few places abounding with more
   natural and picturesque scenery.

             The spaw was first discovered in 1698, and its waters analised in
   1805/6 by the late Mr. W. Brunton, when the contents were found to be as
   follows, viz:- carbonate of lime, 125 grains; carbonate of magnesia, 35
   grains; sulphate of magnesia, 5 grains; muriate of soda, 208 grains;
   muriate of magnesia, 96 grains;  total 325.  -Gaseous contents, carbonic
   acid gas, 6; azotic gas, 4; sulphurate hydrogen gas, 21; total 31 cubic
   inches.

ALDWARKE-HALL, (the residence of Samuel Walker, Esq) in the parish of
   Ecclesfield, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Wakefield;
   2 miles from Rotherham, 10 from Doncaster.  --Pop. including Wheatcroft, 35,
   which being united, form a township.

           Aldwarke, the ancient seat of the Clarelles, Fitzwilliams, and
   Foljambes, lies remote from the parish of Ecclesfield; being separated from
   it by the parishes of Rawmarsh and Rotherham.  In this house was born William
   Fitzwilliam, an eminent naval commander, and Earl of Southampton, in the
   sixteenth contury.  He was the second son of Sir Thomas Fitzwilllam, Knight,
   of Aldwarke Hall.  He died at Newcastle, in 1542, when on an expedition to
   Scotland.  Of the personal character of this great man, it is said that there
   was not a serviceable man under his command whose name he knew not; not a
   week passed but be paid his ships; and not a prize but his seamen shared in
   as well as himself.  --Biog. Dict.
 
ALCOMDEN, ham. in the township of Wadworth, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 9 miles from Colne, (Lanc.)
 
ALLERTON, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Bradford, 7 from Halifax.  --Pop. 1,488.
 
ALLERTON-BYWATER, in the parish of Kippax, Lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Pontefract, 9 from Leeds and Wakefield.  --Pop. 329.
 
ALLERTON, CHAPEL, in the parish and borough of Leeds, lower-division of Skyrack,
   liberty of Pontefract;  2.25 miles from Leeds, 5.25 from Harewood, 9 from
   Wetherby, 11 from Otley.  --Pop. 1,678.  The Church is a perpetual curacy.
   Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

           Robert Parker, of Browsholme, says Thoresby, built an hospital here
   for ten widows, to whom he has given 50L. per annum, for nearly twenty years
   past, and designed to augment the endowment at his death very considerably.
   Whether this design was put into execution or not, we have not learned.
 
ALLERTON-GLEDHOW, see Gledhow.
 
ALLERTON-GRANGE, in the township of Chapel-Allerton, and parish of Leeds; 3.5
   miles from Leeds.

           This place formerly belonged to the Abbot and Convent of Kirkstall.
   The family of the Killingbecks which is of considerable antiquity in these
   parts, were tenants to it before the dissolution.  --Thoresby.
 
ALLERTON-LEE, ham. in the township of AlIerton, and parish of Bradford;  3.5
   miles from Bradford, 6.5 from Halifax.
 
ALLERTON-MAULEVERER, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; (the seat of
   the Right Hon. Lord Stourton) 4.5 miles from Knaresborough, 5 from Wetherby,
   7 from Boroughbridge, 13.5 from York.  --Pop. including Hopperton, 276, which
   being united, form a township.  The Church is a perpetual curcacy, dedicated
   to St. Martin, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value,
   p.r. +28L.  Patron, Lord Stourton.

           Allerton Mauleverer, was for many ages the seat of a family of that
   name, the founder of which was William Mauleverer, who came over with the
   Conqueror.  His name is found in the list of gentlemen hung up for ages in
   Battle Abbey, and is in Grafton Holinshead, &c.  He received Allerton as a
   reward for his services.  Sir Thomas Mauleverer about the 21st in succession,
   was created a baronet in 1640.  He took up arms for the Parliament during the
   civil wars of Charles I. and raised two regiments at his own expense, one of
   horse and the other of foot, which indicated a state of affluence.  He was
   also governor of Ripon.  His name is in the instrument for the execution of
   the King.  The estate continued in the male line till 1720; it was then held
   by the female line till 1786, when Lord Galway sold it to the Duke of York.
   The Duke in 1789, sold it to Colonel Thornton for 110,000L. who then gave it
   the name of Thornville Royal.  In February, 1805, this superb mansion,
   pleasure ground, park, &c. together with the estate particularly annexed to
   them, were sold at Garraway's Coffee House to Lord Stourton for 163,800L.
   --Hutton.

           At this place was a Priory of Benedictines, founded by Richard
   Mauleverer in the reign of Henry II. to which Priory he gave the church of
   St. Martin, of this place, with one caracute of land &c.  At the dissolution
   its revenues were settled by Henry VI. on King's College, Cambridge.
   --Burton.  -Dugdale.

           Charles Phillip Stourton, Lord Stourton, born August 22nd, 1782,
   succeeded his father, October 3rd, 1781, married June 15th, 1775, Mary, the
   second daughter and co-heir of the late Lord Langdale.  Heir apparent
   William, son of the present Lord.  Creation, May 13th, 1448  -Debrett;
 
ALMHOLME, in the township of Bentley-with-Arksey, and parish of Arksey, lower
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 5.5 miles from
   Doncaster, 8 from Thorne.
 
ALMONDBURY, a parish-town, in Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Thorpe-Ville, the seat of John Dobson, Esq.) 2 miles from
   Huddersfield, 10 from Halifax, 10.5 from Penistone, 11 from Wakefield, 41
   from York,  --Pop. 5,679.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints,
   in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 20L. 7s. 11d.  Patrons, the Trustees of
   the Free Grammar School of Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

           Here is a free grammar school founded by patent of King James I. and
   now endowed with about 120L. per annum.  Here is supposed to have been a
   Roman station, the Cambodunum of Antoninus, as there are marks of an old
   rampart, and some ruins of a wall, and of a castle.  In the Saxon times it
   was the seat of royalty, and graced with a church built by Paulinus, the
   Northumberland apostle, and dedicated to St. Alban.  Afterwards a castle was
   built here, which was confirmed to Henry Lacy, by King Stephen.  --Camden.
           The late Dr. Whittaker says "that the whole" of what Camden states
   respecting this place, "Is so hypothetical, as scarcely to merit a
   confutation.  First, Almondbury is not Cambodunum, which has been decisively
   fixed at Slack.  Secondly, it, is not Roman at all, wanting every symptom
   which belongs either to the site or the structure of a Roman encampment.
   Thirdly, it is unquestionably Saxon," &c.  Of the castle hill, Dr. Whittaker
   has given us a ground plan from which it appears to occupy upwards of eleven
   acres.  "The crown of the hill has been strongly fortified by a double wall
   and trenches; the area within has also been subdivided into an outer and
   inner enclosure from the gate, and the remains of mortar and stones almost
   vitrified, prove beyond all controversy that the place has been destroyed by
   fire."  --Loidis et Elmete.

ALTOFTS, in the parish of Normanton, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Wakefield, 5.5 from Wetherby.  --Pop.
   404.

ALVERLEY-GRANGE, (the seat of Bryan William Darwin Cooke, Esq.) in the township
   and parish of Wadworth; 3 miles from Doncaster, 10 from Rotherham.
 
ALVERTHORPE, in the parish of Wakefield, Agrbrigg division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from Wakefield, 4 from Dewsbury.  --Pop
   including Thornes, 4,448, which being united form a township.
 
ALWOODLEY, in the parish of Harewood, upper-division of Skyrack; 3 miles from
   Harewood, 5.25 from Leeds, 6 from Otley.  --Pop. 142.

   This place was formerly a seat of the Franks, afterwards the estate of Sir
   Gervaise Clifton, the noted Baronet, who outdid Henry VIII. in the number of
   his wives; for, whereas that monarch, three Kates, two Nans, and one dear
   Jane had wedded; this Baronet had three honourables, three right
   worshipfulls, and one well-beloved wife; he died in 1666.  --Thoresby
 
ALWOODLEY-GATE, ham. in the township of Wigton, and parish of Harewood; 3 miles
   from Harewood, 5 from Leeds.
 
ANGRAM, f.h. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, 5
   miles from Kettlewell.
 
ANGRAM, (Ainsty) in the parish of Long-Marston; 4 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from
   York, 8.5 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 66.
 
ANSTON, NORTH, in, the parish of South-Anston, liberties of St. Peter and
   Tickhill;  6 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 8 from Rotherham, 9 from Tickhill.
   --Pop. included in South-Anston.
 
ANSTON, SOUTH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberties of St. Peter and Tickhill; 6 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 8 from
   Rotherham, 9.5 from Tickhill; 12 from Sheffield, 50 from York.  --Pop.
   including North-Anston, 776, which being united form the township, usually
   denominated Anston with its Members.  The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual
   curacy, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 33L.  Patron, the Duke of Leeds.
 
APPERLEY and BRIDGE, ham. In the township of Eccleshill, and parish of Bradford,
   liberty of Wakefield; 4 miles from Bradford, 6 from Otley, 10.5 from Leeds.
 
APPLEDAY, 2 f.h. in the township of Notton, and parish of Royston, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Barnsley.
 
APPLETON, NUN, (Ainsty) in the township of Appleton-Roebuck, and parish of
   Bolton-Percy; (the seat of Sir Wm. Mordaunt Sturt Milner, Bart.) 6 miles from
   Tadcaster, 9 from York.  Here is a Chapel, of which Sir W.M. Milner is
   Patron.

      This place took its name from a Priory of Nuns, founded here by Adeliza de
   Sancto Quintino, in the time of King Stephen.  It was for Nuns of the
   Cistercian order, and dedicated to God, and St. Mary.  Many curious
   injunctions were prescribed to the Nuns; that none of the sisters were to use
   the ale-house, nor the water side where stangers resorted to, &c.  Valued at
   the dissolution at 73L. 9s. 10d.  --Dugdale
      In 1552, Robert Darkual, the grantee, alienated the site and premises of
   this Priory to Sir William Fairfax, Knight, and Humphrey Shelley.  Upon this
   site Thomas, Lord Fairfax, built a handsome house, which, with the estate,
   was purchased by Mr. Alderman Milner, of Leeds, who upon the marriage of his
   son, Sir William Milner, Bart. created in 1716, settled it upon him and his
   son.  -Burton.  --Dugdale.  It is now enjoyed by the present Baronet.
           Sir William Mordaunt Sturt Milner succeeded his father, Sir William
   Mordaunt, September 9, 1811, married, first in 1804, the daughter of the
   Right Hon. Theophilus Clements, and grand daughter of the Right Hon. John
   Beresford:- Sir William married, second, May 8, 1809, Henrietta, daughter of
   Lord Edward Bentick, son of William, second Duke of Portland.  Heir
   presumtive, his brother Charles.  Creation, February 29th, 1716.
 
APPETON-ROEBUCK, (Ainsty) in the parish of Bolton-Percy; 5 miles from Tadcaster,
   8 from York.  --Pop. 585.
 
APPLETREWICK, in the parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's-Fee; 8 miles from Skipton and Pateley Bridge, 10 from
   Kettlewell.  -No Market.  --Fair, October 25 for horses and horned cattle.
   --Pop. 312, one house and a small parcel of land is in the parish of Linton.

     A charter for a fair and free warren was granted 4th of Edward II, at the
   instance of Piers do Gavestone, to the Prior and Canons of Bolton, who were
   then owners of the Manor.  - Whitaker.
           In this village was born William Craven, of poor parents, who are
   said to have consigned him to a common carrier, for his conveyance to
   London, where he entered in the service of a Mercer and Draper.  In that
   situation nothing is known of his history till, by diligence and frugality,
   the old virtues of a citizen, he had raised himself to wealth and honour.  In
   1607, he is described by Camden as "equistri dignitate, et senator
   Londinensis."  In 1611, he was chosen Lord Major; the time of his death not
   known.  In him commercial spirit of the family ended as it had begun.
   William Craven, his eldest son, having been trained in the armies of Gustavus
   Adolphus, and William, Prince of Orange, became one of the most
   distinguished soldiers of his time.
      He was of the number of those gallant Englishmen who served the
   unfortunate King of Bohemia, from a spirit of romantic attachment to his
   beautiful consort; and his services are generally supposed to have been
   privately rewarded with the hand of that princess, after her return in
   widowhood to her native country.
      Thus the son of a Wharfdale peasant matched with the sister of Charles I.
   a remarkable instance of that providence which "raiseth the poor out of the
   dust, and setteth him among princes, even the princes of his people."  He
   was created Baron of Hamstead Marshall, 2nd Charles I. and Earl of Craven,
   16th Charles II.  -Whitaker's Craven.
 
ARDSLEY, in the parish of Darfield, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Park-House, the seat of B. Taylor, Esq. and Ardsley-Hall, the
   seat of John Micklethwaite, Esq.) 2.5 miles from Barnsley, 9 from Rotherham,
   9.5 from Wakefield, 13 from Doncaster.  --Pop. 992,

ARDSLEY, EAST, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Pontefract; 3.5 miles from Wakefield 6 from Leeds, 11.5 from Bradford, 28
   from York.  --Pop. 832.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of
   Pontefract.  Patron, the Right Hon. Earl of Cardigan.

ARDSLEY, WEST, or WESTERTON, in the parish of Woodkirk, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Wakefield, 5 from
   Dewsbury, 9.75 from Bradford.  --Pop. 1,515.
 
ARKENDALE, in the parish of Knaresborough, lower-division, of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 4 miles from Knaresborough and Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 285.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, in the deanry
   of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, p.r. 81L.  Patron, the Vicar of
   Knaresborough.

ARKSEY, a parish-town, in the township of Bentley-with-Arksey, lower division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 3.5 miles from Doncaster, 9
   from Thorne, 35 from York.  --Pop. included in Bentley.  The Church is a
   vicarage dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 12L.
   17s. 6d.  p.r. 109L.  Patron, Sir George Cooke, Bart.

      Here is a Free Grammar School endowed by the Will of Bryan Cooke, Esq.
   dated January 3rd, 1660, and built by the will Of Sir George Cooke, Bart., in
   1683; and an Hospital for twelve of the poorest and oldest people in the
   parish.
 
ARMENTHWAITE, f.h. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 7 miles from Kettlewell.
 
ARMITAGE-FOLD, ham. in the townships of North and South-Crosland, and parish of
   Almondbury; 2.25 miles from Huddersfield.

ARMISTEAD, (the seat of John Forster, Esq) in the township and parish of
   Giggleswick; 2.75 miles from Settle.

ARMLEY, in the parish and borough of Leeds, Morley division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; (Armley-House, the seat of Benjamin Gott,
   Esq.) 2.25 miles from Leeds, 8 from Bradford.  --Pop. 4,273.  The Church,
   built in the time of Charles I. is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Bartholomew.  Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

      Of the Danish Fortification called Giant's Hill, at this place, as
   described by Thoresby, very little is now to be seen, having been cut
   through by the Leeds and Liverpool canal.

ARMTHORPE, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4
   miles from Doncaster, 7.5 from Bawtry and Thorne, 40 from York.  --Pop. 359.
   The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, 8L. 18s. 9d.  Patron, the King.
 
ARNCLIFF, --modern spelling of Arnecliff (below) -CH.

ARNCLIFF COTE, --modern spelling of Arnecliff-Cote (below) -CH.

ARNECLIFF, a parish-town, in the west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 7
   miles from Kettlewell, 11 from Settle, 16 from Skipton, 50 from York.  --Pop.
   189.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Oswald, in the deanry of
   Craven, value,  13L. 6s. 8d. p.r. 33L. 6s. 8d.  Patron, the
   University-College, Oxford.
 
ARNECLIFF-COTE, 4 f.h. in the townships of Arnecliff and Hawkswick, and parish
   of Arnecliff; 7 miles from Kettlewell.

      Here lived in 1579, a man named Tristram Knowles, whose father and himself
   together had occupied a tenement upwards of 120 years! these two men had seen
   six generations of the Cliffords, and nine Sovereigns of England.
   --Whitaker's Craven.
 
ARNFORTH, s.h. in the township of Hellifield, and parish of Long-Preston,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 6.5 miles from Settle.
 
ARRUNDEN, or HARRUNDEN,  see Harrunden.
 
ARTHINGTON, in the parish of Addle, upper-division of Skyrack; (Arthington-Hall,
   late the seat of W.G. Davy, Esq.) 3 miles from Harewood, 5 from Otley, 7 from
   Leeds.  --Pop. 329.

      Here about the middle of the twelfth century, was a Priory of Cluniac
   Nuns, built and endowed by Peers of Arthington, who gave the site and
   desmesnes of the house, which were augmented by Serlo, his son, and confirmed
   by Pope Alexander.  It flourished till the year 1540, when Elizabeth Hall,
   the last Prioress, and nine Nuns, surrendered the same.  Valued at the
   dissolution, 11L. 8s. 4d.  -Dugdale, 13L. 7s. 4d. -Speed.  Not a vestige is
   now to be seen.  The site was granted to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of
   Canterbury, in exchange.  A plain substantial Hall-house, was built upon the
   site, apparently in the beginning of the reign of Charles I. for the front
   door-way, dated 1585, has evidently been removed from some older structure.
   It is now occupied as a farm house, the property of the Earl of Harewood.
   Arthington itself would be distinguished for the beauty of the situation, in
   any other valley than that of Wharf.  It is a large well-built, square house,
   on a fine elevation above the river, and was for many centuries the seat of
   a family of that name.  -Dugdale. -Burton. -Whitaker.
 
ARTHINGTON-NUNNERY, in the same township and parish, and adjoins the village of
   Arthington.
 
ASH-DAY, (the seat of Thomas Drake, Esq.) in the township of Southowram, and
   parish of Halifax; 2 miles from Halifax.
 
ASH-GROVE, (the seat of John Rawson, Esq.) in the township of Southowram, and
   parish of Halifax.
 
ASKAM-BRYAN, or GREAT, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 4 miles from York, 6 from
   Tadcaster.  --Pop. 377.  The Church is perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Nicholas, value, p.r. 113L. 2s. 6d.  Patron, Harry Croft, Esq.
 
ASKAM-RICHARD, or LITTLE, (Ainsty) a parish-town; (Askam-House, the seat of
   Robort Swann, Esq.) 4.75 miles from Tadcaster, 5 from York.  --Pop. 249.  The
   Church is a vicarage, endowed in 1329, dedicated to St. Mary, value,  4L.
   13s. 4d.  Patron, Harry Croft, Esq.
 
ASKERN, or ASKRON, in the parish of Campsall, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty
   of Pontefract; 7 miles from Doncaster, 9 from Pontefract, 10 from Thorne,
   11 from Ferrybridge, 12 from Selby, 17 from Wakefield and Barnsley.
   --Pop. 159.

       This village has of late years attracted considerable notice, on, account
   of its mineral water, and probably may, in a few years, vie with many of our
   fashionable watering places.  An accuont of this water is given by Dr. Short
   in his treatise on Mineral Waters; and in 1818, a treatise on the water and
   description of the place was publisbed by Mr. Brewerton; a respectable
   surgeon at Bawtry.  Hitherto people afflicted with rheumatism and scorbutic
   diseases have received the greatest benefit, as they rarely fail obtaining
   relief.  The spring rises at the distance of only a few yards from a piece of
   water called Askern Pool, and is enclosed in a house, called the Spaw or
   Well-House, a plain rustic building.  The pool or lake covers about seven
   acres of ground, is well supplied with fish, and beautifully fringed on one
   side with young plantations, and bordered on the other by a walk of gravel
   for the accommodation of visitors.  The village skirts the road, is rural but
   not romantic in its scenery; and its cots and its trees harmonising together,
   give it an interesting appearance.  The Hotel is an elegant edifice, built on
   the side of a gentle sloping hill, converted into a shrubbery.  There is
   another respectable Inn, the Swan, at the north end of the village, and
   several lodging houses for the accommodation of visitors. --Northern Star.
 
ASKWITH, in the parish of Weston, upper division of Claro; 3 miles from Otley,
   13 from Leeds and Skipton.  --Pop. 367.
 
ASSON-THORPE, in the township of Sykehouse, and parish of Fishlake; 4 miles
   from Thorne, 7.5 from Snaith.
 
ASTLEY, in the township and parish of Swillington, liberty of Pontefract; 7
   miles from Leeds, 8 from Wakefield and Pontefract.
 
ASTON, a parish town in the upper division of Strafforth and Tickhill; (the
   seats of Harry Verelst, Esq. and the Rev. William Alderson) 6 miles from
   Rotherham, 8.5 from Sheffield, 9.5 from Worksop, (Notts.) 58 from York.
   --Pop. including Aughton, 556, which being united, form a township.  The
   Church is a rectory, dediotited to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value 12L. 15s. 2.5d.  Patron, the Duke of Leeds.

     Here died in 1797, the Rev. W. Mason, the poet, who bad been presented to
   this living by his patron, the Earl of Holderness, soon after he came into
   holy orders.  In the church is a marble tablet erected to his memory by the
   Rev. C. Alderson, his successor; and in a summer house in the rectory garden,
   on the ceiling, is an embossed medallion, containing the profiles of himself
   and his friend Gray, and on the floor stood two urns and pedastals inscribed
   to Gray and Mason.  This garden and grounds contiguous to the rectory, Mason
   employed himself during his residence here, in laying out and improving.

      Within a few hundred yards of the church, and once surrounded by a park,
   stood Aston Hall, the ancient residence of the D'Arcys, afterwards Earls of
   Holderness; which was pulled down upwards of fifty years ago, and the present
   mansion erected on the ancient site, under the direction of Mr. Carr of York.
   The late Sir Harry Verelst purchased the etate of the late Duke of Leeds.

      In the church are effigies in marble, of John, Lord D'Arcy and Mennil, and
   his three wives.  --Northern star.
 
ATTERCLIFFE, in the parish of Sheffield, upper division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; (Attercliffe Hall, the seat of Gamelial
   Milner, Esq.) 1.5 mile from Sheffield, 4.5 from Rotherham.  --Pop. including
   Darnall, 3,172, which being united form a township.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to Holy Jesus, value, p.r. 40L.  Patron, the
   Vicar of Sheffield.

      Another chapel is about to be erected here, to contain 2000 souls, by the
   Commissioners for building Churches.
 
AUDZUS, f.h. in the township of Woodset-with-Gildingwells, and parish of
   South-Anston; 5 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 6.5 from Tickhill.
 
AUGHTON, in the township of Aston-with-Aughton, and parish of Aston, upper-
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 9.5 from
   Worksop, (Notts.) 18 from Mansfield, (Notts.) --Pop. included in Aston.
 
AUKLEY, ham. in the township of Blaxton, and parish of Finningley, (Notts.)
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, soke of Doncaster; 6 miles from
   Doncaster, 6.75 from Bawtry.  -A part of Aukley is in Nottinghamshire.

      Here was found in 1746 a fine Urn with ashes and coins of Constantine in
   it, and twenty more under it.  -Gough's Camden.

AUSBY, in the township of Nesfield-with-Langbar, and parish of Ilkley; 7 miles
   from Otley, 9 from Skipton.
 
AUSTERFIELD, in the parish of Blythe, (Notts.) lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; 1.5 mile from Bawtry, 8 from Doncaster, --Pop. 242.  Here is a
   Chapel of Ease to Blythe.

      The Rev. Abraham de la Pryme supposes the name of Austerfield or
   Osterfield to be detived from the famous Roman general Ostorius, fighting a
   battle with the Britons, near this place, which opinion is strengthened by a
   Roman camp being at no great distance.  The word Field is never added but
   where a battle has been fought.  -Pryme's Papers in Philos. Trans. vol. 9.
 
AUSTERLANDS, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of
   Rochdale, (Lanc.); 9 miles from Rochdale.
 
AUSTONLEY, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 7.5 miles from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 968.

AUSTHORPE, in the parish of Whitkirk, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Austhorpe-Hall, the seat of Joseph Fields, Esq.) 4.25 miles from
   Leeds, 8 from Wakefield, 10 from Ferrybridge.  --Pop. 150.

      Here was born, May 28th, 1724, the celebrated mechanic and civil engineer,
   Mr. John Smeaton.  If there were no other monument of his fame, the building
   of the Eddystone Light House, would establish his character.  It was first
   built by Mr. Winstanley, who, in 1696, was furnished by the Trinity House
   with necessary powers.  In 1700 it was destroyed, and the projector perished
   in the ruins.  In 1709, another was erected by Mr. Rudyard, which in 1755 was
   consumed by fire;  the present one was completed by Mr. Smeaton, in 1759, Mr.
   Smeaton was seized with a paralytic stroke in September, 1792, and died in
   the October following.  In the choir of Whitkirk church is an elegant marble
   monument, on which is a beautiful representation of the Eddystone Light House
   to his memory.
 
AUSTWICK, in the parish of Clapham, wapentake of Ewcross; (the seat of Charles
   Ingilby, Esq. and Austwick-Hall, the seat of Mrs. King,) 4 miles from Settle,
   12 from Kirby-Lonsdale, 20 from Skipton.  -No Market.  --Fair, Thursday
   before Whitsuntide, for horned cattle, &c.  --Pop. 556.
 
AXEHOLME, --see ACOMB (Acomb is the modern spelling -B.T.)
 
AZERLEY, in the parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower-division of Claro; (the seat of
   Wm. Dawson, Esq.) 5 miles from Ripon, 5.5 from Masham, 15 from Knaresborough.
   --Pop. 579.

BACHELORS-GARDENS, ham. in the township of Bilton-with-High-Harrogate, and
   parish of Knaresborough; 2 miles from High Harrogate.

      Here is a Free School for poor girls within the township, founded by
   Richard Taylor, in 1785, who endowed it with land and tenements, which are
   vested in six trustees, but all in the hands of the Master of the school.
   Salary, 30L. per annum.

BADSWORTH, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty, of
   Pontefract; (Badsworth-Hall, the residence of Joseph Scott, Esq.) 4 miles
   from Pontefract, 6 from Ferrybridge, 10 from Wakefield, 27 from York.  --Pop
   200.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, 32L. 5s. 10d.  Patron, the Earl of Derby.

BAGDEN, UPPER and LOWER, 2 hams. in the township of High-Denby, and parish of
   Penistone, wapentake of Staincross; 4.25 miles from Penistone, 6 from
   Barnsley.

BAGLEY, f.h. in the township, parish, and liberty of Tickhill; from which it is
   one mile.

BAGLEY, ham. in the township of Calverley-with-Farsley, and parish of Calverley;
   4.5 miles from Bradford.

BAILDON, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Skyrack; 5 miles from Otley
   and Bradford, 12 from Leeds.  --Fairs, first Saturdays in March and November,
   for horned cattle, horses, &c.  --Pop. 2,679.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. Giles, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, p.r.
   !113L. 11s. 8d.  Patron, the Vicar of Otley.

BAITINGS, ham. in the township of Soyland, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 8 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.)

BAKESTONE-DELF, ham. in the township of Quick, in Saddleworth; 0.75 of a mile
   from Delf.

BALBY, in the township of Hexthorpe-with-Balby, parish and soke of Doncaster,
   lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 1.75 miles from Doncaster, 5.75
   from Tickhill, 10.75 from Rotherham.

BALK, f.h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 3 miles from
   Barnsley, 9 from Rotherham.

BALK-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Dewsbury; 0.25 of a mile from
   Dewsbury.

BALLIFIELD-HALL, (the seat of John Jubb, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Handsworth; 4 miles from Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.

BALNE, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and bailiwick
   of Cowick and Snaith; 4 miles from Snaith, 9 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 329.

BALNE-CROFT and BALNE-HOUSE, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Snaith; 4
   miles from Snaith.

BANKS-HALL, (the seat of Samuel Thorpe, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Cawthorn; 4 miles from Penistone, 4.5 from Barnsley.

BANK-HOUSES, ham. in the township of Pudsey, and parish of Calverley;  adjoins
   Fullneck on the west.

BANK-NEWTON, in the parish of Gargrave, east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Skipton, 9 from Colne, (Lanc.) 11 from Settle.
   --Pop. 139.

BANKSIDE, 3 or 4 f.h. in the township and parish of Thorne; 4 miles from Snaith
   and Thorne.

BANKSIDE-HOUSES, ham. in the township of Cowick, and parish of Snaith; 4 miles
   from Snaith and Thorne.

BANK-TOP, or SOUTHOWRAM-BANK, ham. in the township of Southowram, and parish of
   Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 1.5 miles from Halifax, 7.5 from Huddersfield.

BANK-TOP, s.h. in the township of Worsbrough and parish of Darfield, wapentake
   of Staincross; 1.25 mile from Barnsley.

BANNER-CROSS, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield; (the residence of the Rev. W. Bagshaw) 2.5 miles from Sheffield.

BARBOT-HALL, (the seat of Col. Charles Newton) in the township of Greasbrough,
   and parish of Rotherham, liberty of Tickhill; 1 mile from Rotherham.

BARCROFT, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 4 miles from Bradford, 8
   from Halifax.

BARDEN, in the parish of Skipton, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 5
   miles from Skipton, 10 from Pateley Bridge, 11 from Kettlewell.  --Pop. 219.
   Here is a private family Chapel, not subject to archiopiscopal jurisdiction,
   served by the minister of Bolton.

      The old Tower of Barden seems to have been one of the six lodges belonging
   to the forest of that place, and originally erected for the accommodation of
   the keepers and protection of the deer.  But the retired habits of Henry Lord
   Clifford, leading him to prefer the retreat of Barden to the bustle of his
   greater houses, enlarged this lodge for the reception of himself and a modest
   train of followers.  His son, a very different character, only occasionally
   resided here, and till the latter days of the third Earl of Cumberland, it
   seems never to have been totally neglected by the family.  From the inventory
   taken in 1572, after the death of the second Earl, it appears that the Hall
   and Kitchen were furnished, but the bedrooms empty: amongst other items are
   two old Charitts.  When the Countess of Pembroke succeeded to her
   inheritance, Barden had become a ruin, which she repaired in 1657, by a
   contract of 100L., there is an inscription over the principal entrance to
   that effect.  After 1676, Barden was occasionally the residence of the
   Burlington Family; and in 1774 it was entire.  The lead and timbers of the
   roof have since been taken away, and it has now put on that picturesque form
   which only dilapidating remains have the privilege of assuming.  -Whitaker.

BARDEN-PIKE-LODGE,  s.h. in the township of Barden, and parish of Skipton; 5
   miles from Skipton.

BARDSEY; a parish town, in the lower-division of Skyrack; 4 miles from Wetherby
   and Harewood, 8.5 from Leeds, 19 from York.  --Pop. including Rigton, 336,
   which being united, form a township.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to
   All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +4L. 1s. 8d. p.r. 150L.
   Patron, Geo. Fox, Esq.

      The church of Bardsey affords a fine specimen of the Norman architecture,
   but not to be compared to Adel, although from the engravings given of both in
   Loidid et Elmete, we might suppose they were equally perfect.  On the north
   side of the village, and near to the Grange, are large earth works of some
   ancient castle.
      This place was born the celebrated William Congreve, the poet, and whose
   baptism is thus registered:--"William, the sonne of Mr. William Congreve, of
   Bardsley Grange, was baptised, February 10th, 1669."
      He wrote the "Old Batchelor," the "Double Dealer," "Love for Love," the
   Mourning Bride, the "Way of the World," and some poems.

BARKISLAND, in the parish of Halifax; Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5.5 miles from Halifax, 6 from Huddersfield, 12 from
   Rochdale, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 2,224.

      Here is a Free School founded in 1657, by Sarah Gledhill.  The old Hall
   at Barkisland, now occupied as a farm house, is a good specimen of ancient
   architecture, built about the time of Charles I.  It now belongs to the Bold
   family, of Bold Hall, in Lancashire.  --Watson's Halifax.

BARKSTON, (which gives name to the wapentake) in the parish of Sherburn and
   Saxton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from
   Abberford, 5 from Tadcaster,  11 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 251.

BARKSTON-ASH, a wapentake, bounded on the east by the river Ouse, on the south
   by the wapentake of Osgoldcross, on the west by that of Skyrack, and on the
   north by the Ainsty.  -In this wapentake are four market towns, Cawood,
   Selby, Sherburn, and Tadcaster; 48 townships, 18 of which are parishes; 4,442
   inhabited-houses, and 22,264 inhabitants.

BARLOW, in the parish of Brayton; wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Selby, 5 from Snaith, 13 from Pontefract.  --Pop.
   175.

BARMBY-UPON-DUNN, a parish town in the upper division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; liberty of Tickhill; 5.5 miles Doncaster and Thorne, 7.75 from
   Bawtry, 35 from York.  --Pop. 495.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster, value p.r. 66L.  Patron,
   John Gresham, Esq. Bacon styles it a vicarage, value +9L. 12s. 6d.

BARNBROUGH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; (Barnbrough-Hall, the residence of Mrs. Griffith,) 6
   miles from Doncaster, 8 from Rotherham, 9 from Barnsley, 36 from York.
   --Pop. 466.  The Church is a rectory dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, 23L. patrons, Prebendaries of Southwell, Collegiate Church,
   (Notts.)

      Mr. Bingley, in his Animal Biography, relates the following singular
   anecdote.  "At Barnborough there is a tradition extant, of a serious conflict
   that once took place between a man and a wild cat.  The inhabitants say, that
   the fight commenced in an adjacent wood, and that it was continued thence
   into the porch of the church.  I do not recollect in what manner it is
   reported to have begun; but they state that it ended fatally to both
   combatants.  A rude painting in the church commemorates the event; and the
   accidentally natural red tinge of some of the stone, is considered as stains
   of blood still remaining."

BARNBROUGH-GRANGE, (the seat of Mrs. Farrer) in the township and parish of
   Barnbrough; 5.5 miles from Doncaster.

BARNBOW, ham. in the township and parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Leeds, 8 from Wetherby.

BARNBY-FURNACE and BARNBY HALL, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Cawthorne,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3.5 miles from Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone.

BARNFIELD SMITHY, f.h. in the township and parish of Low Bentham; 10.5 miles
   from Kirby Lonsdale, (Westmoreland.)

BARNOLDWICK, ham. in the township of Burton in Lonsdale, and parish of Thornton
   in Lonsdale; 6 miles from Kirby Lonsdale, (Westmorland,) 11 from Settle.

BARNOLDSWICK-COATES, see Coates.

BARNOLDSWICK, or GILL-CHURCH, a parish town in the east division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4 miles from Gisburn, 5 from Colne, (Lanc.) 49 from York.
   --Pop. 1334.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in
   the deanry of Craven, value p.r. 62L. 9s. 6d.  Patron Sir John Lister Kaye,
   Bart.

      The church here, which seems to have been built soon after the Monks left
   this place, is situated near a mile and a half from the village, upon the
   brink of a deep glen, whence it has obtained the name of Gill Church.
      In 1147 Henry de Lacy founded a monastery here, and translated hither
   twelve Monks and ten Conversi, under Alexander, Prior of Fountains, for the
   support of which he assigned the whole town of Barnoldswick.  The old church
   was levelled to the ground by the Abbot.  After six years residence in
   continual warfare with the Rector and Parishioners, and frequent ravages
   committed upon their lands by the Scots, they abandoned Barnoldswick, and
   went to Kirkstall.  --Tanner.   The situation of this Monastery was on the
   margin of the brook, west of the village.  -Whitaker.

BARNSDALE-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Kirk-Smeaton; 6 miles from Pontefract
   and Ferrybridge.

BARNSDALE-LODGE, s.h. in the township and parish of Campsall; 7.5 miles from
   Pontefract and Doncaster.

BARNSGREEN, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles from Sheffield, 8 from Rotherham, 10 from
   Barnsley.

      Here is an Hospital called Barns Hall Hospital, for six poor people, built
   and endowed in 1638, by Sir Richard Scott, Bart. with 30L. per annum.  The
   old Hall, formerly the seat of the ancient family of the Scotts, is now
   converted into cottages.

BARNSIDE-WOOD, 4 f.h. in the township of Hepworth, and parish of Kirk-Burton; 6
   miles from Penistone.

BARNSLEY, a market-town, in the parish of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 8 miles from Penistone, 10 from Wakefield, 12 from
   Rotherham, 14 from Sheffield and Pontefract, 15 from Doncaster, 18 from
   Huddersfield, 38 from York, 176.75 from London.  --Market, Wednesday.
   --Fairs, the Wednesday before February 28, May 13, and October 11, for
   horses, horned cattle, pigs, &c.  --Bankers. Messrs. Beckett, Birks, and Co.,
   draw on Messrs. Sir Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. Mills, and Co., 12, Birchin
   Lane; Messrs. Wentworth and Co., draw on Messrs. Wentworth and Co., 25,
   Threadneedle-Street.  --Principal Inns, White Bear and King's Head.  --Pop.
   8,284.  The Church, rebuilding, is a perpetual curacy under Silkstone.

      Here is a Free Grammar school, founded and endowed in 1665; by Thomas
   Keresforth, Gent. Barnsley, situated upon the declivity of a hill, among coal
   pits and iron works, has nothing to interest the antiquary.  It is tolerably
   well built of stone; and it has long been celebrated for the excellence of
   its wire, in which article the inhabitants still continue to do considerable
   business; and of late years the manufactory of linens has been carried on at
   this place to a very great extent.  Here are two Iron Foundries for casting
   of steam engines, grates, &c.

BARNSLEY, OLD, in the townships of Barnsley and Silkstone, and parish of
   Silkstone,  liberty of Pontefract; 1 mile from Barnsley.

BARROW, ham. in the township of Wentworth, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles from Rotherham, 13.5 from
   Doncaster.

BARROWBY-GRANGE, f.h. in the township and parish of Kirkby Overblow; 5 miles
   from Wetherby, 7.5 from Knaresborough, of Garforth, liberty of Pontefract; 5
   miles from Leeds, 9 from Pontefract.

BARUGH, in the parish of Darton, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract;
   3 miles from Barnsley, 5 from Penistone, 9.25 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 396.

BARWICK-IN-ELMET, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; 7 miles from Tadcaster and Wetherby, 8 from Leeds, 16 from York.
   --Pop. 1,481.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the
   deanry of the Ainsty, value, 33L. 12s. 6d.  Patron, the King, as Duke of
   Lancaster.

      This place is said to have been the seat of the Kings of Northumberland,
   and Dr. Whitaker supposes it to have been founded by the great Edwin; "the
   great extent and magnificence of this fortification, which is four furlongs
   in circumference, and contains an area of more that thirteen acres,
   sufficiently prove that it has been a royal work."  The mount, called Hall
   Tower Hill, hath been encompassed by a double trench; on this mount most
   probably stood the royal mansion: it is now the only part that remains.  This
   manor was afterwards part of the possessions of the Lacys; Roger de Lacy
   having married the sister of William de Vesey, Rector of the parish.  From
   the Lacys it descended to the Dukes of Lancaster, to which duchy it has
   been ever since annexed.
      Elmet was not conquered from the Britons till Edwin's reign, in 560, by
   the Saxons.  --Turner's Anglo Saxons.

BASHALL or BASHALLTOWN, in the parish of Mitton, west-division of Staincliffe,
   liberty of Bolland; (Rashall-Hall, the seat of James Taylor, Esq.) 4 miles
   from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 11 from Blackburn and Burnley, (Lanc.) 10 from
   Gisburn.  --Pop. 348.

BASHALLEAVES, s.h. in the township of Bashall, and parish of Mitton; 4 miles
   from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

BASINGTHORPE, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 1
   mile from Rotherham.

BATLEY, a parish-town, in Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2.5, miles from Dewsbury, 6.25 from Bradford, 8 from Leeds, 31
   from York.  --Pop. 3,717.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints,
   in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +16L. 11s. 8d. p.r. 150L.  Patrons, Lords
   Wilton and Cardigan, alternately.

       Batley, the field of Batt or Batta is a place of great antiquity.  The
   church was granted to the Canons of St. Oswald of Nostal, and confirmed by
   Henry I. Not a vestige of the original structure remains, the whole having
   been rebuilt about the time of Henry VI.  The north chapel of the choir
   belongs to Howley Hall.  This church is adorned with several monuments of the
   Savilles, Fitzwilliams, Elands, Copleys, &c.  -Loidis et Elmete.  Here is a
   Free School, founded in the 10th year of James I. by the Rev. William Lee,
   Vicar of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, who was a native of this place, for the
   purpose of teaching the children to read English, and write, also to instruct
   them in Latin.  He endowed it with an estate, which he conveyed to certain
   Trustees in his lifetime.  This School was handsomely rebuilt in 1818,
   out, of monies arising from the estate.

BATLEY-CARR, in the township and parish of Batley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile
   from Dewsbury.

BATLEY, UPPER, ham. in the township and parish of Batley; 3.5 miles from
   Dewsbury, 6 from Bradford.

BATTERAX, 2 f.h. in the township of Bowland-Forest, Higher, and parish of
   Slaidburn, liberty of Bolland; 3 miles from Slaidburn, 8 from Clitheroe,
   (Lanc.)

BAWTRY, a market-town, in the parish of Blythe, (Notts.) lower division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; (the seat of the Dowager Viscountess, Galway) 5.25
   miles from Barnby-Moor Inn, (Notts.) 9 from Doncaster, and 9 from Retford,
   (Notts.) 12 from Gainsborough (Linc.) 14 from Thorne, 20 from Sheffield, 46
   from York, 156 from London.  --Market, Thursday, (formerly on the Wednesday)
   --Fairs, Thursday in Whitsun-Week, and old Martinmas-Day, for horses, horned
   cattle, sheep, and pedlary.  --Principal Inn, the Crown.  --Pop. 1,027,  The
   Church is a perpetual curacy under Blythe, dedicated to St. Nicholas, in the
   deanry of Retford.

           Bawtry, situated upon the site of the Roman, road from Agelocum to
   Danum, stands at the very extremity of the county, (a portion of it being in
   Nottinghamshire,) and on the great north road from London to Edinburgh.  It
   contains nothing of particular interest, except the elegant mansion of the
   Dowager Viscountess Galway, which is situated at the southern extremity of
   the town.

BAXTER-HALL, s.h. in the township of Long-Drax, and parish of Drax; 5 miles from
   Snaith.

BEACON-HILL, (a Hill) in the township of Southowram, and parish of Halifax; 1
   mile from Halifax.

BEAGHALL, in the parish of Kellington, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Pontefract, 8 from Snaith.  --Pop. 546.

BEAMSLEY, in the parishes of Addingham and Skipton, upper division of Claro;
   (Beamsley-Hall the residence of Robinson Chippendale, Esq.) 6 miles from
   Skipton, 8.5 from Otley, 17 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. in Addingham 80, -in
   Skipton, 232, -total, 312.

      Here is an hospital founded by Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, in the
   35th of Queen Elizabeth.  It was ordered to consist of one Mother and twelve
   Sisters, to be named and appointed by George, Earl of Cumberland, and the
   said Margaret, and their heirs; and that the said Mother and Sisters, and
   their successors should be incorporated, and have a common seal.  The Earl of
   Thanet is now the heir or representative of the Earl and Countess of
   Cumberland, and has the management of the estates and revenues of the
   hospital.  The total income arising from rents and dividends, amounts to
   357L. 9s. 4d. out of which the Mother and sisters receive an annual stipend,
   of the Mother 18L. and the Sisters, 16L. each, besides which they receive on
   commission, a bedstead each, with a few other necessary articles of
   furniture.  Twenty pounds per annum is given the clergymen for reading
   prayers, and administering the Sacrament four times a year, and who receives
   an additional sum of 2L. 10s. per annum, for providing the Elements.  And
   Lord Thanet's Steward receives a salary of 10L. per annum, for superintending
   the estates, and keeping the accounts.

           The hospital consists of two distinct buildings, with a small court
   or garden between them, and contains a chapel and separate apartments for the
   Mother and twelve Sisters.  The number is duly kept up, according to the
   foundation deed.  The chapel is used for prayer on Sundays and three other
   days in the week.  It is situated on the road side, leading from
   Knaresborough to Skipton, within the township.  --Extracted from
   Commissioners report on Charities.

           The old hall at Beamsley was anciently the seat of the family of
   Claphams.  Of this family was John Clapham, a famous esquire in the wars
   between the houses of York and Lancaster, and who is said to have beheaded
   with his own hands, the Earl of Pembroke, in the church porch of Banbury.
   This family had a chantry and vault in Bolton Priory church, and where
   according to tradition, they were interred upright.  --Whitaker.

BEARCROFTS-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Horton; 8 miles from Settle.
   14 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)

BEARSWOOD-GREEN, p.h. in the township and parish of Hatfield; 3 miles from
   Thorne, 8 from Doncaster.

BECKA-LODGE, (the seat of William Markham, Esq.) in the town-ship and parish of
   Abberford, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 1 mile from
   Abberford, 6 miles from Wetherby, 8 from Leeds.

BECKFOOT and MILL, 2 h. in the township and parish of Bingley; 4 miles from
   Bradford, 8 from Halifax.

BECKMEETING, f.h. in the township and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 5.5 miles from
   Masham, 8 from Ripon,

BECKWITH, scattered houses, in the township and parish of Pannal, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 2.5 miles from Harrogate.  Adjoining is:-
BECKWITH-GREEN, and ) in the same township and parish.
BECKWITH-SHAW,      )
           The original seat of the ancient family of Beckwith, the last remains
   of whose property here, was purchased about the year 1753, by Edwin Lacelles,
   Esq. of Mr. John Beckwith, of Knaresborough, a lineal descendant of that
   ancient house.  -Hargrove.

BECKURMUNDS, ham. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff; 8 miles
   from Kettlewell, 14 from Settle, 17 from Leyburn.

BEESTON, in the parish and borough of Leeds, Morley-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Leeds, 10.5 from Wakefield, 12
   from Bradford, 11 from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 1,670.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary.  Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

          The present chapel of Beeston is the oldest in the parish, and
   probably the second in antiquity.  The lancet window at the west end appears
   to be as old as Henry III.  --Whitaker.

BEGGARINGTON, ham. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax

BELL-BUSK, ham. in the township of Cold-Coniston, and parish of Gargrave,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 8 miles from Skipton.

BELL-HAGG, ham. in the township of Upper-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 3
   miles from Sheffield.

BELL-VUE, (the seat of John Naylor, Esq.) in the township and parish of Sandal-
   Magna, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from Wakefield, 9 from Pontefract.

BELLWOOD, (the residence of John Harrison, Esq.) in the township of Aismunderby-
   with-Bondgate, and in the parish and liberty of Ripon; 1.5 miles from Ripon.

BELLY-BRIDGE, 2 h. in the township of Hartshead-with-Clifton, and parish of
   Dewsbury; 4 miles from Halifax.

BENTHAM, HIGH, in the township and parish of Low-Bentham, wapentake of Ewcross;
   (the seat of T.H. Johnson, Esq.) 10 miles from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 11
   from Settle, 16 from Lancaster.  --Market, Monday.  --Fairs, January 25,
   Saturday in Easter week, June 22, October 25, for horned cattle, &c.
   --Principal Inns, King's Arms, and Black Bull.

BENTHAM, LOW, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 4 miles from Ingleton,
   9 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 12 from Settle, 15 from Lancaster, 71 from
   York.  --Pop 2,102.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. John, Baptist,
   in the deanry of Kirby-Lonsdale, and diocese of Chester, value, 35L. 7s.
   8.5d.  Patron, T.L. Parker, Esq.  The township of Bentham is divided into
   four quarters, viz. Low-Bentham, High-Bentham, Mewith, and Grasingle.

         At this place was born, of poor parents, Thomas Wray, D.D. Fellow of
   Christ College, Cambridge, and successively chaplain to Archbishops Hutton
   and Secker.  He was a pious, abstemious, mortified man, never married, of
   weak constitution, of most amiable deportment, yet a zealous reprover of vice
   in public and in private.  He had learned too, from his master, Secker, not
   to despise the meanest, nor to shrink from the most disgusting offices of his
   functions.  He died at Rochdale, February, 1778, aged 55, where a plain stone
   within the altar rails is erected to his memory,  The Editor of Butler's
   Remains thus notices him:-

          "While Modest Wray with silent grace,
           Just steals a meaning smile."
                                            Nichols' Lit. Anecdotes.

BENTLEY, in the parish of Arksey, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; 1.5 mile from Doncaster, 10 from Thorne.  --Pop.
   including Arksey,  1,171, which being united, form a township.

           A remarkable instance of punctuality occurred at Bentley, in a
   little old man called Billy Dutchman, a stone mason, who had kept a book in
   his house from 1767, wherein is inserted the name of every person by whom he
   had been employed, how many days he worked in each week, and what number
   idle; what money he had earned each week, summed up to a quarter every year.
   The whole for the first twenty-nine years is 583L. 15s. 3d. average, he says,
   7s. 9d. per week.  --Miller's Doncaster.

BENTLEY-GRANGE, f.h. in the township and parish of Emley, liberty of Wakefield;
   7 miles from Wakefield.

BENT'S-GREEN, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield; 3.5 miles from Sheffield.

BERRY-MOOR, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3.5 miles from
   Penistone.

BERRY-BROW, ham. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.

BERWICK, 2 f.h. in the township of Draughton, and parish of Skipton, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 4 miles from Skipton.

BESSACAR, ham. in the township and parish of Cantley, 4 miles from Doncaster.

BEWERLEY, in the township of Dacre-with-Bewerley, and parish of Ripon, lower-
   division of Claro; (Bewerley-Hall, the seat of John Yorke, Esq.) 0.75 of a
   mile from Pateley Bridge, 8 from Ripley, 12 from Ripon.  --Pop. included in
   Dacre.

BICKERTON, (Ainsty) in the parish of Bilton; 4 miles from Wetherby, 7 from
   Tadcaster, 10 from York.  --Pop. 149.

BIERLEY, EAST, in the township of North Bierley, and parish of Birstall,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from
   Bradford, 7 from Halifax, 10.25 from Wakefield.

BIERLEY, NORTH, see Northbierley.

BIGGIN, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; (Biggin-Grange, the
   seat of the Rev. J. Geldart) 5 miles from Masham.

BIGGIN, in the parish of Church-Fenton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of
   St. Peter and Pontefract; 6 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from Selby, 11 from
   Pontefract.  --Pop. 164.

BILBROUGH, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 4.5 miles from Tadcaster, 5.5 miles from
   York.  --Pop. 260.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, of which Thomas
   Lodington Fairfax, Esq. is Patron.

BILCLIFFE, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Penistone.

BILHAM, in the parish of Hooton-Pagnall and Barmbrough, lower-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; (Bilham-House, the residence of
   the Rev. Godfrey Wright) 6 miles from Doncaster, 10 from Barnsley.  --Pop.
   74.

BILHAM-GRANGE, f.h. in the township of Clayton, and parish of High-Hoyland; 7
   miles from Barnsley and Penistone.

BILHAM-ROW, ham. in the township of Bilham, and parish of Hooton-Pagnall,
   lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles from Doncaster.

BILLINGLEY, in the parish of Darfield, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Barnsley, 9 from Doncaster.
   --Pop. 214

BILLINGLEY-GREEN, 2 h. in the township of Billingley, and parish of Darfield;
   6.25 miles from Barnsley.

BILTON, (Ainsty) a parish town, in the liberty of St. Peter; (Bilton Park, the
   seat of Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.) 4.75 miles from Wetherby, 5.5 from
   from Tadcaster, 9.5 from Knaresborough, 10 from York.  --Pop. 223.  The
   Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Helen, valued,
   p.r. !124L.  Patron, the Prebendary thereof.

BILTON, in the parish of Knaresborough, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; (Bilton-Hall, the seat of Henry Hunter, Esq.) 1.5 mile from
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. including-High Harrogate, 1,934, which being united,
   form a township.

BINGLEY, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack; 4 miles
   from Keighley, 6 from Bradford, 10 from Otley, 11 from Halifax, 38 from
   York.  --Market, Tuesday.  --Fairs, Jan. 25, for horned cattle, August 25,
   26, and 27, for horned cattle, sheep, and linen.  --Principal Inns, Brown
   Cow, and King's Head.  --Pop. 6,176.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated
   to All-Saints, in the deanry of Craven, value, +7L. 6s. 8d. p.r. !138L.
   Patron, the King.

      This is one of the thirty-two Lordships which the Conqueror gave to Erneis
   de Berun; how long he held it does not appear; but about the year 1120 it was
   the property of William Paganell, founder of the Priory of Drax.  His
   successors were the Gants, and William de Gant had a charter for a market
   here, 12th of John.  The family of the Cantilupes afterwards became possessed
   of it; and in later times we find it in the hands by purchase, in 1668, of
   Robert Benson, father of the first Lord Bingley, whose descendant, James Lane
   Fox, Esq. is the present owner of it.  In the time of Dodsworth, who visited
   this place in 1621, "there was a park at Bingley and castle near the church,
   on a hill, called Bailey Hill," of which little more than the name and
   tradition now remain.  The church, a plain and decent structure, was restored
   in the early part of the reign of Henry VIII.  Dr. Whitaker states it to be
   dedicated to All-Souls.  Here is a Free Grammar School, founded 20th of Henry
   VIII. value about 400L. per annum, present master, the Rev. Dr. Hartley.  By
   a decree of the Lord Chancellor, in December, 1820, it was determined that it
   should he conducted as a Free Grammar School for teaching the children of the
   inhabitants of the parish of Bingley, the learned languages.  Here is also a
   National School established in 1814, and supported by voluntary
   contributions.

BIRCHAM-CLIFFE, in the township of Lindley, and parish of Huddersfield; 2 miles
   from Huddersfield, 6 from Halifax.

BIRDHALL-FLAT, f.h. in the township of Swinton, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne;
   4.5 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Doncaster.

BIRDWELL, ham. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Tankersley; 3.25
   miles from Barnsley.

BIRKBY, in the township and parish of Thorner, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles
   from Leeds, 8 from Wetherby.

BIRKBY, (the seat of Thomas Holroyd, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Huddersfield, 2 miles from Huddersfield, 9 from Halifax.

BIRKBY-NAB, f.h. in the township of Studley-Roger, parish and liberty of
   Ripon; 2 miles from Ripon.

BIRKIN, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract
   (the seat of Thomas Toutill, Esq.) 4 miles from Ferrybridge, 7 from
   Pontefract, 8 from Selby, 22 from York.  --Pop. 139.  The Church is a
   rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value,
   36L.  Patron, the Devisees of the late Rev. Thomas Wright.

BIRKINSHAW, in the township of Gomersall, and parish of Birstall;
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from
   Bradford, 8 from Leeds, 9 from Halifax.

BIRK'S-HALL, (the seat of the late Robert Ramsbottom, Esq.) in the township of
   Ovenden, and parish of Halifax; 1 mile from Halifax.

BIRKWITH, s.h. in the township and parish of Horton  8 miles from Settle, 14
   from Hawes.

BIRKWOOD, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Crofton; 3.5 miles from
   Wakefield.

BIRLEY-CAR, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 3 miles from Sheffield, 9.5 from Penistone.

BIRTHWAITE, ham. in the township and parish of Ripley; 1.75 miles from Ripley, 7
   from Ripon.

BIRTHWAITE-HALL, (the seat of Thos. Riskworth, Esq.) in the township of
   Kexbrough, and parish of Darton, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from
   Barnsley, 8 from Wakefield.

           Birthwaite Hall was formerly the residence of the ancestors of the
   present Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.  Thomas Burdett, the second son of Richard
   Burdett of Denby, was living here in 1494.

BIRSTALL, a parish-town, in the township of Gomersall, Morley-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Leeds and Bradford,
   7.5 from Halifax, 8.5 from Huddersfield, 31 from York.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated, to St. Peter, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +23L.
   19s. 2d.  Patron, the Archbishop of York.

           This place is not mentioned in Doomsday, but Gomersall is described
   as containing two manors: it seems therefore probable that Birstall was one
   of them, and being then an inconsiderable place, was passed over without
   further notice.  -Whitaker.  This parish, though extensive, does not furnish
   a township of Birstall, the village being in that of Gomersall.  Here was
   born, 1579, Henry Burton, a puritan divine, who was educated at St. Johns
   College, Cambridge, but took his degree of B.D. at Oxford.  He was afterwards
   clerk of the closet to Prince Henry, and next to Prince Charles; but was
   turned out for a libel against the Bishops.  In 1636, he was persecuted in
   the high commission court for two seditious sermons, sentenced to the
   pillory, fined 5,000L. and ordered to he imprisoned for life.  In 1640, he
   was set at liberty, and was restored to his living.  He died in 1648.  He
   wrote many pamphlets, chiefly controversial and abusive.  --Biog. Dict.

BIRSTWITH, in the parish of Hampsthwaite, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 3 miles from Ripley, 8 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 621.

BISHOPSIDE, HIGH and LOW, a township, in the parish and liberty of Ripon,
   lower-division of Claro; 1 mile from Pateley Bridge, 9 from Knaresborough, 11
   from Ripon.  --Pop. 2,072.  -It is situated on the north-side of the river
   Nidd, in the vicinity of Pateley Bridge, the chief town in the township.

BISHOP-MONKTON, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro;
   (the seat of Thomas Charnock, Esq.) 4 miles from Ripon and Boroughbridge, 6
   from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 473.  The Chapel, re-built in 1822, is a
   perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !65L.  In the patronage of the Dean and Chapter
   of Ripon.

BISHOPTHORPE, (Ainsty) a parish-town; (Bishopthorpe-Place, the seat of the
   Archbishop of York,) 2.5 miles from York, 8 from Tadcaster.  --Pop. 301.  The
   Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, value, +4L.  Patron, the
   Archbishop of York.

           Bishopthorpe, anciently St. Andrew's Thorp, alias Thorpe super Use.
   The Palace of Bishopthorpe was built by Walter Grey, Archbishop of York, in
   which is a neat Chapel, still standing, where his chantry was founded.  The
   present beautiful gardens were almost wholly laid out at the charge of
   Archbishop Sharp; and the house received great alterations at the expence of
   the late Archbishop Dawes.  --Drake.

BISHOP-THORNTON, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 6
   miles from Ripon, 7 from Knaresborough, --Pop. 647.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !65L.  In the patronage of the Dean and Chapter
   of Ripon.

BISHOPTON, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 1 mile
   from Ripon.  --Pop. 136.

BLACKBURNE-COMMON, ham. in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham;
   2.5 miles from Rotherham.

BLACKER, LOW, MIDDLE, and OVER, 3 f.h. in the township of Upper-Hoyland, and
   parish of Wath; 5 miles from Barnsley.

BLACK-HORSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Abberford.  -See Abbeford.

BLACK-MOOR, f.h. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.

BLACK-MOOR-FOOT, ham. in the township of South-Crossland, and parish of
   Almondbury; 3.5 miles from Huddersfield.

BLACKSHAW-HEAD, few h. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 10 miles from Halifax.

BLACKSTONE, f.h. ii the township of Little-Ribstone, and parish of Spofforth; 3
   miles from Wetherby.

RLACKSTONE-EDGE, in the parish of Halifax, and liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles
   from Halifax.

           Blackstone-Edge is a ridge of mountains that divide Yorkshire from
   Lancashire, over which lays the road from Halifax to Rochdale: this ridge is
   continued to the Highlands of Scotland.

BLAIDROYD, f.h. in the township of Southowram, and parish of Halifax; 3 miles
   from Halifax.

BLAKE-HALL, (the residence of Mrs. Ingham) in the township and parish of
   Mirfield; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 6.5 from Huddersfield.

           In this house was born, John Hopton, Bishop of Norwich, of a very
   considerable family, residing alternately at Blake-Hall and Armley, near
   Leeds.  He was a Dominican Friar, educated at Oxford, from whence, after his
   course of study was completed, he travelled to Rome, and took the degree of
   D.D. at Bologna.  He was chaplain to Princess Mary, soon after whose
   accession to the crown, he was nominated to the See of Norwich, which he
   enjoyed to his death.  --Whitakers Loidis et Elmete.

BLAXTON, in the parish of Finningley, (Notts.) and soke of Doncaster, lower-
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill;  5 miles from Bawtry, 7.5 from
   Doncaster.  -- Pop. 117.

BLEAK-ROYD, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles
   from Penistone.

BLUBBER-HOUSES, in the parish of Fewston, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 11 miles from Skipton, 12 from Knaresborough, 18 from Ripon.
   --Pop. 126.

BOARD-HILL, p.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles
   from Penistone.

BOARSHURST, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale; 1.5 miles
   from Dobcross, 10 from Rochdale,(Lanc.)

BODLES, p.h. in the township of Bentley-with-Arksey, and parish of Arksey; 1
   mile from Doncaster.

BOGG-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Kirkheaton; 4 miles from
   Huddersfield, 10 from Wakefield.

BOLSTERSTONE, in the township of Bradford, and parish of Ecclesfield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 9 miles from Penistone and
   Barnsley.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, p.r. !60L.  Patron, J. Rimmington, Esq.

           The chapel here appears to have been founded as early as 1412, by Sir
   Robert Rockley; originally a private chantry of that family, though it came
   at length to be used as a place of public worship by the inhabitants of the
   manor, living at a great distance.  At the time of the foundation of this
   chapel, the Rockleys were owners of the Manor of Bolsterstone, which it
   appears they had obtained by the marriage of Robert de Rockley with Alice,
   the sole daughter of Sir Thomas Sheffield.  Robert de Rokeley lived in the
   time of Richard II. and was the chief of an ancient family residing at
   Rockley, in Worsboroughdale, where they appear to have been seated as early
   as the reign of Henry II.  -- Hunter's Hallamshire.

BOLTON-BY-HOLLAND, a parish-town, in the west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; (Bolton-Hall, the occasional residence of John Bolton, Esq.) 4
   miles from Gisburn, 10 from Settle, 12 from Colne, (Lanc.) 14 from Skipton,
   55 from York.  --No Market.  --Fairs, June 28, 29, and 30, or horned cattle,
   pedlary, &c.  --Pop. 1,205.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter,
   in the deanry of Craven, value, 11L. 13s. 4d. p.r. 123L. 12s,  Patron John
   Bolton, Esq.

             Bolton Hall the ancient residence of the family of Pudsay, says,
   Dodsworth, "stands very pleasantly among sweet woods and fruitful hills."
   Here Sir Ralph Pudsay sheltered his persecuted sovereign Henry VI. after the
   battle of Hexham: and where still are preserved a pair of boots, a pair of
   gloves, and a spoon, which the unfortunate Monarch left, either from haste
   and trepidation, or as tokens of regard for the family.  An adjoining Well
   still retains the name of "King Harry," who is said to have directed it to be
   dug and walled, in its present shape, for a cold bath.  In the church, which
   is a plain building of late Gothic architecture, is the famous monument of
   Sir Ralph Pudsay, with his three wives and twenty-five children, all engraven
   in relief, upon a slab of grey Craven limestone.  --Whitaker's Craven.  The
   manor and advowson were purchased for 42,000L. by John Bolton, of Liverpool,
   Esq. its present owner.

BOLTON-ABBEY, in the parish of Skipton, east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; (a seat of the Duke of Devonshire), 5.75 miles from Skipton, 10
   from Keighley, 11.5 from Pateley Bridge, 12 from Otley, 16 from Harrogate.
   --Pop. 127.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary and St.
   Cuthbert, in the deanry of Craven, value, p.r. *46L. 1s. 11d.  Patron, the
   Duke of Devonshire.

           This priory was founded in the year 1120, for Canons regular, of the
   order of St. Austin, by William Meschines, and Cecilia de Romelle, his wife,
   Baroness of Skipton, and sister to the noble youth who lost his life in
   crossing a place called "The Strid", about a mile from hence, which is the
   cleft of a rock, in the bed of a river; and through which the river, in
   summer time, entirely passes, Strid, so called from a feat often exercised by
   persons of more agility than prudence, who stride from brink to brink,
   regardless of the destruction which waits a faultering step.  It was in
   stepping over this gulph, leading a greyhound, the animal not making its
   effort in the passage, at the same time with its master, checked the footstep
   of the unhappy youth, and precipitated him into the torrent.  Bolton-Hall was
   formerly a picture of this young gentleman, with the greyhound standing near
   him.  This Priory was dissolved the 11th of June, 1540; and in 1543, was
   granted to Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland; in which family it remained,
   till 1635; when Elizabeth, the daughter and sole heiress of Henry, the last
   Earl of Cumberland, marrying Richard, the first Earl of Burlington, carried
   the demesnes into that family; whose daughter, Charlotte, sole heiress,
   married in 1748, the Duke of Devonshire.
           Here is a Free-School founded about 1698, or 1700, by the Hon. Robert
   Boyle, who endowed the same with an annual rent charge of 20L.  Besides this
   there are some rents, which in the whole, amount to 99L. 7s. 6d.  The School
   is for Latin and Greek; and for the poor people, English, writing, and
   arithmetic, on paying one shilling per quarter.

BOLTON-BRIDGE, 4 h. in the townships of Bolton-Abbey and Beamsley, and parish of
   Skipton, liberty of Staincliffe; 5.5 miles from Skipton, 12 from
   Pateley Bridge.

        Bolton-Bridge had anciently a chapel, like many others, for the benefit
   of Travellers.  The town field, a plain of inexhaustible fertility, stretched
   from the bridge to the priory wall; and on this, Prince Rupert is said by
   tradition, to have encamped on his way to Marston-Moor, in July, 1644.  The
   elm, under which he dined, is remembered by persons now alive, (1805.)
   --Whitaker's Craven.

BOLTON-PERCY, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 3 miles from Tadcaster, 9 from York.
   --Pop. 238.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, value, 39L.
   15s. 2.5d. p.r. 150L.  Patron, the Archbishop of York.

BOLTON-UPON-DEARN, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 7.5 miles from Rotherham, Barnsley, and
   Doncaster, 38 from York.  --Pop. 623.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +6L. 15s. 4d.
   p.r. 60L. to 70L.  Patrons, the Executors, of William Marsden, Esq. Bacon
   styles it a vicarage.

BONDGATE, in the township of Aismunderby-with-Bondgate, and parish of Ripon,
   which it joins on the south.  --Pop. included in Aismunderby.

          Here is an Hospital founded before the 4th year of King John, by one
   of the Archbishop of York, and dedicated to St. John Baptist.  Its revenues
   valued, 26th Henry VIII. at 10L. 14s. 4d.  --Dugdale; and 37th, Henry VIII.
   at 12L. 0s. 4d.  --Stevens.  The building is small, and inhabited by two poor
   women, who have each an annual stipend of one pound seven shillings.  A small
   distance from this hospital is a chapel dedicated to St. John Baptist, where
   divine service was performed every Sunday till 1722.  It is now converted
   into a National School, and the boys, of which there are at present 150, are
   educated on the plan of Dr. Bell, an institution than which nothing can tend
   more strongly to increase the stock of public morality, and raise the
   children to a higher degree in the scale of rationality.

BOOTH-FERRY INN, in the township of Airmyn, and parish of Snaith, wapentake of
   Osgoldcross, and liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Howden, 8 from Snaith,
   10 from Selby, 12 from Thorne, 20 from York, 183 from London.  Here is a good
   Inn, and; Ferry across the Ouse, leading to Doncaster.

BOOTHROYD, UPPER and LOWER, ham. in the township and parish of Dewsbury, liberty
   of Wakefield; 1 mile from Dewsbury, 6 from Wakefield.

BOOTH-TOWN, in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax, Morley-
   division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from Halifax, 7
   from Bradford.

BORDLEY, ham. in the township of Hetton-with-Bordley, and parish of Burnsall,
   east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's-Fee; 7 miles from
   Kettlewell, 10 from Skipton and Settle.  --Pop. included in Hetton.

BORHOLME, f.h. in the township of Bowland-Forest, lower, and parish of Bolland,
   (Lanc.) liberty of Staincliffe; 8 miles from Clitheroe.  A bridge here,
   called Borholme-Bridge, across the river Hodder, connects this county with
   Lancashire.

BOROUGHBRIDGE, in the parish of Aldborough, lower-division of Claro; (the seat
   of Mrs. Lawson,) 6 miles from Ripon, 7 from Knaresborough, 10 from Harrogate,
   11 from Thirsk, 12 from Wetherby, 17 from York and Bedale, 19 from
   Northallerton, 22 from Catterick, 206 from London.  --Market, Saturday.
   --Fairs, April 27 and 28, for horned cattle and sheep; June 22, for horned
   cattle, horses, &c. 23 for sheep, and the week preceding, for hardware
   woollen-cloth, pedlaryware, &c. October 23 and 24, for horned cattle and
   sheep.  --Bankers, Messrs. Fletcher, Stubbs, Dew, and Stott, draw on Sir
   Richard Carr Glyn, Bart. Mills, and Co. 12, Birchin-Lane.  --Principal Inns,
   Crown, and Three Greyhounds.  --Pop. 860.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. James, in the deanry of Richmond, diocese of Chester, value,
   10L. p.r. 48L. 16s. 8d.  Patron, the Vicar of Aldborough.

           This place is remarkable for those monuments called the Devils
   Arrows, but whether Roman or British, is uncertain.  "Here was, in the
   British times," says Dr. Stukeley, "the great Panegyre of the Druids, the
   Midsummer-meeting of all the country round, to celebrate the great quarterly
   sacrifice; accompanied with sports, games, races, and all kinds of exercises,
   with universal festivity.  This was like the Panathenian, the Olympian,
   Nemean meetings, and games among the Grecians.  These obelisks were as the
   Metae of the Races; the remembrance hereof is transmitted in the present
   great Fair held here, on St. Barnabas Day."

           In Leland's time there were four, but in the seventeenth century, one
   of them was pulled down; the remaining ones are placed at unequal distances
   from each other.  The tallest one is 30 feet 6 inches from the bottom, about
   6 feet of which are buried in the ground; its greatest circumference 16 feet.

           Richard Frank, a singular traveller, and famous peripatetic angler,
   in his tour to the northern parts of Scotland, to enjoy his favourite
   amusement, which he published in 1694, says that he saw near Boroughbridge,
   seven of these stones, in which he must have been mistaken, as it is not
   likely that they have increased since the days of Leland.  Evident marks of
   the chisel appear below the surface of the earth.  It is of the common coarse
   rag-stone or mill-grit; a large rock of this stone from which, probably these
   obelisks were taken, is at Plumpton, near Knaresborough.  Doctor
   Stillingfleet considers them as British Deities: Leland, Camden, and Drake,
   suppose them to have been the work of the Romans, and erected by that people
   as trophies, to commemorate some important victory.

           Near this place, in 1322, that unfortunate Prince, Thomas Earl of
   Lancaster, with some of the nobility, disgusted with the royal favourites,
   the Spencers, made stand against the forces of his nephew, Edward II. but was
   taken by Sir Andrew de Harcla, who, being insensible to entreaties and
   solicitations, and after suffering every possible indignity that cruelty
   could suggest, was mounted on a sorry horse, and brought before the King, who
   ordered, without any form of trial, his head to be struck off, on an eminence
   near Pontefract.  One of his partisans, the powerful John de Bohun, Earl of
   Hereford, in passing over the bridge, then made of wood, was run through with
   a spear, by a soldier, cowardly placed beneath for that execrable purpose.
   It sends two Members to Parliament, a privilege it derived from Queen Mary in
   1553.

BOSTON, in the township of Clifford, and parish of Bramham, wapentake of
   Barkston-Ash ; 3 miles from Wetherby, 4 from Tadcaster.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, the Virgin, value, about 110L.
   Patron, the Vicar of Bramham.  --Principal Inn, Red Lion.

   Boston, long celebrated for its Mineral Waters, under the name of Thorpe
   Arch, on the opposite side of the water, is situated in a romantic and
   beautiful vale, through which the river Wharfe runs with a rapid current.
   The houses are extremely neat and good, built chiefly of stone, with small
   gardens in front, and forming a row on each side of the road leading from
   Wetherby to Tadcaster.

           The Mineral Spring, which was first discovered in 1744, by John
   Shires, an inhabitant of Thorpe Arch, is situated on the south banks of the
   river, and issues from the bottom of a lofty limestone rock, which in some
   measure overhangs the river; it is conveyed by means of a pump, erected in
   1792, into a little room for the purpose, whither the visitors repair to
   partake of this wholesome beverage.  This water, like all others, of
   fashionable resort, has obtained the notice of Des. Garnett, Munro, Walker,
   and Hunter.  Hot and cold baths are erected immediately adjoining the
   pump-room.  The village of Boston was begun in an open field in 1753, and now
   contains more than 600 inhabitants.  The Parochial Chapel was consecrated in
   Dec. 1814, by his Grace the Archbishop of York.

BOTANY-BAY-INN, p.h. in the township of Camblesforth, and parish of Drax; 1.5
   mile from Selby, 6.5 from Snaith.

BOULCLIFFE, f.h. in the township of West-Bretton, and parish of Sandal-Magna; 5
   miles from Wakefield.

BOULTON, in the parish of Calverley, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Bradford, 8 from Otley.  --Pop. 634.

BOUSDEN, f.h. in the township of Newton, and parish of Slaidburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 9 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

BOW-BRIDGE and MILL, 4 cots. in the township of Embsay-with-Eastby, and parish
   of Skipton; 2 miles from Skipton.

BOWCLIFFE, (the seat of John Smyth, Esq.) in the township of Bramham-with-
   Oglethorpe, and Parish of Bramham; 4 miles from Wetherby.

BOWERHILL, scattered houses, in the township of Oxspring, and parish of
   Penistone; 2 miles from Penistone.

BOWLAND-FOREST, in the parish of Slaidburn, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Clitheroe, 18 from Lancaster and Preston, (Lanc.)
   --Pop. lower-division 360, higher division 237, total 597.

           Bowland-Forest, anciently a Forest, as its name implies, extends over
   a large tract of country on the borders of Lancashire, and is divided into
   two townships, denominated Upper and Lower Forest of Bowland.
           Though Bowland is principally inclosed, it is still ranged by herds
   of deer, under the jurisdiction of a master forester here, in allusion to the
   name of the Forest, called Bowbearer, who has under him an inferior keeper.
   The former office is now held by Thomas Lister Parker, Esq. as it has long
   been by his ancestors.  --Whitaker.

BOWLING, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 1
   mile from Bradford, 8 from Halifax.  --Pop. 3,579.
           In the same township and parish is:-

BOWLING-HALL, the seat of Thomas Mason, Esq.
           Bowling-Hall, originally Bolling, from a family of that name, the
   daughter and heiress of which married Sir Richard Tempest, of Bracewell, is
   an ancient and large majestic building, with a centre and two wings to the
   north.  The south front opening to the garden, is terminated by two square
   towers of considerable but uncertain antiquity.  The Earl of Newcastle,
   commander of the King's Forces, made this house is head-quarters in 1643,
   when he besieged and took Bradford.  The Hall and Manor, with the Chapel or
   Chantry Church, came to Mr. Mason in 1812.  --Whitaker and Neale.

BOWTHWAITE, ham. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 5 miles from Pateley Bridge.

BOYN-HILL, ham. in the township of Crigglestone, and parish of Sandal-Magna,
   liberty of Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Wakefield.

BRACEWELL, a parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9 from Skipton, 11 from Burnley,
   (Lanc.) 50 from York.  --Pop. 176.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to
   St. Michael, in the deanry of Craven, value, +2L. 9s. 9.5d. p.r. 60L.
   Patron, Lord Grantham.

           "The Vicarage House," Dr. Whitaker observes, and very justly, "is a
   disgrace to the parish and Church of England -a miserable thatched cottage of
   two rooms only, floored with clay, and open to the roof.  --History of
   Craven.
           Here is the ruin of an old Hall, built of brick, probably about the
   time of Henry VII. or VIII. and was formerly the residence of the ancient
   family of the Tempests.  North of this are the remains of a still older house
   of stone, in which is an apartment called "King Henry's Parlour"; undoubtedly
   one of the retreats of Henry VI.  --Whitaker's Craven.

BRACKEN-BOTTOM, ham. in the township and parish of Horton ; 6 miles from Settle.

BRACKEN-FOOT, 3 or 4 f.h. in the township of Rigton, and parish of Kirkby
   Overblow, upper-division of Claro; 6 miles from Otley, 7 from Knaresborough
   and Ripley.

BRACKEN-HILL, ham. in the township of Rigton, and parish of Church-Fenton; 6
   miles from Tadcaster.

BRACKENTHWAITE, scattered hs. in the township and parish of Pannall; 5.5 miles
   from Ripley, 6 from Knaresborough.

BRADOP-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Bashall, and parish of Mitton, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

BRADFIELD, in the parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 6 miles from Sheffield, 9 from Penistone.
   --No Market.  --Fairs, Friday fortnight before Goodfriday, June 17, and
   second Friday after old Michaelmas day, for horned cattle, pigs, &c.  --Pop.
   5,298.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, under Ecclesfield, of which the
   Vicar is Patron, value, p.r. !124L.

           The Chapelry of Bradfield is a "bleak, high, and mountainous tract of
   country, lying between the Riveling and the Don, extending north-westward to
   the point, where meet the three counties of Chester, Derby, and York."  Some
   portions of it are among the highest grounds of the English Apennines.  "Near
   the church is Bailey-Hill, a Saxon camp, as fair and perfect as when first
   constructed, save that the keep is overgrown with bushes." --Hunter's
   Hallamshire.

BRADFIELD, NETHER, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 6.25 miles
   from Sheffield.

           Here is a School founded in 1712, by Mr. Thomas Marriott, of Ughill,
   who endowed it with 10L. per annum

BRADFORD, a market and parish-town, in Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Bingley, 8 from Halifax, 10 from Leeds,
   Keighley, and Otley, 14 from Huddersfield, 15 from Wakefield, 34 from York,
   196 from London.  --Market, Thursday.  --Fairs, March 3, June 17 and 18,
   December 9 and 10, for horned cattle, horses, pigs, &c.  --Bankers. Messrs.
   Peckover, Harrison, and Co. draw on Messrs. Sir James Esdaile, and Co. 21,
   Lombard-Street.  --Principal Inns, the Sun, and the Talbot.  --Pop. 13,064.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of
   Pontefract, value, 20L.  Patron, Richard Fawcett, Esq.  Here is also a Chapel
   of ease, called Christ's Church, in Darley-Street, built by subscription, and
   consecrated in 1815.

           This Manor belonged to John of Gaunt, who granted to John Northorp
   Manningham and his heirs, an adjoining village, three messuages and six
   bovates of land, to come to Bradford, on the blowing of a horn, on St.
   Martins Day, in Winter, and wait on him and his heirs, in their way from
   Blackburnshire, with a lance and hunting dog for thirty days, and for going
   with the receiver or bailiff to conduct him safe to the castle of Pontefract.
   A descendant of Northorp afterwards granted land in Horton to Rushworth, of
   Horton, another adjoining village, to hold the hound while Northorp's man
   blew the horn.  These are called Hornmen or Hornblower Lands, and the custom
   is still kept up; a man coming into the market-place with a horn, halbert,
   and dog, is met by the owner of the lands in Horton.  After proclamation is
   made, the former calls out aloud, "Heirs of Rushworth, come hold my hound
   whilst I blow three blasts of my horn, to pay the rent due to our Sovereign
   Lord the King."   He then delivers the string to the man from Horton, and
   winds his horn thrice.  The original horn, resembling that of Tutbury, in
   Staffordshire, is still preserved, though stripped of its silver ornaments.
   -Blount's Anc. Tenures.  --Gough's Camden.
           Bradford, pleasantly situated on one of the tributary streams of the
   river Aire, formerly belonging to the great family of Lacy, Earls of Lincoln,
   who had here a Manor-house, where previously had been a castle, the site of
   which is not at this time known.  This place, like many other manufacturing
   towns, espoused the cause of parliament, in the great contest between that
   body and Charles I. was garrisoned, and maintained a siege against the
   royalists.  Sir Thomas Fairfax came to the assistance of the garrison with
   800 foot and 60 horse, which brought down upon them the powerful army,
   commanded by the Duke of Newcastle, who invested the town, and attempted to
   storm it in several places.  Sir Thomas Fairfax made a vigorous defence, but
   having exhausted his ammunition, he offered to capitulate; the enemy,
   however, refusing to grant the conditions he, with 50 horses, cut his way
   through their lines, and made good his retreat.  A full account of the siege
   of Bradford is affixed to the memoirs of Sir Thomas Fairfax.
           Bradford is situated in the very heart of a manufacturing county, and
   possesses every advantage for trade; it is in the neighbourhood of coal and
   iron ore, and has the convenience of a navigable Canal, which is cut from the
   Leeds and Liverpool Canal, near the village of Shipley, and penetrates into
   the heart of the town.  It has several manufactories of the finest broad and
   narrow cloths &c.  There are large iron-works near the town, where the most
   ponderous work is executed.  The town is tolerably well built, chiefly of
   stone, and has probably increased in size more than any other town in the
   county; the soil is dry, and the air is keen and salubrious.
           Here is a Free Grammar School founded as early as Edward VI.  and was
   incorporated by King Charles II. in the 14th year of his reign, by letters
   patent, dated the 10th of Oct. 1653.  It is open to boys of the parish free
   of expence; who are admitted, when qualified to begin the Latin accidence.
   It is entitled to send a candidate for the exhibitions of Lady Elizabeth
   Hastings. --Carlisle's Gram, Schools.
           A new School has been lately erected, with a dwelling house for the
   master, in an airy part of this town; to which is attached a library, and
   porters lodge.  Amongst the eminent men educated at this school, was the
   learned and worthy prelate Dr. John Sharp, who was born here in 1644.  His
   amiable disposition and unshaken integrity, his distinguished learning and
   extensive charity, will transmit his name to latest ages, as one of the
   greatest ornaments of his country.  His Sermons, in 7 vols. 8vo. have always
   been admired, as written with clearness, and they were delivered with grace
   and justness.  He died at Bath, February 2, 1713/14, and was buried in his
   Cathedral at York, where a handsome monument is erected to his memory, a
   plate of which is given in Drake's Eboracum.  --Chalmer's Biog. Dict.
   --Nichol's Anecdotes.
           In Bradford also was born, in 1622, David Clarkson, a divine, and
   educated at Clarehall, Cambridge, of which society he became Fellow, and had
   Mr, afterwards Archbishop, Tillotson, for his pupil.  He held the living of
   Mortlake, in Surrey, but was dispossessed of it in 1662, for non-conformity.
   He then officiated to an Independent congregation in London, and died in 1686
   He wrote some controversial pieces; and a volume of Sermons was printed in
   folio, after his death.  --Calamy.

BRADFORD, WEST, in the parish of Mitton, west-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Bolland; 2.5 miles from Clitheroe, 7 from Guisburn.  --Pop. 564.

BRADFORD-MOOR, ham. in the township and parish of Bradford; 1.5 miles from
   Bradford, 8.5 from Leeds.

BRADGATE, ham. in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, liberty
   of Tickhill; 1.5 miles from Rotherham.

BRADHOLME, f.h. in the township and parish of Thorne, liberty of Tickhill; 1.5
   mile from Thorne.

BRADLEY, ham. in the township and parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley; 3 miles from Huddersfield.

BRADLEY-BROOK, the junction of three townships, Linthwaite, Lingards, and
   Meltham, and parish of Almondbury; 5 miles from Huddersfield.

BRADLEY-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Huddersfield; 4 miles from
   Huddersfield.

BRADLEY-HALL, f.h. ,in the township of Stainland, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax.

           This Hall was once the seat of the Savilles, the principal part of
   which appears to have been burnt down in 1629; over the gateway are the
   figures 1577, and the letters I.S. John Saville; the Chapel annexed to it,
   was pulled down in the time of the civil wars.  This "Chapel being
   re-edified," says Mr. Watson, "serves the tenant for a barn; most of the
   tower also remains, and the whole has the appearance of a church, to such as
   are travelling between Eland and Ripponden."  --Watson's Halifax.
           At this place was born in 1549, Sir Henry Saville, a man of
   considerable abilities and extensive learning.  His works are uncommonly
   numerous; and he left behind him several MSS. some of which are now in the
   Bodleian Library.

BRADLEY, LOWER, in the township of Upper and Lower Bradley, and parish of
   Kildwick; east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's-Fee; 3.5 miles
   from Skipton, 6.5 from Keighley, 12 from Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. including
   Upper-Bradley, 506, which being united, form the township usually denominated
   Bradleys-both.

BRADLEY-MILLS, 3 mills, in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton.
   Extensive woollen mills of Mr. Joseph and Thos. Atkinson.

BRADLEY, UPPER, ham. in the townships of Bradleys-both, parish and liberty of
   Cliffords-Fee; 3 miles from Skipton.  --Pop. included in lower Bradley.

BRADSHAW, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.

BRAIM, or BRAHAM-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Spofforth; 3 miles
   from Knaresborough.

BRAITHWAITE, ham. in the township and parish of Kirk-Bramwith, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Doncaster.

BRAITHWAITE, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley; 1.25 miles from
   Keighley.

BRAITHWAITE, ham. in the township of Dacre-with-Bewerley, and parish of Ripon,
   lower-division of Claro; 4 miles from Pateley Bridge.

         Here is a School, founded in 1778, by will of Edward Yates, for the
   children of Deer-Ing Houses, Braithwaite, and Padside.  The masters salary
   20L. per annum, arising out of lands which now let for 32L. per annum.
   --Commissioners Report

BRAITHWAITE-HALL, f.h. in the township of Azerley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard;
   4 miles from Ripon.

BRAITHWELL, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5
   miles from Tickhill, 6 from Rotherham, 8 from Doncaster, 45 from York, --Pop.
   438.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. James, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, +7L. 7s. 6d. p.r. 70L.  Patron, the King.

BRAMHAM, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of St. Peter;
   3 miles from Abberford, 4 from Tadcaster and Wetherby, 14 from Pontefract and
   York.  --Pop. including Oglethorpe, 970, which being united form a township.
   The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, value, +6L. 7s.
   6d. p.r. !130L.  Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Christ-Church College,
   Oxford.

           On Bramham-Moor are the remains of a Roman consular road, from
   which came divers Viae Vicinales, by Thorner and Shadwell, through Sheep-Lane
   and Haw-caster-Rig to Addle.  --Drake.  --Thoresby.
           Here the Earl of Northumberland's forces were defeated by Sir Thomas
   Rokesby, and the Earl, the chief instrument in deposing Richard II. and
   raising up Henry IV. was slain.  His head, covered with silver hairs, being
   put upon a stake, was carried in mock procession, through all the towns to
   London, and then placed on the bridge.  --Hollinshead.  --Stow.  --Dug. Bar.
               In the same township and parish are

BRAMHAM-BIGGIN, the residence of Sir Philip Musgrove, Bart.

BRAMHAM-PARK, the seat of George Lane Fox, Esq.
           This noble residence was built in the reign of Queen Anne, by Robert,
   Lord Bingley, who employed for that purpose an Italian artist.  It is
   designed upon a scale of much grandeur, consisting of a large centre, in
   which are the grand apartments and wings, for the domestic offices, connected
   by corridors of the doric order: the whole fronting a spacious court,
   elevated 5 feet above.  Amongst a collection of excellent Portraits in this
   magnificent Mansion, is "a fine original portrait of Queen Anne, presented by
   her Majesty to Lord Bingley, as an acknowledgement of the attention of his
   Lordship during a visit to this seat."  It stands in a fine sporting country,
   and his present Majesty once spent two nights at this venerable Mansion, and
   partook of the delights of the chase.  This estate was a grant from the crown
   in the reign of William and Mary, and was the first enclosure on
   Bramham-Moor.  It was cultivated and planted by the father of the first Lord
   Bingley, who afterwards erected the present noble edifice.  --Neale's Views.
           In the Chapel adjoining the house as the effigies of the ancestors of
   the family.

BRAMHAM-LODGE, the residence of the Hon. Edward John Stourton.

BRAMHOPE, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Skyrack; (Bramhope-Hall, the
   residence of Wm. Rhodes, Esq.) 3 miles from Otley, 7 from Leeds, 11 from
   Wetherby.  --Pop. 366.

           Here is a donative Chapel, founded by Robert Dyneley, Esq. about the
   year 1649, the patronage of which is vested in six Trustees, who have power
   to suspend or deprive the minister."  The founder was a zealous patron of the
   Puritan Clergy.  --Whitaker.

BRAMLEY, in the parish and borough of Leeds, Morley-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Leeds, 7 from Bradford.  --Pop.
   4,916.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, of which the Vicar of Leeds is
   Patron.

           In this place was born, in 1625, Joseph Hill, a Divine and
   Lexicographer.  He was the son of a Puritan preacher of the same place.  He
   was carefully educated in classical learning, and sent to Cambridge, where he
   was some time Fellow of Magdalen College, and afterwards minister of the
   English church at Rotterdam, in Holland.  He was editor of Schrevelius
   Lexicon, which he augmented with 8000 words, and purged of nearly as many
   faults.  It is still a standard book.  He died in 1707, and gave his Library
   to the Free-School at Leeds.

BRAMLEY, in the parish of Braithwell, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;
   (Bramley-Hall, the seat of John Fullarton, Esq.) 4 miles from Rotherham, 10
   from Doncaster.  --Pop. 310.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Braithwell.

BRAMLEY-HALL, (the seat of T. Weldon, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Handsworth; 4 miles from Sheffield, 6 from Rotherham.

BRAMPTON, in the township and parish of Cantley; 4.75 miles from Doncaster, 6.5
   from Bawtry.

BRAMPTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN, in the parish of Treeton, upper-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; 5 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Sheffield.  --Pop. 136.

BRAMPTON-BIERLOW, in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearne, upper-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Rotherham and
   Barnsley, 12 from Sheffield.  --Pop. 1,263.

BRAMPTON-ULLEY.  --See Ulley.

BRANDFIELD-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Sprotbrough; 3.5 miles from
   Doncaster, 11.5 from Barnsley.

BRANDON, ham. in the township of Wigton, and parish of Harewood; 4 miles from
   Leeds, 6.75 from Wetherby, 12 from Tadcaster.

BRANDRITH-CRAGGS, in the township of Blubber-Houses, and parish of Fewston; 2
   miles from Hopper-Lane Inn; 10 from Harrogate.

           Brandrith-Craggs, "a range of rocks, situated on the edge of a
   precipice, overlooking a deep and extensive vale, called "Kesgill."  Here is
   a rocking stone, whose weight is probably 20 tons; and yet is easily moved
   with one hand.  On the summit of one of the highest rocks, is a basin, three
   feet six inches in diameter, and two feet in depth: here are, also, several
   other basins of smaller dimensions.  --History of Knaresborough.

BRANDY-CARR, ham. in the township of Alverthorpe-with-Thorns, and parish of
   Wakefield; 2 miles from Wakefield.

BRANIERS, f.h. In the township and parish of Low-Bentham; 14 miles from Settle.

BRANTON-GREEN, ham. in the township of Upper-Dunsforth-with-Branton-Green, and
   parish of Aldborough; 4 miles from Boroughbridge, 10 from Ripon, 11 from
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. included in Upper-Dunsforth.

BRAYSTAY-WOOD, f.h. in the township of Winterburne, and parish of Gargrave; 7
   miles from Skipton, 9 from Settle.

BRAYTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract;
   1 mile from Selby, 7 from Snaith, 11 from Pontefract, 16 from York.  --Pop.
   253.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Wilfred, in the deanry of
   the Ainsty, value, +7L. 14s. 4.5d.  Patron, the Hon. E. Petre.

BREARLEY-HALL, (an ancient Mansion,) in the township of Midgley, and parish of
   Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 11.5 from Rochdale.

BREARTON, in the parish and liberty of Knaresborough, lower-division of Claro; 4
   miles from Knaresborough, 5 from Boroughbridge, 7 from Ripon.  --Pop. 226.

BREAREY, EAST, ham. in the township and parish of Addle; 5 miles from Otley, 6
   from Leeds, 8 from Wetherby.

BREAREY, WEST, f.h. in the township of Arthington, and parish of Addle; 6 miles
   from Leeds.

BRECKAMOOR-HOUSE, (the seat of Marmaduke Hodgson, Esq) in the township of
   Stainley-with-Stenningford, and parish of Ripon; 2 miles from Ripon.

BRECKS, f.h. in the township of Gomersall, and parish of Birstall; 4 miles from
   Bradford, 7.25 from Leeds.

BRENNARD, f.h. in the township of the Forest of Bowland, Higher, and parish of
   Slaidburn; 12 miles from Clitheroe and Lancaster.

BRETTON, WEST, in the parishes of Sandal-Magna and Silkstone, Agbrigg-division
   of Agbrigg and Morley, liberties of Pontefract and Wakefield; 6 miles from
   Wakefield, 6.5 from Barnsley.  --Pop. in Agbrigg, 154, -in Staincross, 364,
   total, 518.

BRETTON-DYKES, f.h. and Mill, in the township and parish of High-Hoyland; 6
   miles from Barnsley and Wakefield.

BRETTON, MONK, see Monk-Bretton.

BRETTON-PARK, (the seat of Thomas Richard Beaumont, Esq.) in the township of
   Bretton, and parish of Silkstone; 6.5 miles from Wakefield and Barnsley.

           Bretton-Hall was originally erected by Sir William Wentworth, Bart.
   in 1720, when the old chapel and family-house were pulled down.  Sir William
   married Diana, daughter of Sir William Blackett, Bart.  -Col. Beaumont became
   possessed of this Mansion by his marriage with Diana, daughter of the late
   Sir Thomas Wentworth Blackett, Bart.  --Neale's Gents. Seats.

BRIDGE-HEWICK, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Ripon; 1.75 mile from Ripon, 4.5 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 77.

           Here was, says Leland, "a faire Chapel of free-stone, on the farther
   ripe of We (Ure) at the very end of Hewick bridge, made by an Heermite that
   was a mason; it is not fulle finished."  This chapel does not appear to be
   noticed by any other author.  The ruins of it are yet in existence, in a part
   of Lord Grantley's Estate.

BRIDGE-HOUSE GATE, ham. in the township of Dacre-with-Bewerley, and parish of
   Ripon; 0.25 of a mile from Pateley Bridge.

BRIDGE-FOOT, p.h. in the township of Bentley-with-Arksey, and parish of Arksey;
   0.25 of a mile from Doncaster.

BRIDGE-HOUSES, in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1
   mile from Sheffield.

BRIERLEY, in the parish of Felkirk, wapentake of Staincross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 7.5 from Wakefield,
   8.5 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 452.

BRIERLEY-MANOR, s.h. in the township of Brierley, and parish of Felkirk; 5 miles
   from Barnsley.

BRIERS-CHAPEL.  -See Chapel-le-Grove.

BRIERY-BUSK, f.h. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.

BRIESTWISTLE, ham. in the township of Whitley, and parish of Thornhill, liberty
   of Pontefract; 6.5 miles from Huddersfield.

BRIGG-FLATTS, 2 h. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 1.5 mile from
   Sedbergh.  --Here is a Quaker's Meeting-house, founded by George Fox.

BRIGHOUSE, in the township of Hipperholme-with-Brighouse, and parish of Halifax,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; (the residence
   of the Miss Walkers,) 4 miles from Halifax and Huddersfield.  --No Market.
   --Fair, the day after Martinmas-day, for horned cattle, sheep, and pigs.

          This is a village of some antiquity, where once a family of that name
   lived.  In Oliver Heywood's Register is the following entry: "Oct. 28, 1684,
   Capt. Taylors wife, of Brighouse, buried in her garden, with head upwards,
   standing upright by her husband, daughter, &c.  Quakers."  --Watson's Hist.
   of Halifax.

BRIGHTSIDE-BIERLOW, in the parish of Sheffield, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 3 miles from Sheffield, 5.5 from Rotherham.
   --Pop. 6,615.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, of which the Vicar of
   Sheffield is Patron.

BRIGHTSIDE-GREEN, in the township of Ecclesall, and parish of Sheffield; the
   seat of Benjamin Sales, Esq.

BRIGHTOLMLEY, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 7 miles from Sheffield, 10 from
   Rotherham.

BRIMHAM, ham. in the township of Hartwith, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard,
   lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from Pateley Bridge.
                     In the same township are

BRIMHAM-CRAGS.
           These celebrated Druidical Monuments, which are of various forms and
   of immense magnitude, arc scattered over forty acres of ground.  Two of the
   rocks are about thirty feet square; many of the stones are in groups, and
   some in single masses.  Here are four large Rocking Stones; one of them rests
   upon a kind of pedestal, and supposed to be about 100 tons weight.  In 1792,
   the Right Hon. Lord Grantley built a house in the centre of these grounds,
   for the accommodation of persons whose curiosity might prompt them to visit
   this world of wonders. --Archaeologia.

BRINDSWORTH, in the parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 2 miles from Rotherham, 5 from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 225.

BROADFIELD, (the seat of Barrington Trestram, Esq,) in the township of Dent, and
   parish of Sedbergh; 1 mile from Sedburgh.

BROADLANE-HOUSES, 2 f.h. in the townships of South-Kirkby and South-Elmsall; 7.5
   miles from Doncaster.

BROADROYD-HEAD, ham, in the township and parish of Darton; 3 miles from
   Barnsley, 8 from Wakefield, 8.5 from Penistone.

BROADSHAW, 2 f.h. in the township of Hazzelwood-with-Storithes, and parish of
   Skipton; 7.5 miles from Skipton.

BROCKDEN, ham. in the parish of Barnoldswick, east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9 from Skipton, 11 from Burnley,
   (Lanc.)  --Pop. 233.

BROCKHOLE, f.h. in the township and parish of Cantley; 4.5 miles from Doncaster,
   7 from Bawtry.

BROCKHOLES, s.h. in the township and parish of Drax; 4 miles from Snaith, 7 from
   Selby.

BROCKTHORN, 2 f.h. in the township of Easington, and parish of Slaidburn; 3.5
   miles from Slaidburn.

BRODSWORTH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; (Brodsworth-Hall, the residence of the Trustees of the
   late Peter Thelluson, Esq.) 4 miles from Doncaster, 11 from Barnsley, 16 from
   Wakefield, 32 from York.  --Pop. including Pigburn, 417, which being united,
   form a township.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Michael, in the
   deanry of Doncaster, value, +6L. 6s. 10d.  Patron, the Archbishop of York.

         It was the property and seat of Dr. Drummond, late Archbishop of York.
   His son, Earl of Kinnoul, sold the estate and mansion to the late Peter
   Thelluson, Esq. whose singular Will, directing the greater part of his
   Immense fortune to accumulate till a future period, will long be remembered.

BROOK-BOTTOM, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 9
   miles from Manchester, (Lanc.)

BROOKFOOT, ham. in the township of Southowram, and parish of Halifax; 3.5 miles
   from Halifax.

BROOK-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 4.5
   miles from Penistone.

           This Farm pays yearly to Godfrey Bosville, Esq. a Snowball at
   Midsummer, and a Red-Rose at Christmas.  --Blount's Ancient Tenures.

BROOK-HOUSE, ham. in the township and parish of Laughten-en-le-Morthern,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; 5 miles from
   Tickhill.

BROOM-HALL, (the seat of John Tillotson, Esq.) in the township of
   Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1 mile from Sheffield.

BROOMHEAD-HALL, (the seat of James Rimmington, Esq.) in the township of
   Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 7 miles from Penistone, 10 from
   Sheffield, 11 from Hope, (Derby.)

           This house was for many years the seat of the family of Wilson; and
   was built in the reign of Charles I. by Christopher Wilson, who was one of
   those gentlemen in this part of this county, who were fined for having
   neglected to appear at the King's Coronation, to receive the order of
   Knighthood.  He had afterwards a Captain's commission in the Parliament army.
   This house, says Mr. Hunter, "has a strong claim on the notice and respect of
   every lover of Hallamshire Topography.  It was the birth-place and the
   constant residence of John Wilson, Esq. (great-grandson of Christopher
   Wilson, the builder of the present house) a gentleman to whom we owe the
   preservation of so much documentary matter, which, but for his care, it is
   too probable, would have been entirely lost, leaving this district destitute
   of that evidence by which alone the character of authenticity can be given to
   the history of many of its institutions, and the account of many of its
   principal Inhabitants."  --Hist. Hallamshire.

BROOM-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Edlington; 4 miles from
   Doncaster.

BROOM-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Whiston, and parish of Rotherham; 1 mile
   from Rotherham.

BROOM-RIDDINGS, 2 f.h. in the township of Whiston, and parish of Rotherham; 1
   mile from Sheffield.

BROTHERTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St.
   Peter, and honour of Pontefract; (Brotherton-Hall, the seat of John Crowder,
   Esq.) 1 mile from Ferrybridge, 3 from Pontefract, 8.25 from Abberford, 11
   from Selby, 12 from Tadcaster, 22 from York.  --Pop. 1,491.  The Church,
   peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Edward, in the deanry of the
   Ainsty, value, +5L. 6s. 8d.  Patron, the Dean and Chapter of York.

          At this village, Margaret, wife of King Edward I. was obliged to stop,
   when hunting, and was here delivered of a son, afterwards named Thomas de
   Brotherton; he was born June 1, 1300.  --Camden.  Not far from the church, is
   a piece of ground, surrounded by a wall and a trench, where, as tradition
   informs, stood the house where the Queen took up her abode.

BROUGHTON, a parish-town, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; (Broughton-Hall, the seat of Stephen Tempest, Esq.) 3 miles
   from Skipton, 9 from Colne, (Lanc.) 12 from Keighley, 15.5 from Clitheroe, 44
   from York.  --Pop. including Elslack, 427, which being united, form a
   township.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry
   of Craven, value, +5L. 16s. 0.5d.  Patron, the Dean and Chapter of
   Christ-church, Oxford.

           Broughton-Hall, the ancient seat of the Tempests, was built in 1597,
   just behind their former house, called Gilliott's-Place, from a Knightly
   family of that name, the heiress of which married a Roger Tempest.  The
   Portraits in this house are not numerous; two only deserve to be remembered,
   one of Stephen Tempest, Esq. author of "Religio Laici;" the other of Francis
   Tempest, Abbot of Lambspring, a venerable old man, with a gold cross.  The
   Church of Broughton stands in a solitary situation; in it are mural monuments
   of the Tempests.  In the civil wars of the last century, Broughton, situated
   on the high-way between the hostile garrison of Skipton and Thornton, had its
   full share of devastation and misery.  It was a tradition told in the hall,
   that the village had been so completely pillaged of common utensils, that an
   old helmet travelled from house to house for the purpose of boiling broth and
   pottage -and that a son of the family was shot on the lawn.  --Whitaker.

BROWN-HILLS, f.h. in the township of Newton, and parish of Slaidburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 11 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

BROWSHOLME HALL, (the seat of Thomas Parker, Esq.) in the township of Bowland
   Forest, lower parish of Mitton, liberty of Bolland; 5 miles from Clitheroe,
   (Lanc.)

           On an elevated situation in the Forest of Bowland, is the ancient
   house of Browsholme, for more than three centuries the residence of a family,
   who probably derive both their name and arms from the office of Park-keeper
   or Parker.  Here is a good old Library, a large collection of coins, and a
   valuable assemblage of MSS.  A most valuable relic preserved here, is the
   original seal of the common-wealth; it is of very massy silver, and is
   inscribed the "Seal for the approbation of Ministers."  In the centre are two
   branches of Palm, and within them an open book, with these words, "the Word
   of God."

           In 1805 a fine herd of wild deer, the last vestige of feudal
   superiority in the domains of the Lacies, were destroyed here.  The loss,
   however, of these ancient ornaments of the Forest, has in some degree been
   compensated by the late improvements of the house and grounds at Browsholme.
   The dining-room is adorned with many of the best paintings of Northcote, and
   the house contains many paintings by the best Flemish masters.  The hall is
   tarnished with numerous antiquities, such as the Ribchester inscription of
   the 20th Legion, celts, fibulae, different pieces of armour, and a small spur
   found in the apartment called King Henry VI. at Waddington-Hall.  --Whitaker.
           A particular description of Browsholme-Hall appears to have been
   painted by permission of the munificent owner, and which is noticed in the
   Gentleman's Magazine in 1815.

BRUMLEY, ham. in the township of Wortley, and parish of Tankersley, wapentake of
   Staincross; 5.5 miles from Barnsley.

BRUMTHWAITE, in the township of Silsden, and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Keighley, 8 from Skipton.

BRUNCLIFFE-THORN, scattered houses, in the township of Morley, and parish of
   Batley, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles
   from Dewsbury.

BRUSH-HOUSE, (the seat of John Booth, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Ecclesfield; 3 miles from Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham, 10 from Barnsley.

BUCKDEN, in the parish of Arnecliff, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe;
   4 miles from Kettlewell, 14 from Settle, 16 from Leyburn.  --Fair, October
   12, for horned cattle, &c.  --Pop. 382.

BULL-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Thurlston and parish of Penistone; 2.5 miles
   from Penistone.

BURGHWALLIS, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (the seat of Michael Tasburgh, Esq.) 6.5 miles from Doncaster, 9
   from Pontefract, 30 from York.  --Pop. 237.  The Church is a rectory,
   dedicated to St. Helen, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 14L. 6s. 10.5d.
   Patron, Michael Tasburgh, Esq.

BURLEY, in the township of Heddingley, and parish of Leeds; 1.75 miles from
   Leeds, 8 from Bradford, 9 from Otley.

BURLEY IN WHARFEDALE, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Skyrack;
   (Burley-Hall, the seat of the Rev. T. Wilson,) 2 miles from Otley, 12 from
   Leeds, 13 from Skipton.  --Pop. 1,200.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   value, p.r. *37L.  1s.  Patron, Matthew Wilson, Esq.  No burial-ground.

BURLEAS, s.h. in the township of Wadsworth, and parish of Halifax; 7 miles
   from Halifax.

BURMANTOFTS, in the township, parish, and part of Leeds.

BURN, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 3 miles from Selby, 7
   from Snaith, 8 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 238.

BURNGREAVE, (the seat of Joseph Bailes, Esq.) in the township of Brightside-
   Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield.

BURNHOUSE, f.h. in the township of Newton, and parish of Slaidburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe ; 9 miles from Colne, (Lanc.)

BURNSALL, a parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 9 miles from Pateley Bridge, 9.5 from Skipton and Kettlewell,
   43 from York.  --Pop. including Thorpe, 329.  The Church is a rectory,
   dedicated to St. Wilfred, in the deanry of Craven, value in two medieties,
   36L. p.r. 63L.  Patrons, the Earl of Craven, and Robinson Chippendale, Esq.
   Two houses and a small parcel of land is in the parish of Linton.

           Here in 1612, Sir William Craven, Knight, Alderman of the city of
   London, and late lord Mayor of the same, founded and endowed a Grammar
   School; and from an inscription over the door of the church, he appears to
   have repaired and beautified that handsome building.  At the entrance of the
   choir of this church, each rector has his own stall and pulpit, and from
   which the service is alternately performed.

BURNTWOOD-LODGE, (the seat of William Marsden, Esq.) in the township of
   Great-Houghton, and parish of Darfield; 8 miles from Barnsley, 9 from
   Pontefract, 10 from Doncaster.

BURNT-YATES, in the township of Hartwith, and parish of Kirbymalzeard,
   lower-division of Claro; 2.75 miles from Ripley, 6.25 from Pateley Bridge,
   7.75 from Knaresborough.

           Here is a Free-School founded in 1760, by Rear-Admiral Robert Long,
   which he endowed with a farm, called Flask farm, and the lands thereto
   belonging, in the township of Hartwith-with-Winsley; also a messuage, called
   Flask-House, and a close called Six-Acres, in the township of Clint.  It has
   since received some legacies, and the valuable library of the late W.
   Mountaine, Esq. F.R.S. was given to it in 1779.  The government of the school
   is vested in trustees.  The master occupies the school premises, estimated at
   20L. or 25L. per annum.  His salary for himself and wife, 70L. and two
   guineas as librarian.  Twenty-two toys and girls in the school.  --Commiss.
   Report.

BURROW-LEE, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2.5 miles from Sheffield.

BURTON.  -See Monk-Bretton.

BURTON-IN-LONSDALE, in the parish of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, wapentake of Ewcross;
   3 miles from Ingleton, 6 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 13 from Settle, 15
   from Lancaster.  --Market, Monday.  --Pop. 746.  Here is a Chapel to
   Thornton, value, p.r. *15L. 2s. 6d.

BURTON-HALL, s.h. in the township of Gateforth, and parish of Brayton; 3 miles
   from Selby.

BURTON, HIGH, ham. in the township and parish of Kirk-Burton, liberty of
   Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Huddersfield.

BURTON, KIRK, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Wakefield; 6 miles frown Huddersfield, 8 from Penistone, 11 from
   Wakefield, 39 from York.  --Pop. 2,153.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated
   to Holy-Trinity, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 13L. 6s. 8d.  Patron,
   the King.

BURTON-LEONARD, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberties of St.
   Peter and Knaresborough; 5 miles from Boroughbridge, Ripon, and
   Knaresborough, 22 from York.  --Pop. 518.  The Church, peculiar, is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Helen, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of
   Chester, value, +3L.   1s. 0.5d. p.r. *73L. 10s.  Patron, the Dean and
   Chapter of York.

BURTON-SALMON, in the parish of Monk-Fryston, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 4 miles
   from Pontefract, 9 from Selby, 10 from Tadcaster.  --Pop. 182.

BUSKER, ham. in the lordship of Skelmanthorpe, and parish of High-Hoyland; 8
   miles from Huddersfield.

BUSLINGTHORPE, in the township and parish of Leeds, liberty of Pontefract; 1
   mile from Leeds.

BUTTERBUSK, f.h. in the township and parish of Warmsworth; 4 miles from
   Doncaster.

BUTTERTHWAITE, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 4.5 miles from Sheffield, 6 from Rotherham, 9 from
   Barnsley.

BUTTON-HILL, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; (the seat of John Crawshaw, Esq.)
   3 miles from Sheffield.

BYRAM-HALL, (the seat of Sir John Ramsden, Bart.) in the parish of Brotherton,
   wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St. Peter and Pontefract; 2 miles
   from Ferrybridge, 4 from Pontefract, 11 from Selby.  --Pop. including Poole,
   61, which being united, form a township.

CADEBY, in the parish of Sprotbrough, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill, 4.5 miles from Doncaster, 8.5 from Rotherham.  --Pop.
   169.

CALDCOTES, ham. in the township of Potter-Newton, and parish of Leeds; 3 miles
   from Leeds, 8.5 from Abberford.

CALTON, in the parish of Kirby-Malhamdale, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's-Fee; 7 miles from Skipton, 8.75 from Settle, 12 from
   Kettlewell.  --Pop. 76.

           This is a small village situated upon a hill, on the east banks of
   the Aire, consisting entirely of abbey-land, which was shared between the
   houses of Fountains, Dereham, and Bolton; the last of which had the manor.
   It is chiefly memorable for the origin of Major-General Lambert, who addicted
   himself to the cause of the rebellion in the last century but one, and bore,
   perhaps, a deeper part in the miseries of that unhappy period, than any
   single person, Cromwell only excepted.  After the restoration, the decent and
   respectful behaviour which he maintained at his trial, procured for him the
   mild sentence of perpetual exile to Guernsey, where he amused himself with
   the quiet occupation of gardening, and died forgotten, almost thirty years
   after, having lost his faculties before the usual period of mental decay.
   But the mind of Lambert was a machine wasted first by friction, and then by
   rust.  His forfeited estates ware granted to Lord Fauconberg, and by him
   restored to the family.  --Whitaker's Craven.

CALVEL-HOUSES, 3 f.h. in the to township of Fountain's-Earth, and parish or
   Kirbymalzeard; 4 miles from Pateley Bridge.

CALVERLEY, a parish-town, in Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Bradford, 7 from Leeds and Otley, 31 from York.
   --Pop. including Farsley, 2,605, which being united, form a township.  The
   Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Wilfred, in the deanry of Bradford,
   value, +9L. 11s. 10d. p.r. 140L.  Patron, the King.

          In Calverley, is the ancient hall of a knightly family of that name,
   who had resided here for about six centuries: it has been a spacious mansion,
   but is now converted into cottages, &c.; the family chapel adjoining is now a
   wheelwright's shop.  --It is memorable, on account of a most tragical event
   that took place in 1604, and which produced the "Yorkshire Tragedy" ascribed
   to the pen of Shakespeare, but which, it should seem, has eluded the
   researches of Mr. Malone.  A Prose narrative of this murder is to be met with
   in Dr. Whitaker's Loidis and Elmete, much too long for our insertion.  The
   estate remained in the family of Calverley till 1754, when Sir Walter
   Calverley, who had taken the name of Blackett, sold the manor and estate of
   Calverley to Thomas Thornhill, of Fixby, Esq. by whose heir of the same name
   and place, it is still possessed.
          In the church is a school, built and repaired by the parish: to this
   school, Mr. Hillary of Leeds, left a small annual donation.  A part of the
   great tithes or Hooton-Pagnall and Thorpe-Arch, were given by letters patent
   of Queen Elizabeth, to the poor of this parish, value, about 4L. per annum.

CALVERLEY-BRIDGE, in the township of Calverley-with-Farsley, and parish of
   Calverley; 4.25 miles from Bradford, 6.5 from Leeds.

CAMBLESFORTH, in the parish of Drax, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; (Camblesforth-
   Hall, the seat of Sir Charles Blois, Bart.) 3.75 miles from Snaith, 4.25 from
   Selby, 14 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 257.

CAM-HOUSES, ham. in the township and parish of Horton; 9.5 miles from Askrigg,
   14 from Settle.

CAMPSALL, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract;
   (the seat of the Rev. E.B. Frank,) 8 miles from Doncaster and Pontefract, 9
   from Ferrybridge, 30 from York.  --Pop. 389.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, in the deanry of Doncaster, value +16L. 16s.
   8d. p.r. !120L.  Patron, Cook Yarbrough, Esq.

         Of this place was Richard Frank, Esq. F.R.S. Recorder of Pontefract and
   Doncaster, a polite scholar, and a lover of Antiquities.  He died May 22,
   l762, aged 60.  His valuable collections, including those of Dr. Johnston, a
   Physician at Pontefract, (which came into his hands on the death of the
   author's grandson, Henry Johnston) were, in 1780, in the hands of the late
   Bacon Frank, Esq. nephew and heir to the Recorder.  --Nichol's Anecdotes.

CAMPS-MOUNT, (the residence of General Sir John Bing, K.G.B.) in the township
   and parish of Campsall, liberty of Pontefract; 8 miles from Doncaster, 9 from
   Ferrybridge.

CANKLOW, ham, in the township and parish of Whiston, upper-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 1.5 miles from Rotherham.

CANNON-HALL, (the seat of John Spencer Stanhope Esq.) in the township of
   Cawthorne, and parish of Silkstone; 4 miles from Penistone, 5 from Barnsley,
   9 from Wakefield.

          Cannon-hall, anciently pronounced Camel-Hull, is rendered famous by
   being the retreat of Wm. Lockwood, of Lockwood, after the battle at Eland,
   with the Elanders, in the reign of Edward III.  In this house, Lockwood
   commenced an amour with a young woman of loose principles, who betrayed him
   into the hands of his enemies.  --Watson.  In the library, which contains a
   valuable collection of books, among other curiosities, is the bow of Little
   John, the famous outlaw and companion of Robin Hood.  It was brought many
   years ago from Wathersage, in Derbyshire, an estate formerly belonging to the
   Spencer family, where Little John was buried.  The bow bears the name of
   Colonel Naylor, 1715, who is said to have been the last man who bent it.  It
   is of Yew, and though the two ends, where the horns were affixed, are broken,
   it still measures above six feet.  --Watson.  --Neale.

CANTLEY, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;
   (Cantley-Lodge, the seat of John Childers, Esq.) 3.5 miles from Doncaster,
   6.5 from Bawtry, 40.5 from York.  --Pop. 577.  The Church, about a mile from
   the village, is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Wilfred, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, +6L. 6s. 5.5d.  Patron, John Childers, Esq. whose ancestor
   Childers Walbank Childers, Esq. built the present mansion, and to whose
   memory an elegant monument is erected in the church.

CAPPLESIDE, (the seat of John Geldart, Esq.) in the township of Rathmell, and
   parish of Giggleswick; 3.5 miles from Settle.

CARBROOK, ham. in the township of Attercliffe-with-Darnall, and parish of
   Sheffield, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 3 miles from Sheffield
   and Rotherham.

        In this hamlet is Carbrook-Hall, formerly the residence of a family of
   the name of Bright, of which family we find, was Sir John Bright, a very
   active officer in the parliamentary army of 1643-4.  He received a Captain's
   commission from the Lord Fairfax.  He was made Colonel of a regiment of Foot,
   previous to Sir Thomas Fairfax's expedition into Cheshire, in which capacity
   he accompanied that General.  He was afterwards governor of Sheffield-Castle.
   --Hunter's Hallam.

CARCROFT, scattered f.h. in the township and parish of Owston, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Doncaster.

CARGREEN, LOWER, ham. in the township and parish of Darton; 2.75 miles from
   Barnsley.

CARGREEN, UPPER, ham. similarly situated as above; 3 miles from Barnsley.

CARHEAD, (the seat of Richard Bradley Wainman, Esq.) in the township of Cowling,
   and parish of Kidwick, liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 6
   from Skipton.

CARHOUSE, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 0.5
   miles from Rotherham.

CARHOUSE, (the residence of H. Cooke, Esq.) in the township, of Warmsworth, and
   parish of Doncaster, liberty of St. Peter; 1.5 miles from Doncaster.

        This house was built in 1604, by Hugh Childers, Esq. who was that year
   Mayor of Doncaster.  His grandson, Leonard Childers, Esq. bred at this place
   the famous bay Childers, the fleetest race-horse ever known in England.
   --Miller's Doncaster.

CARLCOTES, ham. in the township of Thurlston, and parish of Penistone, liberty
   of the honour of Pontefract; 5 miles from Penistone.

        Two farms in this township, pay to Godfrey Bosville, Esq. the one a
   Righthand, and the other a Left-hand Glove yearly.  --Blount's Ancient
   Tenures.

CARLESMOOR, ham. in the township of Grewelthorpe, and parish of Kirbymalzeard;
   6.5 miles from Masham, 9 from Ripon.

CARLETON, in the parish of Pontefract, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 1.5 mile from Pontefract, 3.5 from Ferrybridge, 14 from
   Doncaster.  --Pop. 132.

CARLETON, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; (Carleton-Hall,
   the seat of Miles Stapleton, Esq.) 2 miles from Snaith, 6 from Selby, 15 from
   Pontefract.  --Pop. 775.  Here is a Chapel of ease to Snaith, dedicated to
   St. Mary.  Patron ----- Simpson, Esq. of Leeds.

CARLETON, in the parish of Guiseley, upper-division of Skyrack; 2 miles from
   Otley, 8 from Bradford, 9 from Leeds.  --Pop. 158.

CARLETON, in the township of Loftus-with-Carleton, and parish of Rothwell,
   liberty of the honour of Pontefract; 4 miles from Wakefield, 5 from Leeds.
   --Pop. included in Loftus.

CARLTON, in the parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Barnsley, 8 from Wakefield, 9 from Penistone.
   --Pop. 326.

CARLTON, a parish-town, in the east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 2 miles
   from Skipton, 10 from Keighley and Colne, 43 from York.  --Pop. 1218.  The
   Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Craven, value,
   +5L. 2s. 1d. p.r. 52L. 15s.  Patron, the Dean and Canons of Christ-church,
   Oxford.

           About the year 1700, Mr. Farrand Spence founded an Hospital here, for
   twelve widows belonging to the parish of Carlton, and six to Market-Bosworth,
   in Leicestershire.  Their receipts, about twenty guineas per annum.  And
   about the year 1705, a School was founded by Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkinson, for
   clothing and educating four boys of this parish, and apprenticing them out at
   the age of fourteen.  The charity is now extended to twenty boys, but only
   four clothed annually.

CARLINGHOW, in the township and parish of Batley, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg
   and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 9 from Leeds.

CARR, ham. in the township and parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, upper-division
   of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 5 miles from Tickhill, 6.5
   from Rotherham.

CARRIS, or CARHOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill, liberty of
   Tickhill, 1.5 miles from Tickhill.

CARRWOOD, (the seat of Samuel Smith, Esq.) in the township of Brightside-
   Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1.75 miles from Sheffield, 5 from
   Rotherham.

CARTWORTH, in the parish of Kirk-Burton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 17 from Wakefield.  --Pop.
   1,211.

CASTLEFORD, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract, 3 miles from Ferrybridge, 3.5 from Pontefract, 22.5 from York.
   --Pop. 1,022.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the
   deanry of Pontefract, value, 20L. 13s. 1.5d.  Patron, the King, as Duke of
   Lancaster.

           Castleford, situated on the Ermine-Street, near the confluence of the
   rivers Aire and Calder, is called by Marianus, Casterford.  Here was a Roman
   station, named Legeolium, by Antoninus; and which Hovedon, the historian,
   expressly calls a city.  Here many Roman ruins, and other antiquities have
   been frequently found; and at this place a battle was fought, between the
   Danes and Saxons, under Edred, in 950, in which the former were entirely
   defeated.  The Danes, after having experienced the clemency of Edred at York,
   followed the Saxons from that city to Castleford, unnoticed, where they fell
   upon his rear with great fury; but such was the invincible valour of Edred,
   that he completely defeated them, and severely punished them for their
   ingratitude.  Few or no traces of the antiquities of Castleford are now to be
   seen.  --Camden.  --Drake.
           Thomas de Castleford, a Benedictine Monk, who flourished about the
   year 1326, and who wrote a history of Pontefract, was a native of this place.
           The Tithes of this parish are settled by Act of Parliament; the
   rector receives twenty-eight quarts of wheat, for every pound rent paid by
   the tenant to his landlord, on Arable-land, and twenty quarts for every two
   pounds rent, on Grass-land.

CASTLE-HOUSES, ham. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2.5 miles from
   Huddersfield.

CASTLESHAW, 2 hams. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 8
   miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.).

           At Castleshaw, is the remains of an ancient fortification, which Mr.
   Whitaker supposes to have been a fortress of the Primeval Britons.  --Hist.
   Manchester.

CASTLEY, in the parish of Leathley, upper-division of Claro; 5 miles from Otley,
   10 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 110.

CATCLIFFE, in the parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 3 miles from Rotherham, 6 from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 202.

CATGILL, f.h. in the township of Bolton-Abbey, and parish of Skipton; 5 miles
   from Skipton.

CATHARINE-HOUSE, (the seat of Michael Stocks, Esq.) in the township of
   Northowram, and parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from
   Halifax, 6.5 from Bradford.

CATHERINE-SLACK, ham. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Halifax.

CATHILL, f.h. in the township of Hoyland-Swaine, and parish of Silkstone; 1 mile
   from Penistone.

CATTAL, in the parish of Hunsingore, upper-division of Claro; 4.75 miles from
   Wetherby, 7 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 207.

CATTERTON, (Ainsty) in the parish of Tadcaster; 2 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from
   York, 8 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 63.

CATTLE-LAITHE, s.h. in the township and parish of Pontefract; 2 miles from
   Ferrybridge, 3 from Pontefract

CAUD, or COLD-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.

CAUSEY-SIDE, 3 or 4 h. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale (Lanc.);
   2 miles from Dobcross.

CAUTLEY, scattered houses, in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 1.5 mile from
   Sedbergh, 6.5 from Dent.

CAWDOR, f.h. in the township and parish of Skipton; 1 mile from Skipton.

CAW-WELL, or CALLWELL, ham. in the township of Austonley, and parish of
   Almondbury, liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield.

CAWOOD, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of
   St. Peter and Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 5 miles from Selby, 7.5 from
   Tadcaster, 10 from York, 12 from Pontefract, 186 from London.  --Market,
   Wednesday.  --Fairs, Old May-day and September 23, for horned cattle, &c.
   --Principal Inn, the Ferry-House.  --Pop. 1,127.  The Church, peculiar, is a
   vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, p.r.
   !34L. 14s.  Patron, the Prebendary of Wistow.

           Cawood was formerly one of the chief places of residence of the
   Archbishop of York, who had here a magnificent Palace or Castle, in which
   several of the Bishops died.  It was obtained for the see of York from King
   Athelston, in the 10th century, by Archbishop Wulstan.  Alexander Nevil, the
   45th Archbishop, is said to have bestowed great cost on this palace, and in
   have adorned it with several new towers.  Henry Bowett, the 49th Archbishop,
   built the great hall; and his successor, Cardinal Kempe, erected the
   gate-house, the ruins of which are all that remains of this once magnificent
   building.

           The celebrated Cardinal Wolsey, after residing here a whole summer,
   and part of the winter, was arrested at this place, on a charge of high
   treason, by the Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Walter Welsh.  The Earl had
   orders to conduct him to London, for trial, but his death at Leicester, on
   his journey, terminated the business.

                    ------------"Full of repentance,
                    Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,
                    He gave his honours to the world again,
                    His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace."

           In 1642, this castle was garrisoned for the King: and was surrendered
   to Sir John Meldrum, for the use of the Parliament in 1644; and two years
   afterwards was dismantled by order of Parliament.  --Drake, Rapin, &c.
           In 1724, Mr. Wm. James built an hospital here, for four poor people,
   and endowed it with land at Skirlaugh, (East-Riding) value, 20L. per annum.

CAWTHORNE, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract;
   (the seat of Thomas West, Esq.) 4 miles from Barnsley, 4.5 from Penistone,
   9.5 from Wakefield, 38 from York.  --Pop. 1,518.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r.
   100L.  Patron, the Freeholders who vote according to the quantity of land
   they possess; John Spenser Stanhope, Esq. of Cannon-Hall, having the greatest
   number of votes, may be considered the Patron.

           Here is a Free-School founded, in consequence of a decree of the
   Dutchy court at Lancaster, dated June 25th, 1639.  The master is nominated
   and elected by the Chancellor of the Dutchy court, which court pays annually
   to the master 5L. 4s. out of its revenues; and the inhabitants pay the master
   5L. 5s. 6d. and find him a dwelling-house, &c. valued at 4L. 4s. per annum.

CAYTON, 3 or 4 f.h. (Cayton-Hall, the, seat of Mrs. Messenger,) in the township
   of South-Stainley-with-Cayton, and parish of South Stainley; 5 miles from
   Ripon.  --Pop. included in South-Stainley.

CHAMPNEY-HILL, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3 miles from
   Barnsley.

CHAPEL-ALLERTON.  --See Allerton-Chapel.

CHAPEL-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Conistone-with-Kilnsey, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4 miles from Kettlewell.

CHAPEL-HADDLESEY.  --See Haddlesey-Chapel.

CHAPEL-LE-DALE, or INGLETON-FELL, ham. in the township of Ingleton, and parish
   of Low-Bentham, wapentake of Ewcross; 10 miles from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
   13 from Settle, 21 from Lancaster.  Here is a Chapel to Low-Bentham, of which
   the Rector is Patron, value, p.r. 82L. 10s.

CHAPEL-LE-GROVE, BRIERS-CHAPEL, or St. ANN'S-IN-THE-GROVE, in the township of
   Southowram, and parish of Halifax; 3.5 miles from Halifax, 7 from
   Huddersfield.  The Chapel is a perpetual curacy, value, !123L.

           This chapel, distinguished by the appellation of the three names as
   above, is dedicated to St. Ann, and appears to have been built 21st Henry
   VIII. by John Lacy, of Cromwelbotham, Esq. and his neighbours; which Mr.
   Watson observes, may account for its being placed at so inconvenient a place,
   "being  one mile from Southowram, and near no considerable number of houses."
   --Hist. Halifax.

CHAPEL-THORPE, ham. in the township of Crigglestone, and parish of Sandal-Magna,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Wakefield and Barnsley.  The Chapel is a
   perpetual curacy, under Sandal-Magna, of which the Vicar is Patron.

CHAPEL-TOWN, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles from Rotherham and Sheffield, 7.5 from
   Barnsley.

CHARLSTON.  --See Sharlestone.

CHELCAR, f.h. in the township of Draughton, and parish of Skipton; 4.5
   miles from Skipton.

CHELOW-HEIGHT, ham. in the township of Heaton, and parish of Bradford; 3 miles
   from Bradford.

CHERRY-TREE-HILL, in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2 miles from Sheffield.

CHESNUT-GROVE, (the seat of George Strickland, Esq.) in the township of
   Clifford, and parish of Bramham; 1.5 miles from Wetherby.

CHESTER-COTES, (the seat of Samuel Wilks Waud, Esq.) in the township of
   Camblesforth, and parish of Drax; 4 miles from Selby and Snaith, 10 from
   Pontefract.

CHEVET, in the parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (the seat of Sir William Pilkington, Bart.) 5 miles from
   Wakefield, 6 from Barnsley, 9 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 27.

CHICKENLEY, ham. in the township of Soothill, and parish of Dewsbury, liberty of
   Wakefield; 1.25 mile from Dewsbury.

CHIDSALL, ham. in the township of Soothill, and parish of Dewsbury, liberty of
   Wakefield; 3 miles from Dewsbury.

CHURWELL, in the parish of Batley, Morley-division of Agbrigg
   and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3.25 miles from Leeds, 9 from
   Bradford, 12.25 from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 814.

CISSET, ham. in the township of Clayton, and parish of High-Hoyland,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 8 miles from Huddersfield and
   Wakefield.

CLAPDALE, f.h. in the township and parish of Clapham; 9 miles from Settle.

CLAPHAM, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 6 miles from Settle, 11
   from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 22 from Skipton, 63 from York.  --It is
   chartered for a market on Thursday, but not held.  The cross is yet standing.
   --Fairs, Ash-Wednesday, May 2, and July 31, for cattle; October 2, for
   cattle, woollen-cloth, and pedlary-ware.  --Principal Inn, the New Inn.
   --Pop. including Newby, 982, which being united, form a township.  The Church
   is a vicarage, in the deanry of Kirby-Lonsdale, diocese of Chester, value
   +5L. 17s. 1d.  Patron, the Bishop of Chester.

           In 1815, Henry Winterburne founded a school here, for the education
   of eight poor children of Clapham, and endowed it with 20L.
               In the same township and parish is :-

CLAPHAM-LODGE, the seat of James Farrer, Esq.

CLARETON, 2 f.h. in the parish of Goldsbrough; 4 miles from Knaresborough, 5
   from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 14.

CLARE-HILL, (the seat of Mrs. Prescott,) in the township and parish of
   Halifax, from which it is distant .25 of a mile.

CLARO, a wapentake, that borders on the north and east upon the North-Riding; on
   the south it is bounded by the wapentake of Skyrack; and on the west by that
   of Staincliffe.  It contains 97 townships, 29 of which are parish-towns,
   7,594 inhabited-houses, and 39,847 inhabitants.  It is a large wapentake, and
   contains four market-towns, Boroughbridge, Knaresborough, Ripon, and
   Wetherby; and returns no less than eight Members to Parliament.  The chief
   part of the liberty of Ripon lies within this wapentake.

CLARO-HILL, near Allerton-Mauleverer.
           Here, in Saxon times, was held the Gemote, or assembly of the people
   of this wapentake, for the transacting of all public concerns, relative to
   the district; and where, by the laws of King Edgar, every freeman in such
   district was obliged to attend.  The custom of the people meeting to receive
   the governor of the wapentake, is distinctly mentioned in the laws of Edward,
   the Confessor.  The person appointed repaired to the usual place of meeting,
   for that purpose, and was there met by the principal persons in that
   district; after he had quitted his horse, and placed himself on some
   elevation, he held up his spear; each person then approached him, and touched
   his spear with theirs; which ceremony of touching of armour, was looked upon
   to confirm that community in one common interest; and hence the term
   Weapontouch, or Wapentake.

CLAY-CLIFFE, ham. in the township of Barugh, and parish of Darton; 2 miles from
   Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone.

CLAY-HILL, f.h. in the township of Middleton, and parish of Ilkley; 8 miles from
   Otley and Skipton.

CLAYTON, in the township and parish of Frickley-with-Clayton, lower-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 8 miles from Barnsley and Doncaster, 13 from
   Wakefield, 35 from York.  --Pop. including Frickley, 360, which being united,
   form a township.  The Church, (styled Frickley-with-Clayton) is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r.
   120L.  Patron, Saint Andrew Warde, Esq.

CLAYTON, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3.5 miles from Bradford, 4.5 from Halifax.  --Pop.
   3,609.

CLAYTON-HEIGHTS, ham. in the township of Clayton, and parish of Bradford,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 4 miles from Bradford and Halifax.

CLAYTON, WEST, in the parish of High-Hoyland, wapentake of Staincross, liberty
   of Pontefract; 7 miles from Barnsley and Penistone, 9 from Wakefield.  --Pop.
   854.

CLECKHEATON, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5.75 miles from Bradford, 7 from Halifax, 9 from
   Leeds.  --Pop. 2,436.  The Church (anciently called, Old White-Chapel in the
   East, lately rebuilt and enlarged,) is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !92L.
   Patron, the Vicar of Birstall.

           At Cleck-Heaton, "Dr. Richardson discovered the site and remains of a
   Roman town, of which he gave a distinct and satisfactory account to Thomas
   Hearne."  The coins discovered here were principally of the lower empire.

CLIFFE-HILL, in the township of Warley, and parish of Halifax; 2 miles from
   Halifax.

CLIFFE-HILL, (the seat of the Miss Walkers) in the township of Hipperholme, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax, 6 from
   Huddersfield, 6.5 from Bradford.

CLIFFE-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Anston with its members, and parish of
   South-Anston; 4.5 miles from Worksop (Notts.), 10 from Sheffield.

CLIFFORD, in the parish of Bramham, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 3 miles from
   Wetherby, 4 from Tadcaster, 5 from Abberford.  --Pop. 1,017.

CLIFTON, 2 h. in the township and parish of Rotherham; (Clifton-House, the
   seat of Mrs. Susan Walker,) 0.25 of a mile from Rotherham.

CLIFTON, in the parish of Dewsbury, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax and Huddersfield, 10 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. included in Hartshead.

CLIFTON, in the parish of Fewston, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 6 miles from Otley, 11 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. including
   Norwood, 420, which being united, form a township.

CLIFTON, in the township and parish of Conisbrough, upper-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; 6.5 miles from Rotherham and Doncaster.


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CLIFTON, in the township of Newhall-cum-Clifton, and parish of Otley,
   upper-division of Claro; 2.5 miles from Otley, 13 from Knaresborough, 13.5
   from Skipton.  --Pop. included in Newhall.

CLINT, in the parish of Ripley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 2 miles from Ripley, 7 from Knaresborough, 8 from Ripon.
   --Pop. 412.

           This was anciently the seat of Sir William Beckwith, of Clint,
   Knight; part of the old house is yet remaining, called Clint-Hall, a very
   ancient stone building, with an arched portal, situated on a lofty eminence,
   commanding an extensive prospect.  Some remains of the moat, that once
   surrounded this ancient mansion, are still discernible.

CLOCK-HOUSE, (the seat of Miss Jowetts,) in the township of Manningham, and
   parish of Bradford; 1.5 mile from Bradford, 8 from Otley.

CLOSE-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Skipton; 2 miles from Skipton.

CLOTHERHOLME, 2 f.h. in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of
   Claro; 1.5 miles from Ripon.  --Pop. 16.

CLOUGH, (the seat of Henry John Hirst, Esq.) in the township of Kimberforth, and
   parish of Rotherham; 0.5 of a mile from Rotherham.

COALEY-LANE, 2 f.h. in the township of Wentworth, and parish of Wath-upon-
   Dearne; 6 miles from Rotherham and Barnsley.

COATES, or BARNOLDWICK-COATES, in the parish of Barnoldwick, east-division and
   liberty of Staincliffe; 6 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 7 from Skipton, 11 from
   Burnley, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 97.  The large hall-house, built by the Drakes, is
   now converted into cottages.

COBBS-HOUSES, 2 h. in the township of Stirton-with-Thorlby, and parish of
   Skipton; 2 miles from Skipton.

COCKCROFT-MILL, in the township and parish of Bingley; 1 mile from Bingley.

COCKHILL, (Ainsty) ham. in the township and parish of Moor-Monkton; 7 miles from
   York, 10.5 from Boroughbridge.

COCKHILL-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Edlington; 6 miles from
   Doncaster, 7 from Rotherham.

COCKLETT, f.h. in the township and parish of Giggleswick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 7 miles from Settle.

COCKLEY-HILL, in the township and parish of Kirkheaton; 3 miles from
   Huddersfield, 10 from Wakefield.

COIT-HILL, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 2 miles from Penistone.

COLCOTES, ham. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low-Bentham; 8 miles
   from Settle, 9 from Kirby-Lonsdale (Westm.), 20 from Lancaster.

COLEY, in the township of Hipperholme, and parish of Halifax, Morley-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax, 6 from
   Bradford.  The Church, built in 1500, is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. 84L.
   Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.

COLLINGHAM, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack; 1 mile from
   Wetherby, 6.25 from Tadcaster, 9 from Leeds, 12.75 from Otley, 15.25 from
   York.  --Pop. 286.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Oswald, in the
   deanry of the Ainsty, value, +3L. 11s. 5.5d.  Patrons, the Trustees of Lady
   Betty Hastings.

COLNE-BRIDGE, in the township and parish of Kirkheaton; 4 miles from
   Huddersfield, 5 from Halifax.

COLTHOUSES, 2 f.h. in the township of Lower-Stonebeck; 4 miles from
   Pateley Bridge.

COLTON, in the township of Temple-Newsam, and parish of Whitkirk; 5 miles from
   Leeds, 9 from Wakefield, 10 from Pontefract.

COLTON, (Ainsty) in the parish of Bolton-Percy; (the seat of Christopher
   Morritt, Esq.) 4 miles from Tadcaster, 6 from York.  --Pop. 148.

COMBES, FAR and NEAR, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of
   Ecclesfield; 5 miles from Sheffield.

CONDUIT-HILL, f.h. in the township of Anston with its Members, and parish of
   South-Anston; 6.5 miles from Rotherham.

CONDUIT-HOUSE, (the seat of the Rev. Stuart Corbett, D.D.) in the township of
   Wortley, and parish of Tankersley, wapentake of Staincross; 5.75 miles from
   Penistone, 6 from Barnsley, 7.25 from Sheffield.

CONEYTHORPE, in the parish of Goldsbrough, upper-division of Claro; 4 miles from
   Knaresborough, 5 from Boroughbridge, 7 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 112.  This
   place was formerly written Kingsthorpe.

CONYNGHAM-HOUSE, or COGHILL-HALL, (the seat of the Hon. Col. Burton, now
   occupied by Dr. William Harrison,) in the township of Scriven-with-
   Tentergate, and parish of Knaresborough; 0.75 of a mile from Knaresborough.

           This house, built upon the site of the old mansion by Oliver Coghill,
   Esq. upwards of 70 years ago, has, for many centuries, belonged to the
   Coghill family; and was by them called Coghill-Hall; but Sir John Coghill,
   Bart. having sold it to the Right Hon. Countess, of Conyngham in 1796, it was
   changed to its present name.  Angus, in his description of gentlemen's seats,
   says "it is situated in one of the pleasantest spots in England."

CONISBROUGH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5
   miles from Doncaster, 7 from Rotherham, 42 from York.  --Pop. 1,142.  The
   Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, +8L. 12s. 8.5d.  Patron, the Duke of Leeds.

        The Castle here is supposed to be British.  --The walls are of the
   immense thickness of 15 feet.  It had neither portcullis nor machicolations,
   nor the Norman mode of securing loop-holes.  In the latter end of the Saxon
   period, it belonged to King Harold, and was afterwards given by the Conqueror
   to Earl Warren; who, it is supposed, re-edified the Keep.  --King's Munimenta
   Antiqua.
        It will be difficult to compare the architecture of this edifice with
   others of the same period; because we cannot find many of so ancient a date.
   The octagonal tower of Dover Castle appears to be almost the only one of the
   same era.  Between this, however, and Conisbrough Keep, the similarity is
   rather striking; and as a further evidence that the latter was erected about
   the period before-mentioned, we have the authority of the indefatigable Mr.
   King, who, in his treatise on English Castles, fixes the building of it about
   this time of Cartismandua.
           Conisbrough seems, even in its earliest history, to have been a royal
   residence; hence its British name, Caer-Conan, and Saxon one, Koningsberg or
   Borough.
           The situation of this Castle is on the summit of a circular or rather
   elliptical hill, the sides of which are covered with the most luxuriant
   trees, above which the ivy-crowned summit of the keep, appears to the
   observer on the adjacent hill, like a Castle in a wood; to the southward
   appears the church, from which the town, an agreeable intermixture of
   buildings, trees and gardens, stretches in the same direction; and with the
   interposing valley, forms a scene on which the eye expatiates with delight;
   --a cheering animated landscape, which bursts unexpectedly on the sight, and
   fills the mind with pleasurable emotions.
           Within the walls too it affords many beautiful detached views, and
   such as the lovers of the picturesque must always admire.  Its tottering
   fragments covered with ivy, or half hidden by spreading shrubs, when
   partially illuminated by a flitting light, forcibly attract the attention,
   and impress the mind with ideas of delight, which it was no ways prepared to
   except.
           Near the Castle is a tumulus, said to be raised over the body of
   Hengist, the Saxon General, slain in battle near this place, about the year
   488, by Aurelius Ambrosius, who took him prisoner, and afterwards, according
   to Matthew of Westminster, beheaded him.
           Here was born, Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cumberland, commonly
   called Richard of Conisburgh, father of Richard, Duke of York, afterwards
   beheaded by Henry V.

CONISBROUGH-PARK-HOUSE, s.h. in the township and parish of Conisbrough; 6 miles
   from Rotherham.

CONISBROUGH-LODGE, manor-house, in the township and parish of Conisbrough; 5
   miles from Rotherham.

CONISTON, in the township of Coniston-cum-Kilnsey, and parish of Burnsall,
   east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Cliffords-Fee; 3 miles from
   Kettlewell, 12 from Skipton and Settle.  --Pop. including Kilnsey, 137,
   which being united, form a township.  Here is a Chapel to Burnsall, dedicated
   to St. Mary.

CONISTON, COLD, in the parish of Gargrave, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's-Fee; 6.5 miles from Skipton, 9.5 from Settle, 12 from Colne,
   (Lanc.)  --Pop. 345.

CONONLEY, in the township of Farnhill-with-Cononley, and parish of Kildwick,
   east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's-Fee; (Cononley-Hall, the
   seat of John Swires, Esq.) 4 miles from Skipton, 6.5 from Keighley, 10 from
   Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. included in Farnhill.

COOKRIDGE, in the township and parish of Addle, upper-division of Skyrack;
   (Cookridge-Hall, the seat of Richard Wormald, Esq.) 4.5 miles from Otley, 5.5
   from Leeds.

           This was part of the possessions of Kirkstall-Abbey, to which it was
   given during the time of the very first Abbot, Alexander, and continued to
   the last.  Numbers of coins, fragments of urns, and other Roman vessels, have
   at different times, been found here; the Roman station at Adel-Mill, not
   being far distant.  Cookridge has been rendered famous for the noble and
   pleasant walks, in geometrical lines, contrived by Mr. Kirke, F.R.S. in
   Thoresby's time, and who was then owner of the estate.  After his death, it
   was bought by, or for Edmund Sheffield, then Duke of Buckingham.  --Thoresby.
   --Whitaker.

COPGROVE, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro; (the seat of Thomas
   Duncombe, Esq.) 4 miles from Knaresborough and Boroughbridge, 6 from Ripon.
   --Pop. 87.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Michael, in the deanry
   of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, +5L. 9s. 7d. p.r. !80L.  Patron,
   Thomas Duncombe, Esq.

           Before the conquest, Gospatric, a northern nobleman, was Lord of this
   village, where he had six caracutes of land; three of which, were arable.  In
   the 20th of William I. Erneis de Borun, a Norman, had this manor; whose
   servant, Trusten, held here one caracute, with one plough, and seven
   villeins.  Here was then a church; and the manor a mile long, and half a mile
   broad, was, in the time of King Edward, valued at 20s.; but at the
   above-mentioned time, only at 16s.  --Vide Doomsday Book.

COPLEY-HALL, f.h. in the township of Skircoat, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 2.5 miles from Halifax.

COPMANTHORPE, (Ainsty) in the parish of St. Mary, Bishop-Hill the younger, York,
   a part in the liberty of St. Peter; 4 miles from York, 5.5 from Tadcaster.
   --Pop. 281.

COPT-HEWICK.  ----See Hewick-Copt.

COPT-HEWICK LODGE, (the seat of William Charnock, Esq.) in the township of
   Copt-Hewick, and parish of Ripon; 2 miles from Ripon.

CORNSHAW, in the township of Cowling, and parish of Kildwick, east-division and
   liberty of Staincliffe; 4 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 7 from Skipton, 5 from
   Keighley.

CORTWORTH, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 8 from
   Barnsley.

COTTINGLEY, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 2.25 miles from Bingley,
   31 from Bradford.

COTTINGLEY-BRIDGE, 2 h. in the township and parish of Bingley; (the seat of C.
   P. Busfield, Esq.); 0.25 miles from Bingley, 4.75 from Bradford.

COTTINGLEY-HOUSE, (the seat of Mrs. Sarah Ferrand,) in the township and parish
   of Bingley; 2.25 miles from Bingley.

COWGILL, f.h. in the township and parish of Gisburn; 3 miles from Gisburn.

COWHOUSE, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 6 miles from Bradford, 5
   from Halifax.

COWICK, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and bailiwick
   of Cowick and Snaith, (Cowick-Hall, the seat of Lord Viscount Downe, 1.5
   miles from Snaith, 8.5 from Howden.  --Pop. 905.

           This is an ancient seat of an honourable family, who came over with
   the Conqueror, and appear to be descended from Sir Paine Dawnay, of Dawnay
   Castle, in Normandy; and from him descended Sir William Dawnay, who was made
   a general in the 4th of Richard I. anno 1192, at Acon, in Cyprus, where
   having killed a chief Prince of the Saracens, and afterwards slaying a lion,
   he cut off a paw, and presented it to the King, who, as a mark of his
   approbation, immediately took a ring from his finger, and giving it to Sir
   William ordered in perpetuam rei memorian, that his crest should be a
   Saracen, with a Lion's paw in one hand, and a ring in the other; the ring is
   still in the possession of Viscount Downe.  In a direct line from the above,
   descended Sir Nicholas Dawnay, summoned to Parliament among the Barons, 1st
   of Edward III. and several of them being Knights, were Sheriffs of this
   County in Henry VIII. and Elizabeth's reign.  Sir Nicholas served in the wars
   in the Holy land, and brought from thence some rich and curious medals.
           Sir John Dawnay, of Cowick, the first Viscount, was created Viscount
   Downe, of Ireland, July 19, 1680; and John Christopher Burton Dawnay, the 5th
   Viscount, was created an English Baron, by the title of Baron Dawnay, May28,
   1798.  --Magna. Brit.  --Debrett.
           Cowick with Snaith, has a peculiar jurisdiction over several
   neighbouring villages, which is pointed out in the respective places, under
   the title of "the Soke, bailiwick and liberty of Cowick and Snaith," and of
   which Lord Viscount Downe, is Lord and Chief Bailiff.

COWLING, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 6 from Skipton, 8 from Keighley.
   --Pop. 1,870.

COWMS, ham. in the township of Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 2.5 miles from
   Huddersfield.

COW-ROYD-HILL, s.h. in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 2 miles
   from Huddersfield, 11 from Wakefield.

COWTHORPE, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; 4 miles from Wetherby,
   7 from Knaresborough, 13.5 from York.  --Pop. 120.  The Church is a rectory,
   dedicated to St-Michael, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +4L. 15s. 10d.
   p.r. !111L.  Patron, the Hon. Edward Petre.

           Cowthorpe is remarkable on account of an enormous Tree, called the
   Cowthorpe Oak; the circumference of which, close by the ground, is 60 feet,
   and its principal limb (which is propped) extends 48 feet from the bole.
   This venerable oak is decaying fast, the trunk and several of the branches
   appearing to be completely rotten, except the bark; tradition speaks of its
   being in decay for many generations.  The intermixture of foliage amongst the
   dead branches, show how sternly this giant struggles for life, and how
   reluctantly it surrenders to all conquering time.  "Compared with this," says
   Dr. Hunter, in Evelyn's Silva, "all other trees are children of the Forest."
   The leading branch fell, by a storm, in the year 1718; which, being measured
   with accuracy, was found to contain five tons and two feet of wood.  Before
   this accidental mutilation, its branches are said to have extended their
   shade over half an acre of ground; thus constituting, in a single tree,
   almost a wood itself.  --Hist. Knaresborough.
           The church at Cowthorpe appears to have been built by a Brian
   Roucliffe, and consecrated in 1458.  In the choir, on a large flat stone, are
   the effigies, in brass, of a man and his wife, bearing betwixt them the model
   of a church, and supposed, from the inscription, likewise in brass, now
   scarce legible, to be in memory of the Founder and his wife.

CRABTREE, f.h. in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 2
   miles from Sheffield.

CRACOW, in the parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 5 miles from Gargrave, 6 from Skipton, 9 from Kettlewell.
   --Pop. 179.

CRACOW-HILL, f.h. in the township of Gisburn-Forest, and parish of Gisburn; 5
   miles from Settle, 16 from Skipton.

CRAGG-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Fewston; 7
   miles from Otley, 11 from Knaresborough.

CRAGG-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of East-Halton, and parish of Skipton; 4 miles
   from Skipton.

CRANE-MOOR, or GREEN, scattered houses, in the township of Thurgoland, and
   parish of Silkstone; 4 miles from Penistone.

CRAVEN-CROSS-BAR, turnpike bar and cotts. in the township of Appletrewick, and
   parish of Burnsall, liberty of Staincliffe; 4 miles from Pateley Bridge.
   Here formerly stood an old cross, which was one of the boundaries of
   Knaresborough Forest.

CRAWSTONE-HALL, s.h. in the township of Elland-with-Greetland and parish of
   Halifax; 4 miles from Halifax.

CRAY, ham. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Kettlewell, 9 from Askrigg and Hawes, 5 from
   Middleham.

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CRIDDLING-PARK, f.h. in the township of Criddling-Stubbs, and parish of
   Darrington, liberty of Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Ferrybridge.

CRIDDLING-STUBBS, in the parishes of Womersley and Darrington, wapentake of
   Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Ferrybridge, 4.5 from
   Pontefract.  --Pop. 96.

CRIGGLESTONE, in the parish of Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Wakefield, 6 from Barnsley.
   --Pop. 1,265.

CRIMESWORTH-HALL, s.h. in the township of Wadsworth, and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 9 miles from Halifax.

CRIMESWORTH-DEAN, f.h. in the same township and parish, and liberty of
   Wakefield; 10 miles from Halifax.

CRIMPLE-HOUSE,  (the residence of Mrs. Bainbridge,) in the township and parish
   of Pannall; 2 miles from Harrogate, 5 from Knaresborough.

CRINGLES, ham. in the township of Silsden, and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Skipton and Keighley.

CROFTON, a parish-town, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract, (the seat of Sir Henry Wright Wilson, Bart.); 3.5 miles from
   Wakefield, 6 from Pontefract, 29 from York.  --Pop. 459.  The Church is a
   rectory, dedicated to All Saints, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 10L.
   0s. 2.5d.  Patron, the King, as Duke of Lancaster.

           Here was born Richard Fleming, founder of Lincoln College, Oxford: in
   1406, he was Prebendary of South Newbald, and in 1407, served the office of
   Proctor at Oxford; in 1415, he exchanged South Newbald for Langtoft, and in
   1420, was advanced to the See of Lincoln, by favour of Henry V.  He died at
   Sleaford, 1430/31.  He was named by Pope Martin to the vacant Bishopric of
   York, about 1426; but the appointment was frustrated by the King, and Dean
   and Chapter.  --Hist. Oxford.
           He was, for some time, zealous in supporting Wickliffe's doctrines,
   which afterwards, however, he as strenuously opposed.  --Biogr. Dict.

CROFT-HOUSE, (the residence of John Atkinson, Esq.) 2 miles from Skipton.  It is
   one of the houses formerly called Cobbs-houses.

CROFT-HOUSE, (the seat of Samuel Hailstone, Esq.) in the township of Great-
   Horton, and parish of Bradford; from which it is distant 0.25 of a mile.

CROMWELL-BOTTOM, in the township of Southowram, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Pontefract; 4 miles from Halifax, 6 from Huddersfield.  It is a manor
   within the manor of Southowram.

CROOK-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Stock, and parish of Bracewell; 10 miles
   from Skipton.

CROOK-HALL, (the seat of John E. Woodyear, Esq.) in the township of Conisbrough,
   and parish of Edlington; 5 miles from Doncaster, 5 from Rotherham.

CROOK-OF-LUNE, f.h. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 3.25 miles from
   Sedbergh, 8 from Kendal, (Westm.)

CROOKS, in the townships of Nether-Hallam and Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 1.5 miles from
   Sheffield.

           Here is a small School founded by will of William Ronksley, in 1723,
   for the education of 11 poor children of Crooks and the neighbourhood.  The
   trust is vested in the Burgesses, for the Free School in Sheffield, for the
   time being.

CROOKS-MOOR, ham. in the same township and parish; 1 mile from Sheffield.

CROSLAND-HALL, s.h. in the township of South-Crosland, and parish of Almondbury,
   liberty of Wakefield; 4 miles from Huddersfield.

           Crosland-Hall, an ancient Mansion of the Beaumonts, which was
   surrounded by a Ditch; the remains of which were visible in Mr. Watson's
   time.  This mansion is rendered famous in local history, by the family feuds
   of the Elands of Eland, Beaumonts of Crosland, and Lockwoods of Lockwood, in
   the time of Edward III. when Sir Robert Beaumont was slain in this Hall.  For
   particulars, see Watson's Halifax.

CROSLAND, NORTH and SOUTH.  --See North-Crosland and South-Crosland.

CROSS-FLATTS, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 1 mile from Bingley, 7
   from Bradford.

CROSS-GATES, 2 or 2 h. in the townships of Seacroft and Barwick-in-Elmet, and
   parishes of Whitkirk and Barwick-in-Elmet; 4 miles from Leeds.

CROSS-HILLS, in the township of Glusburn, and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Keighley and Skipton, 8 from Colne, (Lanc.)

CROSS-ROYD, f.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 1 mile
   from Penistone.

CROSS-STONE, in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 8 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 1.1 from Halifax.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !90L.  Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.

           "This place," says Mr. Watson, "takes its name from an ancient stone
   cross, the top of which is now destroyed, and the bottom is made into a seat,
   whence is a fine view of the country."  --Hist. Halifax.

CROW-NEST, (the seat of John Walker, Esq.) in the township of Hipperholme, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax, 6 from
   Huddersfield.

CROW-NEST, (the seat of John Hague, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Dewsbury, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Dewsbury, 5.5 from Wakefield.

CROW-TREES, (the seat of Joshua Pollard, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Bradford; 1.5 miles from Bradford.

CUBLEY, 3 or 4 f.h. in the township and parish of Penistone; 1 mile from
   Penistone.

CUCKOLDS-HAVEN, f.h. in the township and parish of Flirbeck; 4 miles from
   Tickhill.

CUCKOO-NEST, f.h. in the township and parish of Bingley; 1 mile from Bingley.

CUDWORTH-NETHER, corn-mill, in the township of Over-Cudworth, and parish of
   Royston, liberty of Pontefract, 3.5 miles from Barnsley.

CUDWORTH-OVER, in the parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3.5 miles from Barnsley, 5 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 487.

CULLINGWORTH, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 3.5 miles from
   Keighley, 7 from Bradford.

CUMBERLAND-ROW, or NEW-STREET, (Ainsty) and part of Davygate, York.

CUMBERWORTH-HALF, or UPPFR, in the parishes of Kirk-Burton, and Emley,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 5.5 miles from
   Penistone, 8 from Huddersfield, 10 from Barnsley.  --Pop. 1,120.  Here is a
   Chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas.

CUMBERWORTH-NETHER, in the parish of High-Hoyland, wapentake of Staincross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Penistone, 8 from Huddersfield, 10 from
   Barnsley.  --Pop. 1,295.

CUMPTON, f.h. in the township and parish of Collingham; 1.5 miles from Wetherby,
   6 from Tadcaster.

CUSWORTH, ham. in the township of Sprotbrough, and parish of Mexbrough,
   lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill, (the seat of
   William Wrightson, Esq.); 2 miles from Doncaster.  One house in this hamlet
   is in the parish of Conisbrough.

CUTLER-HEIGHT, in the township of Bowling, and parish of Bradford, Morley-
   division of Agbrigg and Morley; 1.5 mile from Bradford, 9 from Halifax and
   Leeds.
 
DACRE, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 4 miles from
   Pateley Bridge, 6 from Ripley, 12 from Ripon.  --Pop. including Bewerley,
   2,185, which being united, form a township.  The higher part of this township
   abounds in Lead Mines; particulars of which, see Greenhow-Hill.
 
DACRE-BANKS, ham. in the same township and parish; 3.5 miles from Pateley
   Bridge.

           Here is a small School founded about 1693, by William Hardcastle.
   The master's salary, 8 guineas per annum, with a house and garden.
 
DALE-END, in the township and parish of Carlton, liberty of Staincliffe; 6 miles
   from Skipton, 9 from Keighley, the end of Lothersdale, and where the Quakers
   have a burial ground.

DALLA, HIGH, or HOLE, ham. in the township of Laverton and parish of
   Kirbymalzeard; 8 miles from Masham and Ripon.  It gives name to Narrow-Gill,
   &c. west of Kirbymalzeard, called Dalla-Gill.
 
DALTON, in the parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from Huddersfield, 9 from Halifax, 12 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 2,289.
 
DALTON-MAGNA, in the parish of Rotherham, south-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; 2.25 miles from Rotherham, 10.5 from Doncaster.  --Pop. 225.
 
DALTON-PARVA, in the township of Dalton-Magna, and parish of Rotherham; 2 miles
   from Rotherham, 10 from Doncaster.

DANDERMIRE, p.h. in the township of Garsdale, and parish of Sedbergh; 5.5 miles
   from Hawes.
 
DARFIELD, a parish-town, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles from
   Barnsley, 10.5 from Doncaster, 42 from York.  --Pop 512.  The Church is a
   rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, value, 53L. 1s. 8d. and a vicarage, +14L.
   11s. 7d. p.r. 90L.  Patron of the rectory, the Rev. H. Cooke; and of the
   vicarage, Trinity College, Cambridge.
 
DARLANDS, or DEARLAND, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division
   of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Sheffield, 6 from Rotherham. 9 from
   Penistone.
 
DARLEY, in the township of Menwith-with-Darley, and parish of Hampsthwaite,
   liberty of Knaresborough; 4 miles from Ripley; 8 from Ripon, 9 from
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. included in Menwith.
 
DARNALL, in the township of Attercliffe-with-Darnall, and parish of Sheffield,
   liberty of Hallamshire; (Darnall Hall, the seat of Samuel Stainforth, Esq.) 2
   miles from Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.  --Pop. included in Attercliffe.

           The family of the Stainforths have resided upon lands here, possessed
   by their ancestors in the reign of Richard II.  --Hunter's Hallamshire.
 
DARRINGTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (the seat of Robert Oliver, Esq.) 3 miles from Ferrybridge and
   Pontefract, 12.25 from Doncaster, 14.5 from Barnsley, 24 from York.  --Pop.
   510.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Lake and All-Saints, in the
   deanry of Pontefract, value, +16L. 11s. 3d.  Patron, the Archbishop of York.
 
DARTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract;
   3.5 miles from Barnsley, 6 from Penistone, 8.5 from Wakefield, 36.5 from
   York.  --Pop. 1,340.   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, +12L. 10s. p.r. *150L.  Patron, Godfrey
   Wentworth, Esq.

           A branch of the family of Beaumonts had formerly a seat here, at
   Darton-Hall, of which family was George Beaumont, a merchant, who left
   considerable sums of money, to be employed in several charitable uses;
   particularly 500L. for the founding of the Free Grammar School at this, his
   place of nativity, in 1675.  Its annual value at present is about 120L.
           In the church, which is a beautiful structure, is a handsome
   marble monument to the memory of John Silvester, of Birthwaite-Hall, which he
   purchased of the Burdett family.  He was originally a blacksmith, and was the
   inventor of a curious chain made to go across the Thames.  He died aged 70,
   in 1722.
 
DAW-GREEN, in the township and parish of Dewsbury, liberty of Wakefield; half a
   mile from Dewsbury, 5.5 from Wakefield.
 
DAY-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Barugh, and parish of Darton; 2 miles from
   Barnsley, 6 from Penistone, 9.5 from Wakefield.
 
DEAN-HEAD, f.h. in the township of Hunshelf; and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.
 
DEAN-HEAD, -See Scammonden.
 
DEANSHAW, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 4
   miles from Dobcross.
 
DEEP-CAR, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 9 miles from
   Sheffield, 5 from Penistone.
 
DEEP-DALE; 4 f.h. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 6 miles from Kettlewell, 15 from Settle.
 
DEEP-DALE, ham, in the township of Dent, and parish of Sedbergh; 1.5 miles from
   Dent.
 
DEEP-DALE-HEAD, s.h. in the township of Wigglesworth, and
   parish of Long-Preston, liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Gisburn.
 
DEERSTONES, 4 f.h. in the township of Beamsley, and parishes of Addingham and
   Skipton; 7 miles from Skipton.
 
DEIGHTON, ham. in the township and parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
DEIGHTON-KIRK, a parish town in the upper-division of Claro; (the seat of the
   Rev. J. Geldart, L.L.D.) 1.5 miles from Wetherby, 5.5 from Knaresborough,
   16.5 from York.  --Pop. 371.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All
   Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 15L. 11s. 10.5d.  Patron,
   Rev. Jas. Geldart. L.L.D.
 
DEIGHTON, NORTH, in the parish of Kirk-Deighton, upper division of Claro; 2
   miles from Wetherby, 4.5 from Knaresborough.  Pop. 141.

           Here is a School for the poor people of North and Kirk-Deighton, 10
   from each, endowed by the Will of Sir Hugh Pallisar, dated Jan. 24, 1791,
   with one thousand pounds South Sea Annuities.
           At North-Deighton, on the estate of Sir William Ingilby, Bart. in a
   very large tumulus, the base of which is nearly 500 feet in circumference,
   and the height of the slope about 70 feet; on the top is a flat area, 27 feet
   long, by 13 broad.  About a quarter of a mile from hence is another tumulus,
   the foundation of which appears to have been laid with large unhewn stones; a
   custom peculiar to the Danes.  There were some other tumuli in the
   neighbourhood, of which now no vestige remains, except their names, which are
   still retained in the fields, where they stood; viz. Peesbury Hill, Maunberry
   Hill, Ingmanthorp Hill, and Ingbarrow Hill.  On viewing the circumjacent
   country, it is manifest that no situation could be more peculiarly adapted
   for the meeting of hostile armies.  At what time any such conflict happened,
   or who were the contending nations, does not appear; yet it may probably have
   been one of those many engagements which happened in this neighbourhood
   during the Saxon heptarchy.  The Danes obtained a complete victory over the
   Saxons and Scots, not far from the river Ouse, in the year 1010.  --Hist.
   Knaresborough.
 
DELPH, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.);
   1 mile from Dobcross, 8 from Rochdale, 11.5 from Huddersfield,
   12.25 from Manchester, (Lanc.)
 
DELPH, NEW, in the same township and parish; 0.75 of a mile from Dobcross.
 
DENABY, in the parish of Mexborough, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;
   6 miles from Rotherham and Doncaster.  Pop. 141.

DENBY-DIKE-SIDE, scattered houses, in the township of Denby, and parish of
   Penistone; 4 miles from Penistone.
 
DENBY-GRANGE, (the seat of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart.) in the township of
   Whitley, and parish of Kirkheaton; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 7 from
   Wakefield.

           Denby-Grange is seated in a fertile valley, through which winds the
   river Colne, and bounded by high hills, richly cultivated.  The family of
   Kaye is of great antiquity in this County, being descended from Sir A. Kaye,
   one of the Knights of the warlike table of Prince Arthur.  Sir John Kaye, of
   Woodsome, Knight, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, by King Charles
   I.  He served that unfortunate monarch as colonel of horse and suffered much
   during the civil wars, but happily survived the usurpation of Oliver
   Cromwell, and witnessed the restoration of King Charles II.  The second son
   of the second Baronet was George Kaye, Esq. of Denby Grange; he married
   Dorothy daughter of Robert Saville, and dying in 1707, his son succeeded to
   the property of his two uncles, Christopher Lister, Esq. and Sir Arthur Kaye,
   Bart.; he assumed the name of Lister, in addition to his own, and became the
   fourth Baronet of his family; and upon the death of the late Sir Richard
   Kaye, L.L.D. Dean of Lincoln, who was the sixth Baronet, without issue, the
   title became extinct, but was renewed, Dec. 28, 1812, in the person of the
   present proprietor of Denby Grange, sole heir to the estates of the families
   of Lister and Kaye, by will.  --Betham's Baronetage.  --Neale's Views.
 
DENBY, UPPER, in the township of Whitley, and parish of Kirk-heaton,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 7 miles from Huddersfield and
   Wakefield.  --In the same township is,
 
DENBY, LOWER, 2 f.h.
 
DENBY, HIGH, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Penistone, 6.5 from Barnsley; 11 from Huddersfield.
   --Pop. 1,412.  It is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Doncaster, value,
   p.r. !50L.  Patron, the Vicar of Penistone.
 
DENBY, LOW, in the township of High-Denby, and parish of Penistone; 4 miles from
   Penistone.
 
DENHOLME-CARR, ham. in the township of Thornton; and parish of Bradford, 6 miles
   from Halifax and Keighley.
 
DENT, a market town in the parish of Sedbergh, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 5
   miles from Sedbergh, 8 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 11.5 from Hawes, 16.5
   from Askrigg, 2.5 from Settle, 59 from York, 266 from London.  --Market,
   Friday.     --Fairs, 1st Friday after February 13, and every fortnight until
   May 12, for horned cattle, &c.  --Pop. 1,782.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of Kirby-Lonsdale, value,
   p.r. !102L.  10s.  Patrons, 24 Sidesmen.

           This town is situated near the extremity of Craven, in the centre of
   a dale to which the town gives the name of Dent-dale.  "This dale is entirely
   surrounded with high mountains, and has only one opening from the west, where
   a carriage can enter with safety.  It is about twelve miles in length, and
   from one and a half to two miles in breadth.  The whole dale is enclosed; and
   viewed from the higher grounds, presents the picture of a terrestrial
   paradise."  --Brown's Survey of West Riding.
 
DENTON, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Claro; (Denton Park, the seat
   of Sir Henry Carr Ibbetson, Bart.) 5.5 miles from Otley, 8 from Keighley,
   10.5 from Skipton.  --Pop. 192.  Here is a donative Chapel, value, p.r. 20L.
   Patron, Sir Henry Carr Ibbetson, Bart.

           Denton-Park is delightfully situated upon the banks of the Wharf; and
   "was for several generations the principal residence of the Fairfaxes, of
   whom Sir William Fairfax married Isabel, daughter of Thomas Thwaites, by whom
   he had the manor of Denton.  This line, in seven generations, produced two
   judges, Sir Guy and William Fairfax; and two distinguished generals,
   Ferdinando and Thomas, successively Lords Fairfax, the well-known commanders
   for the Parliament."  To Thomas Lord Fairfax, the public are indebted for the
   voluminous collections of Dodsworth.  In the old house at Denton, Prince
   Rupert lodged on his way from Lancashire to York, a few days before the
   battle of Marston-Moor in 1644, and was only prevented destroying the house,
   by the sight of a fine portrait of John Fairfax, younger brother of the then
   Lord, who had been slain while defending Frankendale, in the palatinate, A.D.
   1621.  "In this house, where he had been born 60 years before, died Thomas,
   Lord Fairfax, the general, Nov. 12, 1671.  In the same house, April 9, 1688,
   died Henry, Lord Fairfax, and was interred in the chapel at Denton."  And
   here was born Edward Fairfax, an English poet, the son of Sir Thomas Fairfax.
   He had a liberal education, but led a retired life at Fewston, his favourite
   seat, where he devoted himself to the muses; and died about 1632.  --Neale.
   --Whitaker.
           Denton-Park was purchased by Henry Ibbetson, Esq. of Red-Hall, near
   Leeds, in the year 1690; and at his death his eldest son, the late Samuel
   Ibbetson, succeeded to it; who leaving an only daughter, Alice, the estate
   being entailed on male issue, descended to the late Sir James Ibbetson, the
   eldest son of a younger brother, Henry Ibbetson, Esq. created a Baronet in
   1748, during the life-time of his elder brother Samuel.  The original Castle,
   a very magnificent building, was burnt by accident in the time of Henry
   Ibbetson, the first purchaser, and rebuilt on a modern and moderate scale, by
   his son Samuel, on whose death it was pulled down by Sir James, and the
   present elegant structure resurrected by him, from a plan of that celebrated
   architect, Mr. Carr, of York.
 
DENTON, UPPER, ham. in the township of Denton, and parish of Otley, upper-
   division of Claro; 6 miles from Otley, 10 from Skipton.
 
DEWSBURY, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   the manor of Wakefield; 5 miles from Wakefield, 8 from Huddersfield and
   Leeds, 9 from Bradford, 10 from Halifax, 33 from York, 187 from London.
   --Market, Wednesday.  --Fairs, Wednesday before New Michaelmas-day, October
   5, and Wednesday before Old May-day, for horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c,
   --Principal Inns, the George Hotel, Man and Saddle, and the Commercial
   Coffee-house.  --Pop. 6,380.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to
   All-Saints in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +22L. 13s. 9d.  Patron, the
   King.

           Camden supposes that the name of this place is derived from Dui, a
   local deity, of the Brigantes, for it resembles Duis Burgh in sound; and the
   town, he observes, has been considerable from the earliest date of
   Christianity, for a cross, which was to be seen here having this inscription:
   Paulinus hic praedicavit, et celebravit.  This Paulinus, the Northumbrian
   apostle, was the first Archbishop of York, about the year 626.  The learned
   Dr. Gale was of opinion, that this place received its name from some Roman
   auxiliaries of the 6th Legion, who had camps in many parts of this Riding.
 
DEWSBURY-MILLS, ham. in the township and parish of Dewsbury; 1 mile from
   Dewsbury.
 
DEWSBURY-MOOR-SIDE, ham. in the township and parish of Dewsbury, liberty of
   Wakefield; (the seat of Abraham Greenwood, Esq.) 1 mile from Dewsbury, 6 from
   Wakefield.
 
DEYKIN-BROOK, ham. in the township and parish of Cawthorne; 3 miles from
   Penistone, 5.5 from Barnsley.
 
DICK-ROYD-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 5
   miles from Penistone.
 
DIGGLE and BRIDGE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale,
   (Lanc.); 2.75 miles from Dobcross.
 
DIGLEE-ROYD, f.h. in the township of Austonley, and parish of Almondbury;
   liberty of Wakefield; 7 miles from Huddersfield.
 
DIKES-MARSH, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Thorne; 2 miles from Thorne.
 
DINNINGTON, a parish-town, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of
   Tickhill; (the seat of John Middleton, Esq.) 8 miles from Tickhill, 8 from
   Worksop, (Notts.) 8.5 from Rotherham, 51 from York.  --Pop. 189.  The Church
   is a rectory, dedicated to St. Nicholas, in the deanry of Doncaster, value,
   +4L. p.r. 68L. 3s. 11d.  Patron, the King.

DIRTCARR, ham. in the township of Crigglestone, and parish of Sandal-Magna,
   manor of Wakefield; 4 miles from Wakefield.

DOBCROSS, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 9 miles
   from Rochdale, 12 from Manchester, 12.5 from Huddersfield.  --Bankers,
   Saddleworth Bank, Messrs. Buckley and Co. draw on Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and
   Co.; and Saddleworth Union Bank, Messrs. Harrop, Lees, Brown, and Co. draw on
   Messrs. Kenworthy, and Co.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry
   of Manchester, diocese of Chester, value, p.r. !85L. 12s.  Patron, the Vicar
   of Rochdale.
 
DODWORTH, in the parish of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone, 10 from Wakefield.
   --Pop. 1,227.
 
DODWORTH-BOTTOMS, scattered houses, in the township of Dodworth, and parish of
   Silkstone,; 1.75 a miles from Barnsley.
 
DOG-PARK, f.h. in the township of Askwith, and parish of Weston; 5 miles from
   Otley, 12 from Knaresborough.

DOLEBANK, in the township of Bishop-Thornton, and parish of Ripon; 3 miles from
   Ripley, 6 from Ripon.

           At this place, Sir Thomas Gascoigne, Bart. built a Nunnery, which he
   endowed with 90L. per annum, out of an estate at Maunston.  --It is now only
   a Farm-House, in which some part of the old building is to be found, and is
   the property of Mr. Greenwood, merchant.

DONCASTER, a market and parish-town, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   in the soke of Doncaster; 7 miles from Tickhill, 9 from Bawtry, 11 from
   Thorne, 12 from Rotherham and Blythe, (Notts.) 15 from Ferrybridge and
   Pontefract, 16 from Worksop, (Notts.) 20 from Wakefield, 37 from York, 165
   from London.  --Market, Saturday.  --Fairs, April 5 and August 5, for horses,
   horned cattle, &c.  --Bankers, Messrs. Cooke, Childers, and Co. draw on
   Messrs. Gosling and Sharp, 19, Fleet Street; New Bank, Messrs. Leathams, Tew,
   and Co. draw on Messrs. Dennison, and Co. 106, Fenchurch-Street.
   --Principal Inns, Angel, Red Lion, Rein Deer, Black Boy, and Green Dragon.
   --Pop. 8,544.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. George, in the
   deanry of Doncaster, value, 32L. 19s. 2d. p.r. !100L.  Patron, the Archbishop
   of York.

           Doncaster, pleasantly situated on the river Don, whence it has its
   name, is nearly a mile in length, and is one of the neatest towns in the
   kingdom, and the neighbourhood is remarkable for opulent families.  It was
   formerly a Roman station, by Ninius called Caer-Daun; by Antoninus, Danum,
   and so likewise by the Notitia, which relates, that the Prefect of the
   Crispinian horse garrisoned here: this body of cavalry probably took its name
   from Crispus, son of Constantine the Great.  The remains of a Roman road are
   still visible; and in digging a cellar in St. Sepulchre's Gate, in 1781, a
   Roman votive altar of a exquisite workmanship was discovered, which, from the
   inscription, appears to have been dedicated to the Deae Matres.  Mr. Watson
   supposes Doncaster to have been the campadonum of Bede; an opinion
   controverted by Dr. Whitaker, but his arguments are not very satisfactory.
           The Church is a very ancient structure, and was given to the abbey of
   St. Mary's, York; the chief relic contained in it is a Saxon font, still used
   for the purpose of baptism.  In this church is a curious monument to the
   memory of Robert Byrks, who gave Rossington wood to the poor of the parish,
   with this uncouth inscription on his tomb :--

           How, how, who is here?  I Robin of Doncaster, and Margaret my freare,
   that I spent that I had, that I gave that I have, that I left that I lost,
   A.D. 1597, quoth Robertus Byrkes, who in this world did reign three-score
   years and seven, and yet lived not one.  --Camden.

           "Here was," says Leland "a right goodly house of White Freres, in the
   mydle of the towne, now defaced."  There was also, he says, "a house of Grey
   Freres at the north ende of the bridge, communely caulled the Freres Bridge."
           Here is a mansion-house, a handsome theatre, a free grammar school,
   alms house, and public dispensary.
           The Corporation possesses a revenue of about 7,000L. per annum, which
   is liberally expended for the benefit of the inhabitants.  It is governed by
   a Mayor, a Recorder, 12 Aldermen, and 24 Common Councilmen.  The first
   charter was granted by King Richard I, and confirmed, and others granted, by
   many of his successors.
           Here is an excellent race course, and the grand stand is inferior to
   none in the kingdom.  The races, which have for many years been increasing,
   are of considerable advantage to the town; and the St. Leger stakes excite a
   lively interest among the votaries of the turf.
           At or near this place was born that celebrated naval commander, Sir
   Martin Frobisher, who distinguished himself by attempts to discover a
   north-west passage to China.  In 1585, he served under Admiral Drake in the
   West Indies; and in 1588, he had a share in the defeat of the Spanish
   armada.  He was killed in assaulting a fort near Brest, in l594.  --Biog.
   Dict.
           The Rev. William Bingley, was born at this place in January, 1774.
   Having completed the early part of his education at the grammar school in
   this town, he was entered as a student in St. Peter's college, Cambridge,
   where he took the degree of M.A.  He was afterwards chosen a fellow of the
   Linnaean Society.  In 1800, he published a Tour through Wales, in 2 vols.
   8vo. and in 1802, his Animal Biography, which has met with general
   approbation.
 
DON-POTTERY, ham. in the township and parish of Mexbrough; 5.5 miles from
   Rotherham.
 
DOUGHBIGGIN, ham. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 1.5 miles from
   Sedbergh, 6.5 from Dent.
 
DOUK-CAVE, a cave, in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low-Bentham; 9.5
   miles from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 15.5 from Askrigg.

      The Douk-Cave, one of those natural curiosities (Caves) in which this part
   of the Riding abounds: it is situated near to the foot of Ingleborough on the
   south; it somewhat resembles Weathercote Cave, but is not heightened so much
   with the grand and the terrible.  The stream of this cascade does not fall
   more than five or six yards, but the subterranean passage, out of which it
   issues, is very curious, and by the help of a ladder, and by means of
   candles, may be explored.  --Tour to the Caves.
 
DOCTOR-HOUSES, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 1
   mile from Dobcross.
 
DOWGILL-HALL, f.h. in the township of Hartwith, and parish of Kirbymalzeard; 4
   miles from Ripley,
 
DRANSFIELD-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division
   of Agbrigg and Morley; 3.75 miles from Huddersfield, 9 from Wakefield.
 
DRAUGHTON, in the parish of Skipton, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 3.25 miles from Skipton, 8 from Keighley, 12 from Otley.
   --Pop. 279.
 
DRAX, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 4 miles from Snaith, 7
   from Selby, 14 from Pontefract, 22 from York.  --Pop. 370.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +4L.
   p.r. !88L.  Patron, the King.

           The Free Grammar School at Drax was founded in 1667, by Charles Read,
   Gentleman, of Darleton, in the county of Nottingham, who was born in this
   parish.  He erected a school-house and dwelling for a master, as also six
   alms-houses, in the town and parish of Drax; and designed the same
   school-house for a free school and a master for ever, to teach the youth of
   the parish to read write, accompt, and also Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.  The
   original endowment was 30L. per annum to the master, which yet remains the
   same, but an advance of salary is expected to take place.  "If any of the
   boys he deemed fit for the University, they shall be sent to either Cambridge
   or Oxford."  --Carlisles Gram. Schools.
 
DRAX, LONG, or LANGRICK, in the parish of Drax, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 5
   miles from Snaith, 8 from Selby, 14.5 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 187.

           Philip de Tallevilla had here a Castle strongly fortified, who
   relying on the courage of his men and store of arms and provisions, held out
   against King Stephen, but it was quickly taken and reduced by the King.
   --Gulielm. Newbrigensis.  William Pagnall, in the time of Henry I. at the
   instance of Thurstan, Archbishop of York, founded a Priory here for canons of
   the order of St. Austin, and dedicated it to St. Nicholas: valued, at the
   dissolution, 121L. 10s. 3.5d.  -Speed, 104L. 14s. 9d.  -Dugdale:  --Not a
   vestige of this priory is now to be found, nor was there in Burton's time,
   without digging; and its site is only known by a farm-house in the township,
   bearing the name of :-
 
DRAX-ABBEY, 5 miles from Snaith.
 
DREBLEY, in the township of Barden, and parish of Skipton, east-division of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Skipton, 10 from Pateley Bridge.
 
DRIGHLINGTON, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Bradford, 7 from Leeds.  --Pop. 1,719.
   The Chapel of Ease here to Birstall, after having been built 30 years, was
   consecrated by the Archbishop of York in 1815.

         At Adwalton Moor, in this township, in the year 1643, a bloody battle
   was fought between the royalist troops, under the Earl of Newcastle, and the
   Parliamentarian forces under Lord Fairfax and his son Sir Thomas, the latter
   of whom were attempting to relieve Bradford, then besieged by the King's
   Troops.  After a most obstinate and wall contested engagement, the troops
   under the Fairfaxes were defeated; Lord Fairfax taking the road to Bradford
   with part of his scattered army, and Sir Thomas took towards Halifax with the
   other part; and joined his father at Bradford the next day.  Lord Fairfax,
   the night following, retired to Leeds, to secure it; and a few days
   afterwards, Sir Thomas, with his officers and a handful of men, cut his way
   through the enemy, and retired to Leeds.  --Memoirs of Gen. Fairfax.

           The Free Grammar-School at Drighlington, owes its origin to the
   benevolence of James Margetson, Archbishop of Armagh, a native of this
   village, who having built a school here, but not having endowed the same in
   his life-time, by his Will, dated the 31st of May, 1678, gave all his lands,
   tenements, &c. in Drighlington and Newhall, to his son, Robert Margetson, and
   his heirs, to pay yearly for ever towards the maintenance of the school, 60L.
   out of the rents and profits of those lands, which King William and Queen
   Mary, by their letters patent, in 1691, granted -that Sir John Tempest, Bart.
   and other persons there-in named, should be a body corporate; by the name of
   "the Governors of the Free School of James Margetson, late Lord-Archbishop of
   Armagh," with perpetual succession, and be able to receive the said yearly
   sum of 60L. &c. &c.  --The right of nominating the head master, was vested in
   the master and senior fellows of Peterhouse, in Cambridge.  The number of
   governors being reduced to one - the survivor, in 1811, chose eight others;
   since which several regulations and ordinances conducive to the welfare of
   the institution have been made.  The head master receives the whole of the
   60L. although originally only 40L. the rest being paid to the Usher, 13L. 6s.
   8d.  --English master, 6L. 13s. 4d. --Carlisle.
 
DRINGHOUSES, (Ainsty) in the parishes of St. Mary, Bishop-Hill the Elder;
   Holy-Trinity, Micklegate, York; and Acomb, liberty of St. Peter; 1.75 miles
   from York, 7.75 from Tadcaster, 15 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 156.  Here is a
   Chapel of Ease, but no chapelry attached.

           This place in Domesday Book it is written Dreng-houses, which Drenges
   were Vassalli Militares.  -Thoresby.
 
DUDLEY-HILL, ham. in the township of Bowling, and parish Bradford;  2 miles from
   Bradford.
 
DUMPLING-CASTLE, f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill; 1.5 mile from
   Tickhill, 3.5 from Bawtry.
 
DUNGWORTH, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles from Sheffield, 9 from
   Rotherham, 10 from Penistone.
 
DUNKESWICK, in the parish of Harewood, upper-division of Claro; 7 miles from,
   Wetherby, 8.5 from Knaresborough, 9.5 from Leeds.  --Pop. 257.
 
DUNKIRK, ham. in the township of Denby, and parish of Penistone, wapentake of
   Staincross; 4 miles from Penistone.
 
DUNNAH-HALL, f.h. in the township of Newton, and parish of Slaidburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)
 
DUNNINGLEY, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of West-Ardsley and parish of Woodkirk,
   liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Wakefield and Dewsbury.

 
DUNSCR0FT, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Hatfeld; 3.5 miles from Thorne,
   8 from Doncaster.

      At Dunscroft was a Cell to Roche-Abbey; it now consists of farm houses.  A
   Seal belonging to this cell, in the hand of Mr. Warburton, was engraved at
   the expense of the late Edward Rowe Mores, Esq. F.A.S.  --Nichols. Anecdotes.
 
DUNSFORTH, LOW, in the parish of Aldborough, upper-division of Claro; 3 miles
   from Boroughbridge, 8 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 115.  The Church, peculiar,
   is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, value, p.r. +35L. 10s.  Patron,
   the Vicar of Aldborough.

DUNSFORTH, UPPER, in the parish of Aldborough, upper-division of Claro; 3 miles
   from Boroughbridge, 7 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. including Branton-Green,
   156, which being united, form a township.
 
DUNSOP-BRIDGE, ham. in the township of the Forest of Bowland, higher, and parish
   of Slaidburn; 10 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 16 from Settle.
 
DYSON-COIT, f.h. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles
   from Penistone.
 
DYSON-HOLM, or COTE, f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of
   Ecclesfield; 6 miles from Sheffield,

EADSFORD-BRIDGE, ham. in the township and parish of Mitton, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 1.5 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)

EAREBY, in the township and parish of Thornton, east-division of Staincliffe; 5
   miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 7 from Skipton, 11 from Burnley, (Lanc.)

           Here is a School endowed in 1594, by Robert Hindle, Esq. with 20L.
   per annum, free for reading, for boys within the township and parish of
   Thornton.
 
EASDIKE, (Ainsty,) f.h. in the township and parish of Wighill; 1 mile from
   Tadcaster.
 
EASINGTON, in the parish of Slaidburn, west-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Bowland; 12 miles from Settle, 21 from Skipton.  --Pop. 801.
 
EAST-BIERLEY, see Bierley, East.
 
EASTBURN, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's Fee; 2.5 miles from Keighley, 5.75 from Skipton, 10 from Colne.
   --Pop. included in Steeton.
 
EASTBROOK-HOUSE, (the seat of Charles Harris, Esq.) in the township and parish
   of Bradford; the park adjoins to Bradford.
 
EASTBY, in the township of Embsay-with-Eastby, and parish of Skipton,
   east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's-Fee; 2.5 miles from
   Skipton, 17 from Settle.  --Pop. included in Embsay.
 
EASTFIELD, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3 miles from Penistone.
 
EASTFIELD, f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill; half a mile from
   Tickhill.

           This old mansion, (now much modernised) was formerly the residence of
   the ancient family of the Eastfields, descendants of William Eastfield, Esq.
   who was Lord Mayor of London in 1386.  "The Laughton family resided here for
   many years, but whether they hold the estate by descent or purchase is
   uncertain.  --Northern Star.
 
EASTOFT, (a part in Lincolnshire) in the township of Haldenby, and parish of
   Adlingfleet, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from
   Howden and Thorne, 7.5 from Crowle, (Linc.)
 
EASTWOOD, scattered houses, in the township of Stansfield, and parish of
   Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 7.5 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
EASTWOOD-HOUSE, (the seat of Mrs. Sarah Walker) in the township and parish of
   Rotherham; half a mile from Rotherham.

EASTWOOD-HOUSE, (the seat of William Sugden, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Keighley.
 
EAVESTONE, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 6 miles
   from Ripon, 10 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 73,

ECCLESALL-BIERLOW, in the parish of Sheffield, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 3 miles from Sheffield, 11 from
   Chesterfield, (Derby.)  --Pop. 9,113.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. !110L.  Patron, the Vicar of Sheffield.
 
ECCLESFIELD, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Hallamshire; 4.5 miles from Sheffield, 7 from Rotherham, 10 from
   Barnsley, 48 from York.  --Pop. 7,163.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated
   to St. John, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 19L. 3s. 4d. p.r. 150L.
   Patron, the Duke of Norfolk.

           It is a very extensive parish, the village of which lies due north of
   Sheffield; and although all the Nails manufactured in Hallamshire are made in
   this parish, and it produces both coal and iron-stone, yet still the general
   character is rather that of an agricultural than a manufacturing district.
   In the village of Ecclesfield, very soon after the conquest, a religions
   house was erected, dependant on the foreign monastery of St. Wandrille.  It
   was under the superintendent of a Priory; but of its founders we are
   ignorant.
   --Hunter's Hallamshire.
           William the Conqueror gave this parish to Roger de Busli, one of his
   captains, from whose posterity it passed through the families of De Lovetot,
   Vipont. Furnival, Nevil, Talbot, and lastly, to the noble family of Howard.
 
ECCLESHILL, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles from Bradford, 7 from Otley.  --Pop. 2,176.

ECCUP, in the township of Addle-with-Eccup, and parish of Addle, upper-division
   of Skyrack; 3 miles from Harewood, 5.5 from Leeds, 8 from Otley.  --Pop.
   included in Addle.

ECKLANDS, ham. in the township of Thurstone, and parish of Penistone, wapentake
   of Staincross; 2 miles from Penistone.
 
EDDERCLIFFE, ham. in the township of Liversedge, and parish of Birstall; 7 miles
   from Bradford, 10 from Wakefield,
 
EDEN, ham. in the township of Sutton, and parish of Kildwick, east-division of
   Staincliffe; 4 miles from Keighley.
 
EDGE; or EDGE-END, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield; 3 miles from Sheffield.
 
EDGENOOK, public-house, in the township of Hartwith, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 4 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
EDGERTON, ham. in the township and parish of Huddersfield, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
EDLINGTON, a parish town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4.5
   miles from Doncaster, 8.5 from Rotherham, 41 from York.  --Pop. 141.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, +9L. p.r. 130L.  Patron, Lord Molesworth.

          Here are some remains of an ancient residence, supposed, by Mr.
   Beckwith, to be that of Athlane, the Dane, the place being originally called
   Athlane town.
 
EGBROUGH, HIGH, in the parish of Kellington, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty
   of Pontefract; 6 miles from Snaith, 8 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 215.
 
EGBROUGH, LOW, in the township of High-Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 6
   miles from Snaith, 8.5 from Pontefract.
 
ELLAND, or EALAND, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Halifax, 5 from Huddersfield, 15
   from Leeds.  --Pop. including Greetland, 5,088, which being united, form a
   township.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, value,
   p.r. 130L. 13s.  Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.

           A Charter of 10th Edward II. (now lost) was granted at the request of
   John de Warren, Earl of Warren and Surrey, to John de Elland, for a free
   market on Tuesday at his Manor of Elland, and two fairs.  The market, has for
   generations been discontinued, but in Watsons time "a small market-place and
   cross were remaining, and tolls taken by the lords steward, when any thing
   was offered for sale in the streets."  Elland now only ranks as second in the
   parish to Halifax.  On the north side of the Calder is the remains of Elland
   Hall, for many generations, the seat of a knightly family of that name, and
   is memorable on account of the tragical scenes that took place between that
   family and the Beaumonts, in the reign of Edward III.  The result of this
   quarrel was the total extinction of the name of Elland: full particulars of
   which, with an ancient ballad written on the occasion, is to be seen in
   Watsons History of Halifax.
 
ELLAND-EDGE, ham  in the township of Elland-with-Greetland, and parish of
   Halifax: 4 miles from Halifax.
 
ELDWICK, and ELDWICK-HALL, in the township and parish of Bingley, upper-division
   of Skyrack; 4 miles from Keighley.
 
ELLENTHORPE, f.h. in the township of Paythorn, and parish of Gisburn; 1.5 mile
   from Gisburn.
 
ELLERKER, f.h. in the township of Great-Timble, and parish of Fewston; 6 miles
   from Otley.
 
ELLIOTT-HOUSE, (the seat of John Elliott, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Ripon; half a mile from Ripon.
 
ELM-GREEN, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 3 miles from
   Sheffield, 7.5 from Rotherham.
 
ELMHURST, f.h. in the township of Cawthorne, and parish of Silkstone; 2 miles
   from Penistone.
 
ELMSALL, NORTH, in the parish of South-Kirkby, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty
   of Pontefract; (Elmsall-Lode, the seat of Charles Cholmley, Esq.) 7 miles
   from Pontefract, 9 from Doncaster and Barnsley, 11 from Wakefield.  --Pop.
   113.
 
ELMSALL, SOUTH, in the parish of South-Kirkby, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty
   of Pontefract;  8 miles from Doncaster, Barnsley, and Pontefract, 11.5 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 453.
 
ELPHABROUGH-HALL, s.h. in the township of Erringden, and parish of Halifax; 6
   miles from Halifax.
 
ELSEKER, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5.25 miles from Barnsley, 6.75
   from Rotherham, 10 from Sheffield.
 
ELSLACK, in the township of Broughton-with-Elslack, and parish of Broughton,
   east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's Fee; 4 miles from
   Skipton, 5 from Colne, (Lanc.) 13 from Keighley.  --Pop. included in
   Broughton.

           "At Elslack," saith Dodsworth, "is a close whereon stood a castle,
   called Burwen Castle."  The manor formerly belonged to the Malhams, at the
   dispersion of whose estates, it was purchased by the Benson family.  It is
   now the property of James Fox, of Bramham Park, Esq.  In the 12th of Edward
   II.   Godfrey de Altaripa had license to kernel and embattle his house here,
   but of which there are now no appearances.  The dungeon has disappeared and
   is forgotten.  The manor and principal estate passed through the Altaripas
   and Radcliffes, to the Malhams.  --Whitaker's Craven.
 
EMBSAY, in the parish of Skipton, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 1.5 miles from Skipton, 16 from Settle.  --Pop. including
   Eastby, 861, which being united, form a township.

           In the year 1121, William de Machines and Cecilia his wife, founded a
   Priory here for Canons regular, which was dedicated to St. Cuthbert and St.
   Mary:  It continued about 33 years, and was then translated to Bolton.
   --Burton  --Whitaker.   "Embsay Kirk, during 30 years the site of the Priory
   is now (1812) the property of William Baynes, Esq. who has erected an
   excellent house on the spot; in digging the foundations for which, many
   relics of ancient interments, &c. were discovered.  It seems to stand in the
   middle of the cloister yard; for when the late occupier, who finished the
   grounds, began to level a few yards north from the house, the foundations of
   the priory church were discovered."  --Whitaker.  It is now the property of
   Mr. Preston, of Skipton, by marriage of a daughter of the late Mr. Baynes.
 
EMLEY, a parish-town in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Wakefield; 7 miles from Huddersfield; 8.5 from Wakefield, 9 from Barnsley, 36
   from York.  --Pop. 1,351.  The Church is a rectory in charge, dedicated, to
   St. Michael, in the deanry of Pontefract value, 14L. 0s. 7.5d.  Patron, the
   Hon. and Rev. J. Lumley Saville.

           Here is a public school built by a Mr. Wigglesworth, to the master of
   which, The Hon. and Rev. J. L. Saville, gives 8L. per annum, likewise 10L.
   per annum is payable out of a close, called Honley-Wood, in Flockton.
 
EMLEY-LODGE, f.h. in the township and parish of Emley; 7 miles from
   Huddersfield.
 
ENDCLIFFE-HALL, (the seat of William Hodson, Esq.) in the township of
   Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 2 miles from Sheffield.
 
ERRINGDEN, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Halifax, 10 from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 14 from
   Huddersfield.  --Pop. 1,471.

ESHOLT, in the parish of Guiseley, upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of Cawood,
   Wistow and Otley; (Esholt-Hall, the seat of Joshua Crompton, Esq.) 5 miles
   from Bradford and Otley, 9 from Leeds.  --Pop. 355.

           Here was a priory of about six Cistercian nuns, founded by Simon de
   Ward, about the middle of the 12th century, dedicated to St. Mary and St.
   Leonard.  This priory fell with the small houses, and was valued at 13L. 0s.
   4d. --Dugdale, 19L. 8d. --Speed.  The site was granted in I. Edward VI, 1547,
   to Henry Thompson, ancestor of those families of the Thompsons, now living in
   and near York.  The estate was afterwards transferred to the house of
   Calverley, by the marriage of Frances, daughter and heiress of Henry
   Thompson, Esq. with Sir Walter Calverley.  His son, Sir Walter Calverley,
   Bart. built on the site, in the early part of the last century, a very
   magnificent house, called Esholt priory, or hall.  About 1754-5, this house
   and furniture were sold to Robert Stansfield, Esq. of Bradford, in the line
   of whose collateral descendants it has passed to the present proprietor,
   Joshua Crompton, Esq. of Derby, he having married Ann Marie, the third
   daughter of Wm. Rookes, of Roydes Hall, Esq. by Ann his wife, the heiress of
   Robert Stansfield.  A few pointed arches in some of the offices alone remain
   to attest that a religious house once occupied the site.  --Burton.
   --Whitaker.
 
ESHTON, in the parish of Gargrave, east-division of the wapentake of
   Staincliffe, liberty of Clifford's-Fee; (Eshton-Hall, the seat of Matthew
   Wilson, Esq.) 2 miles from Gargrave, 5 from Skipton, 12 from Kettlewell.
   --Pop. 69.

           Near Eshton Hall is a Well, called St. Helens Well, which fills at
   its source a circular basin twenty feet in circumference, from the whole
   bottom of which it boils up, without any visible augmentation in the wettest
   season, or diminution in the driest.  In hot weather the exhalations from its
   surface are very conspicuous.  But the most remarkable thing about this
   spring is, that with no petrifying quality in its own basin, after a course
   of about 200 yards over a common pebbly channel, with no visible accession
   from any other course, it is precipitated down a steep descent into the
   brook, where it petrifies strongly.  In 1551, the manor of Eshton was
   conveyed by Henry Marton and Launcelot his son, to George, Earl of
   Cumberland.  In 1597 or 8, George, Earl of Cumberland, mortgaged this manor
   to Robert Bindloss, of Berwick Hall, for 2000L. with a clause, that upon
   non-payment of that sum in five years, the purchase should be absolute: it
   never was redeemed, and the Bindlosses held Eshton till the year 1648, when
   it was once more sold to Mr. John Wilson, of Threshfield, ancestor of the
   present possessors.  --Whitaker's Craven.

ESSINGTON, a township in the parish of Slaidburn, west-division of the wapentake
   and liberty of Staincliffe; 7 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 9 from Gisburn.
 
ETHERTHORPE, 4 f.h. in the township and parish of Darfield, Lower-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 4.5 miles from Barnsley.
 
EWCROSS, a wapentake, situated in the northernmost part of this Riding, having
   Westmoreland for its western and northern boundary, while Hang-West, (N.R.)
   with Staincliffe, bounds it on the east; and Staincliffe alone on the south.
   It is a mountainous district, and in which are situated, the major-part of
   those curiosities in nature, known by the name of "the Caves in Craven;"
   several accounts, as well as views of which, are now before the public.
   Ewcross contains 11 townships, 5 of which are parishes, 2,249 inhabited
   houses, and 11,614 inhabitants.

           Staincliffe and Ewcross are treated in this work as two distinct
   wapentakes; and though only two Chief Constables are at present appointed,
   yet it seems that there were formerly three, viz. two for Staincliffe, and
   one for Ewcross, as appears from the Estreat Book of the year, 1776.
 
EWOOD-HALL, s.h. in the township of Midgley, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 5.5 miles from Halifax, 13 from Keighley.

           This ancient mansion of the Farrars has been, for many years, used
   as a seminary for young gentlemen, and was for nearly half a century,
   conducted by the late Dr. Fawcett and at present by his son.

           At this place, in all probability, was born, Robert Farrar, an
   English martyr, and Bishop of St. David's, in the 16th century.  He became a
   canon regular, of the order of St. Austin, but in what priory or abbey is
   uncertain, and studied at Cambridge and Oxford; but on embracing the
   doctrines of the reformation, be was made chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer,
   after whose example he took a wife.  In 1548 he was consecrated Bishop of St.
   David's but not being able to pay the first fruits and tenths, he was
   imprisoned.  In the reign of Mary, he was brought before Gardiner, on a
   charge of heresy, and condemned to the flames; which sentence was executed at
   Caermarthen, March 30th, 1555.  --Biog. Dict.     --Watson's Halifax.  --Fox.
 
EXA, s.h. in the township of Bashalleaves and parish of Mitton; 5 miles from
   Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 13 from Gisburn.

EXLEY, ham. in the township of Southowram, and parish of Halifax; 2.5 miles from
   Halifax, 5.5 from Huddersfield.
 
EXLEY-GATE, f.h. in the township of Denby, and parish of Penistone, 4.5 miles
   from Penistone.
 
EXLEY-HEAD, 3 or 4 f.h. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 1 mile from Keighley.

FAIRBURN, in the parish of Ledsham, wapentake of Barkston Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Ferrybridge, 4 from Pontefract, 6.75 from
   Abberford, 11 from Selby.  --Pop. 426.

           A Tunnel upwards of 300 yards in length is about to be driven under
   this village, situated on the Banks of the Aire, to communicate with a Canal,
   to facilitate the Lime Works of Lord Palmerston.

FAIRWEATHER-GREEN, ham. in the township of Allerton, and parish of Bradford; 1.5
   miles from Bradford, 7 from Halifax.
 
FALDRING, f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 5 miles
   from Sheffield.
 
FALL-HEAD, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone, 3.5 miles from
   Barnsley.
 
FALL-HOUSE, ham. in the township of Whitley, and parishes of Kirkheaton and
   Thornhill, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 7
   from Wakefield.
 
FARFIELD-HALL, (the seat of Wm. Cunliffe, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Addingham; 5 miles from Skipton, 7 from Keighley.
 
FARFIELD, ham. in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1
   mile from Sheffield.
 
FARM, (the seat of John Houseman, Esq.), in the township and parish of
   Sheffield; 1 mile from Sheffield.
 
FAR, or BURN-CROSS, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 7 miles from
   Sheffield and Barnsley, 8 from Rotherham.
 
FARNHAM, a parish town, in the lower division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 2.5 miles from Knaresborough, 5.5 from Boroughbridge, 7 from
   Ripon, 20 from York.  --Pop. 141.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the
   deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value 6L. 12s. 1d. p.r. 32L.
   Patrons, the Heirs of the late Col. Harvey, and James Collins, Esq.

FARNHILL, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 4.5 miles from Skipton, 5.5 from Keighley.  --Pop. including
   Cononley, 1,350, which being united, form a township.
 
FARNLEY, in the parish and borough of Leeds, Morley-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Edward Armitage, Esq.) 4 miles
   from Leeds, 7 from Bradford.  --Pop. 1,332.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, value p.r. 122L. 6s.  Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

        Here Sir Wm. Harrington, 5th Henry V. obtained license to found a
   chantry for a priest to celebrate divine service daily.  By the survey under
   Hen. VIII. in 1545 it was returned at 11L. 10s. 8d.  This Lordship anciently
   belonged to Sir John Danville, and passed, by marriage into the family of the
   Nevilles: from whom it descended to the Harringtons, Langtons, and Danbys.
   Farnley Hall was erected, as appears from an inscription on the front, in
   1586, by Sir Thomas Danby, Knt.  --Thoresby.  The manor and estate, after
   remaining in the family of Danby for six centuries, was sold in 1799 by Wm.
   Danby, Esq. of Swinton, near Masham, to Mr. James Armitage, merchant of
   Leeds.
           After the battle of Marston Moor, in 1644, a party of flying
   cavaliers took post in the wood, near this place, where they remained some
   time.  A particular account of what passed during their stay, may be seen in
   "The Memoirs of a Cavalier," written by one of the party.
           In 1663, an insurrection took place in this county, upon the
   reforming principles, the chief rendezvous of the party being in Farnley-
   Wood, it obtained the name of "Farnley Wood Plot."  Their pretences for
   rebellion were to redeem themselves from the excise, and all subsidies; to
   re-establish a Gospel Magistracy and Ministry, to reform all orders,
   especially lawyers and Clergymen; but the time and place of rendezvous being
   known, a body of troops was sent against them, who seized on several of them,
   of which twenty-one were convicted and executed.  --Drake.
 
FARNLEY, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of Cawood,
   Wistow, and Otley ; (Farnley Hall, the seat of Walter Fawkes, Esq.) 2 miles
   from Otley, 10 from Ripley, 11 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 172.  The small
   antique Chapel is a perpetual curacy, under Otley, p.r. !38L.  Here is no
   Burial Ground.

           Farnley Hall stands on a lofty brow, commanding noble views up and
   down; the vale of Wharfe, with the planted ridge of Chevin in front.
   Attached to the old mansion of Queen Elizabeth's time is a magnificent modern
   house, built by the late proprietor, soon after he became possessed of the
   estate.   --Farnley has been distinguished by the residence of its lords from
   the earliest times on record.  These, from the origin of local surnames bore
   the name of de Farneley; but Falcasius de Farneley, temp. Hen. III. had a
   son, who adopting the patronymick Falcasii, or in his own dialect Fawkes,
   i.e. son of Fawkes, transmitted that appellation to his posterity.
   --Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.
 
FARNLEY-MOORSIDE, in the township of Farnley, and parish of Leeds, Morley
   division of Agbrigg and Morley; 5.5 miles from Leeds, 6 from Bradford.
 
FARNLEY-TYAS, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Huddersfield, 9.5 from Penistone,
   13 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 900.
 
FARSLEY, in the township of Calverley-with-Farsley, and parish of Calverley,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3.75 miles from
   Bradford, 6.25 from Leeds.  --Pop. included in Calverley.
 
FARTOWN, ham. in the township and parish of Huddersfield; (Flash House, the seat
   of Benjamin Shires, Esq.) 1.5 miles from Huddersfield, 7.5 from Halifax.

FAULFITT, f.h. in the township of Stainbrough, and parish of Silkstone; 3.5
   miles from Penistone.
 
FAWEATHER, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 3 miles from Bingley, 5
   from Bradford.

FEARNLEY, HIGH, ham. in the township of Wike, and parish of Birstall, 4.5 miles
   from Bradford, 5 from Halifax.
 
FEARNE-LEE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 3
   miles from Dobcross, 10 from Rochdale.

FEATHERSTONE, a parish town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Pontefract, 4 from Ferrybridge, 7 from Wakefield, 25
   from York.  --Pop. 337.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All Saints,
   in the deanry of Pontefract, value +5L. 8s. 6d.  Patrons, Dean and Canons of
   Christ Church, Oxford.

FELKIRK, f.h. and a parish, in the township of South-Hiendly, wapentake of
   Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 6.5 from Wakefield,
   9 from Pontefract, 33 from York.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St.
   Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster, value 7L. 1s. 10.5d. p.r. 140L.  Patron,
   Archbishop of York.
 
FELLBECK, ham. in the township of High and Low Bishopside, parish and liberty of
   Ripon; 3 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
FELLISCLIFFE, in the parish of Hampsthwaite, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 4 miles from Ripley, 7 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 382.
 
FELL-LANE, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of Staincliffe;
   1 mile from Keighley.
 
FENAY-HALL. s.h. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2.5 miles from
   Huddersfield.
 
FENAY-LODGE, (the seat of John Brook, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Almondbury; 2 miles from Huddersfield.
 
FENAY-BRIDGE, ham. in the township of Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton.
 
FENCE-END, (the seat of the Rev. William Atkinson Wasney) in the township and
   parish of Thornton; 5.25 miles from Skipton.
 
FENTON, CHURCH, or KIRK, a parish town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash,
   liberties of St. Peter and Pontefract; 5 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from Selby,
   12 from Pontefract and York.  --Pop. 416.  The Church, peculiar, is a
   vicarage, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value +5L. p.r. !120L.  Patron, the
   Prebendary of Fenton.
 
FENTON, LITTLE, or SOUTH, in the parish of Church-Fenton, wapentake of
   Barkston-Ash, liberties of St. Peter, and Pontefract; 6 miles from Tadcaster,
   7 from Selby, 11 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 113.
 
FENWICK, in the parish of Campsall, wapentake of Osgoldcross; 8 miles from
   Doncaster, 11 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 295.
 
FERHAM, (the seat of Henry Hartop, Esq.) in the township of Kimberworth, and
   parish of Rotherham; 1 mile from Rotherham.
 
FERRENSBY, in the parish of Farnham, lower-division of Claro; 2.75 miles from
   Knaresborough, 4.25 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 110.
 
FERRYBRIDGE, a post-town, in the township of Ferry-Fryston, and parishes of
   Ferry-Fryston and Pontefract, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Pontefract, 9 from Abberford, 11 from Snaith and
   Selby, 12 from Tadcaster, 15 from Doncaster and Leeds, 21 from York, 177 from
   London.  --Principal Inns, Angel, Greyhound, and Swan.

           This is a neat well built village, situated on the Banks of the Aire,
   over which is a handsome stone bridge.  The possession of this Pass
   occasioned a severe conflict between the armies of the houses of York and
   Lancaster.  In the neighbourhood, human skeletons, ancient armour, and other
   relics of war, have frequently been found.
 
FERRY-HOUSE, Inn and Farm House, in the township of Airmin, and parish of
   Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross; 4 miles from Snaith, 6 from Howden.
 
FERRY-FRYSTON, a parish town in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberties of St.
   Peter, and Pontefract; 1 mile from Ferrybridge, 2 from Pontefract, 15 from
   Doncaster, 22 from York.  --Pop. 777.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to
   St. Andrew, in the deanry of Pontefract, value +5L. 19s. 2d. p.r. *113L. 8s.
   10d.  Patrons, Succentar and Vicars Choral of York.

           On the 23rd of March, 1522, a massive and curious piece of antiquity
   was discovered at Fryston, near Ferrybridge.  As two labourers were digging
   ground for liquorice, in a field called the Paper Mill Field, on the Fryston-
   Hall estate, in the possession of James Brook, they penetrated to a mass of
   stone, only about eleven inches below the surface, which, on being cleared,
   proved to be an ancient coffin of undressed stone, without inscription.  The
   lid projected over the sides about two inches, and on being raised in the
   centre, presented a complete skeleton, of large dimensions, in a high state
   of preservation.  The skull was placed between the thigh bones, and the
   occupant of this narrow mansion, who had probably, in his day filled a
   considerable space in society, had evidently suffered decapitation.  In the
   place where the head would have lain in an unmutilated body was a stone.  The
   teeth were all perfect, and the bones that of a strong athletic man, cut off,
   apparently, in the meridian of life, and when the coffin was opened they were
   all entire; but immediately on being exposed to the air, the ribs fell in.
   Nothing remains of the flesh, but some hard white chalky substances.  The
   coffin is of the dimensions of six feet five inches in length, and nineteen
   inches in width within, with sides about six inches thick;  it has been cut
   out of the solid stone, and is supposed to weigh about a ton and a half.  The
   place where these relics were found, is about a mile and a quarter from
   Ferrybridge, in a valley near the road leading to Castleford; and the
   prevailing opinion is, that these are the remains of Thomas Earl of
   Lancaster,  the unfortunate leader of the insurgent barons, in the battle of
   Boroughbridge, fought in the year 1321, and who was beheaded at Pontefract,
   by order of his Nephew, Edward.  The coffin and remains, which have attracted
   a great deal of public attention, are now removed to Fryston-Hall.  --Leeds
   Mercury.
           In the same township and parish is:-
 
FRYSTON-HALL, the seat of Mrs. Milnes.

FEWSTON, a parish town, in the lower-division of Claro; 7 miles from Otley, 11
   from Knaresborough, 14.5 from Skipton, 29 from York.  --Pop. 610.  The Church
   is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, in the deanry of the Ainsty,
   value +6L. 13s. 4d. p.r. !113L.  Patron, the King.
 
FIELD-HEAD, (the seat of H.W. Oates, Esq.) in the township of Horton, and parish
   of Bradford; 1 mile from Bradford.
 
FIELD-HEAD, f.h. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax; 10 miles
   from Halifax.
 
FIELD-HOUSE, (the seat of Robert Stansfield, Esq.) in the township of Sowerby,
   and parish of Halifax; 4 miles from Halifax, 7.5 from Huddersfield.
 
FIEZER, in the parish of Clapham, wapentake of Ewcross; 4 miles from Settle, 13
   from Kirby-Lonsdale.

           One circumstance with respect to this village deserves to be
   mentioned.  Of ten houses in this place, seven are always in the township of
   Lawkland, and parish of Clapham; one is always in the parish of Giggleswick;
   and the remaining two, one year within Clapham, and the next within
   Giggleswick.  --The inhabitants have seats in both churches, and resort to
   them alternately, and pay corn-tithe to the Rectors, and Easter-dues to the
   Vicars of the two churches alternately; but all pay their assessed taxes to
   Stainforth.  --Whitaker's Hist. of Craven.
 
FINKLEY-STREET, s.h. in the township of Wortley, and parish of Tankersley; 5
   miles from Penistone, 8 from Sheffield.
 
FINNINGLEY-PARK, (the seat of John Harvey, Esq. occupied by George Broderick,
   Esq.) in the township of Austerfield; 3 miles from Bawtry.

           Mr. Harvey lately erected, in the centre of the adjacent wood, a
   curious and elegant cottage, where he occasionally resides.  The village of
   Finningley is in Nottinghamshire, but the house, and part of the park, with
   the cottage, are in Yorkshire.  Some few years ago the head of a Roman spear,
   and other curiosities were found near Mr. Harvey's mansion.
 
FINTHORPE, (the seat of Richard Clay, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Almondbury.; 2.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
FIRBECK, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberties of St. Peter and Tickhill; (Firbeck Hall, the seat of John Gally
   Knight, Esq.) 4 miles from Tickhill, 6 from Worksop, (Notts.) 7.5 from
   Bawtry, 11 from Rotherham, 44 from York.  Pop. 226.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster, value,
   p.r. 41L.  Patron, the Chancellor of St. Peters, York.  This church was
   rebuilt on the site of the old one, in 1820-1, by Mrs. Gally Knight.
 
FISHLAKE, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2
   miles from Thorne, 8 from Snaith and Doncaster, 31 from York.  --Pop. 723.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Cuthbert, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, 13L. 3s. 9d. p.r. !67L.  Patron, the Dean and Chapter of
   Durham.

FIXBY, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Wakefield; (Fixby-Hall, the seat of Thomas Thornhill, Esq.) 2.5 miles from
   Huddersfield, 6 from Halifax.  --Pop. 345.

FLASBY, in the parish of Gargrave, east-division of the wapentake of
   Staincliffe; (Flasby-Hall, the seat of Cooper Preston, Esq.) 21 miles from
   Gargrave, 6 from Skipton, 11 from Kettlewell.  --Pop. including Winterburn,
   134, which being united, form a township.
 
FLASH-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Thurlston, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.
 
FLAXBY, in the parish of Goldsbrough, upper-division of Claro; 3 miles from
   Knaresborough, 6 from Boroughbridge, 6.75 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 78.

           At Flaxby is a school for boys and girls of the township, but by whom
   founded is not known.  Lord Stourton, and the Rector of Goldsbrough , have
   always acted as Trustees.  --It is endowed with a small estate at Norwood, in
   the parish of Fewston, of 15 acres, and an old house, in ruins.  Rent 15L.
   10s. 0d. per ann.  --Report of Commissioners.
 
FLOCKTON, NETHER, in the parish of Thornhill, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; (Flockton-Hall, the residence of George
   Horseington, Esq.) 6.5 miles from Huddersfield, 7.5 from Wakefield, 10.5 from
   Barnsley.  --Pop. 988.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of
   Pontefract, value, p.r. 110L.  Patrons, the Earl of Scarborough, Sir John
   Lister Kaye, Bart., Col. Wortley, Col. Beaumont, and R. Milnes, Esq.
 
FLOCKTON, OVER, in the township of Flockton; 6.5 miles from Wakefield, 7 from
   Huddersfield.
 
FOCKERBY, or FOCCARBY, in the parish of Adlingfleet, wapentake of Osgoldcross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Crowle, (Linc.) 9 from Howden, 16.5 from
   Snaith.  --Pop. 106.
 
FOLDBY, or FOULBY, ham. in the township of Sharlestone, and parish of Wragby,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Pontefract and Wakefield.
 
FOLDS, f.h. in the township  and parish of Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 1.5
   miles from Tickhill.
 
FOLLYFOOT, in the parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro; 3 miles from
   Knaresborough, 4 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 293.
 
FOALSTONE, in the parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 8.5 from Penistone.  -Fairs,
   Monday before Feb. 28, and first Wednesday after Nov. 14.  --Pop. 1,264.
 
FOREST-BECKS, ham. in the township of Bolton, and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 6 miles from Gisburn and Clitheroe.
 
FOSTER-HOUSES, ham. in the township and parish of Fishlake; 2.5 miles from
   Thorne, 7 from Snaith.
 
FOWGILL, ham. in the township and parish of Low-Bentham; 11 miles from Settle,
   and Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
 
FOUNTAINS-ABBEY, in the township of Markington, and parish of Ripon; 3.75 miles
   from Ripon.

           The awful remains of this ancient Abbey fill the midway of a deep
   Vale, through which flows the brook called Skell, and the high hills on
   either side, clothed with lofty trees, and varied with scars, slope gently to
   the brook.

               " In these deep solitudes and awful cells,
                 Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells."

           In 1132, certain Benedictine Monks at Saint Mary's, in York,
   displeased with relaxation of discipline in their Convent, and disgusted with
   the luxury of their life, resolved to migrate where monastic manners were
   practised with more severity, and determined to embrace the rules of
   Cistercian Monks at Rivaulx, and applied for that purpose to Thurston,
   Archbishop of York, whom they requested to favour their designs.  The
   Prelate, with many of the Clergy, went to St. Mary's, where they found the
   Abbot and his attendants preparing to oppose his resolutions, and threatened
   to punish the discontented Monks.  He was refused admittance into the Chapter
   house, when a riot ensued and the Prelate having interdicted the Abbot and
   Monks, left the Monastery, taking under his protection, the Prior, Sub-prior,
   and eleven Monks, who withdrew from the Convent, and were entertained by the
   Archbishop for eleven weeks.  During this time the Abbot made frequent
   complaints to the King, Bishops, and Abbots, against the Archbishop for
   depriving him of part of his flock.  --At Christmas, Thurston gave them a
   place, then called Skeldale, for their residence, the receptacle for wild
   beasts, and overgrown with wood and brambles; he also gave them the village
   of Sutton.  During part of the winter, a large elm tree was their only
   shelter; they afterwards retired under the melancholy shade of seven yew
   trees, growing near where the Abbey now stands.  One of them was blown down
   in 1757, the other six are now standing.  They are of great magnitude, the
   largest being 20 feet in circumference within three feet from the ground.
   Under these, it should seem, they resided till the Monastery was built.  The
   fame of their sanctity induced many to resort to them; which proportionably
   increased their distress, and rendered their poverty still more severe; for
   in vain, did the Abbot solicit relief, as famine, that year, had extended all
   over the country, and the leaves of trees and herbs, except a small supply
   from the Archbishop, were their only food.  Soon after Eustace Fitz-John Lord
   of Knaresborough, supplied them with a cart load of bread.  For more than two
   years they laboured under every hardship poverty could inflict, till Hugh,
   Dean of York, who was very rich, labouring under a disease likely to prove
   fatal, resolved to end his days among them.  For this purpose he removed to
   the Abbey, and devoted his riches to charity, the building of the Monastery,
   and uses of the house.
           In 1140, the building had considerably increased, when, in the war
   between Stephen and his competitor, a party of soldiers, at the instance of
   William, Archbishop of York, came here and burnt the Monastery.
           In 1204, John de Eborac, Abbot, laid the foundation of the Church.
   His successor, John de Pherd carried on the work with spirit and John of
   Kent, the next Abbot, is supposed to have completed the building.  But the
   great Tower, it should seem, from the style of the architecture, was either
   built or heightened subsequent to the death of John of Kent, in 1245.
           Profusion of wealth, many grants and privileges now poured in upon
   them, but extravagance, the too general attendant on wealth, proved, not long
   after, the cause of much concern and affliction to the Monks, for in 1294,
   they became in want of necessaries, which Romain, then Archbishop of York,
   attributed to their flagrant dissolute conduct.  In times long subsequent,
   this Abbey became more opulent, and consequently more powerful than any in
   this county, for at the dissolution, its revenues were estimated, according
   to Burton, at 1125L. 18s. 1d.  --Dugdale, 998L. 0s. 8.5d.  --Speed, 1073L.
   0s. 7.5d.
           At that time their plate was valued at 708L. 5s. 9d. they also had in
   possession 2356 horned cattle, 1326 sheep, 86 horses, 79 swine, 117 quarters
   of wheat, l2 of rye, 134 of oats, 392 loads of hay: In their granary were 18
   quarters of wheat, 18 of rye, 90 of barley and malt, and 2 of oats.  -Burton.
           The architecture is mixed, in some parts are seen the sharp pointed
   windows, in others the circular arches.  The great east window is
   magnificently grand, and the arch much pointed.  There has, it is supposed,
   been a central tower, long since fallen into decay.  At the top of the north
   corner window of the Sanctum Sanctorum, is the figure of an Angel holding a
   scroll, on which is the date 1283.
           These monastic remains are deservedly considered the most magnificent
   and interesting that our country, rich in these venerable and admired works
   of antiquity, retains from the wreck of the general dissolution.  So great
   was the extent of this magnificent institution, that when entire, it is said
   to have occupied nearly twelve acre of ground; and such the ravages it
   sustained, that the buildings now cover little more than a sixth part of that
   space; yet, with every devastation, it is far more extensive, and
   incomparably more perfect than any other.  Besides the church, whose beauty
   and grandeur need no comment, and which era aided by the lofty, and nearly
   perfect tower, standing at the end of the north transept, the numerous
   buildings connected with it, appear in a state of preservation unequalled by
   an other,  Among these the two Cloisters, the Chapter-house, the Refectory,
   the Dormitory, and the Kitchen are the principal; and connected with the
   south-west extremity of the great Cloister are some very interesting ruins of
   buildings: among which are distributed many ruins of walls and vaults - not
   to mention the gate, the mill, the bridge, and numerous other distant and
   distinct objects.  No part is now pulled down to give space, and none rebuilt
   to obtain uniformity; and the present worthy owner is solicitous only to
   preserve it from wanton injury.  As it was left to her, so it stands every
   storm and tempest; and this amiable lady's admiration of antiquity is evinced
   in the improvements which have recently taken place.
 
FOUNTAINS-EARTH, in the parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower division of Claro.
   --Pop. 441.  This township is situated on the north-side of the river Nidd,
   and extends from the top of Nidderdale, down to Lofthouse.

FOUNTAINS-HALL, in the township of Markington, and parish of Ripon; 3.5 miles
   from Ripon.

           On the dissolution of religious houses, Sir Richard Gresham purchased
   Fountains-Abbey of the King, with the part of the lands belonging to it, the
   site of Swine-Abbey and the Monastery of Nunkeeling, with their bells, for
   1163L.  Sir Richard sold Fountains, with some of the lands, to Sir Stephen
   Proctor, who built Fountains-Hall out of its ruins.  In 1627, it was in the
   possession of Richard Ewens, Esq. of South Cowton, whose daughter and sole
   heiress married John Messenger, Esq. of Newsham.  It remained in the
   Messenger family till the year 1767, when John Michael Messenger, Esq. sold
   it to William Aislabie, Esq. of Studley, for 18,000L.
 
FOX-HALL, f.h. in the township of Kexbrough, and parish of Darton; 4.5 miles
   from Barnsley.
 
FOXUP, ham. in the township of Halton-Gill, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 10 miles from Settle and Kettlewell,
 
FRICKLEY, ham. in the township and parish of Frickley-with Clayton, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Frickley Hall, the seat of Richard Kennet Dawson, Esq. 7 miles
   from Doncaster, 9 from Barnsley, 13.5 from Wakefield.  --Pop. included in
   Clayton.  The Church, styled Frickley-with-Clayton, is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to All-saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. 120L.
   Patron, Saint Andrew Warde, Esq.
 
FRIERHEAD, f.h. in the township of Winterburne, and parish of Gargrave, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 6.5 miles from Skipton.
 
FRIERMERE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 1.5
   miles from Delph.  Here is a Chapel, which is a perpetual curacy, dedicated
   to St. Thomas, in the deanry of Manchester, diocese of Chester, value, p.r.
   *97L.  Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
FRIZING-HALL, ham. in the township of Heston, and parish of Bradford; (the seat
   of George Lister, Esq.) 2 miles from Bradford
 
FROSTRAW, ham. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 1.5 miles from Sedbergh,
   6 from Dent.
 
FRYSTON, MONK -See Monk-Fryston.
 
FULHAM-LANES, 2 h. in the township and parish of Womersley; liberty of
   Pontefract; 7 miles from Pontefract and Snaith.
 
FULNECK, in the township of Pudsey, and parish of Calverley; Morley-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley; 4.5 miles from Bradford 6 from Leeds.

           Here is a considerable settlement of the Moravian brethren, which was
   begun about the year 1748.  The chief buildings are the hall, containing a
   chapel, a school for girls, and minister's dwelling; a large school-house for
   boys, a house for single men, another for single women, and another for
   widows; situated upon a terrace of considerable length, and commanding a
   fine prospect.  These, with the houses for separate families, form a
   considerable village; various branches of trades are carried on in it, but
   the chief employment is the woollen manufacture.  The single women are famous
   for their skills working muslins, with the needle and tambour; and their
   labours sell at a high price.  The vocal and instrumental music of the
   settlement is considered very excellent.
 
FULWOOD, ham. in the township of Upper-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 5 miles
   from Sheffield.
 
FULWOOD-BOOTH and FULWOOD-HEAD, 2h. in the township of Upper-Hallam, and parish
   of Sheffield, 6 miles from Sheffield.
 
FURNACE, scattered houses, in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3 miles from
   Barnsley.

GAISGILL, ham. in the township of Rimington, and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 3 miles from Gisburn.
 
GALFAY, in the township of Azerley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 4 miles from
   Ripon, 10 from Knaresborough and Pateley Bridge.
 
GARFORTH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Abberford, 7 from Leeds, 9 from Wakefield, 19 from
   York.  --Pop. 731.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the
   deanry of the Ainsty, value, +8L. 17s. 8.5d.  Patron, the Rev. W. Whitaker,
   the present incumbent.
 
GARFORTH-MOOR, in the township and parish of Garforth, liberty of Pontefract;
   2.75 miles from Abberford.
 
GARFORTH, WEST, ham. in the township and parish of Garforth; 6.5 miles from
   Leeds.
 
GARGRAVE, a parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; (Gargrave-House, the seat of John Nicholas Coulthurst, Esq.)
   4.5 miles from Skipton, 8 from Gisburn, 11.5 from Settle, 12 from Colne,
   (Lanc.) 14 from Kettlewell, 45 from York.  --No Market.  --Fairs, Feb. 27,
   third Wednesday in June, October 13, and December 11, for horned-cattle,
   &c.  --Pop. 972.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the
   deanry of Craven, value, 12L. 13s. 11.5d.  Patron, John Marsden, Esq.

           About half a mile beneath the town, on a fertile plain, are the
   buried remains of a Roman Villa, called Kirk-Sink, from a tradition that some
   great ecclesiastical edifice had here been swallowed up.  The stones of which
   this building has been composed have gradually been removed, probably to
   build the present church; but the inequalities upon the surface, prove it to
   have been a parallelogram, about 300 feet long, and 180 wide.  It was dug
   into, about 70 years ago, and the frame of a tessellated pavement discovered
   at that time, of which Dr. Whitaker had seen some remains, which induced him
   to apply for permission to open the ground again.  But the walls had been so
   completely grubbed up to the foundation, that though it was just possible to
   ascertain the size of the apartments, which had been very small, no masses of
   cohering pavement could be taken up, and the whole lay in heaps mingled with
   mortar, consisting of cubes of various colours, some an inch, others not more
   than half an inch in diameter, together with floor tiles, of about three
   inches square.  --History of Craven.
 
GARSDALE, in the parish of Sedbergh, wapentake of Ewcross; 5 miles from Dent, 7
   from Sedbergh, 10 from Hawes, 15 from Askrigg.  --Pop. 679.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of
   Kirby-Lonsdale, value, p.r. 80L. 2s.  Patron, the King.
 
GARSTONES, or GEARSTONES, 2 h. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of
   Low-Bentham; 7 miles from Ingleton, 10 from Hawes, 12 from Settle.  At this
   place, a large market is held every Wednesday, for corn and flour.  It
   consists only of a public-house and a grocer's shop.
 
GATEFORTH, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 5 miles from
   Selby, 6 from Ferrybridge, 8 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 192.
 
GATEHAM, or YATEHOLME, f.h. in the township of Holme, and parish of Almondbury;
   9 miles from Huddersfield.
 
GATEHEAD, 2 h. in the township of Marsden, and parish of Almondbury; 6 miles
   from Huddersfield.
 
GATEUP, f.h. in the township of Appletreewick, and parish of Burnsall, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 8 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
GATEWOOD, f.h. in the township and parish of Cantley; 6 miles from Doncaster and
   Thorne.
 
GAWBER-HALL, f.h. in the township of Barugh, and parish of Darton; 1.5 miles
   from Barnsley.
 
GAWTHORPE, in the township of Ossett, and parish of Dewsbury, Agbrigg-division
   of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Dewsbury, 3.5 from
   Wakefield, 8 from Leeds.
 
GAWTHORPE, in the township of Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg division
   of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Huddersfield, 8
   from Wakefield.
            -In the same township and parish is
 
GAWTHORPE-GREEN, a hamlet.
 
GAWTHORPE, in the township of Dent, and parish of Sedbergh, wapentake of
   Ewcross; 1 mile from Dent, 4 from Sedbergh.
 
GAWTHORPE-HALL, (the seat of Joseph Heaton, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Bingley; 1 mile from Bingley, 6 from Bradford.
 
GETTINGLEY, 2 f.h. in the township of Whitley, and parish of Thornhill; 3.25
   miles from Dewsbury, 5 from Huddersfield.
 
GIBRALTAR-MILL, in the township of Pudsey, and parish of Calverley; 4 miles from
   Bradford, 6.5 from Leeds.
 
GIGGLESWICK, a parish-town, in the west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 1
   mile from Settle, 7 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 57 from York.  --Pop. 746.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Alkald, in the deanry of Craven,
   value +21L. 3s. 4d. p.r. 75L.  Patrons, J. Coulthurst, and J. Hartley, Esqrs.
   alternately.

           This place has long been celebrated for its Grammar School, founded
   by King Edward VI. in 1553 on the Petition of John Nowell, Clerk, then his
   Majesty's Chaplain and Vicar of Giggleswick, and of other inhabitants of the
   town and parish.  The endowment in lands, value 23L. 3s. 6d. was part of the
   possessions belonging to the dissolved Monastery of Nether-Acaster, laying at
   North Cave, South and North Kelthorp, &c. -but in consequence of the
   drainage, inclosures, and other improvements, its present amount is upwards
   of 1000L. per ann.  The grant is only for two Preceptors, but there are now
   three, two for classics, and one for mathematics.  The number of pupils is
   limited only by the want of room, --who are admitted "from every quarter of
   the Globe," if their moral characters be good, and are taught gratis.  There
   are Six Scholarships at Christ College, Cambridge, founded by Mr. Carr, for
   Scholars educated at this School.  The late, Archdeacon Paley, received his
   classical education at this school, under his father who was Head Master
   nearly fifty years. --Carlisle.
           Here is also a National School, very liberally endowed by the Rev.
   John Clapham, Vicar, and others; its revenues worth about 50L. per ann.
           About the centre of that prodigious Scar, called Giggleswick Scar,
   which skirts the road for nearly two miles from Giggleswick to Clapham, and
   close to the road side, is situated the celebrated Ebbing and Flowing Well,
   whose waters, clear as crystal, are constantly ebbing and flowing, although
   at thirty miles distance from the sea.  The changes of ebbing and flowing
   vary, being considerably influenced by the wetness or dryness of the season;
   sometimes once in five minutes, at others not more than four or five times in
   a day.  Various have been the opinions given in explanation of this rare
   phenomenon, but none more in unison with our own, than the following, which
   we extracted, not as new, either to ourselves or the public, from the
   Northern Star, of 1817.  The writer of the article alluded to observes, that
   it, "in all probability; results from a simple piece of mechanism, hidden
   from the observation of men in the bowels of the earth; namely, a valvular
   construction at the mouth of the spring, or at some point in the
   subterraneous passage of the water, formed by a loose stone, and suspended
   horizontally by two opposite points constituting its axis: the valve thus
   formed will move on its own central points, and uninfluenced by the water to
   a certain extent, closes the outlet, and consequently causes an accumulation
   between the valve end the source of the spring: when the water has increased
   until its level rises considerably above the centre of the valve, the weight
   of the water turns it upon its axis, and it is poured with velocity into its
   common course."
           Drunken Barnaby, in his Northern Tour, thus describes this well;
                   Veni Giggleswick; parum frugis
                   Profert tellus clausa jugis;
                   Ibi vena prope viae
                   Fluit, refluit, nocte, die,
                   Neque norunt unde vena,
                   An a sale vel arena.
           Opposite the Scar, and near the village, is Giggleswick Tarn, a large
   lake, partly natural and partly artificial.
 
GILDINGWELLS, in the township of Woodsets-with-Gildingwells, and parish of
   South-Anston, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4.5 miles from
   Worksop (Nott.) 9.5 from Bawtry, 12 from Rotherham.  --Pop. included in
   Woodsets.
 
GILDERSOME, in the parish of Batley, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Leeds, 7 from Bradford, 8 from Wakefield.
   --Pop. 1592.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Pontefract,
   value p.r. !102L.
 
GILKIRK, or CHURCH.  -See Barnoldswick.

GILLBOTTOM, scat. f.h. in the township of Clifton-with-Norwood, and parish of
   Fewston; 6.5 miles from Otley.
 
GILSTEAD, ham. in the township and parish Bingley; 1 mile from Bingley, 6 from
   Bradford.

GILTHWAITE, ham. in the township of Whiston, and parishes of Whiston and
   Rotherham, upper-division of Stainforth and  Tickhill; (Gilthwaite-Hall, the
   seat of John Outram, Esq.) 2 miles from Rotherham, 5 from Sheffield, 12 from
   Worksop, (Notts.)

           Here was a mineral spring discovered in 1664, by Mr. George Westby,
   of this place, who made a large Bath and built a house over it.  --Short.
   The waters had some reputation; but after the death of Mr. Westby, and of Dr.
   Yarburgh, of Newark, who sent many patients, they sunk into a state of almost
   utter neglect.  --Hunter.
 
GINGLE-POT, in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low-Bentham, wapentake of
   Ewcross; 3.5 miles from Ingleton, 10 from Hawes, 13 from Settle.

           Gingle-Pot is one of those curious Caves in Craven, which attracts
   the notice of most tourists.  This chasm is situated at the head of a
   grotesque glen, through which the river Wease winds its subterraneous
   passage, at the bottom of a precipice.  --Tour to the Caves.
 
GINHOUSE, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 1 mile
   from Rotherham.

GIPTON, in the township of Potter-Newton, and parish of Leeds, lower-division of
   Skyrack; 2 miles from Leeds, 6 from Harewood.

           Amongst the Thickets here, Thoresby, in his survey of the parish,
   discovered the remains of an ancient Fortification, the out-trench whereof
   was 18 feet broad; it has now nearly disappeared.
 
GISBURN, a parish town, in the west-division and liberty of Staincliffe;
   (Gisburn-Park, the seat of Lord Ribblesdale); 7 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc)
   8 from Colne, (do.) 11 from Skipton and Settle, 52 from York, 224 from
   London.  --Market, Monday.  --Fairs, Easter Monday, that day fortnight, and
   that day month, and Saturday after that day month, for horned cattle; Monday,
   five weeks after Easter, for pedlary ware, &c.; September 18th for calves;
   and every other Monday for fat cattle, &c.  --Pop. 690.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Craven, value 11L. 6s. 8d.
   p.r. !120L.  Patron, the King.

        The Church, which was given to the Nunnery of Stainfield, com. Lincoln,
   is a decent structure, built of stone, and probably, not older than temp.
   Henry VII. or VIII.  Gisburn Park is chiefly remarkable for a herd of wild
   cattle, descendants of that indigenous race which once peopled the great
   Forest of Lancashire.  They are white, save the tips of their noses which are
   black, rather mischievous, especially when guarding their young -they breed
   with tame cattle.  Gisburn Park is beautifully situated at the confluence of
   the Ribble and Stockbeck.
           The Lodge, through which is the entrance into the Park, is a fine
   piece of Gothic architecture, nobly ornamented with figures.  The pinnacles,
   &c. carved with great taste and elegance from designs of the present noble
   owner.  In the house is a series of good Paintings, among which are the Lord
   Chief Justice, of the time of Henry VIII.  General Lambert, apparently an
   original; his Son, an excellent painting, by himself; and above, Oliver
   Cromwell, by Sir Peter Lely.  --Whitaker.
 
GISBURN-COTES, ham. in the township and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 3 miles from Gisburn.

GISBURN-FOREST, a township, in the parish of Gisburn, west division and liberty
   of Staincliffe; 8 miles from Settle, 15 from Colne, (Lanc.) 17 from Skipton.
   --Pop. 457.  Here is a Chapel, which is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Bartholomew, value, p.r. 49L. 9s. 9d.  Patron, the Vicar of Gisburn.  This is
   named by Bacon, Tosside-Chapel; and by others, Houghton-Chapel.

           The Manor of Gisburn Forest properly belongs to the lord of the Percy
   Fee; but the Abbot and convent of Sallay had the wood and herbage.  It was,
   however, lately claimed by Thomas Browne, Esq. of Burton-upon-Trent, as owner
   of the principal estate in Gisburn Forest.  --Whitaker.  This manor is now
   enjoyed by Mr. Browne.  The chapel is situated at the northern extremity of
   the township, and appears a question with Dr. Whitaker, whether it is within
   the Forest or not.  Within the manor of Gisburn, is a small, but very entire
   square Fort, called Castle-Haugh, and near it is a barrow, which being
   opened, was found to contain a rude earthen Urn.

GIVENDALE, 4 f.h. in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro;
   2.5 miles from Ripon, 3.5 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 31.
 
GLEADLEYS, or GLEADLESS, ham. in the township and parish of Handsworth,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 3.5 miles from Sheffield.  A part
   of this place is in the parish of Sheffield.
 
GLEDHOW, ALLERTON, in the township of Potter-Newton, and parish of Leeds,
   lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; (the residence of Sir John
   Beckitt,) 3 miles from Leeds, 7.5 from Harewood, 10 from Otley.
 
GLEDSTON-HOUSE, (the seat of Richard Roundell, Esq.) in the township of East and
   West-Marton, and parish of East-Marton, liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from
   Skipton, 5.5 from Keighley, 8 from Colne, (Lanc.) 11 from Settle.
 
GLUSBURN, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 5 miles from Skipton, 5.5 from Keighley, 8 from Colne,
   (Lanc.>  --Pop. 787.

GODDARD-HILL, s.h. in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield; 2.25 miles from Sheffield.
 
GOLCAR, in the parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from  Huddersfield, 7 from Halifax, 23 from
   Manchester, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 2,606.
 
GOLDSBROUGH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; 2.5 miles from
   Knaresborough, 6 from Wetherby and Boroughbridge, 16 from York.  --Pop. 195.
   The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of
   Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value 10L. 1s. 0.5d.  Patron, the Earl of
   Harewood.
 
GOLDTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Bolton-upon-Dearne, liberty of
   Tickhill; 7.5 miles from Barnsley and Doncaster.
 
GOLTHORPE LANE-ENDS, ham. in the township and parish of Bolton-upon-Dearne,; 7
   miles from Barnsley, 8 from Doncaster.
 
GOMERSALL, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5.5 miles from Bradford, 7 from Leeds.  --Pop. 5,952.
 
GOMERSALL, LITTLE, in the township of Gomersall, and parish of Birstall,; 6
   miles from Bradford, 7.5 from Leeds.
 
GOOLE, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract;
   4.5 miles from Snaith and Howden.  --Pop. 450.
 
GOOLEFIELD-HOUSES, ham. in the township of Goole, and parish of Snaith; 4 miles
   from Howden, 7.5 from Snaith.
 
GOOSENER-HEIGHT, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of Swinden, and parish of Gisburn;
   7 miles from Skipton, 10 from Settle.
 
GORDALE-SCAR, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale; 7 miles from Settle, 13 from
   Skipton:

           Gordale Scar is an immense Rock which, it is said to have had an
   opening forced in it by a great body of water, which collected in a sudden
   thunder storm, sometime about the year, 1730; and now forms one of the most
   awfully grand scenes of rock and water in Craven; the highest part being not
   less than 300 feet; the right or east side projects more than ten yards over
   its base, and such is the noise of the overwhelming torrent, after rain, that
   if a person be under the rock, he is unable to make himself heard at ten
   yards distance.  This is a solid mass of limestone, of, perhaps, equal height
   with Malham Cove, cleft assunder by some great convulsion of nature, and
   opening "its ponderous marble jaws on the right and left.  At the very
   entrance, you turn a little to the right, and are struck by a yawning mouth
   in the face of the opposite crag, whence the torrent, pent up beyond,
   suddenly forced a passage, within the memory of man, which, at every swell
   continues to spout out of one of the boldest and most beautiful cataracts
   that can be conceived.  Wherever a cleft in the rock, or a lodgment of earth
   appears, the yew tree, indigenous in such situations, contrasts it deep and
   glossy green with the pale grey of the limestone; but the goat, the old
   adventurous inhabitant of situations inaccessible to every other quadruped,
   has been lately banished from the sides of Gordale.  -History of Craven.
 
GOTHER-BOTTOM, scattered houses, in the township and parish of Silkstone; 1.5
   miles from Penistone.
 
GOWBUSK, f.h. in the township of Sawley, parish and liberty of Ripon; 6 miles
   from Ripon.
 
GOWDALL, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and
   bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 1 mile from Snaith, 10 from Ferrybridge, 12
   from Pontefract.  --Pop. 243.
 
GOWDALL-BROACH, 2 f.h. in the township of Gowdall, and parish of Snaith; 1.5
   miles from Snaith.
 
GOWTHWAITE-HALL, f.h. in the township of Lower-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 3 miles from Pateley Bridge.

           In this Hall was born, in 1731, William Craven, D.D. and educated at
   St. John's College, Cambridge.  He took his Batchelor's Degree in 1753, and
   was fourth wrangler, as well as Chancellors Medallist.  He succeeded to the
   Arabic professorship in 1770, and resigned in 1795.  He was elected Master of
   his College in 1789; and died in 1815.  Dr. Craven published "Sermons on the
   Evidence of a Future State, of Rewards and Punishments," 8vo. and "The Jewish
   and Christian Dispensations compared," 8vo.  --Gent. Mag.  --Whitaker's
   Craven.
 
GOYDEN-POT-HOLE, (in Nidderdale) and parish  of Kirkbymalzeard; 10 miles from
   Pateley Bridge.

           Goydon-Pot-Hole is a large Rock, into which the river Nidd enters, by
   an arch finely formed of beautifully white limestone, about nine feet high,
   and the span twelve broad; with a lighted candle a person may walk two or
   three hundred yards into it with safety.  The river, after entering here,
   runs underground for about three miles.

GRAFTON, in the township of Marton-cum-Grafton, and parish of Marton, upper
   division of Claro, a part in the liberty of St. Peter; 2.75 miles from
   Boroughbridge, 6.25 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. included in Marton.
 
GRANGE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 8 miles
   from Rochdale, 12 from Huddersfield.
 
GRANGE-ASH, p.h. in the township of Whitley, and parish of Kirkheaton; 6.5 miles
   from Huddersfield and Wakefield.

GRANTLEY, a township, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of
   Claro; (Grantley-Hall, the seat of Lord Grantley) 5 miles from Ripon and
   Ripley, 6.5 from Pateley Bridge.  --Pop. 233.

           Sir Fletcher Norton, descended from the noble house of Conyers.  The
   first Lord Grantley, was created Lord Grantley, Baron of Markenfield, April
   9, 1782: being bred to the law, he was, December 1761, appointed
   Solicitor-General, and received the honour of Knighthood during his holding
   that office.  In November, 1763, he was made Attorney-General; and in 1769,
   was Speaker of the House of Commons, in which station he continued till 1780;
   and was advanced to the Peerage, 1782.  His lordship dying, January 1, 1789,
   was succeeded by his son William, the present noble lord.  --Debrett.  --Heir
   Presumptive is his Lordship's nephew, the son of Fletcher Norton, who was one
   of the Barons of the Exchequer in North Britain.
          Grantley-Hall stands in a low warm situation, and well sheltered with
   wood, on the road side leading to Pateley Bridge, but contains nothing
   particular to interest the tourist or antiquary.  In it are two of the
   Speaker's chairs, which Sir Fletcher Norton occupied as Speaker of the House
   of Commons.
 
GRASSCROFT and CLOUGH, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale,
   (Lanc.) 2.5 miles from Dobcross.
 
GRASSFIELD-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Dacre-with-Bewerley, and parish of
   Ripon; half a mile from Pateley Bridge.

GRASSGARTH, ham. in the township and parish of Weston; 2.5 miles from Otley.
   12.5 from Leeds.
 
GRASSINGTON, in the parish of Linton, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe;
   (the seat of Henry Brown, Esq.) 6 miles from Kettlewell, 10 from Skipton and
   Pateley Bridge, 14 from Settle.  --It has a small Market on Tuesday,
   (chartered for Friday)  --Fairs, March 4, April 24, June 29, September 26,
   for pedlary, &c.  --Pop. 983.

           The neighbourhood of Grassington is famous for its Lead Mines, which
   have been worked from about the time of James I.  Dr. Whitaker says, the
   "Lead on Grassington Moor is extremely rich, a ton of ore sometimes yielding
   sixteen hundred pounds weight of metal; but it is poor in Silver."  --History
   of Craven.
 
GRAYSTONE, or GRITH, ham. in the township of Laverton, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 3 miles from Kirkbymalzeard.

GRAYSTONEGILL, in the township and parish of Low-Bentham, wapentake of Ewcross;
   It is a fourth part of the township of Low Bentham, in which are several
   farm-houses.

GREASBROUGH, in the parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 2 miles from Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield, 10
   from Barnsley.  --Pop. 1,252.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to
   the Holy-Trinity, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. !110L.  Patron,
   Earl Fitzwilliam.

GREEN-CLOSE, ham. in the township of Clapham-with-Newby, and parish of Clapham;
   8.5 miles from Settle.
 
GREENFIELD, 2 f.h. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 10.5 miles from Kettlewell.
 
GREENFIELD, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 2
   miles from Dobcross.
 
GREEN-GATES, ham. in the township of Eccleshill, and parish of Bradford; 3 miles
   from Bradford, 7 from Otley.
 
GREENHAMMERTON, in the parish of Whixley, upper-division of Claro; 7 miles from
   Boroughbridge and Wetherby, 8 from Knaresborough, 10 from York.  --Principal
   Inn, the George, a Posting House.  --Pop. 329.
 
GREENHEAD, in the township and parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Benjamin Haigh Allen,
   Esq.) half a mile from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax.

           A handsome Gothic Church was built here, at the sole expense of B.H.
   Allen, Esq. and was consecrated in October, 1819, by the Archbishop of York.

GREENHILL,  s.h. in the township and parish of Bingley; 1 mile from Bingley, 6
   from Bradford.
 
GREENHOUSE, (the residence of Dr. Chorley) in the township, parish, and soke of
   Doncaster, 1.5 mile from Doncaster.

GREENHOW-HILL, in the township of Dacre-with-Bewerley, and parish of Ripon,
   lower-division of Claro; 3 miles from Pateley Bridge, 7 from Grassington, 14
   from Ripon.

           A large straggling village, upon an eminence, west of Pateley Bridge,
   abounding with lead Mines, and in which there are rarely less than five
   hundred inhabitants of this village employed.  --The Mines are Sun-side,
   Prosperous, Providence, Cock-hill, and Merryfield, which produce annually
   about 2000 tons.
 
GREENHOLME, a part of Burley in Wharfedale, in Otley parish, called Greenholme
   Cotton-Factory.   ---This was later a Woolen Mill, and was producing until
   at least the late 1950s. -B.T.

GREENLAND, scattered houses, in the township of Cowick, and parish of Snaith; 4
   miles from Snaith.
 
GREENSIDE, 2 h. in the township of Thurstonland, and parish of Kirkburton; 5
   miles from Huddersfield.
 
GREENWOOD, HIGH, in the township of Heptonstall, and parish of Halifax,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; (the seat of William Mitchell, Esq.)
   10 miles from Halifax, 12.5 from Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
GREENWOODLEY, s.h. in the township of Heptonstall, and parish of Halifax; 10
   miles from Halifax.

GREETLAND, in the township of Elland-with-Greetland, and parish of Halifax,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from
   Halifax and Huddersfield.  --Pop. included in Elland.

           Here was dug up a Votive Altar, as it seems, to the Tutelar God of
   the city of the Brigantes.

            DVI DI BRIG            On the other side,
             ET NVM GG.
           T. AVR AVRELIAN           ANTONINO
            VS DD RPO SE           III. ET GET. COSS.
           ET SVOS S. M. A. GS.

           To the God of the city of the Brigantes, and to the Deities of the
   Emperors, Titus Aurelius, Aurelianus hath dedicated this in behalf of himself
   and his.  The inscription on the other side shews the time when the altar was
   set up, i.e. when Antoninus was consul the third time with Geta.  --Camden.
 
GRENOFIRTH, a district, or part of the township and parish of Ecclesfield.
 
GRENOSIDE, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 5 miles from Sheffield, 6
   from Rotherham, 8 from Penistone,
 
GREWELTHORPE, in the parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower-division of Claro; 3 miles
   from Masham, 8 from Ripon.  --Pop. 527.

           Oliver de Buscy gave half a carucate of land here, with all the men
   living thereon and followers, to the Monks of Fountains-Abbey.  -Burton.
 
GREYSTONES, in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; (the
   seats of Miss Greaves, and the Rev. Thomas Sutton,) 2.5 miles from Sheffield.

GRIMESTHORPE, in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield;
   2.5 miles from Sheffield, 3.5 from Rotherham.
 
GRIMETHORPE, ham. in the township of Brierley, and parish of Felkirk, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley.

GRIMSTON, in the parish of Kirkby-Wharfe, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Grimston Hall, the seat of Lord Howden,) 1.5 miles from
   Tadcaster, 11.5 from Ferrybridge, 13 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 62.

           Sir John Francis Cradock, of Grimston Hall, was created a Baron of
   Ireland by the title of Baron Howden, of Grimston and Spaldington, in this
   county, and of Cradocks Town, in the county of Kildare, October 19, 1819.
   --His Lordship's family is of ancient Welsh origin, claiming descent from
   Carodoc, and the ancient Princes of Wales; the name properly Carodoc.  His
   lordship's father, John Cradock, was Archbishop of Dublin, and died in 1778.
   --Heir apparent, John Hobart, only son.  --Debrett.
 
GRINDLETON, in the parish of Mitton, west-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Bolland; 4.5 miles from Gisburn, 14 from Burnley, and Colne, (Lanc.) 15 from
   Skipton.  --Pop. 1,125.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value p.r. +95L.
   Patron, the Vicar of Mitton.

GRISEDALE, (a small dale,) in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 8 miles from
   Sedbergh and Hawes.
 
GROVE-HALL, (the residence of William Lee, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Darrington; 2 miles from Ferrybridge, 3 from Pontefract.
 
GRUNSEY-GILL, (the seat of William Brown, Esq.) in the township of Gisburn-
   Forest, and parish of Gisburn; 9 miles from Settle, 15 from Skipton.
 
GUISELEY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of the wapentake of Skyrack,
   liberty of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 2 miles from Otley, 9 from Bradford, 10
   from Leeds, 29 from York.  --Pop. 1,213.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated
   to St. Oswald, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 26L.  Patron,
   Trinity-College, Cambridge.

          Trinity-College, Cambridge, "has only the third turn of presentation,
   which is the next."  --Camb. Caland. 1822.
 
GUNTHWAITE, a township, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincliffe; 2
   miles from Penistone, 7 from Barnsley, 11 from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 86.
 
HACKFALL, in the township of Grewelthorpe, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower
   division of Claro; 3 miles from Masham, 8 from Ripon, 9 from Bedale.

           This sequestered and romantic Spot is the property of Mrs. Lawrence.
   It consists of two deep Dingles, covered on either side with a profusion of
   wood except in such parts where the naked Scars contribute to vary and
   improve the view; a small stream running through, is obstructed in various
   places by upright pieces of stone, and thus forms several artificial
   Cascades.
           The Buildings are Pavilions, covered, with seats, from the first of
   which is a view of the great Fall, divided into two parts, and, as DAY
   observes, "rather steals than dashes down rocks richly clad with moss, and
   possesses a mildness and beauty peculiar to itself;" artificial Ruins, a
   small octagon Room, built of petrifactions, called Fisher's Hall; a Grotto,
   situated in front of a Cascade which falls forty feet; a Rustic Temple, on
   the margin of a sheet of water, in the middle of which there was formerly a
   Fountain throwing water to a great height: the whole is bounded by a noble
   Amphitheatre of tall trees, and although too formal for the scenery around,
   has a pleasing effect.  The walks are laid out with great judgement and much
   taste, which, as you ascend, exhibit several views of Masham Church and Town,
   &c. but the best views are from Fisher's-Hall, which commands the whole of
   the two Dingles, where they fork from each other with the bottom of each
   filled with the rapid river Ure, which here "boils and, foams and thunders
   through."  The view is perfectly American, for nothing is seen from it but
   hanging woods, extensive scars, and water.  From the hut on the margin of the
   Ure, which winds rapidly at your feet, is seen a small Cascade trickling down
   the hill, Fishers Hall, Mowbray Castle, and at a short distance, the Weeping
   Rock.  The view from Mowbray Point, on the brink of a very high precipice,
   commands the same woody dells and water as from Fisher's Hall, but overlooks
   a vast extent of country, enriched with corn, meadows, and groves, a tract of
   unequalled beauty and exuberant vegetation.  In the Building are a handsome
   dining-room, a small drawing-room, and a kitchen, none of which are now in
   use.
           On an eminence, not far distant, says Pennant, are to be seen the
   remains of Mowbray's Castlehill, which are unquestionably Roman; a Square,
   defended on one side by the steep of the hill, on the other by a dyke and
   deep ditch on the outside.
 
HADDINGLEY, f.h. in the township of Shelley, and parish of Kirkburton, 9 miles
   from Huddersfield and Penistone.
 
HADDLESEY, CHAPEL, in the parish of Birkin, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty
   of Pontefract; 5 miles from Selby and Snaith, 7 from Ferrybridge.  --Pop.
   199.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Birkin.
 
HADDLESEY, EAST, in the township of Chapel-Haddlesey, and parish of Birkin,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Selby and Snaith.
 
HADDLESEY, WEST, in the parish of Birkin, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Selby, 6 from Ferrybridge; 8 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. 293.
 
HAG, NETHER, and HAG, OVER, ham. in the township of Honley, and parish of
   Almondbury; 4.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
HAGGSIDE,  -See Spofforth Haggs.
 
HAGUE, HIGH and LOW, scattered houses, in the township of Kellbrook, and parish
   of Thornton, liberty of Staincliffe; 3 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9.5 from
   Skipton.
 
HAGUE-HALL, (the seat of James Allott, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   South-Kirkby, wapentake of Osgoldcross; 7 miles from Pontefract, 5 from
   Barnsley.
 
HAIGH, ham. in the township of Kexbrough, and parish of Darton, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Haigh-Hall, the residence of Robert Hodgson, Esq.) 6 miles from
   Barnsley, 7 from Penistone and Wakefield.

HAINSWORTH, in the township and parish of Bingley; 2 miles from Bingley, 7 from
   Bradford.
 
HALDENBY, in the parish of Addlingfleet, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Haldenby Park, the seat of John Jackson, Esq.) 6 miles from
   Crowle. (Linc.) 10 from Howden.  --Pop. 69.
 
HALES-DRAX, f.h. in the township and parish of Drax; 3 miles from Snaith, 6 from
   Selby.
 
HALIFAX, a market and parish-town, in Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 8 miles from Bradford and Huddersfield, 10 from
   Dewsbury, 12 from Keighley and Todmorden, 16.5 from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 18 from
   Leeds, 42 from York, 197 from London.  --Market, Saturday, for woollen cloth,
   provisions, &c.  --Fairs, June 24. and the first Saturday in November, for
   horses, horned cattle, &c.  --Bankers, Messrs. John Rawson, William Rawson,
   John Rhodes, and Rawden Briggs, draw on Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co. 48,
   Lothbury.  --Principal Inns, Talbot, White Swan, and White Lion.  --Pop.
   12,628.  There are two Churches here, the one is a vicarage, dedicated to St.
   John the Baptist, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 84L. 13s. 6.5d.
   Patron, the King.  -The other is called the Holy Trinity Church, a perpetual
   curacy, value, p.r. +100L. in the patronage of the Vicar of Halifax.  The
   latter was built under the sanction of an act of parliament by
   Dr. Coulthurst, the late Vicar; the masonry of which, like all modern masonry
   about the town, is excellent and elaborate.

           The parish of Halifax is the largest in the County, being in extent
   not less than seventeen miles from east to west, and about eleven miles on an
   average from north to south.  It contains twenty-three Townships; and,
   besides the Vicarage Church, there are in the parish twelve Chapels to which
   the Vicar appoints the Curates, independent of the New Church of Halifax, and
   the Chapel at Marshaw-bridge.  The Church is a large Gothic structure, and is
   supposed to have been built by the Earl of Warren and Surrey, in the reign of
   Henry I. It appears to have been re-edified at different periods, as part of
   the north side seems older than the rest.  --Within the Church are two
   Chapels, the one called Rokeby's Chapel, was erected in consequence of the
   Will of Dr. William Rokeby, Vicar of Halifax, and afterwards Archbishop of
   Dublin, who died November 29, 1521, and ordered that his bowels and heart
   should be buried in the choir of this church, and his body in the chapel at
   Sandal.
           In 1453 here were but thirteen houses in this town, which, in 120
   years, increased to 520; and, in the year 1802, there were 1973 houses, 8,886
   inhabitants.  Camden, when he travelled in these Parts, about the year 1580,
   was informed that the number of inhabitants in this parish was about 12,000.
   Archbishop Grindall, in his letter to Queen Elizabeth, during the northern
   rebellion also says; that the parish of Halifax was ready to bring into the
   field, for her service, 3 or 4000 able men.
           The course of Justice formerly made use of here, called the "Gibbet
   Law," by which all criminals found guilty of theft, to the value of thirteen
   pence half penny, were to suffer death, hath long been discontinued.  The
   platform, four feet high, and thirteen feet square, faced on every side with
   stone, was ascended by a flight of steps; in the middle of this platform were
   placed two upright pieces of timber, five yards high, joined by a cross beam
   of timber at the top; within these was a square block of wood, four feet and
   a half long, which moved in grooves, and had an iron axe fastened in its
   lower edge, the weight of which was seven pounds eleven ounces; it was ten
   inches and a half long, seven inches over at the top, and nine at the bottom,
   and towards the top had two holes to fasten it to the block.  The axe is
   still to be seen at the gaol, in Halifax: the platform remains, but has been
   hid, for many years past, under a mountain of rubbish.
           The Guillotine erected in France, soon after the breaking out of the
   Revolution, and so fatal to thousands, seems to have been copied from this
   machine.
           The Earl of Morton, Regent of Scotland, passing through Halifax, and
   happening to see one of these executions, caused a model to be taken, and
   carried it to his own country, where it remained many years before it was
   made use of, and obtained the name of "the Maiden", till that Nobleman
   suffered by it himself, June 2, 1581.  The remains of this singular machine,
   may yet be seen, in the Parliament house at Edinburgh.  The origin of this
   custom cannot be traced, but it was by no means peculiar to this place.
   --See Gent. Mag. for April 1793.
           The Town of Halifax cannot boast of great Antiquity; its name is not
   found in Domesday Book, nor is it mentioned in any ancient record, before a
   grant of its Church was made by Earl Warrein to the Priory of Lewes, in
   Sussex.  The origin of its name has been variously given: Dr. Whitaker
   supposes it to be half Saxon, half Norman: and that formerly, in the deep
   valley where the church now stands, was a Hermitage, dedicated to St. John
   the Baptist, the imagined sanctity of which attracted a great concourse of
   persons in every direction.  There were four roads by which the Pilgrims
   entered, and hence the name Halifax, or Holyways, for fax in Norman French,
   is an old plural noun, denoting highways.
           In the civil wars it was garrisoned by the Parliamentarians; and to
   this place, Sir Thomas Fairfax retreated, after the battle of Adwalton-Moor.
   After these wars were over, Halifax was represented in Parliament, during the
   time of the Commonwealth and under the Protectorate.
           The woollen manufacture, for which this town and neighbourhood have
   been long famous, was first introduced between 1443 and 1540, during which
   period, the houses had increased from thirteen to five hundred and twenty.  A
   detailed account of which may be seen in  Watson's History of Halifax.  --In
   the beginning of the 18th Century, the manufacture, of Woollen Stuffs was
   introduced; Shalloons, Everlastings, Moreens, Shags, &c. have been made to
   great perfection; and within these few years, the cotton-trade has extended
   in to this neighbourhood.  For the convenience of trade, the manufacturers
   erected, at the expence of 12,000L. a handsome structure, in the lower part
   of the town, for the sale of their goods, called the Piece Hall, which was
   first opened for sale in 1779, where the goods of the manufacturers, in an
   unfinished state, are deposited, and exhibited for sale, every Saturday.  The
   building contains 300 separate cells, and is proof against fire and thieves.
           In 1642, Nathaniel Waterhouse, by Will, founded an Alms-House, in
   this town for twelve poor Widows, and a Blue Coat Hospital for twenty poor
   Children.  He also bequeathed 60L. per ann. to the Curates of the twelve
   Chapels within the Vicarage; a legacy to the Free School at Skircoats,
   founded by Queen Elizabeth, &c.  --These bequests, according to returns
   published by order of Parliament, made in 1786, amounted to 475L. 16s. 6d.,
   per annum --a copy of Mr. Waterhouse's will is inserted in Mr. Watson's
   History of Halifax.  In 1610, (according to Mr. Watson) Ellen Hopkinson, and
   Jane Crowther, built in their life-times, Alms-Houses, containing eighteen
   rooms, for as many poor Widows, and two rooms for a Schoolmaster, which they
   endowed with Money and Tenements; the annual produce, in 1787, was 13L. These
   alms-houses being rebuilt, were made to contain twenty-four rooms, twenty of
   which are for twenty Widows, and three for the Master.  In Halifax there are
   Chapels for almost every class of Dissenters; two National Schools, on the
   plans of Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster; Public Baths, Assembly Rooms, Theatre,
   &c.  Here is also a Benevolent Society for clothing the Sick and Destitute;
   and to the Public Foundations already noticed, we may add that beneficent
   Establishment, the Dispensary, which is supported by voluntary Subscriptions.
           The Lord of the Manor has here a Gaol for the imprisonment of
   debtors, within the Manor of Wakefield, and in this gaol is the Gibbet-axe of
   the well known" Halifax Gibbet Law,"
           Of the eminent men born in Halifax, whose names are on record, find
   the following:- Henry Briggs, an eminent mathematician, was born in 1556, and
   educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was Fellow in 1588.  In
   1596, he was chosen Gresham Professor of Geometry, which place he resigned in
   1620, on being appointed Savilian Professor at Oxford, where he died in 1630.
   He was the first improver of Logarithms after Napier, the original inventor,
   whom he visited in Scotland, and published in 1624, a work of stupendous
   labour, entitled "Arithmetica Logarithmica," containing logarithms of 30,OO0
   natural numbers.  He also wrote some other valuable books on mathematical
   subjects. --Biog. Dict.
           Joseph Brookbank, born in 1612, son of George Brookbank, of Halifax,
   was entered at Brazen-Nose College, in 1632, took a degree in Arts, went into
   orders, and had a curacy.  At length removing to London, he taught school in
   Fleet-Street, and preached there.  The time of his death is not known.  He
   published, "Breviate of Lilly's Latin Gram. 8vo. &c." London, 1660, Sermons,
   &c.  He, by indenture, bearing date Oct. 4, 1712, conveyed to trustees,
   certain lands and tenements, for the founding of the school at Elland.
   --Watson's Halifax.
           That excellent Optician and Mechanist, Mr. Jesse Ramsden, was born
   here in 1735.  He greatly improved Hadley's Quadrant.  In 1786, he was chosen
   Fellow of the Royal Society.  He died at Brighton in 1800.
           The celebrated Daniel De Foe, although not a native, was for some
   time resident at Halifax.  Here be employed himself in writing his books, "De
   Jure Divino," the famous romance of "Robinson Crusoe," and other literary
   works.  --Whitaker.
           William Edwards, bookseller, Halifax, a character of very great
   eminence In his profession, died Jan. 10, 1808, aged 86.  The catalogues
   which he occasionally published, were astonishingly rich in scarce and
   valuable books, of which the ornamental bindings were peculiarly elegant.
   --Nichols' Lit. Anec.
           Of Halifax and the parish, there are no less than three separate
   histories, viz. "Halifax and its Gibbet Law," by John Bentley, 12mo.
   published in 1761.  "Antiquities of the town of Halifax," by Thomas Wright,
   12mo. Leeds, 1738; and the "History and Antiquities of the parish of
   Halifax," by the Rev. John Watson, M.A. and F.S.A. 4to. London, 1775; besides
   an edition in 8vo. entitled the "History of the town and parish of Halifax,"
   &c. published in numbers, by E. Jacobs, in 1789. This last appears to be an
   abridgement of Watson's.
 
HALLAM, UPPER, a township, in the parish of Sheffield, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 3 miles from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 1,018.
 
HALLAM, NETHER, a township, in the parish of Sheffield, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 1.5 miles from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 3,200.
 
HALL-GATE, 3 f.h. in the township and parish of Handsworth; 4 miles from
   Sheffield, 6 from Rotherham.
 
HALL-GREEN, in the township of Crigglestone, and parish of Sandal-Magna, liberty
   of Wakefield; 4 miles from Wakefield, 7.5 from Barnsley.

HALLOWS, ham. in the township of Wilsden, and parish of Bradford; 3.75 miles
   from Keighley, 4 from Bradford.

HALSTEAD, (the seat of Mrs. Jane Foxcroft,) in the township and parish of
   Thornton in Lonsdale, wapentake of Ewcross; 1 mile from Ingleton, 6.5 from
   Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)

HALTON, in the township of Temple-Newsam, and parish of Whitkirk; 3.25 miles
   from Leeds.
 
HALTON-DIAL, (toll-bar) in the township of Temple-Newsam, and parish of
   Whitkirk; 2.25 miles from Leeds.
 
HALTON, EAST, in the parish of Skipton, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Cliffords-Fee; 4 miles from Skipton, 9 from Keighley, 14 from Otley.  --Pop.
   including Bolton, 141, which being united, form a township.
 
HALTON-GILL, in the parish of Arnecliff, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 9 miles from Kettlewell, 10 from Settle; 14 from Hawes, 20 from
   Skipton.  --Pop- 114.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !60L.
   7s. 7d.  Patron, the Vicar of Arnecliff;  The Chapel was rebuilt in 1636; it
   has no churchyard or interments, but is dependent on Arnecliff.

           "Amongst the singular characters of this country, was Mr. Wilson,
   formerly curate of this place, and father of the late Rev. Edward Wilson,
   canon of Windsor, he wrote a Tract entitled "The Man in the Moon;" which was
   seriously meant to convey the knowledge of common astronomy in the following
   strange vehicle: A cobbler, Israel Jobson by name, is supposed to ascend,
   first to, the top of Penigent; and thence, as a second stage, equally
   practicable, to the Moon; after which he makes a tour of the whole solar
   system.  From this excursion, however, the traveller brings back little
   information which might not have been had upon earth, excepting that the
   inhabitants of one of the planets, were made of Pot-metal." The book is now
   rarely to be met with.  --Whitaker's Craven.
 
HALTON, WEST, in the parish of Long-Preston, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; (Halton-Place, the seat of John Yorke, Esq.) 7 miles from
   Settle, 12 from Skipton, 15 from Colne, (Lanc.) --Pop. 190.

           This village gave name to a very ancient family, which bore, Argent,
   two bars Azure, the last heiress of whom, 3rd Richard III, added it to the
   great estate of the Talbots, of Bashall, by marrying Sir Thomas Talbot,
   Knight.  Halton remained in the Talbot family till their extinction, about
   the year 1660.  It is now, by purchase, the property of John Yorke, Esq. who
   has greatly enhanced the value of the estate, by judicious improvements.
   --Whitaker's Craven.
 
HAMBLETON, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston Ash;
   (Hambleton-House, the seat of Samuel Smith, Esq.) 3.75 miles from Selby, 7
   from Ferrybridge, 9 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 488.
 
HAMBLETON-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Bolton-Abbey, and parish of Skipton; 6
   miles from Skipton.
 
HAMERTON, f.h. in the township of Easington, and parish of Slaidburn; 1.5 mile
   from Slaidburn.

           This place, which gave name to one of the most ancient families in
   Craven, is now only a large farm-house, which, with the estate annexed,
   belongs to Manchester school.
           Here was a Chantry founded by Stephen de Hamerton, in the chapel of
   St. Mary, within his manor of Hamerton, in 1332, for a competent secular
   chaplain, presentable by himself during his life, and after his decease, by
   his son John, and his heirs, in the said chapel, to celebrate masses, &c. for
   the said Stephen, Richard his father, and Agnes his mother.  For the support
   of which chaplain, he amortized two messuages, thirty-six acres of land, and
   twenty acres of meadow, in Slaidburn, and New Laund in Rowland, for ever.
   This endowment was confirmed by William, Archbishop of York, in February,
   1332.  Two institutions only occur for this chantry, and as it does not
   appear in the catalogue of Archbishop Holgate or Browne Willis, it seems most
   probable that it fell long before the general dissolution.

HAMMERTON, GREEN, -See Greenhammerton.
 
HAMPOLE, (extraparochial) in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6.75
   miles from Doncaster, 9 from Pontefract, 13.5 from Wakefield.  --Pop.
   including Stubbs, 140, which being united, form a township.

           A Priory was built here about the year 1170, by William de Clarefai
   and Avicia de Fanai, his wife, for fourteen or fifteen Cistercian Nuns, and
   dedicated to the Virgin Mary; valued at the dissolution at 63L. 5s. 8d. Dug.;
   83L. 6s. 11d. Speed.  The site, with demesnes, were granted to Francis
   Aislaby, in 6th Edward VI. 1552.
           This Nunnery stood in a pleasant vale, in a fine country, near to the
   high road leading from Wakefield to Doncaster.  At present there is an old
   hall, which seems either to have been part of the Priory, or built out of its
   ruins.  --Dugdale.  --Burton.
           Here lived Richard Role, a hermit, whom Gray, in his introduction to
   his Key to the Old Testament, says, "one of the first attempts at a
   translation Into the English language of the Bible, as spoken after the
   conquest, appears to have been made by Richard Role, an hermit of Hampole, in
   Yorkshire, who translated and wrote a Gloss. upon the Psalter, and a metrical
   paraphrase of the book of Job; he died A.D. 1349."

HAMPSTHWATTE, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 2 miles from Ripley, 7 from Knaresborough, 8 from Ripon, 25
   from York.  --Pop. 490.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Thomas a
   Beckitt, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 13L. 6s. 8d.  Patrons, Messrs.
   Shanns.

           This village was part of the possessions of the Lords Viptoft; It is
   a long straggling village, pleasantly situated on the southern bank of the
   river Nidd.  The patronage of the church was given to the Priory of
   Knaresborough.  -Hist. Knaresborough.

HAND-BANK, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.
 
HANDSWORTH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberties of St. Peter and Hallamshire; 4.5 miles from Sheffield, 7 from
   Rotherham, 12.5 from Chesterfield, (Derby.) 55 from York.  --Pop. 2,173.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, 12L. 4s. 7d.  Patron, the Duke of Norfolk.

           Handsworth is situated upon an eminence, on the turnpike road from
   Sheffield to Worksop, from which are commanded extensive and beautiful views
   of the surrounding country.  Not far from the church-yard stands the village
   school, a respectable stone building, erected by subscription in the year
   1800, for the education of a certain number of poor children, to be elected
   pursuant to the Will of Dr. Lockier, formerly rector of this parish, who,
   with the Hon. Mrs. Jane Howard, wife of the rector, gave the uses of certain
   monies for its endowment.  For an account of this parish, see Hunter's
   Hallamshire.
 
HANDSWORTH-WOOD HOUSE, in the township and parish of Handsworth, liberties of
   St. Peter and Hallamshire; 5 miles from Sheffield.

HANGING-STONES, ham. in the township and parish of Ilkley; 4 miles from Otley, 8
   from Bradford.
 
HANLITH, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale, west-division of Staincliffe,
   liberty of Clifford's-Fee; (Hanlith-Hall, a seat of Colonel Serjeantson) 6.5
   miles from Settle; 9.5 from Skipton, 10.5 from Kettlewell.  --Pop. 46.

           Hanlith is situated on the east bank of the river Aire.  The family
   of the Serjeantsons, who possess the principal property in the place, resided
   here at the commencement of the parish Register in 1597.  --Whitaker.

HARDCASTLE,  FAR and NEAR, 2 f.h. in the township of Dacre-cum-Bewerley, and
   parish of Ripon; 4 miles from Pateley bridge, 14 from Kettlewell.
 
HARDEN, (the seat of Robert Parker, Esq.) in the township of the Forest of
   Bowland, Higher, and parish of Slaidburn; 6 miles from Slaidburn, 14 from
   Lancaster.
 
HARDEN, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; (Harden Grange, the seat of
   Walker Ferrand, Esq.) 2 miles from Bingley, 5 from Bradford, 8 from Halifax.
 
HARDEN, scat. h. in the township and parish of Thornton; 4 miles from Colne,
   (Lanc.) 9.5 from Skipton.

HARD-GATE, a part of Bishop-Thornton, in Ripon Parish.

HARDINGLEY, f.h. in the township of Shelley, and parish of Kirkburton; 9 miles
   from Huddersfield and Penistone.
 
HARDISTY-HILL, scat. h. in the township and parish of Fewston; 8.5 miles from
   Otley, 9.5 from Ripley.

HARDWICK, f.h. in the township of Aston with Aughton, and parish of Aston; 4
   miles from Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield.
 
HARDWICK, BLIND, or SPITAL, f.h. in the township, parish, and liberty of
   Pontefract; 1 mile from Pontefract.
 
HARDWICK, EAST, in the parish of Pontefract, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty
   of Pontefract; 2 miles from Pontefract, 9.5 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 96.  Here
   is a donative Chapel.

HARDWICK, WEST, in the parish of Wragby, Wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 93.

HARE-HILLS, 2 or 3 h. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 3 miles from Keighley.
 
HARRUNDEN, or ARRUNDEN, ham. in the township of Cartworth, and parish of
   Kirkburton; 7 miles from Huddersfield.
 
HAREWOOD, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack; 6 miles from
   Wetherby, 5 from Leeds, Harrogate, and Otley, 10 from Knaresborough, 11 from
   Tadcaster, 12 from Bradford, 20 from York,  197 from London.  --Market,
   Monday.  --Fairs, last Monday in April, and second Monday in October, for
   sheep and cattle.  The Market which appears to have been chartered for
   calves, sheep, &c. is now nearly obsolete.  --Principal Inn, Harewood Arms.
   --Pop. 849.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry
   of the Ainsty, value, +14L. 1s. 0d.  Patrons, the Earl of Harewood, with the
   Parishioners, and G.H. Wheeler, Esq. of Ledstone, alternately.

           This is the neatest village in the county, the houses of which are
   uniformly and handsomely built of stone, consisting of two streets, one
   running north and south, the other east and west, the latter forming a
   regular approach to the gateway leading to Harewood-house; and the houses
   have, at first view, more the appearance of habitations of gentlemen than
   tenantry.

           The Church, of great antiquity, is surrounded by a thick grove of
   trees, which, by their embowering shade, give to it a peculiar air of
   solemnity; the west-end is beautifully mantled with ivy.  In number and
   perfect preservation of the tombs of its lords, this Church probably
   surpasses every parish church in the county; and as virtue and honest
   patriotism are, almost on all occasions, held up to us as models deserving
   our imitation, this place has been pointed out by all historians as most
   sacred, for it contains the relics of the virtuous Judge, Sir William
   Gascoigne, of Gawthorpe, who was, while trying one of the Prince of Wales'
   favourites, insulted upon the bench by the prince himself, afterwards Henry
   V.  The Judge resolutely committed him, and declared, "He would have the laws
   respected."  This upright Judge discovered equally his resolution and
   integrity, in refusing to try Archbishop Scrope, for High Treason, an office
   which another Judge, who was not so scrupulous, assumed and pursued to a
   fatal point for that prelate.
 
HAREWOOD-HOUSE, (the seat of the Earl of Harewood) in the township and parish of
   Harewood, upper-division of Skyrack; 5 miles from Leeds and Harrogate.

           This magnificent and justly admired Mansion was built by the late Mr.
   John Muschramp of Harewood, under the direction of Mr. Adams of London, and
   Mr. Carr of York.  The foundation was laid in March, 1759, by the late Lord
   Harewood.  It is situated at the top of a hill, fronting to the south, and
   commanding "a rich home view, over fields and woods, with one slight
   exception, nearly all his own."  This, says Dr. Whitaker, "is a fortunate
   place, blessed with much natural beauty and fertility, and in the compass of
   a country village, with nearly an entire though dismantled castle, a modern
   palace surrounded by a wide extent of pleasure grounds and plantations, and a
   parish-church filled with unmutilated sculptures of the 14th and 15th
   centuries."  The whole length of the building is 248 feet 6 inches, and the
   width 84 feet, consisting of a centre and two wings, displaying all the
   richness of Corinthian Architecture.  The apartments are numerous and large,
   and finished in the first style of elegance, and with great taste.  The
   ceilings are, many of them, richly ornamented from designs of Rebecci and
   others, the Paintings, Busts, &c. by the first masters, are extremely
   numerous; and the whole of this princely mansion is fitted up with so much
   costly elegance, yet usefulness evidently united, that no elaborate
   description can do it justice.
           The taste displayed in the pleasure grounds and gardens, corresponds
   with the magnificence of the house; they comprise nearly 150 acres, laid out
   by Brown, at the expence of about 16,000L.
           The public must feel grateful to Lord Harewood, for his liberality
   shewn to visitors, by allowing them to view this magnificent mansion every
   Saturday, from eleven to four o'clock in the afternoon.
           On the declivity of the hill, rising from the vale of Wharfe, stands
   the dilapidated Castle of Harewood, built soon after the conquest, and then,
   with the Manor, in possession of William de Meschines; and after passing
   through various families, we find it in the time of Edward III. in that of
   the Aldburghs.  In the reign of Elizabeth, they were in the possession of the
   Gascoignes; and after that in the family of the Wentworths, by whom the
   castle and estate were sold to Sir John Cutler, of parsimonious memory.  On a
   partition, this place with its dependencies, fell to the share of Cutler,*
   who sometimes resided at Gawthorpe, the Castle being then completely
   dismantled  He let it to his only daughter Elizabeth wife of John Robarts,
   Earl of Radnor, with a remainder in failure of issue, to his relation, John
   Boulter, Esq. who took possession, on the decease of this countess in 1696.
   Of his trustees, this Manor was purchased about the year 1739, by Henry
   Lascelles, Esq. father of the first Lord Harewood, who spent the best part of
   a long life in improving and adorning a situation so peculiarly capable of
   both.
               *  Cutler saw tenants break, and houses fall;
                  For very want be could not build a wall.
                  His only daughter in a stranger's pow'r;
                  For very want he could not pay a dow'r.
                  A few grey hairs his reverend temples crown'd;
                  'Twas very want that sold them for two pound.  - Pope.

         The family of the Lascelles is very ancient, and appears from a
   pedigree in Loidis et Elmete, to have descended from John de Lascelles, of
   Hinderskelfe, and who held lands in l315, 9 Edward II.
           On the 9th of July, 1790, Edwin Lascelles, the first Lord Harewood,
   was advanced to the peerage; and at his decease, 25th of January, 1795, was
   succeeded by Edward, the late Earl, who was created Earl of Harewood and
   Viscount Lascelles, by patent, dated September 7, 1812, and succeeded by his
   son Henry.
 
HAREWOOD-BRIDGE INN, in the township of Dun-Keswick, and parish of Harewood; 1
   mile from Harewood, 7 from Harrogate, 8 from Otley, 9 from Knaresborough.
 
HARKER, f.h. in the township and parish of Slaidburn; 2.5 miles; from Slaidburn.
 
HARLINGT0N, ham. in the township and parish of Barnbrough, liberty of Tickhill;
   6 miles from Doncaster, 9.5 from Barnsley.
 
HARLOW, ham. in the township of Wentworth, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne; 7
   miles, from Rotherham, 8 from Barnsley.
 
HARROGATE, HIGH, in the township of Bilton-with-High-Harrogate, and parish of
   Knaresborough, lower division of Claro, liberty of Knaresborough; 3 miles
   from Knaresborough, 4 from Ripley, 8 from Wetherby, 9 from Hopper-Lane Inn
   and Otley, 10 from Boroughbridge, 11 from Ripon, 16 from Leeds, 21 from York,
   211 from London.  --Principal Inns, Dragon, Granby, Queen's Head, and Hope
   Tavern.  --Pop. included in Bilton.  Here is a Chapel, which is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. John, value *49L. 18s. 8d.  Patron the Vicar of
   Knaresborough.

           This place has been long celebrated for its Chalybeate and Sulphurous
   Waters, and the great resort of company from all parts of the kingdom, during
   the summer months.  It consists of two villages, High and Low Harrogate ; the
   former stands on what was once a weary waste, commanding prospects of the
   surrounding country to a great extent: York Cathedral may be distinctly seen,
   and the Yorkshire Wolds and Hambleton Hills terminate the eastern view; while
   the western one, is bounded by the Craven hills.  It formerly consisted of a
   few farm-houses and miserable cottages scattered over a bleak dreary heath,
   but has now a regular and neatly built street, running north and south, with
   handsome shops and four spacious inns for the accommodation of visitors.
           Low Harrogate is almost half a mile west, in the vale below, and
   possesses all the comforts and advantages resulting from good inns and
   lodging-houses of the former.  A much greater number of nobility and gentry
   resort to these places, during the season, than to any other Watering-place
   in the north.
           The first spring discovered here was the old Spa, in 1571, by Capt.
   William Slingsby, who found that it possessed properties similar to these of
            for some time resided at the Grange, and afterwards at
   Bilton, at that time a royal park well stocked with deer.  This spring is now
   covered with a dome, erected in 1786, at the expence of Alexander Lord
   Loughborough, who also laid out a plantation on his estate here, which forms
   a pleasant shade, to a broad walk of two miles long, highly ornamental to the
   place.
           Another Chalybeate Spring, called the Tewitt Well, about half a mile
   south-west of the old Spa, and possessing similar qualities, is occasionally
   used.
           Both these springs are situated at High Harrogate; but the principal,
   and that which occasions the greatest resort, are the long celebrated Sulphur
   Wells at Low Harrogate, which are most fetidly salutary and efficacious in
   all Scorbutic complaints.
           A new spring was discovered in the garden of the Crescent Inn, in the
   year 1783, which seems best suited to scrofulous complaints.  The salt it
   contains renders it active as a gentle stimulus, to promote the secretions;
   while the iron will tend most powerfully to remove debility, which, Dr.
   Garnett observes, if not originally the cause of the disease, always retards
   its cure.
           These mineral waters have been analysed by many eminent Physicians,
   but by none with more accuracy than Dr. Garnett.
           It 1819, two new springs were discovered, a Saline Chalybeate Spring,
   resembling Cheltenham Water, and a Chalybeate Spring.  The Cheltenham Water,
   as it is called, has come into great repute, and will, no doubt, prove a
   valuable addition to the waters at Harrogate.  Dr. Hunter, of Leeds,
   published a Treatise on these Waters: they are also particularly noticed by
   Dr. Scudamure, in his account of Mineral Waters, published in 1820.
           There are public balls at the Inns, thrice a week, each house in
   regular rotation, and every kind of amusement is here to be met with.
           The  Theatre, situated at High Harrogate, was built by the late Mr.
   Samuel Butler, and opened by him in 1788, which affords a rational
   entertainment to those who are fond of Theatricals.
           The Promenade Room, from its vicinity to the Wells, at Low Harrogate,
   has considerably increased the number of visitors here of late years; for,
   when the weather is unfavourable for excursions, all descriptions of persons
   find amusement in the room.  The erection of this building was first
   suggested by G. Cayley, M.D. and was opened for the reception of company in
   1805.
 
HARROGATE, LOW, in the township and parish of Pannal, lower-division of Claro,
   liberty of Knaresborough; 3.5 miles from Knaresborough.  --Principal Inns,
   the Crown, White-Hart, Swan, Crescent, and Hotel.
 
HARROP-LODGE, in the township of the Forest of Bowland, Lower; 6.5 miles from
   Gisburn, 7 from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)
 
HARROP-HALL, or NEAR, f.h. in the township of the Forest of Bowland, Lower, and
   parish of Slaidburn; 7 miles from Guisburn.
 
HARTHILL, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5
   miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 9 from Rotherham, 11.5 from Tickhill, 55 from
   York.  --Pop. 650.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the
   deanry of Doncaster, value, 18L. 11s. 10.5d.  Patron, the Duke of Leeds.
 
HARTSHEAD, in the parish of Dewsbury, Morley division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Huddersfield and Dewsbury, 6 from Halifax.
   --Pop. including Clifton, 2007.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value,
   p.r. !95L.  Patron, the Vicar of Dewsbury.

           The Chapel of Hartshead is dependent on the Church of Dewsbury, and
   is the only one existing in the parish.  It was in being at the time the
   living of Dewsbury was granted by the second Earl Warren, to the Priory of
   Lewis, about the year 1120; and may have existed before the time of Doomsday.
   Great part of the fabric has been renewed since the first erection, but the
   principal door, and the arch over the entrance of the choir remain, both
   adorned by semicircular arches.  At a small distance, by the highway side,
   leading to the common, is the base of a genuine Saxon cross, called Walton
   Cross, four feet five inches in height, and two feet three inches at the top.
   It is wrought in the usual style, with knots and scrolls, and has a cavity at
   the top for the insertion of a shaft.  -Whitaker.


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HARTLINGTON,  in the parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's-Fee; 9 miles from Skipton and Pateley Bridge, 11 from
   Kettlewell.  --Pop. 141.
 
HARTWITH, in the parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower-division of Claro; 4 miles from
   Pateley Bridge, 10 from Ripon, and Knaresborough.  --Pop. including Winsley,
   675, which being united form a township.  Here is a Chapel under
   Kirkbymalzeard, of which the Vicar is Patron, present value, 100L.

           Here is a School endowed by Robert Haxby, with an estate at Darley,
   but when established, not known; it is free only to the children of the
   tenants of three farms, formerly belonging to Robert Haxby, the founder, now
   the property of John Swires, Esq. the rent 29L. per ann. is paid to the
   master.  --Commissioners' Report.
 
HARWOOD-WELL, scat. h. in the township of Skircoat, and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 1.5 miles from Halifax.
 
HATFIELD, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill  (the
   seat of W. Gossip, Esq.) 4 miles from Thorne, 8 from Doncaster, 11 from
   Bawtry, 34 from York.  --Pop. 1,948.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Lawrence, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. 80L. 4s.
   3d.  Patron, Lord Deerhurst, in right of his Wife.  Bacon styles it a
   vicarage, value, 15L. 5s.

           On Hatfield Heath, a bloody battle was fought between Ceadwalla, King
   of the Britons, and Penda, the Pagan King of Mercia, against Edwin, the first
   Christian King of Northumberland, in which Edwin, and Offrid his eldest son,
   were slain.  --Rapin.  --Drake.
           In the old Manor-house here, was born, William, the second son of
   King Edward III. from which place he took the name of William de Hatfield.
   The Queen, Phillippa, his mother, on this occasion, gave five marks per annum
   to the neighbouring Abbey of Roche, and five nobles to the Monks there, which
   sums, when he died, were transferred to the church of York, where the Prince
   was buried, to pray for his soul.  -Drake.
           The extensive level of Hatfield Chace, the largest in England,
   contains within its limits, above 180,000 acres, one half of which was
   covered with water, till Charles I. sold it to Sir Cornelius Vermuiden, a
   Dutchman, without the consent of the commissioners and tenants, to drain and
   cultivate; which to the general surprise, he at length effected, at the
   expense of about 400,000L.  But the affair involved him in tedious and
   ruinous law-suits.  -Hist. Doncaster.
           In 1811, an Act was obtained for inclosing between eight and nine
   thousand acres of rich common in this neighbourhood, which must be ultimately
   productive of great public and private advantage.
           In the centre of this chace, at a place called Lindholme, tradition
   relates, there formerly lived a Hermit, called William of Lindholme.  Of his
   cell a particular account is given in the Gents. Mag. for 1747, written by
   George Stovin, Esq. of Crowle, and copied into the Hist. of Doncaster.  Mr.
   Stovin's Letter is dated Aug. 31, 1727.  It was situated to the middle of
   sixty acres of firm sandy ground, full of pebbles; at the east end stood an
   altar, made of hewn stone, and at the west end is the hermit's grave, covered
   with a freestone slab - under it were found a tooth, a scull, the thigh and
   shin hones of a human body, all of a very large size; likewise a peck of
   hemp-seed, and a piece of beaten copper.  A farmhouse now occupies the site
   of the cell.
           The Church is a large handsome building, having a lofty elegant
   tower, and although originally Saxon, the present structure is not older than
   the reign of Henry III.  In it are several monuments of the Hatfield family,
   and one of Abraham de la Pryme.  -Hist. Doncaster.
 
HATFIELD-HALL, (the residence of Francis Maud, Rag.) in the township of Stanley-
   with-Wrenthorpe, and parish of Wakefield, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from
   Wakefield, 8 from Leeds.
 
HATFIELD-HOUSE, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 4 miles from
   Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.
 
HATFIELD-WOOD HOUSE, in the township and parish of Hatfield; 3.5 miles from
   Thorne, 8.5 from Doncaster.
 
HAUGH-END,  (the seat of Major Priestly) in the township of Sowerby, and parish
   of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Halifax, 8.5 from
   Huddersfield.

           At this place, in Oct. 1630, the celebrated Dr. John Tillotson,
   Archbishop of Canterbury, first drew breath, a place that will ever be
   regarded with veneration, by all who know how to estimate religion without
   bigotry, and reason without scepticism.  He was the son of a clothier; and
   received his education at Clarehall, Cambridge, where he was chosen Fellow in
   1651.  He attended Lord Russell on the scaffold, and endeavoured to prevail
   on him to acknowledge the doctrine of non-resistance, a principle which the
   Doctor had afterwards occasion to renounce.  He was zealous against popery in
   the reign of James II. and, after the revolution, was the confidential friend
   of William and Mary, who bestowed on him the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
   -His sermons were published in 10vols. 8vo. and 3 vols. folio.  He died in
   1694, much lamented.
 
HAUGH, NETHER, in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 2.75 miles
   from Rotherham, 9.5 from Barnsley.
 
HAUGH, UPPER in the township and parish of Rawmarsh, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 3 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Sheffield and
   Barnsley.

HAVERAH-PARK, (extraparochial) in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough;  7 miles from Knaresborough, 8 from Otley.  --Pop. 87.

           This Park, formerly a royal Chace, containing upwards of 2000 acres,
   now divided into farms, is the property of Sir William Inglby, Bart. in whose
   family it has been for many ages.
           At the west-end of the ancient enclosure, situated on the point of a
   hill, are the remains of a strong tower, with suitable out-works ; the
   foundations, and part of the gateway only remaining.  Its dimensions appear
   to have been an exact square, each side measuring fifty feet; the ditch, in
   some places, is twenty four feet deep, and five hundred feet in
   circumference.  By whom the park was enclosed, or the tower erected, is not
   known; it is commonly called "John of Gaunt's Castle," and, perhaps, was
   erected by that Prince, when Lord of Knaresborough about the year 1371.

HAVERCROFT, in the parish of Felkirk, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 6.5 from Wakefield, 9 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. including North or Cold-Hiendley, 189, which, being united form a
   township.

HAVERCROFT, in the township and parish of Batley, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg
   and Morley; 2.5 miles from Dewsbury, 6.25 from Bradford.
 
HAWKESTONE-SLACK, 2 cotts. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 10 miles from Halifax and Burnley, (Lanc.)
 
HAWKSWORTH, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; (Hawksworth Hall, the residence of George Carroll,
   Esq.) 4 miles from Otley, 6 from Bradford, 12 from Leeds.  --Pop. 323.

           This place gave name and residence to a family of the highest
   antiquity, to which authentic records usually ascend; and is one of the
   instances in which property has descended in the possession of one family
   from the conquest to the present time; for it appears by a pedigree of the
   family, attested by the "King of Arms." in 1642, that John, the father of
   Walter de Hawksworth, the first possessor of this place, came over with the
   Conqueror, and was killed at the battle of Hastings, where he commanded under
   Richard Fitzpoint, a Norman Baron, surnamed Clifford, Lord Clifford, of
   Clifford Castle.  - It is now the property of Walter Fawkes, Esq. of Farnley,
   a lineal descendant of the family, and whose father resided there till 1786.
   The Hall is an irregular stone building of various periods.  The oldest part
   bears the date of 1611, on some rich and curious plasterwork, very
   characteristic of that age.  But it has been improved and modernised by the
   family, at various times.  -Whitaker.  --Neale.

HAWKESWICK, in the parish of Arnecliff,  west-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's-Fee; 4 miles from Kettlewell, 10 from Settle, 15 from Skipton.
   --Pop. 86.
 
HAWORTH, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Keighley, 7 from Bradford, 8 from
   Halifax, 9.5, from Colne, (Lanc.)  --No Market.  --Fairs, July 22, for
   pedlary ware; and October 14, for horned cattle, pedlary ware, &c.  --Pop.
   4668, Here is a Chapel of ease, dedicated to St. Michael.  Patron, the Vicar
   of Bradford.

HAWPIKE, f.h. in the township of Draughton, and parish of Skipton; 5 miles from
   Skipton.

HAWSHAW, ham. in the township of Kellbrook, and parish of Thornton,
   east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 4.5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9
   from Skipton.

HAYLEY-HILL, scat. h. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax; a
   quarter of a mile from Halifax.
 
HAY-PARK FARMS, in the township and parish of Knaresborough; 1 mile from
   Knaresborough, 7 from Wetherby.
 
HAYWOOD,  f.h. in the township and parish of Campsall; 7 miles from Doncaster
   and Thorne.
 
HAZELHEAD, f.h. in the township of Thurston, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.
 
HAZELWOOD, in the parish of Skipton, upper-division of Claro; 7.5 miles from
   Skipton, 13 from Pateley Bridge, 16.5 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. including
   Storithes, 209, which being united form a township.

           Here is a School for the poor of the township, the master of which
   receives 15L. per annum, from Silvester Petyt's charities, the interest of
   300L.  The school house was built about 120 years ago, by a person of the
   name of Winterburne.  --Commiss. Report.  Mr. Petyt, whose charities were
   extensive in the neighbourhood, appears to have been born in Storithes, in
   this township.
 
HAZELWOOD, in the township of Sutton-with-Hazlewood, and parish of Tadcaster,
   wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 3 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from Wetherby.  --Pop.
   included in Stutton.
              In the same township is:-

HAZELWOOD-HALL, (extraparochial) (a seat of Sir Thomas Vavasour, Bart.)
 
HEALAUGH, (Ainsty) a parish-town, 3 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from Wetherby, 8
   from York.  --Pop. 191.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   John, value, p.r. between 80 and 100L.  Patron, Benjamin Brooksbank, Esq.
   Bacon styles it a vicarage discharged, value, 6L.

           In the reign of King John, here was an Hermitage in the wood, which
   afterwards, in 1218, became a convent of regular black canons, established
   and endowed by Jordan de St. Maria, and Alice, his wife.  At the time of the
   dissolution, here were fourteen canons, who had revenues to the value of 72L.
   10s. 7d. per annum.  This monastery was granted, in 1540, to James Gage, and
   afterwards came into the possession of Sir Arthur Darcy, Knight.  It
   afterwards was part of the possessions of the Lords Wharton, and was the seat
   of Philip, Lord Wharton, temp. Charles I.  -Burton.  --Drake.

           Leland says, "From Tadcaster to Helagh Pryory is about two mile, by
   inclosed ground.  One Geffrey Haget, a nobleman, was first founder of it.  In
   this pryory was buried sum of the Depedales and Stapletons, gentlemen; of
   whom, one Sir Bryan Stapleton, a valiant Knight, is much spoken of.  Geffrey
   Haget was owner of Helagh Lordship, and besides a great owner in the Ainsty.
   From Helagh pryory, scant a mile to Helagh village, I saw great ruins of an
   ancient manor of stone, with a fair wooded park thereby, that belonged to the
   Earl of Northumberland.  It was as far as I can perceive, sumtyme the Haget's
   land."
 
HEALAUGH-HALL, (Ainsty) the seat of Benjamin Brooksbank, Esq. in the township
   and parish of Healaugh; 1 mile from Tadcaster, 6 from Wetherby, 10 from York.

HEALAUGH-MANOR, (Ainsty) f.h. in the township and parish of Healaugh; 2 miles
   from Tadcaster.
 
HEADLEY-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Bramham; 3 miles from
   Tadcaster, 5 from Wetherby.

HEALEY, ham. in the township and parish of Batley; 2.5 miles from Dewsbury, 6
   from Wakefield.
 
HEELEY, in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;  1.5 mile from Sheffield.
 
HEELEY, UPPER, in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 2
   miles from Sheffield.
 
HEANING, s.h. in the township of Newton, and parish Slaidburn; 2.5 miles from
   Slaidburn.
 
HEATH, in the township of Warmfield-with-Heath, and parish of Warmfield,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; (the seats of
   John Henry Smyth, and William Smithson, Esqrs.) 2 miles from Wakefield, 10
   from Barnsley.  --Pop. included in Warmfield.  Heath-Hall is occupied by Nuns
   of the order of St. Benedict.
 
HEATHEN-CARR, 4 f.h. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 5 miles from Kettlewell.
 
HEATH-FIELD, 2 f.h. in the township of Lower-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 2 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
HEATH-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Golcar, and parish of Huddersfield; 3 miles
   from Huddersfield.
 
HEATON, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley;
   (Heaton-Hall, the seat of John Wilmer Field, Esq.) 2 miles from Bradford, 4.5
   from Bingley.  --Pop. 1,217.
 
HEATON, CLECK.  -See Cleck-Heaton.
 
HEATON, EARLS, in the township of Soothill, and parish of Dewsbury,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from
   Dewsbury, 4 from Wakefield.
 
HEATON, HANGING, in the township of Soothill, and parish of Dewsbury,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from
   Dewsbury, 5 from Wakefield.
 
HEATON-HILL, scattered houses, in the township of Soothill, and parish of
   Dewsbury; half a mile from Dewsbury.
 
HEATON, KIRK.  -See Kirkheaton.

HEATON-LODGE, in the township and parish of Kirkheaton; 3 miles from
   Huddersfield,
 
HEATON-ROYDS, ham, in the township of Heaton, and parish of Bradford; 2.5 miles
   from Bradford.

HEATON, UPPER, in the township and parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley; 2.5 miles from Huddersfield, 11 from Wakefield.
 
HEBDEN, in the parish of Linton, east division and liberty of Staincliffe; 5
   miles from Kettlewell and Pateley Bridge, 12 from Skipton.  --Pop. 377.
 
HEBDEN-BRIDGE, in the townships of Heptonstall and Wadsworth, and parish of
   Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 7.5 miles from Halifax, 10
   from Rochdale, (Lanc.)

HEBDEN-BRIDGE-LANES, in the township of Heptonstall, and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax.
 
HEBDEN-MOORSIDE, strag. cotts. in the township of Hebden and Hartlington, and
   parishes of Linton and Burnsall, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe;
   7.5 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
HECK, GREAT, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and
   bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 2 miles from Snaith, 5 from Ferrybridge, 9
   from Thorne.  --Pop. 228.
 
HECK, LITTLE, 2 f.h. in the township of Great Heck, and parish of Snaith,
   liberty and bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith, 2.5 miles from Snaith, 7.75 from
   Ferrybridge.
 
HECKMONDWIKE, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Dewsbury, 7 from Wakefield, 9 from
   Halifax.  --Pop. 2,579.
 
HEDDINGLEY, or HEADINGLEY, in the parish and borough of Leeds, lower-division of
   Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Leeds, 5 from Bradford and
   Otley.  --Pop. including Burley, 2,154, which being united, form a township.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Michael.  Patron, the
   Vicar of Leeds.    (The spelling Headingley is in current use -B.T. 1995)

           In this village "still remains the gigantic Oak Tree, of which
   Thoresby modestly and ingeniously conjectured that it might have been the
   place of assembly for the wapentake, and have occasioned the name of Skyrack,
   i.e. Shire Oak."
 
HEIGHT, ham. in the township of Linthwaite, and parish of Almondbury; 3.75 miles
   from Huddersfield.
 
HEIGHTS, CHAPEL, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.)
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 8 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 12
   from Huddersfield and Manchester, (Lanc.) Here is a Chapel of ease to
   Rochdale.
 
HELLABY, in the township of Stainton-with-Hellaby, and parish of Stainton,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles from Rotherham, 6 from
   Tickhill.  --Pop. included in Stainton.
 
HELLIFIELD, in the parish of Long-Preston, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 6.5 miles from Settle, 9.5 from Skipton, 12.5 from Colne,
   (Lanc.)  --Pop. 279.  About half a mile from the village, in the same
   township, is:-
 
HELLIFIELD-PEEL, the seat of James Hamerton, Esq.
          Hellifield Peel, stands upon a flat, and was once, probably,
   surrounded by a moat.  It was built by Lawrence Hamerton, about the 19th of
   Henry VI. at which time he obtained a license to fortify and embattle his
   manor-house of Hellifield.  It still remains a square compact building, but
   of too narrow dimensions to accommodate the family in the splendid style in
   which they then lived, and therefore intended rather as a place of retreat in
   cases of sudden alarm.  The house has been modernised by the present owner.
           Hellifield, anciently Helgefelt, or the field of Helgh, its first
   Saxon possessor, was held by its mesne Lords of the Knights of St. John of
   Jerusalem, and by them of the Percies, as chief Lords of the fee.  In the 9th
   of Edward II. it appears from Kirkby's Inquisition that Sir John de Harcourt
   and the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, were joint Lords of this Manor.
   Sir Stephen Hamerton, in 1537, joined the insurgents, in the great northern
   insurrection; and after having availed himself of the King's pardon, revolted
   a second time; after which, having been taken prisoner, he was conveyed to
   London, and shortly after attainted and executed.  Hellifield was, however,
   preserved by a settlement for the life of the widow of John Hamerton, who was
   mother of Sir Stephen.  But Hellifield-Peel remained in the Crown till 37th
   Henry VIII. when it was granted by that King to George Brown and his heirs,
   to be held of the King in capite, for the consideration of 296L. 9s. 2d.  In
   the 3rd of Elizabeth, it returned to the family again in the person of John
   Hammerton, Esq.; and where it has remained ever since.  The first of the name
   of Hammerton that occurs here, is Richard de Hamerton, in 1170, 26th Henry
   II.  --Whitaker's Craven.
 
HEMMINGFIELD, f.h. in the township of Wombwell, and parish of Darfield, liberty
   of Tickhill; 5 miles from Barnsley.
 
HEMSWORTH, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract;
   (Hemsworth-Hall, the seat of Sir Francis Lindley Wood, Bart.) 5.5 miles from
   Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield, 9 from Barnsley, 29.5 from York.  --Pop. 963.
   The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Helen, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, 20L. 1s. 0.5d.  Patron, William Wrightson, Esq.

           Here is an Hospital for a master, ten poor men, and ten poor women,
   founded and endowed by Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, by Will, in 1555.
   The master of this hospital originally was to have yearly 20 marks, and each
   of the brethren and sisters 3s. 4d. towards their support.  Great abuses in
   the distribution of the rents by its Trustees having afterwards happened, who
   had "combined together to defraud the master, brethren, and sisters, of their
   lands and hereditaments," --and in the granting of leases, - Bills in
   Chaucery were at different times filed, - the last in April, 1805, - which
   suit was long protracted, but on the 29th of Nov. 1816, a Decree was
   pronounced amply to the satisfaction of the present Master, the Rev. John
   Simpson, whose fidelity and resolution, in steadily pursuing the rights of
   the hospital, deserve the highest commendation.  The estates belonging to the
   hospital are all situate in the three Ridings of this county.  The present
   reserved rents are nearly 2,000L. per annum.  The masters share of all the
   revenues is one fifth, - and the remaining four-fifths are equally divided
   amongst the ten brethren and ten sisters, who are each to be not under sixty
   years of age when elected, except in case of blindness or other great
   infirmity.  --Carlisle's Gram. Schools.
          Thus the poor pensioners have risen from a state of poverty to
   affluence.  --The Lord Chancellor is the visitor.
           Here was also founded a Free Grammar-School, by Robert Holgate,
   Archbishop of York, in the last year of Henry VIII. 1546, which he endowed
   with lands and tenements to the amount, at that time, of 24L. per annum.  The
   present reserved rental of that part of the property which is now attached to
   Hemsworth School, is about 150L. besides incidental fines on renewals of
   Leases.  The entire patronage of, and nomination to the same, is vested in
   the Archbishop of York, and his successors for ever.
           Archbishop Holgate was born at Hemsworth; he seems to have been not
   less liberal in disposing of the Manors of his See, than he was in founding
   schools and hospitals; for it is said in one morning, he passed away to Henry
   VIII. thirteen Manors in Northumberland, forty in Yorkshire, six in
   Nottinghamshire, and eight in Gloucestershire. -Drake.
           - in the same township and parish are:-

HEMSWORTH-LANE-END, ham.  )
HEMSWORTH-LODGE, f.h.     ) each about 5 miles from Pontefract.
HEMSWORTH-MARSH, ham.     )

HENSALL, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and
   bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 3 miles from Snaith, 7 from Ferrybridge.
   --Pop. 233.

HEPTONSTALL, in the parish of Halifax, Morley division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 8 miles from Halifax, 12 from Rochdale, (Lanc.)  --Pop.
   4,543,  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Thomas a Beckett,
   value !132L.  Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.

           Here is a free Grammar-School, founded by Charles Greenwood, Clerk;
   Rector of Thornhill, who by will, dated July 14, 1642, endowed it with lands
   and tenements, then of the annual value of 20L.  The present rental is about
   70L. per annum.  He also left rents for the founding of two Fellowships, and
   two Scholarships in the University College, Oxford, of which he had been
   Fellow, --but they were unfortunately lost by the mismanagement of his
   Executors. -- Watson's Halifax.

           In a skirmish betwixt the Cavaliers and the Round-heads, during the
   Civil Wars of Charles I. part of this town was burnt to the ground.

HEPTONSTALL-PARK, in the township of Erringden, and parish, of Halifax,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 7 miles from
   Halifax, 13 from Rochdale, (Lanc.)

           Heptonstall-Park, or more properly speaking, Erringden-Park, which
   was a park appurtenant to the Forest of Sowerbyshire, or Hardwick, and
   probably enclosed by one of the Earls Warren.  This once famous park, which
   held sheep as well as deer, was disparked 27th Henry VI. and demised to
   tenants at rents amounting altogether to 24L. per annum.  It is completely
   surrounded by the township of Sowerby; and now constitutes the township of
   Erringden, and forms a part of the parochial chapelry of Heptonstall.
   --Watson.  --Whitaker.
 
HEPTONSTALL-SLACK, in the township of Heptonstall, and parish of Halifax,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield ; 9 miles from
   Halifax, 12.5 from Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
HEPWORTH, a township, in the parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg
   and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 6.5 miles from Huddersfield, 7 from
   Penistone.  --Pop 1,048.
 
HERMIT-HILL, ham. in the township of Wortley, and parish of Tankersley; 5 miles
   from Barnsley, 6 from Penistone.

HERRINGTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Whisten; 2 miles from
   Rotherham.
 
HESLE, a township, in the parish of Wragby, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 139.
 
HESLEY, s.h. in the township and parish of Rossington; 3.5 miles from Bawtry,
   6.5 from Doncaster.
 
HESSAY, (Ainsty) in the parish of Moor-Monkton; 6 miles from York, 9 from
   Wetherby.  --Pop. 161.

HESSLEDEN, NETHER, and OVER, 2 f.h. in the township of Halton-Gill, and parish
   of Arnecliff, liberty of Staincliffe; 9 miles from Kettlewell, 11.5 from
   Settle.
 
HETTON, in the parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 4 miles from Gargrave, 6 from Skipton, 10 from Kettlewell, 13
   from Settle.  --Pop. including Bordley, 180, which being united form a
   township.
 
HEUGH, s.h. in the township of Embsay-with-Eastby, and parish of Skipton; 1.75
   miles from Skipton.
 
HEWBY, in the township of Weeton, and parish of Harewood, upper-division of
   Claro; 5 miles from Otley, 8 from Wetherby, 10 from Leeds.
 
HEWICK, COPT, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro, liberties of St.
   Peter and Ripon, 2 miles from Ripon, 5 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 131.
 
HEWICK LODGE,  -See Copt-Hewick-Lodge.
 
HEXTHORPE, in the parish and soke of Doncaster, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, 1.75 miles from Doncaster, 10.5 from Rotherham.  --Pop. including
   Balby, 395, which being united, form a township.

HICKLETON, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; (the
   residence of Francis Hawksworth, Esq.) 6 miles from Doncaster, 9.5 from
   Barnsley, 10 from Rotherham, 40 from York.  --Pop. 153.  The church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Dennis, in the deanry of Doncaster, value,
   p.r. !100L.  Patron, Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth, Esq.

HIENDLEY  NORTH, or COLD, ham. in the township of Havercroft-with-Hiendley, and
   parish of Felkirk, liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Wakefield,  --Pop,
   included in Havercroft.

HIENDLEY, SOUTH, in the parish of Felkirk, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Barnsley and Wakefield, 10 from Pontefract.  --Pop.
   166.
 
HIGHAM, ham. in the township of Barugh, and parish of Darton; 2.25 miles from
   Barnsley, 5 from Penistone.
 
HIGH-ELLERS, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Cantley; 3 miles from
   Doncaster.

HIGHFIELD, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield ;
   (the seat of George Woodhead, Esq.) 1 mile from Sheffield.
 
HIGH-FIELD, or FIELD-HEAD, f.h. in the township of Thurgoland, and parish of
   Silkstone; 3 miles from Penistone.

           Of this place was John Charles Brooke, late Somerset herald.  He was
   born in 1748, and put apprentice to Mr. James Kirkby, a chemist, in Bartletts
   Buildings, London; but discovering a strong turn to Heraldic pursuits, and
   having, by a pedigree of the Howard family, which he drew, attracted the
   notice of the then Duke of Norfolk, he procured him a place in the College of
   Arms, by the title of Rouge Croix Pursuivant, in 1775, from which, in 1778,
   he was advanced to that of Somerset Herald.  He became Member of the
   Antiquarian Society in April 1775, and enriched their volumes with some
   curious papers; particularly the illustrations of a Saxon inscription in
   Kirkdale Church ; and another in Aldborough Church, both in this county.  On
   Feb. 3, 1794, he was suffocated with his friend Mr. Pingo, of York, and many
   other persons, in attempting to get into the Pit at the little Theatre,
   Haymarket.  --Gen. Biog. Dict.  -Gents. Mag. vol. LXIV.
 
HIGH-FIELD-LANES, f.h. in the township and parish of Womersley; 5 miles from
   Pontefract.

HIGH-FIELD, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Slaidburn; 1.5 mile from
   Slaidburn.
 
HIGH-FLATTS, scat. h. in the township of Denby, and parish of Penistone; 3.5
   miles from Penistone.

HIGH-GATE, f.h. in the township of Stirton-with-Thorlby, and parish of Skipton;
   3 miles from Skipton.
 
HIGHGATE-LANE, ham. in the township of Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 4 miles
   from Huddersfield.
 
HIGH-GREEN, ham, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 7 miles from
   Sheffield, Barnsley, and Rotherham.
 
HIGH-GREENWOOD, (the seat of William Mitchell, Esq.) --See Greenwood, High
 
HIGH-HOUSE, in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 1.75
   miles from Sheffield.

HIGH-ROYD-HOUSE, (the seat of Thomas Beaumont, Esq.) in the township of Honley,
   and parish of Almondbury; 3.5 miles from Huddersfield.

HIGH-SUNDERLAND, s.h. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax; 1
   mile from Halifax.
 
HIGH-TOWN, in the township of Leversedge, and parish of Birstall,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 4 miles from Dewsbury, 6 from Halifax,
   9 from Wakefield.

HIGH-WOODS, 2 f.h. in the township of Sawley, and parish of Ripon; 1 mile from
   Pateley Bridge.
 
HILLAM, in the parish of Monk-Fryston, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 4 miles from
   Ferrybridge, 6 from Pontefract, 7 from Selby.  --Pop. 269.
 
HILL-FOOT, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 1
   mile from Sheffield.
 
HILLS, f.h. in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 2
   miles from Sheffield.
 
HILL-TOP, ham. in the township and parish of Sandal-Magna, liberty of Wakefield;
   4 miles from Wakefield.
 
HILL-TOP, f.h. in the township and parish of Thornhill; 7 miles from Wakefield,
   8 from Huddersfield.
 
HILL-TOP, 3 or 4 h. in the township of Shelley, and parish of Kirkburton; 6.5
   miles from Huddersfield and Penistone.

HILL-TOP, ham. in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham; 2 miles
   from Rotherham.
 
HIPPERHOLME, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 2.25 miles from Halifax, 6.75 from Bradford, 11 from
   Dewsbury.  --Pop. including Brighouse, 3,936, which being united, form a
   township.

           Here is a Free-School founded by Matthew Broadley, Esq. of London;
   who, by his Will, dated the 15th of Oct, 1647, gave to his brother Isaac
   Broadley, of Halifax, certain tenements, &c. within the township of
   Hippperholme, towards the maintenance of a Free-School there: the School
   received a further augmentation, in 1671, from Samuel Sunderland, Esq. of
   Harden, near Bingley.  The present rental is 114L. per annum.  --Watson's
   Halifax.  -Carlisle.
 
HOBBERLEY-HOUSE, f.h. in the townships and parishes of Thorner and
   Barwick-in-Elmet; 4.5 miles from Leeds.
 
HOB-GREEN, s.h. in the township of Markington-with-Waller-thwaite, and parish of
   Ripon; 4.5 miles from Ripon.
 
HOGLEY, ham. in the township of Austonley, and parish of Almondbury; 7 miles
   from Huddersfield.
 
HOLBECK, in the parish and borough of Leeds, liberty of Pontefract; joins to the
   town of Leeds by Water-Lane.  --Pop. 7,151.  The Chapel, of uncertain
   antiquity, which, in the last century, was repaired at an expense nearly
   equal to being rebuilt, is a perpetual curacy.  Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

           In a Bull granted by the Pope to Ralph Pagnell, who lived in the time
   of William the Conquerer, this Chapel is mentioned as being given by the said
   Ralph Pagnell, to the Priory of the Holy Trinity at York, -the date 1089.
   There was a Chantry here, valued in the 37th Henry VIII. at 4L. per annum.
   --Thoresby.

HOLDEN-CLOUGH, strag. h. in the townships of Batley and Birstall, and parish of
   Batley; 4 miles from Dewsbury.

HOLDEN, or HOLLIN-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 8 miles
   from Penistone.
 
HOLDEN, in the township and parish of Bolton-by-Bolland, liberty of Staincliffe;
   5 miles from Guisburn, 10 from Settle, 13 from Skipton,

HOLDSWORTH, ham. in the township of Ovenden, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax.

HOLDSWORTH, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 6
   miles from Sheffield.

HOLDGATE, or HOLEGATE, (Ainsty) in the parish of Acomb, liberty of St. Peter;
   (the seat of Lindley Murray,) 1 mile from York, 8.75 from Tadcaster.  --Pop.
   83.

           From this village, a vast quantity of earth was dug, which composes
   Severus's-Hills.  -Drake.
 
HOLLEY-HALL, f.h. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; 4 miles
   from Penistone.

HOLLING, (the seat of John Williamson, Esq,) in the township of Killinghall, and
   parish of Ripley;  2 miles from Ripley, 3 from Harrogate, 5.5 from
   Knaresborough.
 
HOLLING-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Ilkley; 8 miles from Skipton
   and Otley.

HOLLINGS-HALL, (the seat of John Dearden, Esq.) in the township of Warley, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax.

HOLLINS, in the township of Steeton, and parish of Keighley, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 2 miles from Keighley, 8 from Skipton.
 
HOLLIN-GROVE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 9
   miles from Rochdale,

HOLLIN-HALL, (the seat of Henry Richard Wood, Esq.) in the township of
   Aismunderby-with-Bondgate, and parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 2.5
   miles from Ripon, 5.5 from Ripley.

HOLLINGTHORPE, f.h. in the township of Crigglestone, and parish of Sandal-Magna,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Wakefield.

HOLME, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 9 miles from Huddersfield, 11 from Penistone.  --Pop.
   459.

HOLME-BRIDGE, s.h. in the township of Stirton-with-Thorlby, and parish of
   Skipton; 3.75 miles from Skipton.

HOLMFIRTH, in the township of Wooldale, and parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg-
   division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 7 miles from
   Huddersfield, 8 from Penistone.  --Fair, October 30, for horned cattle.  The
   Chapel is a perpetual curacy under Kirkburton, value, p.r. 123L. 2s.

           This is the only Chapel in the parish of Kirkburton, of the antiquity
   of which there is nothing known certain, but it was probably erected in the
   reign of Edward IV.  --Whitaker.
 
HOLME-HOUSES, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 2 miles from Keighley, 8 from Skipton.
 
HOLME-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 3 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
HOLMES, ham. in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, liberty of
   Tickhill; 1.25 miles from Rotherham.
 
HONLEY, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Huddersfield, 12 from Penistone, 13.5
   from Wakefield.  --Pop. 3,501.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r.
   *124L. 9s. 6d.  Patron, the Vicar of Almondbury.
 
HOOBER-HALL, f.h. in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of
   Wath-upon-Dearne; 5 miles from Rotherham.
 
HOOBER-STAND, a Monument, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of
   Wath-upon-Dearne, 4.5 miles from Rotherham.
 
HOOD-GREEN, f.h. in the township of Stainbrough, and parish of Silkstone; 3.5
   miles from Barnsley.
 
HOOBROM, in the township Austonley, and parish of Almondbury; 8 miles from
   Huddersfield, 11 from Penistone.  An ancient mansion converted into cottages.
 
HOOD-LAND, 2 h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 2.5 miles
   from Penistone.
 
HOOK, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross; liberty of Pontefract;
   2 miles from Howden, 8.5 from Thorne, 9 from Snaith.  --Pop. 363.  The
   Church, peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. John, in the deanry
   of Pontefract, value, p.r. !48L. 13s. 4d.  Patron, the Vicar of Snaith.
 
HOOTON-LEVETT, or HIGH, in the parish of Maltby, upper division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; (the seat of William Hoyle, Esq.) 5 miles from Tickhill, 7 from
   Rotherham, 9.25 from Bawtry.  -Pop. 95.
 
HOOTON-PAGNEL, or HUTTON-PAGNALL, a parish-town, in the lower-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; (the seat of St. Andrew Warde, Esq.) 5.75 miles from
   Doncaster, 10 from Barnsley, 32 from York.  --Pop. 326.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +5L.
   10s. 2.5d.  Patrons, the Governors of the Free Grammar School of Wakefield.
 
HOOTON-ROBERTS, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; 4.5 miles from Rotherham, 7.5 from Doncaster, 41.5 from
   York.  --Pop. 190.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. John the
   Baptist, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +7L. 11s. 8d.  Patron, Earl
   Fitzwilliam.

     The Hall-House here was formerly one of the principal seats of the great
   Earl of Strafford, who was beheaded in the reign of Charles I.  It is now the
   property of Earl Fitzwilliam: and occupied by three Miss Kents.
 
HOOTON-SLADE, in the township and parish of Laughton-en-le-Morthen,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; (the seat of
   William Murfin, Esq.) 5 miles from Tickhill, 7.5 from Rotherham.
 
HOPE-HOUSE, (the seat of Christopher Rawson, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Halifax; a quarter of a mile from Halifax.
 
HOPPER-LANE INN, a Posting-House, in the township and parish of Fewston,
   lower-division of Claro; 9 miles from Harrogate, 9 from Otley and
   Pateley Bridge, 10 from Ripley, 11 from Knaresborough, 13 from Skipton, 17
   from Ripon.  Sign, the Smiths Arms.
 
HOPPERTON, in the township of Allerton-Mauleverer-with-Hopperton, and parish of
   Allerton-Mauleverer, upper-division of Claro; 5 miles from Wetherby, 6 from
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. included in Allerton-Mauleverer.
 
HOPTON, ham. in the township and parish of Mirfield; 3.5 miles from
   Huddersfield.
 
HORBURY, in the parish of Wakefield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles from Wakefield, 11 from Huddersfield.  --Pop.
   2,475.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Peter.  Patron,
   the Vicar of Wakefield.

        The present Chapel at Horbury was built in 1791, by the late Mr. John
   Carr, a native of this place, and an eminent architect at York, at an expense
   of 8,000L. leaving behind him a monument at once of his skill and bounty.
   For a critique on this handsome edifice, see Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.
 
HORDRON, OVER and NETHER, 2 f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of
   Penistone; 5 miles from Penistone.
 
HORLEY-GREEN, s.h. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax; 5 miles
   from Halifax and Huddersfield.

           A Mineral Water has been discovered here, on which a pamphlet was
   written by Dr. Garnet.  It appears, from his experiments, to contain a large
   portion of vitriolated iron, besides alum, selenite, and ochre; and is
   supposed, by him, to be the strongest Chalybeate Water ever known.  -Aikin's
   Manchester.
 
HORNINGTON, (Ainsty) in the township and parish of Bolton Percy; 3 miles from
   Tadcaster, 9.5 from York.
 
HORNTHWAITE, f.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 1 mile
   from Penistone.

HORSFORTH, in the parish of Guiseley, upper-division of Skyrack; (New-Hall, the
   residence of the Rev. J.A. Rhodes) 6 miles from Leeds and Otley.  --Pop.
   2,824.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. 73L.

       Horsforth is a large well built village, where the manufacturing of
   Woollen Cloth is carried on to a great extent.  A very handsome Chapel was
   erected here in 1758, under the auspices of the Stanhope family, descendants
   of John Stanhope, joint purchaser of the Manor of Horsforth, in the time of
   Elizabeth.  The Abbot of Kirkstall had much land in this township.  On the
   lofty ridge of Billinge, near here, says Dr. Whitaker, "was found, about the
   year 1780, a valuable remain of British antiquity.  This was a torques of
   pure and flexible gold, perfectly plain, and consisting of two rods, not
   quite cylindrical, but growing thicker towards the extremities, and twisted
   together.  Its intrinsic value was 18L. sterling."
 
HORSHOLD, ham. in the township of Erringden, and parish of Halifax; 9 miles from
     Halifax.
 
HORSTENLEY.  -See Austonley.

HORTON-IN-RIBBLESDALE, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 5.5 miles
   from Settle, 16 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 19.5 from Askrigg, 62 from
   York.  --Pop. 558.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Oswald, or Thomas a Beckett, in the deanry of Craven, value, p.r. !55L.

           This parish lays in Ribblesdale, whose beauties may be said to expire
   at Horton; stretching along the valley about eight miles from north to south,
   and from the skirts of Ingleborough to the summit of Pennigent, in the
   opposite direction, it contains within its limits the source of the Ribble
   and the Wharfe and is enclosed between two of the most distinguished
   mountains in the island.
           Here is a free Grammar-School, founded about the year 1725, by John
   Armistead, gentleman, who endowed it with land and money, with which estates
   were purchased by the then Trustees.  The present rental is 180L. per annum.
   but is capable of increase.  The school is open to the boys of the parish
   indefinitely, free of expense.  They are admitted at any age, and may remain
   until they have finished their classical education.  --Carlisle.
           The late Rev. G. Holden, L.L.D. who held the advowson of the Church,
   and died Feb. 1821, in the 64th year of his age, was master of this school
   for forty years, during which period he educated a greater number of
   Clergymen for the establishment, than most men in a similar situation.  He
   was a man of high classical and mathematical attainments.  --Gents. Mag.
 
HORTON, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 8
   miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9 from Skipton, 10 from Settle.  --Pop. 187.

HORTON, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; (Horton-House, the seat of Mrs. Sharpe) 2 miles from
   Bradford, 6.5 from Halifax.  --Pop. 7,192.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +44L.  Patron, the Vicar of Bradford.
 
HORTON, LITTLE, in the township of Horton, and parish of Bradford,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of
   Francis Sharp Bridges, Esq.) 1 mile from Bradford, 7 from Halifax.

           Here, Abraham Sharpe, a philosopher and mechanist, and an excellent
   calculator resided, where his great variety of mechanical instruments had
   been hoarded up, with care, by his descendants, for years; but now, 1817, in
   danger, -says Dr. Whitaker, of being lost, as well as his MSS. without being
   known to the public.  He died in 1742, -aged 92.
           Dr. Whitaker says, on inserting the epitaph "of the Indefatigable
   mathematician, Mr. Abraham Sharpe; that Ludolph Van Ceulan, a Dutchman,
   computed the quadrature of the circle to 136 places of decimals, and had the
   process Inscribed upon his tomb.  Our countryman far (but I forgot how far)
   surpassed him, yet has a much shorter epitaph.  --The long duration of his
   life proves that the pursuits of abstract science have no necessary tendency
   to exhaust the constitution.
 
HOTHEROYD, or HODDEROYD, ham. in the township of South Hiendley, and parish of
   Felkirk; 5 miles from Barnsley.

           Hodderoyd-Hall was formerly the residence of the Monckton family,
   ancestors of the present Lord Galway.
 
HOUGHTON-CHAPEL.  -See Gisburn-Forest.
 
HOUGHTON, or GLASS-HOUGHTON, in the parish of Castleford, wapentake of
   Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Pontefract, 3 from
   Ferrybridge, 9 from Wakefield.  --Pop 412.

HOUGHTON, GREAT, in the parish of Darfield, lower division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; (Houghton-Hall, the seat of Rhodes Milnes, Esq.) 7.5 miles from
   Doncaster, 8 from Barnsley.  --Pop. 287.  Here is a private Presbyterian
   Chapel, belonging to the Milnes's family.
 
HOUGHTON, LITTLE, in the parish of Darfield, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; 7 miles from Barnsley, 8 from Doncaster.  --Pop. 112.
 
HOUSLEY-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 6.5 miles from
   Sheffield and Barnsley.

           Housley-Hall appears to have derived its name from a family of
   Houseley, who resided here in the early part of the reign of Henry VI.
   --Hunter's Hallamshire.

HOWBROOK, ham. in the township of Wortley, and parish of Tankersley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Barnsley.

HOWGILL, in the township and parish of Sedbergh, wapentake of Ewcross; (the seat
   of A. Wilkinson, Esq.) 1.5 miles from Sedbergh, 6.5 from Dent, 8.5 from
   Kendal, (Westm.)  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of
   Kirby-Lonsdale, diocese of Chester, value, p.r. !69L.  Patron, the Vicar of
   Sedbergh.

       Here is a small endowed Grammar-School.

HOWGILL, ham. in the township of Rimington, and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 3 miles from Gisburn.
 
HOWGILL, in the township of Barden, and parish of Skipton, east-division of
   Staincliffe; 7.5 miles from Skipton, 13 from Pateley Bridge, 16.5 from
   Knaresborough.
 
HOWLEY-HALL, in the township and parish of Batley; 3.5 miles from Dewsbury.

           This place, now a mere ruin, was for several generations the
   magnificent seat of an illegitimate branch of the Savilles.  If was built
   upon a fine commanding situation, by Sir John Savile, afterwards Baron
   Savile, of Pontefract, and finished in 1590, but received considerable
   additions from his son, the first Earl of Sussex, of that name.  Camden, who
   saw the house when new, calls it oedes elegantissinas.  -This, with several
   considerable Lordships, went from the Saviles to the Brudenels.  Tradition
   reports, that Rubens visited Lord Savile, and painted for him a view of
   Pontefract.
           Howley was held for the King, in 1643, and stormed and plundered by
   the opposite party, which occasioned a memorial from the owner, Thomas, Lord
   Savile.  See Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete, where is given an elevation of
   Howley Hall, as it appeared when entire, and two other views, and other
   interesting particulars.  --Whitaker.  -Camden.
 
HOW-HILL.  - See Michael How-Hill.

HOWORTH-HALL, s.h. in the township of Brindsworth, and parish of Rotherham; 2.5
   miles from Rotherham.
 
HOWROYD, (the seat of Thomas Horton, Esq.) in the township of Barkisland, and
   parish of Halifax; 6 miles from Halifax and Huddersfield.

HOYLAND, HIGH, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Penistone, 6.5 from Barnsley, 9 from Wakefield, 37
   from York.  --Pop. 268,  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, in two medieties, each, +5L. 3s. 4d.
   Patrons, Colonel and Mrs. Beaumont.

           Anciently these two medieties had separate Patrons, and separate
   Rectors each Incumbent having distinct parsonage-houses, glebes, tithes, &c.
   and performed the duty alternately.  Col. and Mrs. Beaumont having purchased
   the advowson of the second mediety of the Earl of Mexborough, in 1811, there
   has been but one Incumbent since.

HOYLAND, NETHER, in the township of Upper-Hoyland, and parish of Wath-upon-
   Dearne, liberty of Tickhill; 5.75 miles from Barnsley, 6.25 from Rotherham.
 
HOYLAND-SWAINE, in the parish of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Penistone, 6.5 from Barnsley, 14 from Huddersfield.
   --Pop. 738.

HOYLAND, UPPER, in the parish of Wath-Upon-Dearne, upper division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 5 miles from Barnsley, 7 from Rotherham,
   10 from Sheffield.  --Pop. 1,229.  Here is a Chapel to Wath, value, p.r. 93L.
   8s.

HUBBERHOLME, s.h. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff,
   east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Kettlewell, 15 from
   Settle, 17 from Leyburn.  The Chapel is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Michael, value, p.r. !46L. 7s.  Patron, the Vicar of Arnecliff.

           This Chapel bears marks of very high antiquity.  Several Norman
   Arches remain entire, though the square piers of some of them were drest away
   to slender octagons, when the chapel underwent a general repair, which seems
   to, have been about the reign of Henry VIII.  The steeple is of the same
   period if not still later.  Over the entrance of the chancel is an entire and
   curious roodloft of oak, very handsomely wrought, and painted with broad red
   lines.  On the front of which is the date 1558.
           This is a sequestered and interesting place, situated on the northern
   banks of the Wharfe, shaded by tall trees on the east, and overhung by a
   steep and lofty wood beyond.  Few scenes are better adapted to quiet and
   contemplation.  --Hist. Craven.

HUBY, --1900s spelling of HEWBY -B.T. 1995.


HUDDERSFIELD, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Pontefract; 5 miles from Halifax and Dewsbury, 12.75 from Penistone, 13
   from Wakefield,  14 from Bradford, 16 from Leeds, 18 from Barnsley, 24 from
   Manchester, (Lanc.) 39 from York, 189 from London.  --Market, Tuesday, for
   woollen cloth, provisions, &c.  -Fairs, May 14 and 15, and October 4, for
   pedlary-ware, &c.  --Bankers, Old Bank, Messrs. Dobson and Sons, draw on
   Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co. 2, White-Hart Court, Gracechurch-Street;
   Messrs. Buckley, Roberts, and Co, draw on Messrs. Jones, Loyd, and Co. 43
   Lothbury; Mr. Shakespear G. Sikes, draws on Messrs. Frys and Chapman,
   Mildred's Court, Poultry; Messrs. J.W. and C. Rawson, and Co. draw on Jones,
   Loyd, and Co. 43, Lothbury.  --Principal Inns, Rose and Crown, George Inn,
   Swan with two Necks, Pack Horse, and Ramsden-Arms.  --Pop. 13,284.  The
   Church is a Vicarage, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanery of Pontefract,
   value, +7L. 13s. 4d.  Patron, Sir John Ramsden, Bart.

           Huddersfield, derived from Hoder or Hudder, the first Saxon planter
   of the place, stands on the river Colne, which rising near the source of the
   Don, above Holme Frith, falls into the Calder, near Nunbrook.  Of the valley
   immediately, formed by this stream, and of the small collateral gullies which
   fall into its course, with a very small quantity of level ground upon its
   banks, the parish of Huddersfield is formed.  For the antiquary we are not
   aware that Huddersfield has any one thing of interest to offer.  At the time
   Doomsday-Book was compiled, it had, either in consequence of the Danish
   ravages, or those of the conqueror, relapsed into a mere waste.  It is now
   one of the most populous hives in all the manufacturing district.  This
   parish was originally separated from that of Dewsbury, and the parish church
   erected and endowed under the influence of one of the earlier Lacies; and,
   that, by one of them it was given, and afterwards appropriated to the Priory
   of Nostel.
           Sir John Ramsden, Bart. is now owner of the whole of Huddersfield,
   with the exception of two or three houses, who, some years past, granted
   building leases renewable every twenty years, on payment of two years ground
   rent.  At what time the present family of Ramsden became seized of the Manor,
   we are not informed, but it is certain that John Ramsden, Esq. of Byrom, had
   a grant of a market at Huddersfield, by patent, dated Nov., 1, 23 Charles II.
   Sir John Ramsden, Bart. the Patron of the town, in 1765, built an excellent
   cloth hall for the accommodation of the manufacturers.  It is divided into
   streets, the stalls and benches of which are generally filled with cloths.
   The doors are open early every Tuesday morning, the market day, and closed at
   half-past twelve o'clock at noon and are again opened at three in the
   afternoon, for the removal of cloth, &c.  Sir John Ramsden also added to the
   facility of Inland navigation, by cutting a Canal to Huddersfield, which
   bears his name: it branches from the Calder navigation at Cooper Bridge, is
   brought up to the King's Mills, at Huddersfield, where it joins the
   Huddersfield Canal on the south-end of the town, thereby affording a direct
   communication both east and westward, and ultimately to any part of the
   kingdom, which is of the greatest importance to the town.  The trade of
   Huddersfield comprises a large share of the clothing trade in this county,
   particularly of the finer articles.  These consist of broad and narrow
   cloths, fancy cloths as elastics, beveretts, serges, karseymeres, and various
   other woollen articles.

         The highest officer is a constable, who, with his deputy is yearly
   chosen at the court held at Michaelmas, at Almondbury, the Manor of which
   also belongs Sir John Ramsden.  --Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.  -Aikin's
   Manchester.
         The Church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was erected at a sum of not
   less than 12,000L. by B. Haigh Allan, Esq.  -See Greenhead.
           Huddersfield, amongst other charitable institutions, has a
   Dispensary, established in 1814, and a National School in 1819, both
   supported by subscriptions.
 
HUDDLESTON, in the parish of Sherburn, wapentake of Barkston Ash; 4 miles from
   Ferrybridge, 6 from Pontefract, 7 from Tadcaster.  --Pop. including Lumby,
   184, which being united form a township.  Huddleston-Hall, formerly the
   seat of Sir Edward Hungate, Bart. is now reduced to a farm house.
 
HUGH-GREEN, scat. h. in the township of Birstwith, and parish of Hampsthwaite;
   3.5 miles from Ripley.
 
HULLENEDGE, s.h. in the township of Elland-with-Greetland,
   and parish of Halifax, 3 miles from Halifax.
 
HUMBURTON,  --See North-Riding.  Pop. part of, returned in Aldborough parish,
   23, --North, 120, total, 143.
 
HUNDGATE, ham. in the township of Sawley, and parish of Ripon; 5 miles from
   Ripon, 7 from Pateley Bridge.
 
HUNDILL-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Ackworth, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Pontefract.

HUNGER-HILL, 3 f.h. in the township and parish of Mirfield; 7 miles from
   Huddersfield.

HUNGER-HILL, f.h. in the township and parish of Bolton-by-Bolland, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Gisburn.

            This was, for many generations, the residence of the Walkers; and
   now of Edward King, Esq., Vice-Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster.
 
HUNGER-HILL, s.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 9
   miles from Sheffield, 9.5 from Barnsley.

HUNSLETT, in the parish and borough of Leeds, Morley division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 1.25 miles from Leeds, 7.5 from Wakefield.
   --Pop. 8,171.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary,
   value, p.r. 140L.  Patron, the Vicar of Leeds.

           Here was formerly a seat of the Gascoignes and the Nevils; who had a
   Manor-house and Park here.  William the Conqueror gave this manor to Ilbert
   de Laci, (and not to Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury, as
   mentioned by Thoresby.) The attainder of Sir John Nevil, for the rebellion of
   the year 1570, and the consequent dispersion of his estates into small
   parcels, were the means of extending the woollen manufacture both here and in
   the parish of Birstal.  Population at Hunslet increased accordingly, and in
   about sixty years began to require the accommodation of a Chapel.  This was
   erected and endowed in 1636, and about the year 1744, extended to about twice
   the original dimensions.  -Whitaker.
 
HUNSLETT-LANE, in the township of Hunslett, and parish of Leeds, extends from
   Leeds to Hunslett.

HUNSHELF, a township, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Penistone, 7 from Barnsley, 10 from
   Sheffield.  --Pop. 436.
 
HUNSHELF-BANK, ham. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; 3.5
   miles from Penistone.
 
HUNSINGORE, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; 4 miles from
   Wetherby, 6.5 from Knaresborough, 14 from York.  --Pop. 237.  The Church,
   peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of
   Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, 5L. 17s. 3.5d.  Patron, Sir Henry
   Goodricke, Bart.

         In the Manor of Hulsingoure, 20 William I. Erneis de Burun, a Norman
   Chief, had five carucates, and three oxgangs, of taxable land; nine villeins,
   three bordars, and three ploughs; wood land, two furlongs long, and one
   broad, valued, in the whole, at 50s.  After which, this Manor became part of
   the possessions of the Knights Templars.  Since the suppression of that
   order, this, with several other estates hereabouts, have belonged to the
   family of Goudricke; whose ancient seat was at this place, situated on a
   mound; the sides of which were cut into terraces, rising near ten feet above
   each other; here were four of these terraces, above which, on a flat area,
   (where, a few years since, several reliques of antiquity were found) stood
   the Mansion, commanding a very extensive prospect.  Tradition says, this
   house was destroyed in the civil wars of Charles I. which is very probable,
   as it is well known Sir John Goodricke took a very active part on the side of
   royalty, in those perilous times.  -Hist. Knaresborough.
 
HUNSWORTH, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Halifax, 5 from Bradford.  --Pop. 570.
 
HUNTWICK-GRANGE, f.h. in township of Purston-Jacklin, and parish of Wragby,
   liberty-of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Pontefract, 6.5 from Ferrybridge.
 
HURLEFIELD, ham. in the township and parish of Handsworth; 3.25 miles from
   Sheffield.
 
HURST, COURTNEY, in the parish of Birkin, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Selby and Snaith, 9 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 145.

HURST, GREEN, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 9 miles from
   Sheffield.

HURST, TEMPLE,  See Temple Hurst.
 
HUSTEADS, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) quarter
   of a mile from Dobcross.
 
HURTLEPOT, in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Thornton-in-Lonsdale,
   wapentake of Ewcross; 3 miles from Ingleton, 10 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
   13 from Settle.

           Hurtlepot, in Chapel-le-dale, is a round deep Cavern, between thirty
   and forty yards in diameter, surrounded with rocks almost on all sides,
   between thirty and forty feet perpendicular, above a deep black water.  Round
   the top of this horrid place are trees, which grow secure from the axe; their
   branches almost meet in the centre, and spread a gloom over a chasm dreadful
   enough of itself, without being heightened with additional appendages.  Large
   black trout are frequently caught in the night by the neighbouring people.
   -Tour to the Caves.

HUSTHWAITE, (the seat of J. Bland, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Silkstone; 4 miles from Penistone, 5.5 from Barnsley.
 
HUT-GREEN, ham. in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 6 miles
   from Snaith.
 
HUTTON-WANESLEY, (Ainsty) in the parish of Long-Marston; 7 miles from Tadcaster,
   8 from Wetherby and York.  --Pop. 125.

ICKERING-GILL, s.h. in the township of Beamsley; and parish of Skipton; 6.5
   miles from Skipton.

           This place was anciently the residence of the ancestors of the
   present Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart. and is still his property.
 
ICKLES, ham. in the township of Brindsworth, and parish of Rotherham; 1 mile
   from Rotherham, 5 from Sheffield.

IDLE, in the parish of Calverley, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Pontefract; 3.5 miles from Bradford, 6 from Otley, 9 from Leeds.  --Pop
   4,666.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !109L. 5s.  Patron, the
   Vicar of Calverley.
 
ILKLEY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack; 6 miles from Otley and
   Keighley, 9 from Skipton, 34 from York.  --Pop. 496.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Craven, value, +7L. 13s.
   9d, p.r. !56L. 1s. 6d.  Patron, George Hartley, Esq.

        This is a very ancient town, and known to antiquaries as the Olicana, of
   the Romans; it was built in Severus's time, by Virius Lupus, Legate, and
   Propraetor of Britain, as appears from an inscription dug up near the Church,
   and given in Camden's Britan:-

                                  IM. SEVERVS.
                               AVG ET ANTONINVII
                                CAES. DESTINATVS
                               RESTITVERVNT, CV__
                               RANTE VIRIO LVPO.
                               LEG. EORVM PR. PR.

   That the first Cohort of the Lingones quartered here, is also attested by an
   old Altar which Camden saw here, inscribed by the Captain of the first Cohort
   of the Lingones to Verbeia, perhaps the Goddess of the river Wharfe.  This
   Altar, by a long and unfortunate exposure to the weather, is become
   illegible, and is at Middleton Lodge.  The fortress itself, of which the
   outline on three sides is very entire, was placed on a steep and lofty bank,
   having the river Wharfe on the north, and the deep channel of a brook
   immediately on the east and west.  The southern boundary seems to have
   coincided with the present street, and the hall and parish church were
   evidently included within it.  The foundations of the fortress bedded in
   indissoluble mortar, are very conspicuous, and remains of Roman brick, glass,
   and earthenware, every where, appear on the edges or the brow.
           Olicana had its summer camps and out-posts, which appear on the
   surrounding heights at Castleberg, near to which has been found an urn with
   ashes; and a massy key of copper, nearly two feet in length; which had
   probably been the key of the gates; -Counterhill, and Woofa Bank; at
   Counterhill are two encampments, on different sides of the hill; one in the
   township of Addingham, and the other in the parish of Kildwick.  When the
   area of Woofa Bank was broken up, it was found to contain great numbers of
   rude fire-places, constructed of stone, and filled with ashes.
           A few years ago, a sepulchral inscription was discovered in a garden
   wall at Ilkley, by the Rev. Mr. Carr, in whose possession it now remains,
   commemorating the death of Pudens Jesseus.
           The Church contains nothing remarkable, but the tomb of Sir Adam de
   Middleton, mentioned by Camden, which, though it has been repeatedly
   displaced for the successive interments of the family, is yet entire.  Dr.
   Whitaker supposes, that the three ancient Saxon Crosses, wrought in frets,
   scrolls, knots, &c. which Camden conjectured to be Roman, were early objects
   of religious reverence, and to have some allusion to the mystery of the Holy
   Trinity.  -Camden.  --Whitaker.
           This village is much frequented during the summer months, for the
   benefit of its cold Bath, near the village, which has proved highly
   beneficial in relaxed and scrofolous cases.  Dr. Hunter published an Analysis
   of the Water in 1820.
           Here is a Free Grammar-School, built by the parishioners, and
   endowed, in 1601, by George Marshall, late of Ilkley; also in 1701, by
   Reginald Heber, Esq. of the Inner Temple, London.

ILLINGWOTRH, in the township of Ovenden, and parish of Halifax, Morley-division
   of Agbrigg and Morley,  liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles from Halifax, 7 from
   Bradford.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in the
   deanry of Pontefract, value, p.r. !135L.  Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.  The
   Glebe-House has been occupied time immemorial as an Ale House.

         Here was born, in 1705, David Hartley, a Physician of eminence.  He
   first began to practise Physic at Newark, in Nottinghamshire.  Afterwards
   settled in London, and next removed to Bath, where he died in 1757.  Dr.
   Hartley was the author of some Tracts on Mrs. Stephens' Medicine for the
   Stone, which he recommended; but he is best known by his Metaphysical Work,
   entitled "Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty and his Expectations," 2
   vols. 8vo. London, 1749.  --Watson's Halifax.  -Biog. Dict.
 
ILLIONS, 2 or 3 cotts. in the township of Thurlston, and parish of Penistone; 3
   miles from Penistone.
 
INGBIRCHWORTH, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2.5 miles, from Penistone, 8 from Barnsley, 11.5 from
   Huddersfield.  --Pop. 367.
 
INGLEBOROUGH-HILL, in the wapentake of Staincliffe, and near Settle.

         Its perpendicular height above the level of the sea, according to a
   late trigonometrical survey, is 2361 feet; the top is plain and horizontal,
   being almost a mile round, and having the ruins of a wall that once included
   the whole area, with the remains of a beacon and watch-house.  In time of
   wars, insurrections, and tumults, and particularly during the incursions of
   the Scots, a fire was made on this beacon, to give the alarm to the
   inhabitants of the surrounding country.  This mountain is the first land that
   sailors descry in their voyage from Dublin to Lancaster, though nearly thirty
   miles distant from the sea.  The stone, on the summit, and for a great way
   down its sides, is of a sandy gritty sort; but the base is one continued rock
   of limestone, full of petrifactions, resembling the arms of the Star-Fish.
 
INGERTHORPE, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro, liberty of Ripon;
   4 miles from Ripon, 8 from Knaresborough.  --Pop 44.

INGTHORPE-GRANGE,(the seat of J. Baldwin, Esq.) in the township of East and
   West-Marton, and parish of East-Marton; 6 miles from Skipton.

        Ingthorpe, now Ingthorpe-Grange, was a Grange to Bolton Priory, and
   having been granted to the first Earl of Cumberland, in 1542, was sold by his
   grandson to the Baldwyns, in which family it still continues.  Here the
   Canons seem to have had a small Cell and Chapel; for a Basso Relievo, in
   white marble, was found here some years ago; the subject of which seems to
   have been the apprehension of Christ, and Peter drawing his sword.
   -Whitaker.

INGLETON, in the parish of Low-Bentham, wapentake of Ewcross; 7 miles from
   Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 10 from Settle, 18 from Lancaster, 20 from Askrigg.
   -No Market.  --Fair, Nov. 17, for horned cattle.  --Principal Inns, Bay
   Horse, and Wheat Sheaf.  --Pop. 1,302.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in
   the deanry of Kirby Lonsdale, value, p.r. !116L.  Patron, the Rector of
   Bentham.

          Ingleton is pleasantly situated on a natural mount, yet at the bottom
   of a vale, near the conflux of two rivers over which are thrown two handsome
   arches.  The church-yard commands a fine view of the vale of Lonsdale, almost
   as far as Lancaster.  Ingleton is thus noticed by Barnaby in his Journal:

                     Pirgus inest fano, fanum sub acumine collis,
                     Collis ab elatis, actus auctus aquis.

                     The poor man's box is in the temple set,
                     Church under hill, the hill by waters beat.

           In the neighbourhood of Ingleton are many objects worthy the
   attention of admirers of romantic scenery, as Thornton Scar; Thornton Force,
   a curious Fall of Water; Raven Ree, a rock promontory, near forty yards high,
   almost covered with evergreens.  --Guide to the Caves.

INGLETON FELL. -See Chapel-le-Dale.

INGMAN-LODGE, s.h. in the township and parish of Horton; 11 miles from Settle.

INGMANTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Kirk-Deighton; (the seat of
   Richard Fountayne Wilson Esq.) 3 miles from Wetherby, 7 from Knaresborough,
   12.5 from York.

         This was anciently part of the possessions of the Barons Trusbuts; from
   whom it descended to Lord Ross, and was the principal residence of the
   descendants of that noble family, for many generations.  Here was a Chapel,
   dedicated to St. Mary, in which Sir Robert Ross was interred on the 21st of
   January, 1393.  The site of the house, gardens, &c. may yet be traced, in a
   field, called Hall Garth.

INGMIRE-HALL, (the seat of John Upton, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Sedbergh; 1.25 miles from Sedbergh.

INGROW, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of Staincliffe; 1
   mile from Keighley, 11 from Skipton.

INTACK-END, ham. in the township and parish of Handsworth; 3 miles from
   Sheffield.

INTACK-HEAD, f.h. in the township and parish of Huddersfield; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.

JACK-HILL; scat. f.h. in the township of Clifton-with-Norwood, and parish of
   Fewston; 6 miles from Otley.

JENNTT'S-CAVE, See Malham.
 
JOHNNY-MOOR, LONG, ham. in the township and parish of
   Thorne; 3 miles from Thorne, 11 from Howden.
 
JUNGTION, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 4 miles
   from Dobcross,  14 from Huddersfield.

        Here is an Inn, called the Junction-Inn, Sign, Poet-Chaise.

KAYLEY-HALL, f.h. in the township of Pool, and parish of Otley; 3 miles from
   Otley.
 
KEASDEN-LANE, scat. h. in the township and parish of Clapham; 7 miles from
   Settle.
 
KEREBY, in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, upper-division of Claro; 5 miles from
   Wetherby, 8 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. including Netherby, 226, which being
   united, form a township
 
KEB-ROYD, (the seat of Walker Priestley, Esq.) in the township of Soyland, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 12 from
   Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
KEB-COTE, or KIRBY-COT, p.h. in the township of Stansfield and parish of
   Halifax; 10 miles from Burnley, 12 from Halifax.
 
KEIGHLEY, a market and parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's-Fee; 4 miles from Bingley, 10 from Bradford and Skipton, 12
   from Otley and Halifax, 12.75 from Colne, (Lanc.) 40 from York, 209 from
   London.  --Market, Wednesday.  --Fairs, May 8, for horned cattle and horses;
   9 and 10, for pedlary-ware, November 7, for horned cattle, horses, and sheep;
   and 8 and 9, for pedlary-ware.  --Principal Inns, Devonshire Arms, and Kings
   Arms.  --Pop. 9,223.  The Church is a rectory; dedicated to St. Andrew, in
   the deanry of Craven, value, 21L. 0s. 7.5d, Patron, the Duke of Devonshire.

           This is a considerable market-town, at the north-western extremity of
   the manufacturing district.  It is situated in a deep valley, within three or
   four hundred yards of the south-west bank of the river Aire, over which there
   is a stone bridge.  The town is tolerably well built, almost wholly of stone,
   the inhabitants of which derive their support from the cotton, linen, and
   worsted manufactures, which are carried on here with great spirit and
   industry.  The manufacture of worsted may be considered as the staple trade
   of Keighley; large quantities of which are sold at, Bradford and Halifax.
   The purchasers are chiefly Leeds merchants.  The town is supplied with water
   from two springs, under the regulations of an Act of parliament, obtained in
   1816.
           Here is a Grammar school founded by John Drake, in the year 1715-16,
   for the parish of Keighley, to teach Latin, Greek, and English,
   grammatically.  It is now chiefly English.
           Keighley gave name to a family of that name, one of whom, Henry
   Keighley, interred here, procured from Edward I. for this, his Manor, the
   "privileges of a market, a fair, and a free warren, &c."  The male issue, in
   right line of this family, ended in Henry Keighley, one of whose daughters
   and co-heirs married William Cavendish, then Baron Cavendish of Hardwicke;
   and brought with her this manor and estate in which family it has remained
   ever since, being now the property of Lord George Cavendish.
           The Church of Keighley was given at a very early period, to the Prior
   and Canons of Bolton, by Ralph de Keighley; it was never appropriated: and
   after the dissolution of Monasteries the advowson was granted, inter alia, to
   Henry, Earl of Cumberland, 33 Henry VIII.  In the north aisle, belonging to
   Riddlesden Hall, are two ancient gravestones, each of which has a cross, and
   one a sword, and two shields of arms; the higher nearly effaced; the lower
   charged with a cross fleury, and circumscribed,

               ----- GILBERTUS KYGULAY DE UTLAY ET MARGARIA
                UXOR EP. A'O D'M' MXXIII.

           In 1710, this church was modernised and made uniform; the body of the
   church by the parish, and the choir by Mr. Gale, the Rector, cousin-german to
   Dr. Thomas Gale, Dean of York, father of the learned Roger Gale, of Scruton.
   --Camden.  -Whitaker.  The present church was built in 1805.
 
KELLBROOK, in the township and parish of Thornton, east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9 from Skipton, 10 from Burnley,
   (Lanc.)
 
KELLINGLEY, ham. in the township of Beaghall, and parish of Kellington, liberty
   of Pontefract; 5 miles from Pontefract.
 
KELLINGTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 7 miles from Pontefract and Snaith, 21 from York.  --Pop. 283.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Edmund, in the deanry of
   Pontefract, value, +9L. 8s. 11.5d.  Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge.
 
KENDALL-GREEN, scat. h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 2
   miles from Barnsley.
 
KERESFORTH-HILL, f.h. in the township of Barnsley, and parish of Silkstone,
   liberty of Pontefract; 1.25 miles from Barnsley.
 
KERSHALL, f.h. in the township of Arthington, and parish of Addle; 4 miles from
   Harewood.

KESWICK, EAST, a township, in the parish of Harewood, lower division of Skyrack;
   3 miles from Harewood, 3.5 from Wetherby, 9 from Leeds.  --Pop. 296
 
KESWICK, DUN, --see DUNKESWICK
 
KETTLESING, ham. in the township of Felliscliffe, and parish of Hampsthwaite;
   5.5 miles from Ripley, 8.5 from Knaresborough.

KETTLESING-HEAD, ham in the township of Felliscliffe, and parish of
   Hampsthwaite; 2.5 miles from Hopper-lane Inn.
 
KETTLETHORPE-HALL, (the seat of Joseph Charlesworth. Esq.) in the township of
   Crigglestone, and parish of Sandal-Magna, liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles
   from Wakefield, 7.5 from Barnsley.

KETTLEWELL, a market and parish-town, in the east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 14 miles from Hawes, 14.5 from Askrigg, 15 from Middleham and
   Settle, 16 from Skipton, Pateley Bridge, and Leyburn, 48 from York, 233 from
   London.  --Market, Thursday.  --Fairs, July 6, for pedlary ware; Sept. 2, and
   Oct. 23, for sheep.  --Principal Inns, Mason's Arms, Blue Bell, Kings-Arms,
   and Race Horses.  --Pop. including Starbottom, 663.  The Church, rebuilt in
   1820, is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Craven, value,
   +5L. p.r. 61L. 0s. 9d.  Patron, The Rev. George Coates.

           The Church at Kettlewell which was of high antiquity, probably not
   later than Henry I. has been pulled down, and a new one in 1820, erected on
   its site, on the same plan, only a few yards longer.
           Kettlewell is situated at the foot of a very steep hill, in a narrow
   part of Wharfedale, and although the village is large, the buildings are very
   mean.  - In the year 1686, this town and Starbottom were nearly destroyed by
   a violent flood.  The situation of these towns is under a large hill, from
   whence the rain descended with great violence for one hour and a half at the
   same time the hill on one side opening, and casting up water to a prodigious
   height, demolished several houses, and filled others with gravel to the
   chamber windows; the affrighted inhabitants fled for their lives, and the
   loss was computed at many thousand pounds.  -Magna Brit.
 
KEXBROUGH, or KEXBOROUGH, in the parish of Darton, wapentake of Staincross;
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone 8.5 from
   Wakefield.     --Pop. 440.
 
KEXMOOR, ham. in the township of Grewelthorpe, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, 2
   miles from Kirkbymalzeard, 6 from Masham.
 
KIDHALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Barwick-in-Elmet; 4 miles from
   Abberford.
 
KIDHALL-INN, in the township and parish of Barwick-in-Elmet; liberty of the
   honour of Pontefract; 4 miles from Abberford, 6.25 from Tadcaster, 5 from
   Leeds.

KILDWICK, a parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee;  (Kildwick-Hall, the seat of Miss Currer) 4.25 miles from
   Skipton, 5.75 from Keighley, 9 from Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 175.  The Church
   is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew; in the deanry of Craven, value, +10L.
   18s. 1.5d.  Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.

           The Church of Kildwick, is one of the two in the whole deanry of
   Craven, which are mentioned in Doomsday.  It was given by, Cecilia de Romille
   to the Priory of Embsay.  After the dissolution of religious houses, the
   rectory, with the advowson of the vicarage, was granted by Henry VIII. to
   Christ-Church, Oxford.  In the nave of the present Church, built or renewed
   about the reign of Henry VIII. are the tomb and cumbent statue of Sir Robert
   de Steeton, in link-mail, with his arms upon a shield.  It is wrought in
   Haselwood stone, and is an exact counterpart of his contemporary Sir Adam
   de Midelton, at Ilkley: and in the north chapel and choir are, also monuments
   to the families of Currer, Swire, Jennings, &c.
             The village, situated upon a hill on the road from Keighley to
   Skipton, was amongst the first donations to the Priory of Embsay; by Cecilia
   de Romille, the foundress.  In that house it continued till the dissolution,
   when it was granted by Henry VIII. to Robert Wilkinson and Thomas Drake, of
   the parish of Halifax.  In the 2 Edward I. is a license to Drake, to alienate
   the Manor of Kildwick to John Garforth, of Farnhill by whom, or his son, 1st
   of Elizabeth, it was sold to Henry Currer, Esq. and from whom it has lineally
   descended to the present owner, Miss Currer.
            The Manor house, a respectable stone building, perhaps a century and
   a half old, stands high above the church, with a very deep descent in front;
   but is sheltered by thriving plantations.  --Hist. Craven.

KILDWICK-GRANGE,  ham. in the township and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe, 5 miles from Keighley.
 
KILHOLME, f.h. in the township and parish of Cantley; 6 miles from Doncaster and
   Bawtry.

KILLINGBECK, scat. h. in the township of Seacroft, and parish of Whitkirk,
   liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of F. Walker, Esq.) 3 miles from Leeds.
 
KILLINGHALL, in the parish of Ripley, lower division of Claro, liberties of
   Knaresborough and Ripon; 1.25 mile from Ripley, 5 from Knaresborough, 9 from
   Ripon.  --Pop. 519.  A few houses at the north-end of the village are within
   the constablery of Nidd, and liberty of Ripon.

           In Doomsday-book, is called Chenihalle, i.e. Kennelhall; probably a
   place where the hounds (which belonged to the Lord of the Manor) were kept,
   for it was no uncommon thing for noblemen, during the time of the Saxons, to
   keep Mastiff-dogs, for chasing wolves out of their territory.  -Dugdale's
   Bar.
           It was formerly the residence of several families of note, viz.
   Pulleyn, Tancred, Baynes, &c.  Heaps of ruins, covered with grass, mark the
   place where two of their mansions stood; from the materials of which, several
   farm-houses, with their offices, have been erected.
           The Norwich troop of horse, which was a part of Cromwell's regiment,
   were quartered at Killinghall, in July 1644, a few days after the battle of
   Marston.  This troop had embroidered on their colours, La Troupe des Vierges,
   being raised by the voluntary subscription of the young Ladies of Norwich.
           It was for some centuries the seat of the family of Pulleyn.  Captain
   John Levens, who lived in the reign of Charles I. having, in the latter part
   of his life, quitted the army, became one of the people called Quakers, and
   retired to this peaceful solitude, where he ended his days, in the year 1668.
   He and his two sons were interred in an orchard here; and, perhaps, no places
   are more proper, to bury our dead in, than gardens, groves, or airy fields.
   This custom is of the highest antiquity; the Greeks, or eastern Christians,
   do not bury in churches.  --Hist. Knaresborough.
 
KILNHURST, in the townships of Swinton and Rawmarsh, and parish of Rawmarsh,
   upper-division of Strafforth -and Tickhill; (Kilnhurst-Hall, the seat of
   William Turner, Esq.) 5 miles from Rotherham, 8 from Barnsley.

           Here are six Alms or Hospital-Houses, value, each, 3L. 6s. 8d.
   per annum.
 
KILNSEY, in the township of Conistone-with-Kilnsey, and parish of Burnsall,
   east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Cliffords-Fee; 3 miles from
   Kettlewell, 12 from Skipton and Settle.  --Pop. included in Conistone.

           This place is remarkable for a lofty range of limestone rock; the
   highest point of that denominated "Kilnsey Crag," will be about 165 feet, and
   its length 270 yards, or, more.  The whole of this astonishing mass of
   limestone stretches nearly half a mile along the valley, and, as a feature in
   landscape, has greatly the advantage of Gordale Scar.
           To this village, the Abbots of Fountains drove their immense flocks
   of sheep from the surrounding hills, for their annual sheep-shearing.  Here,
   too, they also kept Courts for all their Manors in Craven, excepting Litton
   and Long Strother, which last were holden at Litton.  The walls of their
   Court-house were remaining at Kilnsey, 41 Elizabeth.  --Hist. Craven.
           Two ancient Arches, rather pointed, adjoining to a house called "The
   Hall" (dated W. W. 1644) behind the Inn at Kilnsey, still point to some of
   those remains.  The keystone of the larger arch has the remains of a dog or
   sheep upon it.  From the name of Chapel-house, "it seems probable,"
   says Dr. Whitaker, "that the Monks either had a small Cell or a Grange, with
   a chapel annexed, in a picturesque and interesting situation, where an
   excellent house was built by the late John Tennant, Esq.,  whose ancestor
   Jeffry Tennant, of Bordley, purchased the estate of the Gresham family, the
   grantees of Fountains, in the 14th of Elizabeth."
 
KIMBERWORTH; a township, in the parish of Rotherham, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 2 miles from Rotherham, 7 from
   Sheffield, 13 from Penistone.  --Pop. 3,797.
 
KING-CROSS, ham. in the township of Skircoat, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 1.25 miles from Halifax.
 
KINSLEY, f.h. in the township and parish of Hemsworth, liberty of Pontefract; 7
   miles from Pontefract and Wakefield.
 
KIPLING-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Thornton, and parish of Bradford.
 
KIPPAX, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract;
   5.5 miles from Pontefract, 8 from Leeds, 9 from Wakefield, 21 from York.
   --Pop. 958.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry
   of the Ainsty, value, +5L. 7s. 1d.  Patron, the King.  In the same township
   and parish is :-
 
KIPPAX-PARK, the seat of Thomas Davison Bland, Esq.

           This Park is large and beautiful, rising to the Mansion, which was
   originally founded by Sir Thomas Bland, Knight, in the reign of Elizabeth.  A
   part only of the ancient front remains in the centre of the building.  The
   fabric was much enlarged about the latter end of the 17th century; and the
   principal front, including the offices, now extends 600 feet in length.

           The family of Bland was anciently seated at Bland's Gill, in
   Yorkshire; a younger son of which house was Robert Bland, Esq. of Leeming,
   N.R. whose posterity continued the principal line; the male issue of the
   chief house of Bland's Gill, soon failing: the title of Baronet, became
   extinct, on the death of Sir Hungerford Bland, who died a bachelor, some time
   previous to 1779.   The present family is descended from Thomas Davison, of
   Blackiston, Esq. in the county of Durham, he having married a daughter of Sir
   John Bland, Bart.  --Neale's Views.
 
KIPPING-HOUSE, (the seat of Miss Firth) in the township of Thornton, and parish
   of Bradford; 4 miles from Bradford.
 
KIRBY-WHARFE, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston Ash, liberties of St.
   Peter and Pontefract; 2 miles from Tadcaster, 12 from York and Selby, 13 from
   Pontefract.  --Pop. including Milford, 86.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +3L.
   16s. 8d. p.r. 120L.  Patron, the Prebendary of Wetwang.
 
KIRKBURTON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Penistone, 11 from Wakefield, 39
   from York.  --Pop. 2,153.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to the
   Holy-Trinity, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 13L. 6s. 8d.  Patron, the
   King.

           The name and situation of this place, led Dr. Whitaker to
   conjecture, that a Saxon Fort once stood there.  "Accordingly, at this place,
   the parish-church, from, which there is a steep declivity on the north and
   west, the appearance of a ditch on the south, and a deep and narrow lane, at
   a corresponding distance on the east has every appearance of a Saxon Fort,
   though the keep has been levelled.  In addition to these appearances, a small
   dike immediately adjoining to the Northeast, is still called the Old Saxe
   Dyke.
           The present Church, built in the reign of Edward III. pays a pension
   of 4L. per annum, as a mark of its dependence upon that ancient and fruitful
   Mother of Churches, Dewsbury; from which, it appears to have been severed,
   about the time of the first Earl of Warren.
           The Burtons may be traced as Lords of this Manor, to the highest
   period of local names,  in 1455, Edward Kaye, of Woodsome, Esq. was owner of
   this manor, by marriage of Isabel the daughter of Thomas Burton: it is now
   the property of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart. of Denby Grange, his descendant.
   Whitaker's Loidis Elmete.

KIRBY-COT, or KEBCOATES, p.h. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of
   Halifax; 8 miles from Todmorden, 10 from Halifax.
 
KIRK-BRAMWITH, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Doncaster, 7 from Thorne, 25 from York.  --Pop. 252.
   The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, 12L. 18s, 4d.  Patron, the King, as Duke of Lancaster.

KIRKBY-HALL, a township, in the parish of Little-Ouseburn, upper-division of
   Claro; (the seat of Richard John Thompson, Esq.) 5 miles from Boroughbridge,
   13 from York.  --Pop. 55.

             In this elegant Mansion is a very valuable collection of Paintings;
   many of them by the most celebrated masters, ancient and modern.
           The Mausoleum in the church-yard at Little Ouseburn, and the Obelisk
   at the place called "the head of the River Ouse," were both erected by a
   gentleman of this family.
 
KIRK-HAMMERTON, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; (the seat of
   William Thompson, Esq.) 7 miles from Wetherby, 8 from Boroughbridge and
   Knaresborough, 10 from York.  --Pop. 409.  The Church, peculiar is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of Boroughbridge,
   diocese of Chester, value, p.r. !134L. 10s.  In consequence of a reduction,
   by loss of Land, the value is only 65L.  Patron, the Rev. William Metcalfe,
   the present incumbent.
 
KIRKHEATON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax;, 10 from Wakefield, 16
   from Leeds, 38 from York.  --Pop. 2,186.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated
   to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 25L. 13s. 9d.
   Patron, Thomas Richard Beaumont, Esq.

           After the origin of local names, the first race of mesne Lords, who
   appear at this place, bore the denomination, de Heton.  They were
   benefactors to the house of Fountain, and to their piety, the parish-church
   may with great probability be ascribed.  The payment of 1L. 3s. 4d. to the
   Church of Dewsbury, proves its ancient dependence on that church, and from
   which, it was probably severed about the year 1200.  In the church-yard is a
   gigantic Yew Tree, supposed to be co-eval with the Church, as it could
   scarcely have attained to its great magnitude in less than six centuries.
   In the north aisle of the choir, is a cumbant statue of Sir Richard Beaumont,
   of Whitley, Bart.: of this family, who have long been Lords of this Manor,
   are several other memorials in the Church.  --Whitaker.
          Here is a Free-School, for the education of ten poor boys gratis.
 
KIRKBYMALZEARD, a parish-town, in the lower division of Claro, liberty of St.
   Peter; (Mowbray-House, the seat of Tomyns Dickins, Esq.) 4 miles from Masham,
   7 from Ripon, 10 from Pateley Bridge, 30 from York.   --Market, Wednesday.
   -Fairs, Whitsun-Monday, and October 2, for cattle, sheep, &c.  --Pop. 682.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of
   Catterick, diocese of Chester, value, with Masham, 301L.  Patron,
   Trinity-College, Cambridge.  It possess a peculiar exempt jurisdiction,
   formerly annexed to the Prebend of Masham, in the Cathedral of York, now
   exercised by a Commissary, appointed by Trinity-College, Cambridge.  -The
   present Vicar is the Commissary.

           Here, the famous family of the Mowbrays had a Castle, which was
   besieged 20 Henry II. by Henry, the elect Bishop of Lincoln.  Roger de
   Mowbray then hastened to the King at Northampton, where he rendered up to him
   this Castle and that at Thirsk, both of which were soon after made untenable,
   and pulled down.  --Dugdale's Bar.
           Mr. Dickins, on enlarging his present Mansion, and laying out his
   pleasure grounds, dug up a great many ruins of this ancient Castle; bases,
   shafts, capitals, &c. belonging to which, are now to be seen, grotesquely
   placed in various parts of the grounds.  This Castle was situated on an
   eminence, with a deep ditch on the north, and commanding most extensive
   prospects to the east and north-east, and from which, no doubt, the Castle of
   Thirsk was visible.
           John de Mowbray obtained a grant 35 Edward I. to hold two fairs
   annually, and a market weekly, at Kirkbymalzeard.  These Fairs and market,
   after laying dormant, we know not how long, have been revived since 1816.
           Here is a School, founded about the year 1640, by one William
   Horseman, who endowed it with 50s. per annum: it has since received several
   small endowments, and the master's emolument now amounts to 7L. 10s. per
   annum. -Commissioners' Report.
 
KIRKBY-MALHAMDALE, a parish-town, in the west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 6 miles from Settle, (by the Post-Road, 11 miles,) 9 from
   Skipton, 10 from Kettlewell, 11 from Gisburn, 50 from York.  --Pop. 204.  The
   Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. James, in the deanry of Craven, value,
   6L. 13s. 4d. p.r. !43L. 10s.  Patron, the Duke of Devonshire.

           This place is situated in a deep Gill, upon a small beck, near the
   river Aire.  The Church is a large, handsome, and uniform building, probably
   of the age of Henry VII.  In the chapel, at the east end of the south aisle,
   is a mural monument, with the arms of Lambert.  It is to the memory of John
   Lambert, of Calton Hall, son and heir to Major Gen. Lambert, and the last
   male heir, in whom that ancient family of the Lamberts, in a line from the
   Conqueror, is now extinct.  This Church belonged to the Abbey of west Dereham
   till the dissolution; the Monks of which Abbey had a Cell here in the reign
   of Edward II.  It appears to have been garrisoned for the Parliament, by the
   first of the family of Kings of Skelland, who came out of Westmoreland.
   --Hist. Craven.
           Here is a School, supposed to be founded by one of the Lamberts of
   Calton, originally for Latin only, but of late years the Master has
   introduced English; It is endowed with about 20L. per annum, arising chiefly
   out of rents of lands at Kirkby-Malhamdale and Hanlith, and money in the
   funds, left by Mrs. Nelson of Calton.

KIRKBY OVERBLOW, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; (the seat of the
   Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham) 5.5 miles from Wetherby, 6.5 from Knaresborough,
   20.5 from York.  ---Pop. including Swindon, 370, which being united, form a
   township.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of
   the Ainsty, value, 20L. 1s. 0.5d.  Patron, the Earl of Egremont.

           Kirkby Overblow, the orthography of which is Kirkby-Ore-Blowers, from
   its being within the vicinity of an Iron forge.  --Thoresby.  This village is
   situated upon an eminence on the north bank of the Wharfe.
           Here is a small School for six poor children; the land originally
   appropriated to the support of which, consists of eleven acres.

KIRKBY, SOUTH, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 8 miles from Pontefract, 9 from Barnsley; 10 from Doncaster, 11
   from Wakefield, 31 from York.  --Pop. 633.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +15L. 10s. 2.5d.
   Patron, the Rev. George Allott.
 
KIRK-GILL, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Kettlewell.
 
KIRK-HOUSE GREEN, a few scat. h. in the township and parish of Kirk-Bramwith,
   liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Thorne.
 
KIRKLEES-HALL, (the seat of Sir George Armitage, Bart.) in the township of
   Hartishead-with-Clifton, and parish of Dewsbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg
   and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Huddersfield, 6 from
   Halifax, 12 from Leeds.

           This place is memorable, on account of a Nunnery founded here in the
   reign of Henry II. for Benedictine Nuns.  After the dissolution, the site and
   demesnes about the house, were granted to the Ramsdens.  In the 1st of
   Elizabeth, it became the property of the Pilkintons, and in the 8th of the
   same reign, was alienated by Robert Pilkinton to John Armitage, and in this
   family it has continued to the present day.  The site of the Priory appears
   to have been inhabited by the family during the rest of Elizabeth's reign,
   and an uncertain portion of that of King James, when, as appears from his
   arms in the hall, they removed to their present more airy and conspicuous
   situation.
           The situation of this Nunnery was in a warm and fertile bottom, on
   the verge of a deep brook to the south, and on an elevation just sufficient
   to protect the house from inundations.  A square depression in the ground
   distinctly marks the cloister court, nearly thirty yards square.  North of
   this was the body of the Church, and eighteen yards or thereabouts, to the
   east, are the tombs of Elizabeth de Stainton, and another protected by iron
   rails, immediately eastward from which, the choir has evidently terminated.
   The nave, transept, and choir, must have been at least 150 feet long.
           Kirklees is also famous for being the sepulture of the renowned Robin
   Hood, an out-law and free-booter, who lived in the beginning of the
   thirteenth century, and who, according  to tradition, was suffered to bleed
   to death by one of the Nuns, to whom he had applied to be bled.  The spot
   pointed out for the place of his interment, is beyond the precinct of the
   Nunnery, and therefore not in consecrated ground.  - Whitaker's Loidis et
   Elmete.
           The following inscription over his remains, preserved by Dr.   Gale,
   Dean of York, Thoresby says, was "scarce legible," and Dr. Whitaker seems to
   think spurious.
                        "Hear, undernead dis latil stean,
                        Laiz Robert, Earl of Huntington;
                        Nea arcir vir as him sa geud,
                        An pipl kauld him Robin Heud;
                        Sick utlawz as hi, an iz men,
                        Vil Inglande nivr si agen:
                             Obit. 24. Kal Dekembris, 1247."

           A statue of this renowned free-booter, large as life, leaning on his
   unbent bow, with a quiver of arrows and a sword by his side, formerly stood
   on one side of the entrance into the old hall.
 
KIRK-SANDALL.  ---See Sandall, Kirk.
 
KIRK-SMEATON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Pontefract and Ferrybridge,
   10 from Doncaster, 14 from Wakefield, 27 from York.
   --Pop. 321.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, 10L. 1s. 0.5d.  Patron, Early Fitzwilliam.
 
KIRKSTALL-BRIDGE, and ABBEY, in the township of Heddingley, and parish of Leeds,
   lower division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract;  3 miles from Leeds, 7
   from Bradford, 8 from Otley, 16 from Harrogate.

           This Abbey, as a subject of monastic history, has been nearly
   exhausted by the labours of Dugdale, and his follower Stephens.  Antiquarians
   are as familiarly acquainted with the circumstances of its early discipline,
   the ruin of its revenues by improvidence, and the assistance by which they
   were restored, as if the transaction had passed before their eyes.  Draftsmen
   and landscape-painters, good and bad, have done their parts to delight or
   glut the public taste, with this enchanting ruin, and the acutest curiosity
   might almost look in vain for a point which has not been represented.
   --Whitaker.
           The remains of this fine monastic structure stands in the beautiful
   vale of Aire, near the banks of the river.  The space which they occupy, is
   about 340 feet from north to south, and 445 from east to west.  This Abbey,
   dedicated to the blessed Virgin, was founded by Henry de Lacy, in 1147, for
   Monks of the Cistercian Order; and Alexander, Prior of Fountains Abbey, was
   appointed their first Abbot.  Their first habitation was at Barnoldswick, but
   this place proving inconvenient to the Monks, they, about six years
   afterwards, removed to Kirkstall, in Airedale, then inhabited by some
   Hermits.  Alexander, their first Abbot, governed the Monks thirty-five years.
   They suffered much by some ill offices done to them by King John, who took
   from them some of their lands; but they found a benefactor in Robert de Lacy,
   who died in 1194, and was esteemed a second founder.  --Dugdale.
           Several of the first Monks were men of exemplary piety and virtue;
   and the revenues of the Abbey were so well managed, that at a visitation in
   1301, the Monks were found to have 216 oxen, 160 cows, 150 yearlings and
   bullocks, 90 calves, and 4,000 sheep, and their debts amounted only to 160L.
   At the dissolution, their revenues were valued at 329L. 2s. 11d. --Dugdale;
   and 512L. 13s. 4d. --Speed.  It was surrendered, according to Speed, by John
   Ripley, the last Abbot on the 22nd Nov. 1540.  In the 34th Henry VIII. the
   site was granted to Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, in exchange for
   other lands.  The Right Hon. the Earl of Cardigan is the present proprietor.
           The situation of this Abbey, near the banks of a fine river, always
   calm and clear, except in floods, in a vale, fertile, open, and extensive,
   and with hills overlooking the Abbey, is particularly enchanting and
   picturesque.
 
KIRKSHILL, f.h. in the township of Arthington, and parish of Addle; 3 miles from
   Harewood.

KIRKTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Warmfield, liberty of Pontefract;
   (the residence of the Rev. James Drake) 3 miles from Wakefield, 11 from
   Barnsley.  This forms a part of the vicarage of Warmfield, being styled
   Warmfield-with-Kirkthorpe.  --Bacon.
 
KIRTHWAITE, in the township of Dent, and parish of Sedbergh, wapentake of
   Ewcross.

         This is a large district, which consists of straggled houses, with
   meeting-houses for Quakers and Presbyterians.
 
KNAPTON, (Ainsty) in the parish of Acomb; 3.5 miles from York, 8.5 from
   Tadcaster.  --Pop. 137.

KNARESBROUGH, or KNARESBOROUGH, a market and parish-town, in the lower-division
   of Claro, liberties of St. Peter and Knaresborough; 5 miles from Ripley, 7
   from Boroughbridge and Wetherby, 11 from Hopper-Lane Inn, 12 from Ripon, 13
   from Otley, 18 from Leeds and York, 24 from Skipton, 201 from London.
   --Market, Wednesday.  --Fairs, January 13; first Wednesday after March 12;
   May 6, (unless it falls on a Sunday, then the day following,) first Wednesday
   after August 12; first Tuesday after October 11; Wednesday after December 10,
   for horned cattle, .&c.  -The sheep Fairs are held on the days preceding the
   first and last Fairs;  the Statute days for servants, are on Wednesday before
   November 2, and Wednesday after.  --Bankers, Messrs. Harrison and Terrys,
   draw on Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co. 79, Lombard-Street; Messrs. Coates
   and Co. draw on Sir James Esdaile, Bart. and Co. 21, Lombard Street.
   --Principal Inns, Crown, Bay Horse, and Old Elephant and Castle.  --Pop.
   5,283.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the
   deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, 9L. 9s. 4.5d.  Patron,
   Lord Rosslyn.

           In a chapel, north of the choir, are several monuments of the
   Slingsby family, to whom this chapel belongs.
           Knaresborough is pleasantly situated on a cliff above the river Nidd,
   which runs at the bottom of a deep dell.  The market-place is spacious, and
   the sale of corn considerable, great quantities being brought many miles
   eastward, to supply a barren track extending far west.  The manufacture of
   linens which, is very considerable, is the staple trade of the town and
   neighbourhood and the article called Knaresborough Linens, has for a great
   many years been held in high repute.
           It first sent members to parliament in the first of Queen Mary, 1553,
   and has ever since returned two representatives.  The right of election was
   then vested in 84 or 88 burgage houses, the owners of which were entitled to
   vote.  The elections continued free till about 1719, at which time the
   purchasing of burgage houses first commenced.  The Duke of Devonshire is now,
   and the family has for a long time, been in possession of all the
   burgage-houses, except four.  The last contest appears to have been in 1784;
   but no report was made on the petition of Sir John Coghill, Bart. and Bacon
   Frank, Esq.  In 1805, the Bailiffs were unable to proceed to an election, by
   reason of a great riot and tumult, raised by a large number of persons not
   electors: on this, several of the electors petitioned Parliament, when, the
   Attorney-General was ordered to prosecute seven persons named in the
   petition, three of whom were tried at York, and found guilty; consequently a
   new writ was ordered.  -Oldfield.
           The Castle here has a most elevated situation, and on the accessible
   side was defended by a vast foss, with strong works on the outside.  The
   scattered fragment shew it to have been a fortress of great extent.  Part of
   the towers and some semi-round buttresses yet remain, and a square tower or
   keep, is the most complete of any, part of which formerly served as a prison
   for the liberty of the Forest of Knaresborough.  It was founded by Serlo de
   Burgh, who came into England with the Conqueror.  He was succeeded in his
   possession by Eustace Fitz-John, the great favourite of Henry the first.  It
   afterwards came into the possession of the Crown, for it seems that King John
   granted it to William de Estoteville for the services of three knights' fees.
   In the succeeding reign it was bestowed on that great justiciary, Hubert de
   Burgh, on payment of 100L. per annum into the Exchequer.  In the reign of
   Edward II. it was in the family of Vaux, or de Vallibus, but bestowed by that
   Prince on his favourite Piers Gaveston, whom he created Earl of Cornwall. On
   his death it reverted to the Crown, and remained in it till 1371, when the
   Castle, Manor and Honour of Knaresborough, were granted by Edward III. to his
   fourth son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in which Dutchy it yet remains.
   -Dugdale.  --Magna Brit. -Madox.
           In 1170, the four Knights who murdered Thomas a Becket took refuge
   here, where they remained prisoners many months, but were sometime after
   pardoned, on condition of their performing a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
           After the base treachery Richard II. experienced from the Earl of
   Northumberland, and his gallant son Hostspur Percy, that unfortunate Prince
   was kept a close prisoner here, in an apartment still called the King's
   chamber, till he was removed to Pontefract Castle, and there murdered by
   order of Henry IV.
           In 1616, James I. granted this Castle and lordship to his son
   Charles.  It was a strong fortress during the civil wars, and made great
   resistance against the parliamentary forces.  After the battle of
   Marston-Moor, the townsmen most gallantly defended it against Lord Fairfax,
   and although at last compelled to surrender, it was on the most honourable
   terms that the garrison laid down their arms.  Not long after this, it was,
   by resolution of the House of Commons, rendered untenable.
           The site of the Castle was upwards of one hundred yards in diameter.
   The Keep was large, and consisted of three stories.  From an east view of it,
   the dismantled towers, and dilapidated arches, are finely picturesque, but
   the whole is falling, by the stealing hand of time, fast into decay.  Near
   the centre, in a part of the ruins, is the Court-house and Prison for the
   liberty of the Forest of Knaresborough.
           About half a mile below the Low-bridge, on the edge of the river,
   Richard Plantaganet, second son of King John, founded a Priory for
   Trinitarians, which was surrendered by the last Prior, Thomas Kent, in 1539.
   --Dugdale.  The site was granted to the Earl of Shrewsbury, and soon
   afterwards became the property of Sir Thomas Slingsby, in whose family it
   still remains.  The ruins of it lie scattered about and overgrown with grass.
           The celebrated Dropping-Well, placed close by the Nidd, which is
   saturated with terrene sparry matter, and incrusts, very soon, every thing it
   falls on, has seldom failed to attract the notice of the curious traveller.
           Beneath these cliffs and near this spring was born, about the year
   1487, that celebrated personage, Mother Shipton, the wife of Tobias Shipton.
   Many wonderful tales are told of her knowledge of future events, which are
   said to have been delivered to the Abbot of Beverley.
           Not far from the low bridge, some entire dwellings have been
   excavated out of the cliffs.  Half way up is one, three stories high,
   inhabited by a family who live beneath the rock, which has nothing artificial
   but part of the front.  It was the work of sixteen years, performed by a poor
   weaver and his son, which, since its completion, has been called Fort
   Montague, from this poor man's kind patroness, the Dutchess of Buccleugh;
   having on the top a fort with cannon, a flag waving, and other military
   appearances.
             Not far distant from this place is St. Robert's Chapel, cut out of
   the solid rock, with a neatly arched roof a Gothic window and door.  The ribs
   rest on rest pilasters.  On the right-hand side are four terrific faces; in
   front an altar: on the floor is a hole, in which was probably placed a cross;
   and on the sides are two niches, long since dispossessed of their images.
   The length of the cell is 10.5 feet, the breadth 9, and the height 7.5.  Near
   the door is cut a gigantic figure in the action of drawing his sword.  Above
   is the Hermitage, a small cell formed of moss, petrefactions, &c. and about a
   mile down the river is the Cave of the Saint, which appears to have been his
   usual residence.  This seat of piety was, in 1745, profaned by the murder of
   Daniel Clark, of Knaresborough; who, with Eugene Aram and J. Houseman, had
   confederated to defraud several of their neighbours of plate and goods to a
   considerable amount.  For a particular account of the trial, &c. of Eugene
   Aram, see pamphlet by Mr. Hargrove.

           Here lived, till within these few years, that very extraordinary man
   John Metcalfe, who was a native of this place.  Although he lost his sight in
   his infancy, was a tolerable proficient in music, a well-known guide over the
   Forest, a common carrier, a builder of bridges, a contractor for making
   roads, and played at whist with considerable skill.  He died at the great age
   of 93.
           This town has the benefit of the following Schools, viz. a
   Free-School, situated near the Church, endowed in 1616, by the Rev. Robert
   Chaloner; a Charity School, for thirty boys and girls, endowed in 1765, by
   the late Thomas Richardson, Esq.; and a National-School, on the plan of Dr.
   Bell, erected in 1814.
           The Old Sulphur Spaw, at Star-beck, between this place and Harrogate,
   which for some years had laid dormant, has recently been re-opened, and a
   square building erected over it, which secures it from external injury, and
   affords to the invalid a constant supply of its medicinal water.  Its
   efficacy, as a diuretic and mild aperient, has been fully proved in numerous
   instances of bilious and cutaneous diseases.
 
KNARESBROUGH-FOREST.  ---The Forest extends from east to west, upwards of 20
   miles; and in some places, is 8 miles in breadth.

          By the general survey, completed in the year 1086, we find there were
   then only four townships, viz. Birstwith, Fuston (Fewston) Beckwith, Rossett,
   (Pannall.) In the year 1388, there appears to have been three principal towns
   and sixteen hamlets, many of which had originated from waste-lands, after the
   conquest.  The general enclosure commenced in 1771.  -See "the ancient
   customs of the Forest of Knaresborough," published at Knaresborough in 1808.
   This Forest is situated on the west side of Knaresborough, extending itself
   to Bolton-Bridge; it has a separate jurisdiction, a prison, and local court
   in which pleas are held: His Grace the Duke of Devonshire is Lord and Chief
   Bailiff.
 
KNOSTROP, ham. in the township, parish and borough of Leeds;
   1 mile from Leeds.

           In an old house which formerly belonged to a family of the name of
   Baynes, now converted into dwellings, and probably not older than Capt. Adam
   Baynes, who was burgess for Leeds, in the only Parliament in which it was
   ever represented, is perhaps, says Dr. Whitaker,  "the latest specimen of a
   deis, or raised step for the high table, which is to be found in England."  A
   few years since it was hung round with portraits.
             In a garden adjoining, are the gravestones to the memory of two of
   the Stable family, and which appear to have been legible in Thoresby's time,
   whatever they may be now, the dates are 1662 an 1692, and the inscriptions
   are inserted in Thoresby's Leodiensis. --"Mr. John Stable, the last of the
   family who resided here, being tainted with Quakerism, converted part of his
   orchard into a place of Sepulture.  --Thoresby.
 
KNOTTINGLEY, in the parish of Pontefract, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 1 mile from Ferrybridge, 3 from Pontefract, 9.5 from Snaith, 15.5
   from Doncaster.  --Pop, 3,753.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated
   to St. Botolph, value, p.r. 100L.  Patron, the Vicar of Pontefract.

           A large village on the banks of the Aire, which has been long noted
   for its merchandise in Lime.  A branch Canal from the Aire and Calder
   navigation, is now cutting from this place to Goole, where it will enter into
   the river Ouse: the distance is about seventeen miles.
 
KNOWBANK, f.h. in the township of Hetten-with-Bordley, and parish of Burnsall,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 9 miles from Settle.

KNOWLES,  -See Raven-Knowles.
  
LADY-WELL, s.h. in the township of Soyland, and parish of Halifax; 6 miles from
   Halifax.
  
LAMBCOTE-GRANGE, f.h. in the township and parish of Braithwell, liberty of
   Tickhill; 5 miles from Tickhill.
  
LAMB-HILL, ham, in the township and parish of Handsworth; liberty of 
   Hallamshire; 3 miles from Sheffield.
  
LANE-ENDS, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley; 3 miles from Keighley.
  
LANE-HEAD, f.h. in the township of Shipley and parish of Kirkburton; 5 miles
   from Penistone, 8 from Huddersfield.
  
LANE-HEAD, f.h. in the township and parish of Darton; 3.5 miles from Barnsley.
  
LANE-HEAD, f.h. in township and parish of Rawmarsh; 3 miles from Rotherham, 9
   from Sheffield.
  
LANE-HEAD, or LANE-HOUSES, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township and parish of Weston; 3
   miles from Otley.
 
LANGBAR, in the township of Nesfield-with-Langbar, and parish of Ilkley,
   lower-division of Claro; 7.5 miles from Skipton, 8.5 from Otley.  --Pop.
   included in Nesfield.
 
LANGCLIFFE, in the parish of Giggleswick, west-division and liberty of 
   Staincliffe; (Langcliffe-Hall, the seat of Mrs. Swales; Langcliffe-Place, the
   seat of William Clayton, Esq.) 1 mile from Settle.  --Pop. 420.
  
LANGER-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Hetton-with-Bordley, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 9 miles from Settle.
  
LANGFIELD, a township, in the parish of Halifax, Morley division of Agbrigg and 
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 8 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 12 from Halifax. 
   --Pop. 2,069.
 
           This township originally belonged to the Longfields, and passed into 
   the family of the Hamertons, about the end of the reign of Edward III.  In
   the time of Henry VIII. it was, by attainder of Sir Stephen Hamerton,
   forfeited to the Crown.
  
LANGHILL-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Hetton-with-Bordley, and parish of
   Burnsall, liberty of Staincliffe; 8 miles from Skipton.
  
LANGLEY-BROOK, 2 or 2 h. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 3 miles from
   Sheffield.
 
LANGOLD, in the township of Letwell, and parish of Saint John, upper-division of 
   Strafforth and Tickhill; (a seat of John Galley Knight, Esq.) 4 miles from 
   Worksop, (Notts.) 5 from Tickhill.
  
LANGRICK, or LONG-DRAX, -See Drax, Long.
  
LANGSETT, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Penistone, 10 from Barnsley, 12 from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 325.
  
LANGTHWAITE, s.h. in the parish of Doncaster, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from Doncaster, 9 from Thorne.  --Pop.
   including Tilts, 21, which being united, form a township.
  
LAPWATER, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 1.5 mile
   from Rotherham.
  
LASCELLES-HALL, (the seat of Joseph Walker, Esq,) in the township of Lepton, and 
   parish of Kirkheaton; 2.5 miles from Huddersfield, 11 from Wakefield.
  
LAUGHTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN, a parish-town, in the upper division of Strafforth and 
   Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; 6 miles from Tickhill, 7 from Rotherham, 8
   from Worksop, (Notts.) 10 from Bawtry, 80 from York.  --Pop. 652.  The
   Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of 
   Doncaster, value, +6L. 13s. 4d. p.r. !4L.  Patron, the Chancellor of York,
  
LAUND-HOUSE, s.h. in the township and parish of Bingley; 5 miles from Bradford.
  
LAVERICK-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 3 miles from Keighley.
  
LAVERTON, in the parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from 
   Masham, 6.5 from Ripon.  --Pop. 430.
  
LAWKLAND, in the parish of Clapham, wapentake of Ewcross; (Lawkland-Hall, the 
   seat of John Ingilby, Esq.) 3.5 miles from Settle, 13 from Kirby-Lonsdale, 
   (Westm.)  --Pop. 351.
 
           Adjoining to Lawkland is an ancient Chapel, called Eldroth-Chapel, 
   the rent of the lands belonging to which, go towards the education of six 
   children.  No service performed in the Chapel.
  
LAWKLAND-GREEN, ham, in the township of Lawkland, and parish of Clapham; (the 
   seat of Thomas Ingilby, Esq.) 3 miles from Settle.
  
LAYCOCK, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of Staincliffe; 2
   miles from Keighley, 8 from Skipton.
  
LAYS, (the seat of David Hemsworth, Esq.) in the township and parish of 
   Monk-Fryston; 4 miles from Ferrybridge.
  
LAZENCROFT, f.h. in the township and parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Leeds.
  
LEAD, (extraparochial) in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 5 miles from Tadcaster, 
   8 from Wetherby, 16 from Pontefract.  --Consists of 7 farm-houses, and 50
   inhabitants.
  
LEATHLEY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; 2 miles from Otley, 11 
   from Leeds, 12 from Knaresborough, 27 from York.  --Pop. 312.  The Church is
   a rectory, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 7L. 2s. 8.5d.  Patron, the
   King.
 
           Here is a School-house and four Alms-houses, founded in 1769, by Mrs.
   Anne Hitch, who endowed the same with 12L. per annum, for the master, to
   teach the children of the township of Leathley, reading, writing, English 
   grammar, &c. 4L. each for the Alms-houses, occupied by indigent persons.  The
   money arises out of rents of land at Felliscliffe.  The lord of the Manor,
   and the Rector of Leathley, and the Rector of Addle, are trustees.  --Commis.
   Report.
 
LEDSHAM, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 
   5 miles from Pontefract, 6 from Abberford, 10 from Selby, 20 from York.
   --Pop. 212.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry
   of the Ainsty, value, +7L. 4s. 2d.  Patrons, the Trustees of Lady Elizabeth
   Hastings.
 
           This Church is remarkable, as the place of interment of Lady 
   Elizabeth Hastings, of pious and charitable memory.  A noble monument,
   afterwards augmented by the statues of her two surviving sisters, records, in 
   elegant Latin, the character of this ornament to her sex.  Her own figure is
   placed on a sarcophagus, reclining, and reading a book of devotion; the 
   countenance, which is a portrait, handsome and spirited; but the grace of the 
   figure is destroyed by the deformity of a stiff bodice.  Lady Frances and
   Lady Ann Hastings, on pedestals, on each aide, are represented with the 
   attributes of piety and prudence.  --Whitaker.
  
LEDSTON, a township, in the parish of Ledsham, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Pontefract, 6.5 from Abberford, 10 from 
   Leeds.  --Pop. 243.  A part of Ledston is in the parish of Kippax.
 
           This Hall was formerly the seat of the ancient family of Withams, 
   till Henry Witham, Esq. sold it to Sir Thomas Wentworth, afterwards Earl of
   Strafford, who made improvements in the house; his son William sold it to Sir 
   John Lewis, Bart. who died here in 1671.  Sir John added much to the beauty
   of the house, gardens, and park, which he surrounded with a stone wall.  It
   afterwards became the seat of Lady Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of 
   Theophilus, Earl of Huntingdon, by the eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir 
   John Lewis, in 1690; and thence to that of Rawden, Earl of Moira.  --Camden.
   --Thoresby.  --Whitaker.
           Sir John Lewis erected and endowed an Hospital here, for the 
   maintenance of ten aged poor people, who, by his will, are required 
   religiously to observe the Sabbath-day, and to be present at Church, in the 
   time of divine service and sermon.  -Camden.  Lady Elizabeth Hastings added
   10L. per annum, for the better support of St. John Baptist's Hospital,
   founded by her grandfather -- present revenue 106L. per annum.
 
   In the same township and parish is:- 
  
LEDSTON-LODGE, the seat of Granville William Wheeler, Esq. now occupied by
   Christopher Wilson, Esq.
  
LEEDS, a market and parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 8 miles from Harewood and Dewsbury, 9 from Wakefield, 10 from 
   Bradford and Otley, 11 from Abberford, 13 from Pontefract, 15 from 
   Ferrybridge, 16 from Harrogate, Wetherby, and Huddersfield, 16 from 
   Tadcaster,  18 from Knaresborough, 20 from Selby, 25 from York, 194 from
   London.  --Markets, Tuesday and Saturday, for woollen-cloth, provisions, &c.
   --Fairs, July 10 and 11, for horses and pedlary-ware; November 8 and 9, for
   horned cattle, &c.  --Bankers, the Old Bank, Messrs. Reckett, Blayds, and Co.
   draw on Messrs. Sir R.C. Glynn, and Co. 12, Birchin Lane; New Bank, Messrs.
   Fields, Greenwood, and Co. draw on Messrs. Curtis, Roberts, and Co. 15,
   Lombard-Street; Commercial Bank, Messrs. J. & W. Perfect, and G. Smith, draw
   on Messrs. Sir J. Lubbock, and Co. 11, Mansion-House Street; Union Bank,
   Messrs. Nicholson, Brown, and Co. draw on Messrs. T. & S. Nicholson, Janson,
   and Co. 32, Abchurch Lane.  --Principal Inns, Hotel, White Horse, Bull and
   Mouth, Golden-Lion, Rose and Crown, and Kings Arms.  --Pop. 48,603.  There
   are five Churches, the Parish Church, called the Old Church, is a vicarage,
   dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 38L. 0s. 2.5d.
   To which there are 25 Patrons.  St. Johns Church, is a perpetual curacy,
   value, p.r. 120L.  Patrons, the Vicar of the Old Church, the Mayor, and three
   senior Aldermen.  The Holy Trinity is a perpetual curacy.  Patrons, the Vicar
   and Curate of St. Johns, and the Recorder of Leeds.  St. Paul's is a
   perpetual curacy, value, p.r. +120L.  It was built by the Rev. Milnes
   Atkinson, who has the Patronage for two turns, then the Vicar of St. Peters.
   St. James Chapel, built by the Rev.  --- King, who possesses the same right
   to presentation as is given over St. Paul's.  --There are also two Churches
   now building, under the Million Act.
 
           St. Peters Church is of considerable antiquity, but the name of its
   founder and the time of its foundation, are unknown.
           The parish and borough of Leeds are nearly co-extensive, extending 
   about 7 miles from north to south, and 7.5 miles from east to west, and 
   containing a population of 83,746, about l4,000 of which are employed in 
   manufactures.  The town of Leeds is situated upon the river Aire, which runs
   through it, and covers an eminence gently rising from that river to the upper 
   end of the town, and falling with an easy slope to the east and west, as well 
   as to the south.  The breadth of the town from north to south, is nearly a
   mile, and it extends not less than a mile and a half in length, from east to 
   west.  The river Aire is navigable from the Humber to the town; which river
   having a direct communication with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, within a 
   quarter of mile of the town, now affords an easy communication to both the 
   eastern and western Seas, whilst the various branch Canals open immediate
   access to every place of importance in the island.  The neighbourhood abounds
   with coal, the very soul of steam engines; and which has of late years so 
   much tended to the increase of wealth and population.  The river Aire
   supplies the town with water, which is brought by a tunnel from the Kings
   Mills to the water-works near the bridge.  Leeds, uniting the advantages of
   water and coal, has long been distinguished as one of the first manufacturing
   towns in the county, particularly in woollens: yet there are but few
   manufacturers in the town, and these chiefly in the outskirts.  Though now
   only considered of importance as a manufacturing town, it is an ancient
   place; the earliest mention of which is by Bede, above 1,000 years ago,
   --Leyland says, "it is a pretty market-town, but not so quick as Bradford."
   --It once had a Castle, probably built by one of the Lacys, who was possessed
   of extensive lands here, about the reign of the Conqueror.  This Castle was
   besieged by King Stephen, in his march towards Scotland in 1139: and in it
   Richard II, was confined, previous to his barbarous murder in Pontefract
   Castle.  The site of this Castle, of which not a vestige remains, was
   situated at Mill-Hill.  Leeds had its share of troubles that took place in
   the contest between the King and Parliament, during the reign of Charles I.
   when many skirmishes and battles took place hereabouts, particulars of which
   may be seen in Fairfax's Memoirs of himself.  The borough of Leeds, though
   not a parliamentary borough, is ancient.  It was incorporated by Charles I.
   in 1682; a second charter was granted by Charles II.; and a third by James
   II. in 1684.  The second was restored by William and Mary, in 1689, under
   which the town is now governed: viz. by a mayor, twelve aldermen, and
   twenty-four common councilmen, assisted by a recorder and town's clerk.  The
   corporation has no peculiar privileges or restrictive laws, as at York,
   Beverley, and Ripon, &c. but every man is at liberty to exercise any trade or
   profession he chooses, and in what part of the town he likes.  The mayor and
   aldermen have within the borough the same power as is derived by a commission
   of the peace.  A Sessions for the borough is held every three months, at
   which the mayor presides - and a general Sessions for the West-Riding is held
   here at Michaelmas.  The town of Leeds is in general well-built, the streets
   in the upper part of the town, towards Kirkgate, are narrow, but in other
   parts broad and spacious, particularly Briggate, which is not only broad, but
   its length from the bridge to the top of cross parish, is not less than half
   a mile; and as soon as the old buildings attached to the Moot-Hall are
   removed, of which there is now every appearance, is may vie with almost any
   street in the kingdom.  The west part of the town may be considered as the
   new town, where the most respectable part of the inhabitants reside, and
   where there are several open squares, the areas of which and in some cases
   planted, in others used as tenter grounds.
           The first house that was built of brick, in this beginning of the 
   reign of Charles I. retains the name of Red-House, to this day; and in this
   house that unhappy monarch was lodged, while in the hands of the Scots: it is 
   situated near to Burley Bar.
           Amongst the public buildings that claim particular notice, will be 
   found the Mixed Cloth Hall, erected by subscription in 1758.  It consists of
   a main body and two wings; 127.5 yards in length, and 66 in breadth, it is 
   divided into six long streets or aisles, and encloses an open area.  Each
   street contains two rows of stands, the freehold property of separate 
   manufacturers.  Each stand is 22 inches in front, and the whole number is
   1770.  This building forms the principal part of the south side of a square,
   the west side of which is denominated East Parade; the north, South Parade; 
   and the east, Park Row.  In 1810, an additional story was erected on the
   north side of this Hall and is used principally for the sale of ladies
   cloths, in the undyed state.  The White Cloth Hall, built in 1774, is a large
   square building, 297 feet in length, and 210 in breadth; divided into five
   streets, each containing two rows of stands, the whole number of which is
   1,210.  Over this building is an elegant suit of Assembly-Rooms.  The cloth
   market, at both Halls, is held on Tuesdays and Saturdays; on which days none
   but merchants are permitted to buy, or even to look at the pieces.  The
   commencement of the market is announced by the ringing of a bell; upon which,
   in a few minutes, without noise, hurry, or the least disorder, the whole
   market is filled, each manufacturer standing behind his own goods, and the
   sales immediately commence; after it has continued an hour, a second bell
   rings, and after the expiration of a quarter of an hour, a third bell gives
   notice that the market must be cleared.  The last bell continues to ring
   about five minutes; and should any merchant remain in the Hall after it has
   done ringing, he is subject to the penalty of five shillings, and for every
   five minutes afterwards, he must forfeit the same sum.  The Mixed Cloth Hall
   opens at half-past eight in summer; nine in spring and autumn; and half-past
   nine in winter.  The White Cloth Hall opens when the other closes.  Here is
   also a Cloth Hall, for the accommodation of irregulars, who have not served a
   regular apprenticeship to the trade, and are therefore not permitted to sell 
   their cloth in the other Halls.
           The general Infirmary is a very handsome and spacious edifice, 
   situated in a line with the mixed Cloth Hall; it was built by subscription in 
   1768, and open for the reception of patients in 1771 
           The Philosophical Hall.  -A Literary and Philosophical Institution,
   for the promotion of literature, science, and the arts; situated in Park Row; 
   a neat stone edifice of the Grecian order, containing a spacious 
   Lecture-room, Library, and Museum, with Laboratory and other conveniences; 
   built by subscription, from the design, and under the direction of Mr. R. D.
   Chantrell, in 1820.
           The Free Grammar-School situated in North-Street, was originally 
   founded and endowed by Sir William Sheafield, by Will, dated 6th March, 1552. 
   The original school being in a very inconvenient situation, was removed by 
   the munificence of John Harrison, Esq. alderman, the common benefactor of the
   town, to its present situation, where he erected the present edifice; and in 
   1692, Godfrey Lawson, Esq. added a new apartment.  This School has furnished
   several eminent men, both to the Church and State.  Dr. Samuel Pallam,
   afterwards Archbishop of Tuam, was the first master.  Since that period, the
   Midras system has been introduced; and the plan of instruction similar to 
   that which has been used in the Charter-house School.  A third master has
   been added for the instruction of two lowest forms, and the salaries of the 
   others made so as to "secure them respectable and independent situations, 
   whilst every care has been taken to provide for the due exertions of their 
   duty."  It is open for all boys within the borough, free of expense.
           The new Court-House and Prison, with Rotation-Office, &c. situated at
   the bottom of Park Row, built in 1812, is one of the handsomest public 
   buildings in the town.  The Philosophical and Literary Society's Hall, a
   modern edifice, facing the Park Row, ranks amongst the public buildings of 
   the place.  The Moot-Hall, in which all the public meetings have for many
   years been held, is situated at the north-end of Briggate, and was erected in 
   1713, in the front of which is a marble statue of Queen Anne, presented to 
   the town by Alderman Milner; and executed by Carpenter, of London.
           Near to Buslingthorpe, Horse Barracks are now erecting, for which 
   purpose, a grant was made by Parliament of 28,OO0L.  The site of the
   building, with the Parade ground, &c. occupies about eleven acres of ground.
   To the public institutions already named, we may add the Baths - two 
   Subscription Libraries - the Theatre, erected in 1771 - Concert-Room - and 
   Riding-School.
           In 1653, John Harrison, Esq. a native of Leeds, founded and endowed
   an Hospital for forty indigent an aged women.  To these, others have been
   erected, pursuant to the Will of Arthur Ikin, Esq.  -the former habitations
   being now improved, together, afford a comfortable asylum for sixty-four 
   aged men and women - each of whom receives a stipend of 10L. per annum.
           Mr. Harrison also built and endowed St. John's Church, built the Free
   School, and erected a Cross for the convenience of the market.
           Potter's Alms-Houses, established in 1737, by a widow of that name, 
   for the widows of ten decayed tradesmen, who are each allowed an annuity of 
   twelve guineas per annum.
           Jenkinson's Alms Houses -- founded by Josiah Jenkinson, about 1643; 
   He devised unto Feoffees, &c. eight dwelling-houses at Mill-Hill, for
   Alms-houses, and endowed the same with a farm at Great Woodhouse.  They were
   re-built at the beginning of the present century; and each dwelling is now 
   occupied by a poor woman, who receives an annual stipend of 5L.
           The Charity-School established in 1705, and removed to the Chapel in 
   St. John's yard in 1726 -- in which sixty poor girls are taught, in the same
   manner and subject, to the same discipline, as a National School; they are 
   annually furnished with clothing, made almost by themselves.  -The House of
   Recovery, Vicar-Lane, built by public subscription in 1802.  -The Benevolent,
   of Stranger's Friend Society, for the relief of the distressed of all 
   religious denominations.  -Two National Schools, on the plan of Bell and
   Lancaster.  -Three Schools of Industry, Sunday Schools, two or three Clothing
   Societies, &c.  -There are not less than eighteen Chapels, &c. for dissenters
   of various denominations.
           Of literary men born at Leeds, we have the following - Ralph 
   Thoresby, a very eminent and learned antiquary, born in 1658.  He was the son
   of a respectable merchant; and after some education at the Grammar-School of 
   this place, he was sent to London for improvement.  He was a great master of
   the antiquities of his own country, was skilled in genealogy and heraldry,
   and possessed uncommon knowledge of coins and medals.  His great works is
   "Ducatus Leodiensis," published in 1715, folio.  He died in 1725.
           William Lodge, a spirited and tasteful engraver, was born here in 
   1649.  He went abroad with Lord Bellasis, and meeting with Barris's "Viaggio
   Pittoresco," he translated it, and added heads of the painters, of his own 
   engraving, and a map of Italy.  Returning to England, he assisted Dr. Lister,
   of York, in drawing various subjects of natural history.  He died at Leeds,
   in 1689.
           John Berkenhout, a miscellaneous writer, was the son of a Dutch 
   merchant, who had settled here.  He was educated in the Grammar-School of
   this place, and was intended for the mercantile profession, which he quitted, 
   and entered first into the military service of Prussia, and next into that of 
   England.  In 1760, he went to Edinburgh and studied physic, but took his
   Doctor's degree at Leyden, in 1765.  -While at Edinburgh he published his
   "Clavis Anglicat Linguae" He published several works, in which he has 
   distinguished himself by some valuable compendia of natural history.  He was
   a man of lively and versatile talents; and dies in 1791, aged 60.  -Biog.
   Dict.
           Newcombe Cappe, a dissenting Divine, was born here in 1732.  He was
   educated under Dr. Doddridge, at Northampton, and finished his studies at
   Glasgow; after which, he became minister of a congregation at York.  He
   published some single Sermons; a Selection of Psalms; Remarks in Vindication 
   of Dr. Priestley; and Discourses on the Providence and Government of God,
   8vo.  In 1802, were published, Critical Remarks on many important ports of
   Scripture; to which were prefixed, Memoirs of his Life, by his widow, 
   Catharine Cappe, 2 vols.  He died at York in 1800.
           Dr. James Scott was born here in 1738; his father was minister of
   Trinity church, and vicar of Bardsey; he was educated at Bradford School, and 
   admitted pensioner of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, in 1752, but afterwards 
   removed to Trinity-College.  In 1771, he was presented to the rectory of
   Simonburn, in Northumberland, and in 1775, took the degree of D. D.  Dr.
   Scott published ten occasional Sermons; three Seatonian Prize Poems, &c. and
   was the author of the Letters signed Anti-Sejanus, which were published in 
   the public Advertiser.  --Nichols' Lit. Anecdotes.
           Christopher Saxton, the choreographer, if not a native of the town,
   he appears to have been born within the parish.
           Mr. Benjamin Wilson, an eminent painter, was a native of this place;
   he flourished about the year 1760, and was particularly distinguished for his 
   Etchings, in imitation of Rembrandt.
           Leeds produces three weekly Newspapers, the Intelligence, The
   Mercury, and the Independent; all being decidedly party papers, each has its 
   votaries.
  
LEE-FAIR, or GREEN, in the township of West-Ardsley, and parish of Woodkirk, 
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 6 from Leeds.
   --No Market.  --Fairs, August 24, and September 17, for horses, horned
   cattle, &c.  These fairs are held on a Common adjoining.
 
LEES or LEYS, in the township and parish of Bingley, upper division of Skyrack; 
   6 miles from Bingley, 8 from Bradford.
  
LEES-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Thornhill; 2 miles from Dewsbury,
   7 from Wakefield, 
  
LEIGHTRIDCE, ham. in the township of Fixby, and parish of Huddersfield; 2.5
   miles from Huddersfield, 6 from Halifax.
 
LENERTON, ham. in the township and parish of Sherburn; 5 miles from Pontefract,
   7 from Tadcaster.
  
LENIKER, ham. in the township of Dent, and parish of Sedbergh; 4.5 miles from
   Sedbergh, 9 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 
  
LEPTON, GREAT, in the parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and 
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Huddersfield, 9 from Wakefield, 
   10.5 from Penistone.  --Pop. 2,729.
  
LEPTON, LITTLE, in the township of Great-Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton, 
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4.25 miles 
   from Huddersfield.
  
LETWELL, in the parish of St. John's, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberties of St. Peter and Tickhill; 5.5 miles from Tickhill and Worksop,
   (Notts.) 9 from Rotherham.  --Pop. 135.  The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual
   curacy, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. !40L.  Patron, the Chancellor
   of York Cathedral.
  
LEVELS, HIGH and LOW, in the township and parish of Hatfield, lower-division of 
   Strafforth and Tickhill;  This place is named Levels, from the flatness of
   the country, containing some hundred acres of land divided into farms, 
   situated on the right of the road leading from Hatfield to Thorne, on the 
   borders of Lincolnshire.
  
LEVENTHORPE-HALL, (the seat of Thomas Ikin, Esq.) in the township and parish of 
   Swillington; 6 miles from Leeds, 7 from Wakefield.
 
LEWDEN, f.h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield, 2.5 miles
     from Barnsley.
  
LIDGET, ham. in the township of Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 4.25 miles
   from Huddersfield, 
 
LIDGATE, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 3 miles
   from Sheffield, 9 from Rotherham.
 
LYDIATE, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) Agbrigg- 
   division of Agbrigg and Morley; 8 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 11 from 
   Manchester, (ditto) 14 from Huddersfield.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Ann, value, p.r. !88L.  Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale.
 
LIGHTCLIFFE, ham. in the township of Hipperholme, and parish of Halifax,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; (New-House, the 
   seat of William Priestley, Esq.) 3.75 miles from Halifax, 6 from Bradford, 7 
   from Huddersfield.  The Church built in 1529, is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Matthew, value, !117L.  Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.
 
LILLEY, in the township and parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg 
   and Morley; 5 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Wakefield.
  
LIMLEY, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 10 miles from Masham.
  
LINDERICK, ham. (extraparochial) in the lower-division of Claro; 2 miles from
   Ripon.  --Pop. 62
 
LINDLEY, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of Cawood, 
   Wistow, and Otley; 4 miles from Otley, 11 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 178.
 
LINDLEY, ham. in the township of Quarmby-with-Lindley, and parish of
   Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 3 
   miles from Huddersfield, 6 from Halifax.  --Pop. included in Quarmby.
  
LINDLEY, OLD, ham. in the township of Stainland, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
LINFITS, 3 or 4 h. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale; 5 miles
   from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 
 
LINFIT-HALL, cotts. in the township of Linthwaite, and parish of Almondbury,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Huddersfield.
  
LINFIT-LANE, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkburton; 4.75 miles from
   Huddersfield, 8 from Wakefield.
  
LINGARDS, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 5 
   miles from Huddersfiel4, 19.5 from Manchester.  --Pop. 809.
 
LINGBOB, s.h. in the township of Wilsden, and parish of Bradford; 3 miles from
   Bradford.
 
LINGODELL, f.h. in the township of Throapham, and parish of Saint John; 5 miles
   from Tickhill and Worksop, (Notts.) 
 
LINGILL-BRIDGE, s.h. in the township and parish of Horton; 11 miles from Settle.
 
LINGWELL-GATE, in the township of Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe, and parish of 
   Wakefield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 3.5 
   miles from Wakefield, 6.5 from Leeds.
 
          Here "were found in 1697, certain clay moulds for Roman Coins, all of 
   such Emperors in whose reigns the money is known to have been counterfeited.
   This place takes its name from the Lingones, quartered at Olicana, Ilkley, 
   and Wall, a corruption of vallum."  --Gough's Camden.
           In March, 1821 Mr. Pitts, of Wakefield, presented a number of clay
   moulds similar to the above, which were found at Lingwell Gate, in a field in 
   the occupation of Mr. Spurr; they were turned up with a ploughshare, as many
   as would fill a wheel-barrow.  Several coins were found in the moulds.  He
   also sent the Society sixteen Roman Copper Coins, found in an earthen vessel, 
   in a field about a mile from Lingwell Gate, on the estate of the Marquis of 
   Hertford.  Mr. Pitts also sent some to the Society in 1820, vide his letter
   in Archaeologia, vol. XVII. and Appendix to ditto, vol. XIX.
 
LINLANDS, s.h. (the ancient seat of the Rastricks, of Rastrick) in the township
   of Rastrick, and parish of Halifax; 4 miles from Halifax.
  
LINTHWAITE, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 2,127.
 
LINTON, a parish-town, in the east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; (the 
   seat of Mrs. Atkinson) 7 miles from Kettlewell, 9 from Skipton, 10 from
   Pateley Bridge, 44 from York.  --Pop. 313.  The Church is a rectory,
   dedicated to St. Michael, in the deanry of Craven, value, in two medieties of
   16L.   each, p.r. first mediety, !100L. second ditto, !120L.  Patron, the
   King.
 
           Here is an excellent Hospital, founded and endowed by Richard 
   Fountain Esq. of Enfield, Middlesex, a native of the place, who having
   acquired a large fortune in London, by Will, dated July 15, 1721, ordered an 
   estate to be purchased, out of which 26L. per annum, should be equally
   divided among six poor old women or men, in the parish of Linton.  They each
   now receive upwards of twelve guineas per annum, besides the use of a large 
   garden.  The founder also left 20L. to the minister or ministers of the
   parish, provided they constantly reside in the parish, and read prayers twice 
   in the week to the poor persons in the hospital.  The building is after the
   style of Sir John Vanburgh, and is said to have cost 1,500L.  The
   parish-church is at some distance from the village, on the banks of the 
   Wharfe.
  
LINTON, in the parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro; 1.5 miles from 
   Wetherby, 7 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 167.
  
LINTON-SPRING, (the seat of William Middleton, Esq.) in the township of Linton, 
   and parish of Spofforth; 2 miles from Wetherby, 6.5 from Knaresborough.
 
LITTLE-COMMON, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield; 4 miles from Sheffield.
 
LITTLE-FENTON.  --See Fenton, Little.
 
LITTLETHORPE, or THORPE, in the township of Whitcliffe-with-Thorpe, and parish 
   and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; (the residence of Major 
   Brooke) 1.5 miles from Ripon, 6 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. included in
   Whitcliffe.
  
LITTLE-TOWN, ham. in the township of Liversedge, and parish of Birstall; 8 miles
   from Halifax, Wakefield, and Leeds.
  
LITTLE-TOWN, ham. in the township of Dent, and parish of Sedbergh; 3 miles from
   Dent, 6.5 from Sedbergh.
  
LITTLE WORTH, ham, in the township of Monkbretton, and parish of Royston; 2 
   miles from Barnsley.
  
LITTON, in the parish of Arnecliff, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 8
   miles from Kettlewell, 11 from Settle, 18 from Skipton.  --Pop. 102.
 
           This is a small village, that gives name to the dale, called 
   Littondale, in which the Abbots of Fountains had several estates.  These
   estates, as well as three in Langstrothdale, were sold by the Gresham family 
   to the second Earl of Cumberland.  The manorial and forest rights of
   Littondale and Langstrothdale are the property of his Grace the Duke of 
   Devonshire, as representative of the last male line of the Cliffords.
   -Whitaker.
  
LIVERSEDGE, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 7.5 miles from Halifax, 8.5 from Wakefield.  --Pop.
   4,259.
 
           Here is a church, which has lately been built by the Rev. Hammond
   Robertson, A.M. called Christ's Church, who endowed it with five acres of
   land; the patronage of which, by Act of Parliament, is vested in himself and 
   his heirs for ever.
           The Neviles, for many descents, had a Manor, Park, and principal 
   Mansion here.  Of the last, there are considerable remains, which prove it to
   have been an Hall-house, with a centre, and two wings, about the time of 
   Henry VII.  --Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.  It is now only a farm-house.
 
           In this township, the chief stand was made against Luddism, by Mr.
   William Cartwright, April 11, 1812, who gallantly and successfully defended 
   his Mill at Rawfolds, by small garrison, consisting only of himself, four of 
   his workmen, and five soldiers, against a whole host of Luddites.  On the
   28th of the same month, Mr. Horsfall was shot by a party of these misguided
   men; and before January following, sixty persons were apprehended and
   committed to the county gaol, to take their trial on various charges
   connected with the disturbances created by General Ludd, and his associates:
   seventeen of them were executed; six transported; and the rest were either
   liberated on bail or acquitted.
  
LOBWOOD, f.h. in the township of Draughton, and parish of Skipton; 3.5 miles
   from Skipton.
  
LOCKWOOD, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, a 
   part in the liberty of Wakefield; 1.5 miles from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 1,881.
 
           William Lockwood, of Lockwood, Esq. was slain in his own house here,
   by Sir John Elland, of Elland, and his adherents, in the reign of Edward III. 
   --Watson's Halifax.
  
LODGE, ham. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 6
   miles from Kettlewell.
 
LODGE, 2 f.h. in the township of Settle, and parish of Giggleswick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 1.25 miles from Settle.
  
LODGE, (the residence of Matthew Thompson, Esq.) in the township of Manningham, 
   and parish of Bradford; 1.25 miles from Bradford.
  
LOFTHOUSE, in the parish of Rothwell, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; (Lofthouse-Hall, the seat of Benjamin Dealtry, Esq.) 
   3.75 miles from Wakefield, 6 from Leeds.  --Pop. including Canton, 1,396,
   which being united, form a township.
  
LOFTHOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Harewood; 1.5 miles from Harewood.
  
LOFTHOUSE-HILL, (the seat of Charles Slingsby, Esq.) in the township and parish 
   of Staveley, lower-division of Claro; 3 miles from Knaresborough, 4 from
   Boroughbridge.
  
LOFTHOUSES, or LOFTUS, (in Nidderdale) in the township of Fountains-Earth, and 
   parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower-division of Claro; 8 miles from 
   Pateley Bridge, 9 from Masham.
  
LONG-DRAX,  --See Drax, Long.
  
LONGILL, 2 f.h. in the township of Wigglesworth, and parish of Long-Preston,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Settle.
  
LONGLEY, in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; (the 
   seat of Adamson Parker, Esq.) 3 miles from Sheffield.
 
LONGLEY-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish Almondbury; 1 mile from
   Huddersfield.  An ancient seat of the ancestors of Sir John Ramsden, Bart.
  
LONG-MARSTON,(Ainsty) a parish-town; 6.75 miles from Wetherby, 7 from York, 8 
   from Tadcaster.  --Pop, 388.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to
   All-Saints, value, 24L. 3s. 9d.  Patron, Paul Bielby Thompson, Esq.
 
           Near this village is the field, called Marston Moor where, on the 
   second of July, 1644, Prince Rupert, a third time, by his excess of valour 
   and defect of conduct, lost the royal army, and had a victory wrested out of 
   his hands; after he had all the advantage he could desire.
  
LONG-PRESTON, a parish-town, in the west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 
   4.5 miles from Settle, 7 from Gisburn, 11.5 from Skipton, 15 from Colne, 
   (Lanc.) 53 from York.  --No Market.  --Fairs, March 1, and September 4, for
   horned cattle, &c.  --Principal Inn, Boar's Head.  --Pop. 733.  The Church is
   a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Craven, value, 10L. 18s.
   11.5d.  Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.
 
           The Prior and Canons of Bolton appear to have presented to this 
   Church, ever since the endowment of the vicarage, in 1303, to the dissolution 
   of their house; when the rectory and advowson were granted by Henry VIII. to
   Christ church, Oxford.  In this Church was a chantry, dedicated to our Lady
   and St. Anne, founded by Richard Hammerton, Knight, according to the return
   of chantries made by Archbishop Holgate, and valued at 5L. 6s. 8d. per annum.
   --Hist. Craven.
           Here are ten Alms-Houses, with a Chapel for reading prayers, founded 
   by James Knowles, by Will, dated 1613-14, for ten poor men or women, and 
   endowed by him with land, worth, in 1786, 49L. 15s. per annum.
  
LONGROYD-BRIDGE, in the township and parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of 
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from Huddersfield, 8 from 
   Halifax.
  
LONGROYD-BRIDGE HOUSE, (the seat of John Fisher, Esq,) in the township of 
   Lockwood, and parish of Almondbury; 1 mile from Huddersfield.
  
LONGSIDE, ham. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard;
   6 miles from Pateley Bridge.
  
LONGWOOD, in the parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 
   2.5 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax.  --Pop. 1,942.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mark, value, p.r. !116L. 8s.  Patron, the
   Vicar of Huddersfield.
  
LONGWOOD-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Huddersfield; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.
  
LORDLAND, NORTH and SOUTH, 2 ham. in the township of Dent, and parish of
   Sedbergh, wapentake of Ewcross; 1 mile from Dent, 4 from Sedbergh.
  
LOSCOE-GRANGE, 2 h. (the seat of the Rev.  --- Brown) in the township of Aikton,
   and parish of Featherstone; 3 miles from Pontefract.
  
LOTHERSDEN, or LOTHERSDALE, in the parish of Carlton, east-division and liberty 
   of Staincliffe; 4 miles from Skipton, 6 from Colne, (Lanc.)  8 from Keighley. 
 
          "It is," says Dr. Whitaker, "a dreary valley, running up into Pinhow,
   as far the confines of the parish of Whalley. (Lanc.)  It is a distinct
   Manor, the property of Lord George Cavendish".
  
LOTHERTON, in the parish of Sherburn, wapentake of Barkston Ash; (Lotherton 
   Hall, the seat of John Raper, Esq.) 1 mile from Abberford, 5 from Tadcaster, 
   8 from Wetherby.  --Pop. including a part of Abberford, 427, which being
   united, form a township.
  
LOVERSALL, in the parish and soke of Doncaster, lower-division of Strafforth and 
   Tickhill; (the residence of the Rev. Alexander Cook) 3 miles from Doncaster,
   4 from Tickhill, 10 from Rotherham.  --Pop. 131.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, value, p.r. !37L. 4s.  Patron, the Vicar of Doncaster.
 
           The Church of Loversall was repaired in 1783, by Mr. Henry Overton,
   who, in pulling down the porch, destroyed a curious piece of antiquity over 
   the doorway, bearing an Arabic inscription, (in English, obey the lord.) 
           In the church-yard is an ancient and singular tomb, probably 
   belonging one of the Knights of St. John, of Jerusalem.
           About one mile northward of Loversall, near Alverley, is St. Helen's
   Well, a place of considerable resort for the benefit of bathing.  A circular
   Stone Bath was built by the late William Dixon Loversall, Esq. and a small
   house adjoining, for the convenience of bathers.  The Bath is supplied with
   water in a few minutes, by a strong spring on the spot.  A person attends,
   from Loversall, daily, during the summer season, as an assistant to the 
   bathers, who are accommodated with dresses gratis.  -Hist. Doncaster.
  
LOW-LAITHES, (the seat of Mrs. Smithson) in the township of
   Ossett-with-Gawthorpe, and parish of Dewsbury; 2 miles from Dewsbury.
  
LUCAN-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Sharow, and parish of Ripon; 1.5 miles from
   Ripon.
  
LUDDENDEN, in the townships of Warley and Midgeley, and parish of Halifax, 
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from 
   Halifax, 11 from Keighley.  The Church, which stands in Midgeley, built about
   1469, and rebuilt in 1816, is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !78L. 13s. 4d.
   Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.
  
LUDDENDEN-FOOT, ham. in the townships of Warley and Midgeley, and parish of
   Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Halifax, 7.5 from Todmorden.
  
LUMBY, in the township of Huddleston-with-Lumby, and parish of Sherburn, 
   wapentake off Barkston-Ash; 7 miles from Pontefract, 5 from Tadcaster, 12
   from Selby.  --Pop. included in Huddleston.
  
LUND, ham. in the township of Gateforth, and parish of Brayton; 4 miles from
   Selby.
  
LUNDS-GREEN, scat. h. in the township and parish of Pannal; 5.5 miles from
   Knaresborough.
  
LUPSETT-HALL, s.h. in the township of Alverthorpe, and parish and liberty of
   Wakefield; (the seat of Daniel Gaskill, Esq.) 1 mile from Wakefield, 4 from 
   Dewsbury.
MACHON-BANK, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield;
   2 miles from Sheffield.
 
           This place was once the residence of a family, who bore the name of 
   Machon, whom we find in the visitations of the seventeenth century.  John
   Machon died here in 1602.  --Hunter's Hallam.
  
MAKIN-PLACE, f.h. in the township of Soyland, and parish of Halifax; 5 miles
   from Halifax.
  
MALHAM, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale, west-division and liberty of 
   Staincliffe; 6 miles from Settle, 9 from Kettlewell, 12 from Skipton.
   --Fairs, July 1, and Oct 15, for sheep.  --Pop. 262.
 
           Malham, situated in a deep and verdant vale, is chiefly remarkable,
   on account of an immense crag of limestone, called Malham Cove. It is 286
   feet high, stretching in the shape of the segment of a large circle across
   the whole valley, and forming a termination at once so august and tremendous,
   that the imagination can scarcely figure any form or scale of rock within the
   bounds of probability that shall go beyond it; at the bottom of the Cove is
   an outlet for the waters of the lake above.  In rainy seasons, however, the
   overflowings of the Lake spread themselves over the shelving surface of the
   rocks below, and, precipitating from the centre of the Cove, form a
   tremendous cataract of nearly 300 feet.  Malham Tarn, or Lake, the former
   word signifying in the dialect of the north of England, a small Lake, is of a
   circular form, and not less than a mile in diameter.  Its situation is high
   and bleak: but is inestimable for its fishery of Trout and Perch, which grow
   to an unusual size.

           This Lake may be considered as the source of the Aire; which bursting 
   out in an abundant torrent from among the noblest rocks in Britain, instantly 
   declines into a silent and insignificant stream, but in its course towards 
   the sea, becomes, in a mercantile point of view, one of the principal rivers 
   in the county.
           Not far from this village is Jennett's Cave, so called from a
   supposed Queen or Governess of a numerous tribe of Fairies, which tradition
   assures us, anciently resorted here: it is a spacious and loomy cavern,
   surrounded with evergreens; no place could be more calculated to produce
   those fanciful ideas, than this ivy circled Mansion, when visited by
   moonlight, where imagination might see
                   "Aerial forms athwart the solemn gloom, 
                   "Tremendous sweep, or seem to sweep along." 
           Mr. Hurtley, the author of "A Tour to the Caves," is a native of
   Malham.
  
MALMAM-WATER HOUSE, (a seat of Lord Ribblesdale) in the township of Malham-Moor, 
   and parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale; 2 miles from Malham.
  
MALHAM-MOOR, a township, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale, west-division and 
   liberty of Staincliffe; 5.5 miles from Settle, 8.5 from Kettlewell, 13.5 from 
   Skipton.  --Pop. 88.
  
MALON, or MALIN-BRIDGE, in the township of Wadsley and parish of Ecclesfield, 
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 3 miles from Sheffield.
  
MALTBY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty 
   of Tickhill; (the seat of John Cook, Esq.) 4.5 miles from Tickhill, 7.5 from 
   Rotherham, 13 from Sheffield, 47 from York.  --Pop. 679.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, in the deanry of Doncaster, value,
   +4L. 13s. 4d. p.r. 30L.  Patron, the Earl of Scarborough.
 
           Here is School founded by one of the Earls of Castleton, and repaired 
   by his heirs.  Within the communion rails of this Church lies an infant son
   of George Viscount Castleton, who died in 1655.
  
MALSIS-HALL, s.h. in the township of Glusburn, and parish of Kildwick; 5.5 miles
   from Skipton and Keighley.
 
           This was formerly the seat of a family of the name of Copley, and 
   according to Dr. Whitaker, was considered as the Manor house of Sutton, "for,
   by inquisition taken 34 Henry VIII. it was found that Alvary Copley was
   seized of the Manor of Sutton, or Malseyes, held of William Vavasour, Esq. as
   of his Manor of Addingham."  It is now the residence of Mr. William Spencer.
  
MANINGHAM, in the parish of Bradford, Morley division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; (Maningham-House, the seat of E.L. Lister, Esq.) 1.5
   from Bradford, 8.5 from Halifax and Keighley.  --Pop. 2,471.
 
           Here, in the reign of Edward III. John Northorp held, of John of
   Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, three messuages, and six oxgangs of land, by the 
   service of his attending upon the said Duke, or his bailiff, with a lance and 
   a hunting dog, for the space of thirty days, when they should pass by 
   Bradford in their way to Pontefract castle, having yeoman's board, one penny 
   per day for himself, and a half penny for his dog.
 
MANKINHOLES, ham. in the township of Langfield, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 5.5 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 
 
MANSTON, f.h. in the township of Austhorpe, and parish of Whitkirk; 4.5 miles
   from Leeds.
 
MANTLE-YATE, or GATE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale,
   (Lanc.) 6 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 
 
MANIWELL HEIGHTS, ham. in the township of Wilsden and parish of Bradford; 4
   miles from Keighley and Bingley.
  
MANN-VILLA; (the seat of Mrs. Mann) in the township of Horton, and parish of
   Bradford, to which it adjoins.
  
MAPPLEWELL; in the township and parish of Darton, wapentake of Staincross, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Barnsley.
  
MARLEY, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township and parish of Bingley;  2 miles from
   Bingley.
  
MARKENFIELD-HALL, f.h. (extraparochial), in the township of Markenfield-
   with-Wallerthwaite, lower-division of Claro, liberty of Ripon; 3.5 miles from 
   Ripon.
 
           This was once the seat of a family of that name, of whom, Sir Ninian, 
   was present at the battle of Flodden-Field, in the year 1513; it is now in
   the hands of his successor.
 
               "Next went Sir Ninian Markenville, 
               In armour-coat, of cunning work; 
               The next went Sir John Normanville, 
               With him the citizens of York." 
 
       Sir Thomas Markenfield joining in the rebellion against Queen Elizabeth, 
   in the year 1569, his estate was forfeited; and he, with many others, was 
   obliged to take refuge in a foreign country.  The estate was granted to
   Chancellor Egerton, and remained in that family till it was purchased of the 
   Duke of Bridgewater, by the first Lord Grantley.
           It was moated round, and three-fourths of the moat is still filled 
   with water.  It is now occupied as a farm-house, the turrets of which are
   seen from the Leeds road, on the left hand, as you pass from Harrogate to 
   Ripon.
  
MARKINGTON, in the parish and liberty of Ripon lower-division of Claro; 4 miles 
   from Ripley, 4.5 from Ripon.  --Pop. including Wallerthwaite, 457, which
   being united, form a township.
 
          Here is a School founded by Mary Reynard, in 1795, who directed that 
   the Master should read a sermon, liturgy, &c. to the inhabitants of the
   village every Sunday afternoon.  She endowed it with 50L. by subscriptions
   and other means.  The master's salary amounts to 6 or 7L.  Mrs. Lawrence, of
   Studley-Hall, gives 4L. per annum, for educating twelve children.  The master
   receives six free scholars from Markington and Ingerthorpe.  --Commis.
   Report.
 
MARR, a parish-town, in the lower division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty 
   of Tickhill; 4 miles from Doncaster, 11 from Barnsley, 40 from York.  --Pop.
   162.  The Chapel is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Helen, in the deanry
   of Doncaster, value, 4L. 8s. 4d.  p.r. 100L.  Patron, Lord Rendlesham.
 
           In the Church is a monument, with a Latin inscription, to the family
   of Lewys, ancestors to Lady Elizabeth Hastings, of charitable memory.
           In this village was born, John Marre, a Carmelite Friar.  Hence he
   went to Oxford, where the University bestowed much honour upon him.  He wrote
   against the opinions of John Wickliffe.  He died March 1407, and was buried
   in the convent of Carmelites at Doncaster.  --Fuller.
  
MARR-GRANGE, f.h. in the township and parish of Marr, liberty of Tickhill; 3.5
   miles from Doncaster.
  
MARSDEN, in the parishes of Almondbury and Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of 
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Huddersfield, 15 from 
   Manchester.  --Pop. in Almondbury, 1,708, in Huddersfield, 622, total, 2,330,
   The Church is a perpetual curacy under Almondbury, value, p.r. 80L.
  
MARSH, ham. in the township and parish of Huddersfield; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield, 5 from Halifax.
  
MARSHAW-BRIDGE, in the township of Erringden, and parish of Halifax, 
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 9 miles from 
   Halifax.
 
           The Chapel, which was built here in 1814, and consecrated by the 
   present Archbishop of York, Oct. 1815, is entitled the Chapel of St. John, in
   the Wilderness, and to which the Vicar of Halifax presents.  It is situated
   in a remote, and obscure valley, not devoid of romantic beauty, called
   Turvin.
           The native propensity of the inhabitants, and the almost inaccessible 
   nature of the place, about half a century ago, rendered this valley, and the 
   adjoining wild, unhappily notorious, and at length attracted the notice of 
   government: for here the current gold coin of England and Portugal, was 
   clipped and defaced, while the clippings and filings, during several years, 
   were melted down and restruck in dies.  They had no screw-presses for the
   purpose, but fixed their dies in heavy blocks.  The impression was produced
   by the stroke of sledge hammers, which were nightly heard on every side, no 
   one daring, for some time, to interrupt so powerful and desperate a gang.  At
   length, the atrocious, murder of a poor exciseman, who had boldly done his 
   duty, in attempting to bring some of the parties to justice, produced a 
   general alarm; two of the murderers, and afterwards a third, were convicted, 
   and executed.  --Whitaker.
  
MARSH-FIELD, (the seat of the Rev. Richard Dawson) in the township of Settle,
   and parish of Giggleswick; adjoins Settle on the south-west.
 
MARSHALL-HALL, s.h. in the township of Elland-with-Greetland, and parish of
   Halifax; 3 miles from Halifax.
  
MARSTON, LONG.  -See Long-Marston.
  
MARTHWAITE, ham. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; half a mile from
   Sedbergh, 6 from Dent.
 
MARTON, a parish-town, in the upper division of Claro, liberty of St. Peter; 3
   miles from Boroughbridge, 6 from Knaresborough, 15 from York.  --Pop.
   including Grafton, 464, which being united form a township.  The Church is a
   vicarage, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, +2L.
   19s. 4d.  Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge.
  
MARTON, EAST, or CHURCH, a parish-town, in the east division and liberty of 
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Skipton, 7.75 from Colne, (Lanc.), 11 from Settle.
   --Pop. including West-Marton, 382, which, being united, form the township,
   usually denominated Martons, both.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St.
   Peter, in the deanry of Craven, value, 14L. 4s. 4.5d. p.r. 150L.  Patroness,
   Mrs. Heber.


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MARTON-SCAR, f.h. in the township of Martons, both, and parish of East-Marton,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 7.5 miles from Skipton, 8 from Colne, (Lanc.) 
 
MARTON-TOP, f.h. in the township of Rimington, and parish of Gisburn; 3 miles
   from Gisburn.
 
MARTON, WEST, in the township of Martons, both, and parish of East-Marton, 
   liberty of Staincliffe; (Marton-Hall, the seat of Mrs. Heber) 6.5 miles from
   Skipton, 7.75 from Colne, (Lanc.) 11 from Settle.  --Pop. included in
   East-Marton.
 
           Marton-Hall stands low and warm, and is embossomed in wood.  It is a
   respectable old family Mansion, and has been the residence of the Hebers for 
   many generations.
           Here, in 1728, Reginald Heber, an amiable and learned clergyman, was 
   born.  He published, without his name, "an Elegy, written amongst the tombs
   in Westminster-Abbey."  The lines are moral, plaintive, and religious.  He
   died in 1804.
  
MASONGILL, ham. in the township and parish of Thornton-in-Lonsdale; 3 miles
   from Ingleton, 5 from Kirby-Lonsdale.
  
MASBROUGH, in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, 
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; half a mile from Rotherham, 6.5 
   from Sheffield.
 
         This village is separated from Rotherham only by a bridge; the 
   inhabitants of which are chiefly employed in and about the Iron Works, which 
   were begun in this neighbourhood in the year 1746, by Mr. Samuel Walker, and
   his brothers Aaron and Jonathan, and have been ever since that period, 
   progressively increasing.  -At these works are manufactured, cannon of the
   largest calibre, and almost all other cast-iron articles; bar, sheet, slit or 
   rod-iron, tinned plates, steel of every sort, and many articles of wrought 
   iron.  The iron Bridges of Sunderland and Yarm; also recently, one across the
   Thames in London, were cast at the foundries of Masbrough.  The coal and
   iron-stone for the blast furnaces and foundries are principally supplied from 
   from the estates of the Earl of Effingham, and some from those of Earl 
   Fitzwilliam.  --Miller's Hist. Doncaster.
           The following account of that worthy and enlightened character, Mr.
   Samuel Walker, is extracted from Dr. Miller's History of Doncaster:  He was
   born in 1716, at Hill-Top, in the parish of Ecclesfield: his parents dying 
   when he was about twelve years old, he was left, without ample means for 
   subsistence, and none for education; but by diligence and due application, 
   without any assistance than from a few books, he qualified himself for 
   keeping a School at Gunnowside, where, previous to the year 1746, he taught 
   reading, writing, and arithmetic, and was occasionally employed in surveying, 
   making sun-dials, and other things, which shewed genius and a rising 
   character.  In the meeting house for dissenters of the independent
   denomination, built chiefly at his own expense, is a monument to his memory, 
   with an inscription composed by the celebrated poet, the Rev. William Mason,
   his intimate friend.
           Near the Meeting-house, is an Academical Institution for education of 
   Protestant Dissenters called the Rotherham Independent Academy.  The
   Institution was opened in 1795, under the superintendence of the Rev. Dr.
   Williams, who presides as Divinity Tutor.  It is calculated to accommodate
   sixteen students, containing twenty-two rooms, with lodging-rooms and 
   studies, and a library which contains about a thousand volumes.
 
MAY, or BAY-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Huddersfield; half a mile
   from Huddersfield.
 
MAY-ROYD, s.h. in the township of Wadesworth, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 7 miles from Halifax.
 
           May-Royd formerly belonged to the family of Cockcroft, whose arms
   were sable, an elephant passant, argent, in a chef, asure, three mullets, or.
   Henry Cockcroft paid 15L. composition money for not receiving the order of
   Knighthood, at the Coronation of Charles I. 1630.  --Watson's Halifax.
  
MAY-THORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkburton; 6 miles from
   Penistone.
  
MEAN-WOOD, in the township of Chapel-Allerton, and parish of Leeds; 
   lower-division of Skyrack; 3 miles from Leeds, 8 from Otley, 9 from Bradford. 
 
MEER-BECK, or MEER-SYKES, 4 f.h. in the township of Settle, one being in the
   parish of Long-Preston, the other three, in that of Giggleswick; 2 miles from 
   Settle, 14 from Skipton.
  
MELTHAM, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Huddersfield, 20 from Manchester, (Lanc.)
   --Pop. 2,000.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Almondbury, dedicated to St.
   Bartholomew.
 
           Abraham Woodhead, whom Dr. Whitby pronounces the most ingenious and
   solid writer of the Roman Catholic party, was a native of this place, and 
   born in 1608, and is supposed by many to be the author of "the Whole Duty of 
   Man."  He died in 1678.
 
MELTON-ON-THE-HILL, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and 
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; (a seat of Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.) 
   4.75 miles from Doncaster, 10.25 from Barnsley, 41 from York.  --Pop. 137.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. James, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value, p.r. !50L.  Patron, Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.
 
          In this Church is a chantry of our Lady, founded by John Melton; and 
   in a Chapel enclosed, there are several monuments of the Fountayne family.
   --Hist. Doncaster.
 
MELTON, WEST, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of 
   Wath-upon-Dearne, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of
   Tickhill; 5 miles from Rotherham, 6 from Barnsley, 11 from Doncaster.
  
MENSTHORPE, ham. in the township of North-Elmsall, and parish of South-Kirkby,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Pontefract.
 
MENSTON, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of Cawood, 
   Wistow, and Otley; 3 miles from Otley, 9 from Keighley, 10 from Leeds.
   --Pop. 257.
 
MENWITH, in the parish of Hampsthwaite, lower-division of Claro, liberty of 
   Knaresborough; 5 miles from Pateley Bridge, 6.5 from Ripley, 11.5 from
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. including Darley, 648, which being united, form a
   township.
 
           At Menwith-Hill is a School, called Hookstone's School, founded in
   1748, by Francis Day, Esq. and endowed by him with lands at Hampsthwaite,
   (18L.) Threshfield, and Skirethornes, (22L.) and Starbottom, 7L. per annum.
   The School premises consist of a school-room and turf-house, erected upon the 
   waste, with about half an acre of land adjoining.  The Master's salary, out
   of rents, is 36L. per annum, for which he teaches the poor of Menwith-Hill,
   Thornethwaite-with-Padside, and Darley, likewise the tenants, holding land
   under the relations of the founder.  --Commissioners' Report.
  
METHLEY, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Wakefield, 6.75 from Leeds and Pontefract.  --Pop.
   1,499.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Oswald, in the deanry of
   Pontefract, value, 25L. 8s. 6.5d.  Patron, the King, as Duke of Lancaster.
 
           Methley is situated on the banks of the Calder, not far distant from 
   Castleford; and in the reign of Henry IV. was the seat of Robert Waterton,
   master of horse to that King; and afterwards of the famous Sir John Saville.
   --Camden.
           From Doomsday, it appears that Osalph and Cnut, the two Saxon 
   proprietors, before the conquest, had been expelled from it, to make way for 
   the great Norman Lord, Ilbert de Lacy.  Subsequently the Manor was granted to
   the Hospital of St. Nicholas, of Pontefract, in the reign of Henry IV. by the
   master or warden of which house, it was exchanged with Sir John Waterton for 
   certain advowsons.  By this exchange, the Watertons became seized of Methley,
   and probably built the Manor-House, which was afterwards completed and 
   uniformly re-built by Baron Saville.
           The Church of Methley was in existence at the time of Doomsday, but 
   has been wholly re-built, and in the present fabric is nothing peculiar, 
   except the chantry on the south-side of the choir, founded and endowed by 
   Robert Waterton, in 1424, and which contains many monuments of exquisite 
   workmanship.  The greatest piece of antiquity about the Church, is a statue
   of King Oswald, the Patron Saint, over the south door, far more ancient than 
   any part of the present edifice, and probably contemporary with the
   foundation of the church and parish.  The figure is that of an aged man in
   robes, with crown and sceptre, somewhat decayed, but yet expressive and
   majestic in decay.  A more detailed and interesting account of the monuments,
   &c. in this Church, is to be found in Whitaker's "Loidis et Elmete."  The
   parish and township of Methley are coextensive.
                 In the same township and parish is:- 
 
METHLEY-PARK, (the seat of the Earl of Mexborough) 6.75 miles from Wakefield.
 
           This ancient Mansion is situated between Wakefield and Leeds, in a 
   beautiful and verdant Park, well stocked with deer.  It was originally built
   in the reign of James I. but many alterations have subsequently been made,
   giving the house, in appearance, a modern character.  The Savilles are a very
   ancient family in this county, where they have constantly resided, even prior 
   to the year 1300.  John Saville, Esq. in 1753, was created Lord Pollington,
   of Longford, and in 1765, was advanced in the Peerage as Viscount Pollington,
   and Earl of Mexborough, of Lifford, in the county of Donegal.  He died 12th
   Feb. 1778, and was succeeded by his eldest son, John, second and present Earl
   of Mexborough.  --Neale's Views.
  
MEWITH, in the township and parish of Low-Bentham, wapentake of Ewcross; 11 
   miles from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 13 from Settle, 14 from Lancaster.  This
   is a district, and a quarter of the township of Low-Bentham.
  
MERRYBENT-HILL, f.h. in the township and parish of Slaidburn; 3 miles from
   Settle.
 
MEXBROUGH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, 
   liberties of St. Peter and Tickhill; 5.5 miles from Rotherham, 8 from
   Doncaster, 44 from York.  --Pop. 865.  The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. !60L.  --Bacon styles it a curacy,
   certified value, 20L.
 
           The Church of Mexbrough is only a perpetual curacy, so far as 
   respects the incumbents; but is described as a vicarage in the roll of 
   livings; subject to the Dean and Chapter of York, and is required to pay 
   procurations and synodals as a Vicar.  In the Church are several ancient
   monuments to the Savilles, a branch of which family, has furnished the title 
   of Earl.
             The tenants of the lands of Roger Bacon did fealty and acknowledge, 
   that they held in Mekesburgh (Mexbrough) 4 oxgangs of land and paid every two 
   years for keeping the Castle, (Tickhill) in each year, 2s. 4d. and the third
   year, nothing.  May not this have been the famous Fryer Roger Bacon? for
   there is a tradition that he was a native of this part of Yorkshire, and that 
   his brazen head was set up in a field at Rothwell, near Leeds.  -Blount's
   Fragmenta Antiq.
  
MICKLEHOW-HILL, or MICHAEL-HOW-HILL, in the township of Markington-with- 
   Wallerthwaite, and parish of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 5 miles from 
   Ripon, 9 from Knaresborough.
 
           This is a lofty eminence, partly covered with wood, which formerly 
   belonged to the monastery of Fountains.  Upon the summit of this hill was a
   Chapel, called St. Michael's de Monte, erected by the Abbot and Convent of
   Fountains, probably about the year 1200, and dedicated to St. Michael.  The
   Chapel, after the dissolution of the monastery, was taken down, and a gothic 
   tower erected on the site, from which is a fine prospect of the surrounding 
   country.
 
MICKLE-BRING, in the township and parish of Braithwell, upper division of 
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 5.5 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Doncaster.
 
MICKLEFIELD, in the parish of Sherburn, wapentake of Barkston Ash; 2.25 miles 
   from Abberford, 6.5 from Ferrybridge, 14.5 from Selby.  --Pop. 196.  Here is
   a Chapel of Ease to Sherburn.
  
MICKLETHWAITE, in the township and parish of Bingley, upper division of Skyrack; 
   3.5 miles from Keighley, 9 from Otley.
  
MICKLETHWAITE, in the parish of Collingham, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; quarter 
   of a mile from Wetherby.  --Pop. 83
 
MICKLETHWAITE-GRANGE, in the parish of Collingham, vide Wetherby Grange, which
   is one and the same place, a seat of Paul Beilby Thompson, Esq. in the
   township of Micklethwaite; 1 mile from Wetherby.
  
MICKLEY, in the township of Azerley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, lower- 
   division of Claro; 5 miles from Masham, 6 from Ripon.
  
MIDDLESMOOR, in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, 
   lower-division of Claro; 9 miles from Pateley Bridge and Kettlewell, 10 from
   Masham; 16 from Ripon.
 
           Here is a Chapel under Kirkbymalzeard, of which the Vicar is Patron, 
   the present annual value, about 140L.  In 1743, John Lazenby founded a
   School, for ten poor boys of the townships of Stonebecks-upper, and down, and 
   Fountains Earth.  He endowed it with land, which now lets for 18L. per annum,
   which is paid to the Master as his salary.  Simon Horner, by indenture, dated
   1809, granted 20L. per annum, out of an estate at Stonebeck, to be paid to a
   School-Master at Middlesmoor, for teaching the poor children of Stonebeck, he 
   afterwards built a School-House, of which they have the use.  --Commissioners
   Report.
  
MIDDLETHORPE, (Ainsty) in the parish of St. Mary, Bishop-Hill, the Elder, York,
   (the seat of Andrew Barlow, Esq.) 1.5 miles from York, 5 from Tadcaster.
   --Pop. 44.
  
MIDDLETON, in the parish of Ilkley, upper-division of Claro; (Middleton-Lodge, 
   the seat of William Middleton, Esq.) 6.5 miles from Otley, 9 from Skipton.
     --Pop. 205.
  
MIDDLETON, in the parish of Rothwell, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of William Walker, Esq,) 4.5 miles from 
   Leeds, 5 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 1,O96.
 
MIDDLETON-GREEN, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 4.5 miles
   from Sheffield, 8 from Rotherham.
  
MIDDLEWOOD-HALL, (the seat of the Hon. H. Saville,) in the township and parish
   of Darfield, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5.5 miles from 
   Barnsley, 10 from Doncaster.
  
MIDGLEY, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 12 from Keighley.  Pop. 2,207.
  
MIDGLEY, NETHER, ham. in the township of Shitlington, and parish of Thornhill; 6
   miles from Wakefield.
 
MIDGLEY, OVER, ham. in the township of Shitlington, and parish of Thornhill; 6.5
   miles from Wakefield.
  
MIDHOPE, a township, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of 
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Gisburn, 9 from Colne, (Lanc.) 11 from Burnley, 
   (Lanc.) 12 from Skipton.  --Pop. 100.
  
MIDHOPE, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division 
   of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4.5 miles from Penistone, 12 from Sheffield.  The
   Chapel, dedicated to St. James, is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. 40L.
   Patron, William Bosville, Esq. as Lord of the Manor,
 
          This place gave name to a family, called De Midhope, several of which 
   were knighted.  They were Lords of the Manor, and had their residence within
   the village.  From  De Midhopes, the manor passed to the De Barnbys, of which
   family Edmund was lord in temp. Edward III.  One Henry Hall sold the same in
   1690, to Godfrey Bosville of Gunthwaite, Esq. in which family it appears to
   have remained ever since.  --Hunter's Hallamshire.
  
MIDHOPE, LITTLE, f.h. in the township of Midhope, and parish of Gisburn, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 2 miles from Gisburn, 8.5 from Colne, (Lanc.) 
  
MIDHOPE, OVER, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield, 
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 5 miles from Penistone, 13 from 
   Sheffield.
  
MILFORTH, NORTH, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkby Wharfe, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Tadcaster.
  
MILFORTH, SOUTH, in the parish of Sherburn, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties 
   of St. Peter and Pontefract; 6 miles from Pontefract, 5 from Selby, 8.25 from
   Tadcaster.  --Pop. 631.
  
MILLBANK, in the township of Sowerby, and parish of Halifax, Morley-division of 
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 8 from 
   Huddersfield.
  
MILLSHAW, ham. in the township of Beeston, and parish of Leeds; 3 miles from
   Leeds.
  
MILLWOOD, ham. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 10 miles from Halifax, 12 from Rochdale.
  
MILN-HOUSES, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield;
   3 miles from Sheffield.
 
MILNSBRIDGE-HOUSE, (the seat of Joseph Armitage, Esq.) in the township of 
   Longwood, and parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley; 
   2 miles from Huddersfield, 7 from Halifax.
  
MILNTHORPE, in the township and parish of Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of 
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield ; 2.5 miles from Wakefield, 7.5 from 
   Barnsley.
  
MILTHORPE, in the township and parish of Sedbergh, wapentake of Ewcross; 1 mile 
   from Sedbergh, 4 from Dent.
  
MILTON-FURNACE, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of Wath-upon- 
   Dearne, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 6.75 miles from Barnsley,
   8.25 from Sheffield.  A newly erected set of buildings for the purpose of
   converting iron-stone into Iron.
  
MINSKIP, in the parish of Aldborough, lower-division of Claro, liberty of St.
   Peter; 1.5 mile from Boroughbridge, 5.5 from Knaresborough, 7 from Ripon.
   --Pop. 243.
  
MIRFIELD, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 4.5 from Huddersfield, 8 from Wakefield,
   35 from York.  --Pop. 5,041.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to
   St. Mary, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +6L. 1s. 0.5d. p.r. 150L.
   Patron, Sir George Armitage, Bart.  The rectory of Mirfield, nearly fifty
   years ago, was let for 210L. per annum, though estimated in 1540, at no more
   than 6L. 6s. 8d.
 
           Mirfield appears to have formed part of the great Saxon parish of 
   Dewsbury, till the year 1261, when the following curious and well 
   authenticated account caused its separation: it happened, says this ancient 
   document, that as the Lady, of Sir John Heton, of Mirfield, was going to 
   mass, very early in the morning of Christmas-day, to the parish-church of 
   Dewsbury, that she was robbed, and her principal attendants murdered, at a 
   place called Ravensbrook-Lane.  On the same day, while she was at dinner, at
   nine o'clock in the morning, (at that time - the usual hour) two Mendicant 
   Ecclesiastics came to solicit charity, at the same time informing her that 
   they were going to Rome, where her husband, Sir John, then resided.  On this
   intelligence, she wrote a letter to her husband, and told him of the horrid 
   scene she had just witnessed, and requested of him to make interest with the 
   Pope to erect the Chapel of Mirfield into a parochial Church, that the 
   inhabitants might no longer be exposed to the dangers she had experienced, on 
   the way to their parish-church.  This letter the priests delivered to Sir
   John, who prevailed on his holiness to elevate Mirfield into a rectory, and 
   bestowed the patronage on Sir John and his posterity, who immediately 
   conferred the living on his younger brother, who built the rectory-house 
   about the year 1300.  The original is given in Latin by Hopkinson, amongst
   his MSS. a copy of which is inserted in Loidis et Elmete.
           The Church of Mirfield was appropriated to the Nunnery of Kirklees, 
   and constituted the best part of the endowment of that house, on the 
   dissolution of which, it was granted to Thomas Savile of Clifton.  Sir George
   Armitage, Bart. is now impropriator and patron.  At the west-end of the
   Church is a conical mount, intended as a place of defence to the manor-house 
   of its Saxon Lords.  Immediately adjoining to this, was the Mansion
   successively of the Mirfields, Hetons and Beaumonts, still called 
   Castle-Hall; an antique, and very picturesque Timber House, built by Thomas 
   Beaumont, in the reign of Henry VIII. though, a mistake in the reading of
   some obscure numerals, has carried it up to a much higher antiquity.  They
   have now wholly disappeared; but enough remained forty years ago, to enable 
   Mr. Beaumont to read them 1522; but not long before that time, some smatterer
   having read them 1022, the circumstance was seized with avidity by the 
   neighbourhood, and the house was exhibited to strangers as an entire and 
   genuine relic of Canute's time.  -Whitaker.
 
           The parish and township are co-extensive, and stretch about two miles 
   on both sides of the Calder.
           Here is a School, founded in 1667, by Richard Thorpe, of Hepton, 
   gentleman, for the education of fifteen poor children - present endowment, 
   upwards of 60L. per annum.
  
MIRYSHAW, f.h. in the township and parish of Bradford, to which it nearly
   adjoins.
 
           This house was for many generations, the paternal residence of the 
   Smyths, now divided into two branches, and represented by John Henry Smyth, 
   Esq. M.P. for Cambridge, and John Smyth, Esq. of Bramham, (1816.)  It is now
   occupied as a farm house, a view of which, as a vignette, is given in 
   Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.
  
MITTON, a parish-town, in the west-division of Staincliffe, liberty of Bolland; 
   3 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 10 from Blackburn, (Lanc.) 12 from Gisburn.
   --Pop. 324.  The Church is a vicarage dedicated to St. Michael, in the deanry
   of Craven, value, +14L. 7s. 8.5d. p.r. !140L.
  
MOAT-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Wickersley; 5 miles from
   Rotherham.
  
MOAT-HOUSE, (Ainsty) f.h. in the township of Walton, and parish of Wighill; 3
   miles from Tadcaster.
 
MONKTON, BISHOP, --See Bishop-Monkton.
  
MONK-BRETTON, in the parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Barnsley, 8.5 from Wakefield, 10 from Rotherham.
   --Pop. 916.  Here is a private Chapel, but no Chapelry attached.
 
           An Hospital was founded at this place in 1654, in pursuance of the 
   Will of Dame Mary Talbot, for six poor widows, who have each an allowance of 
   40s. and a gown of 10s. value, per annum.
 
           Adam Fitz-Swain founded a Monastery here, early in the reign of Henry 
   II. of the Cluniac order, to the honour of St. Mary Magdelen.  It was at
   first subordinate to the Priory of St. John, at Pontefract.  It was situated
   on the north side of the river Dearne; the Church was gone long previous to
   Burton's time, but the gate remained with some part of the ruins.  It was
   dissolved in 1537.  William Brown, the last Prior, had a pension of 40L. per
   annum, assigned him, which he enjoyed in 1553.  -Burton.  -Dodsworth.
  
MONK-BRETTON-GRANGE, ham. in the township of Monk-Bretton, and parish of
   Royston, liberty of Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Barnsley, 9 from Wakefield.
  
MONK-FRYSTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston Ash, a part in the 
   liberty of St. Peter; 4 miles from Ferrybridge, 6.5 from Pontefract, 7.5 from
   Selby, 13.75 from Leeds, 19 from York.  --Pop. 409.  It is a parochial
   Chapelry, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, p.r. !60L.  Patron, the
   Prebendary of Wistow.
  
MONK-HILL, (extraparochial) in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of 
   Pontefract, which it adjoins.  --Pop. 40.
 
           Here stood the Priory of St. John, founded by Robert de Lacy, in the
   year 1090, for Monks of the order of St. Benedict.  The rule of this order
   was principally founded on silence, solitude, prayer, humility, and 
   obedience: the Monks were enjoined a total abstinence from all animal food, 
   and wine was wholly prohibited: the priory was surrendered, by James 
   Twaeytes, the last Prior, Nov. 24th 1539.
  
MONKTON, NUN,  -See Nun-Monkton.
  
MONYBENT, f.h. in the township of Gisburn-Forest, and parish of Gisburn, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 6 miles from Gisburn, 9 from Settle.
  
MOOR-ALLERTON, ham. in the township of Chapel-Allerton, and parish of Leeds,
   lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 3.25 miles from Leeds.  The
   north part of the borough of Leeds terminates here.
  
MOOR-ENDS, scat. f.h. in the township and parish of Thorne; 1.5 mile from
   Thorne, 13 from Howden.
  
MOOR-GATE, s.h. in the township and parish of Rotherham; 1.5 miles from
   Rotherham.
  
MOOR-GRANGE, s.h. in the township of Heddingley, and parish of Leeds; 3 miles
   from Leeds.
  
MOOR-HALLOWS, 2 or 3 scat. h. in the township of Thurlston, and parish of
   Penistone; 1 mile from Penistone.
  
MOORHOUSE, ham. in the township and parish of Hooton-Pagnel; 6 miles from
   Doncaster, 9 from Barnsley.
  
MOORHOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Badsworth; liberty of Pontefract;
   4.25 miles from Pontefract.
  
MOOR-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill; 1 mile from Tickhill.
  
MOOR-HOUSE, (the seat of John Maude, Esq.) in the township of Stanley-with- 
   Wrenthorpe, and parish of Wakefield; 4 miles from Wakefield.
  
MOOR-HOUSES, in the township of Middleton, and parish of Ilkley; 7 miles from 
   Otley.  Four or five houses.
  
MOOR-MONKTON, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 8 miles from York, 9 from Knaresborough,
   10 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 269.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to
   All-Saints, value, 16L. 19s. 7d.  Patron, the King.
 
MORE-HALL, f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of
   Ecclesfield; 7 miles from Sheffield.
 
             This was anciently, the seat of a family of the name of More, who 
   appear to have resided here from the reign of Henry VII. till the first of
   Edward VI.  More, of More-Hall, cuts a conspicous figure in the famous
   ballad of the Dragon of Wantley.  There are no remains of the old house.
   --Hunter's Hallamshire.
  
MOREWOOD, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Sheffield; 6 miles
   from Sheffield.
 
           This place, like More-Hall, also gave name to a family of the name of 
   Morewood, several of whom appear at different times, to have been High 
   Sheriffs for the county of Derby.  --Hunter's Hallamshire.
 
MORLEY, in the parish of Batley, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty 
   of Pontefract; 4 miles from Dewsbury, 4.5 from Leeds, 7 from Wakefield.
   --Pop. 3,031.  It is a perpetual curacy, without Church or Chapel.
 
           In the time of Doomsday, Morley had a parish-church; but it seems to 
   have been reduced to the dependent state of a Chapel to Batley, by Robert de 
   Lacy, the founder of the latter Church, and so to have continued till the 
   great rebellion, when it was leased out, by Saville, Earl of Sussex, to 
   certain Presbyterian trustees, for the term of 500 years, and ever since that 
   time it has been used as a place of worship for Dissenters; and is said to be 
   the only instance throughout England and Wales, of an ancient established 
   place of worship, which was not restored to the established Church, at the 
   restoration.  It retains much of the form of a Church, and has a choir and
   two side aisles, supported upon wooden pasterns instead of columns, but 
   marking the hands into which it has fallen, by sectarian frugality and 
   inelegance.  --Whitakers Loidis et Elmete.  It was some time back used by the
   Unitarians, now by the Calvinists.
           Morley, although situate in Agbrigg-division, appears to give name to 
   that portion of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley, called Morley-division.
   --See Agbrigg
 
MORTHEN, ham. in the township of Whiston, and parishes of Whiston and Rotherham,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; (Morthen-Hall, the seat of 
   Nicholas Timm, Esq.) 4 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Sheffield, 11 from 
   Tickhill.
  
MORTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of South-Kirkby,; 8 miles from
   Pontefract, 12 from Wakefield.
  
MORTOMLEY, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper division of 
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles from Rotherham, 6.5 from Sheffield, 8 from 
   Barnsley.
  
MORTON-BANKS, in the township of East-Morton, and parish of Bingley, upper- 
   division of Skyrack; 2 miles from Keighley, 3 from Bingley.
 
           About thirty years ago was discovered near Morton, one of the most 
   valuable deposits of Roman Coins, ever turned up in Britain.  It consisted of
   a very large quantity of Denarii in excellent preservation; for the most part 
   of Septimus Severus, Julia Domna, Caracalla, and Geta, contained in the 
   remains of a brass chest, which had probably been the military chest of a 
   Roman legion, and deposited, upon some sudden alarm, in a situation which it 
   had quietly occupied during a period of almost sixteen centuries.  -Hist.
   Craven.
 
MORTON, EAST, in the parish of Bingley, upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of 
   Clifford's-Fee; 3 miles from Keighley, 3.5 from Bingley, 10 from Skipton.
   --Pop. 1,199.
  
MORTON, WEST, in the township and parish of Bingley, upper division of Skyrack; 
   3 miles from Keighley, 4 from Bingley.
  
MORWICK, f.h. in the township and parish of Barwick in Elmet, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Leeds.
  
MOSELEY-WOOD, in the township of Addle-with-Eccup, and parish of Addle, upper- 
   division of Skyrack; 4 miles from Otley, 6.5 from Leeds.
 
MOSS, in the parish of Campsall, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Thorne, 9 from Doncaster, 13 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. 242.
  
MOSSON-GREEN, f.h. in the township of Sykehouse, and parish of Fishlake; 4 miles
   from Thorne.
 
MOSS-WOOD HOUSES, 2 f.h. in the township of Fountains Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 3 miles from Pateley Bridge.
  
MOULD-GREEN, ham. in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; (the seats of William Walker Battye, 
   and Abraham Dixon, Esqrs.) 1 mile from Huddersfield, 9 from Halifax.
  
MOUNT-PLEASANT, (the seat of Samuel Broomhead Ward, Esq.) in the township of 
   Eccleshall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1 mile from Sheffield.
  
MULWITH, f.h. in the township of Newby-with-Mulwith, and parish and liberty of
   Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 3 miles from Boroughbridge, 4 from Ripon.
   --Pop. included in Newby.
  
MYTHOLM, a few h. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax; 5 miles
   from Halifax.
 
MYTHOLM-ROYD BRIDGE, ham. at the junction of the townships of Wadesworth,
   Erringden, Sowerby, and Midgley, and parish of Halifax; 6 miles from Halifax. 
  
MYRTLE-GROVE, (the seat of Lieut. General Twiss) in the township and parish of
   Bingley; half a mile from Bingley.
 
NAB-HILL, ham. in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.
  
NAPPA, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 3.5 
   miles from Gisburn, 8 from Settle, 11 from Skipton.  --Pop. 44.
 
NAPPA-FLATTS, f.h. in the township of Paythorne, and parish of Gisburn, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 3.5 miles from Gisburn.
 
NEEPSEND, ham. in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1
   mile from Sheffield.
  
NESFIELD, in the township of Nesfield-with-Langbar, and parish of Ilkley,
   upper-division of Claro; 4 miles from Otley, 5 from Skipton.  --Pop.
   including Langbar, 210.
 
           At Nesfield, Robert, the son of Nigel Plumpton, who died 55 Henry 
   III. obtained a license to have a Chapel in his Manor-House of Nesfield, on
   condition of offering annually a pound of Frankincense on the high altar of 
   the parish church of Ilkley.
  
NETHER-BANK, scat. h. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 4 miles from
   Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.
  
NETHERBY, in the township of Kereby-with-Netherby, and parish of Kirkby
   Overblow, upper-division of Claro;  4.75 miles from Wetherby, 8 from 
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. included in Kereby.
  
NETHER-GREEN, ham. in the township of Upper-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 3
   miles from Sheffield.
  
NETHER-HALL, (the seat of Mrs. Copley) in the township and parish of Doncaster;
   quarter of a mile from Doncaster.
 
NETHERSIDE, (the seat of Alexander Nowell, Esq.) in the township of Threshfield, 
   and parish of Linton; 5.5 miles from Kettlewell, 10.5 from Skipton.
  
NETHERTHORPE, ham. in the township of Aston-with-Aughton, and parish of Anton; 6
   miles from Rotherham.
  
NETHER-LODGE, s.h. in the township and parish of Horton; 10 miles from Settle.
  
NETHER-SHIRE, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; (Shire-House, the
   seat of Hugh Meller, Esq.) 4 miles from Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.
  
NETHERTON, in the parish of Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley; 5 miles from Wakefield, 9.5 from Huddersfield.
 
NETHERTON, or NETHER-SHITLINGTON.  -See Shitlington, Nether.
  
NETHERTON, ham. in the township of South-Crosland, and
   parish of Almondbury, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Huddersfield, 11 
   from Halifax.
  
NETHER-THONG,  --See Thong, Nether.
  
NEW-BRIDGE, ham. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 2 miles from Pateley Bridge.
  
NEW-BRIDGE, an Inn, in the township of Cowick, and parish of Snaith, wapentake 
   of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Snaith, 5 from Thorne.
  
NEWBY, ham. in the township of Rimington, and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 2 miles from Gisburn.
  
NEWBY, 2 h. in the township of Weeton, and parish of Harewood; 4.75 miles from
   Otley.
  
NEWBY, in-the township of Clapham-with-Newby, and parish of Clapham, wapentake 
   of Ewcross; 7 miles from Settle, 10 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)  --Pop.
   included in Clapham.
  
NEWBY-COTE, ham. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Clapham; 8 miles
   from Settle.
  
NEWBY-HALL, (the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Grantham) in the township of
   Mulwith-with-Newby, and parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 
   3 miles from Ripon and Boroughbridge, 10 from Knaresborough.  --Pop.
   including Mulwith, 52, which being united, form a township.
 
           It is situated on the north bank of the river Ure; and usually said, 
   but on what authority we cannot learn, to have been built after a design of 
   Sir Christopher Wren, in 1705.  The late Mr. Weddell built the wings, one of
   which contains the statue gallery.  The dining-room was built by his present
   Lordship.  The two dogs, in Portland-stone, on either side of the portico,
   were copied from Alcibiades' dog at Duncombe-Park.  The house contains
   several good rooms, a valuable library, and many excellent paintings: but it 
   is most admired for its statuary, the gallery of which contains the best 
   private collection of ancient sculpture in the kingdom, collected by the late 
   Mr. Weddell.  The statue most esteemed, is that of Venus, 5 feet 1.5 inch
   high, purchased at Rome, and formerly well known by the name of the 
   "Barberini Venus", as it was originally in the possession of that family.
   The garden and pleasure-grounds are laid out with much taste; and in the
   former are excellent hot-houses.
           Thomas Phillip Weddell Robinson, the present Right Hon. Lord
   Grantham, is the third Lord, having succeeded his father, Thomas, the late 
   Lord, in July, 1786, he married, 1805, Henrietta-Frances Cole, youngest 
   daughter of William Willoughby, first Earl of Enniskillen, and has issue, 
   Frederick William William, born April, 1810, heir-apparent, and several 
   daughters.
           Sir Metcalf Robinson, of Newby, near Topcliffe, ancestor of the 
   present family, was created Baronet in 1660, and died 1689, when the title 
   became extinct, which was revived in the person of his nephew, Sir William 
   Robinson, who married Mary, the daughter of George Aislabie, Esq. of
   Studley-Royal, and had issue: Thomas, his fourth son, was created Baron 
   Grantham, of Grantham, April 7, 1761; Thomas, the second Lord, was appointed 
   Secretary to the Embassy to the Congress of Augsburgh, 1761; Ambassador to 
   the Court of Madrid, 1771; and 1779, appointed first Lord of Trade; July, 
   1782, Secretary of State for the Foreign Department; and January, 1783, his 
   Lordship concluded the preliminaries of peace: he married 1780, Mary Jemima, 
   daughter of Phillip, the second Earl of Hardwick, sister and
   heiress-presumptive to Amabel, Countess de Grey, by whom he had three sons, 
   Thomas Phillip, the present Lord, &c.  --Debrett.
            In the time of Edward I. Alexander de Nubie, held this territory;
   who was succeeded therein, by Roger, his son and heir.  In the reign of
   Charles II. Sir John Crosland, Knight, was seated here; he died in 1670, and
   was buried at Ripon, at the south end of the transept, where a brass plate 
   commemorates his memory.  He was succeeded by Sir Walter Blackett, Bart. who
   also lies buried at Ripon; the Blacketts sold it to Richard Weddell, Esq. and
   was succeeded by his son William, by whose death, in April, 1792, this, with 
   other estates, devolved to the present noble proprietor.
 
NEW-CHAPEL, f.h. in the township and parish of Penistone; half a mile from
   Penistone.
 
NEWFIELD-GREEN, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield;
   2.5 miles from Sheffield.
  
NEW-GRANGE, (the seat of Thomas Benyon, Esq.) in the township of Heddingley, and 
   parish of Leeds; 3 miles from Leeds, 7 from Harewood.
 
        This place belonged to Kirkstall Abbey.  At the dissolution of the house
   1540, it was granted by King Henry VIII. with the site of the Monastery, &c.
   to Robert Pakeham, gent. of the King's Household.  It is now the seat of
   Benjamin Wade, Esq.  The house was built by a predecessor of both his names,
   1626, who placed this inscription upon the front; "Except the Lord build the 
   house, thy labour is vain that builds it, it is the Lord that keeps thee 
   going out and in.  B.W. 1626."  Over the north door, where the poor received
   their alms, is engraved, "If thou shalt find a house to thy mind, without thy 
   cost, serve thou the more, God and the Poor, my labour is not lost." This 
   family of the Wades derive their pedigree from the famous Saxon Duke Wada, 
   who died in 798.  --Thoresby.  The house was re-built in 1752, by Walter
   Wade, Esq.  -Whitaker.
  
NEWHALL, in the township of Newhall-with-Clifton, and parish of Otley, 
   upper-division of Claro, liberty of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 1 mile from 
   Otley, 11 from Leeds.  --Pop. including Clifton, 208, which being united,
   form a township.
 
           Newhall, now in a decayed state, was formerly the seat of Edward 
   Fairfax, Esq. a celebrated Poet, who flourished in the reigns of Elizabeth
   and James I. He had a liberal education, but led a retired life at his
   favourite seat here, when he devoted himself to the muses, and died at 
   Newhall, about the year 1632.  He published a work on Daemonology, entitled
   "A discourse of Witchcraft, as it was acted in the family of Mr. Edward
   Fairfax, of Friestone, in the county of York, in the year 1621," but his
   great work is a translation of Tasso's Poem of "Godfrey of Boulogne," which
   was once very popular.  -Biog. Dict.
  
NEW-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Pontefract; 1 mile from Pontefract.
 
           The style of this building is decidedly that which prevailed in the 
   reign of Henry VIII. or near to that time.  - The date on the arms is 1591,
   but it must have been erected prior to that period.  It is supposed to have
   been erected by a branch of the Talbot family, though it does not appear that 
   any of the family resided in it: it afterwards came into the Harewood family, 
   the present possessor.  It was occupied as a farm-house till within a late
   period.  -Hist. Pontefract.  It is now little more than a ruin.
  
NEW-HALL, (the residence of W.W. Walker, Esq.) in the township of Middleton, and
   parish of Rothwell, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 3.5 miles from 
   Leeds, 6 from Wakefield.
  
NEW-HALL, f.h. in the township of Shitlington, and parish of Thornhill; 4 miles
   from Dewsbury.
  
NEW-HALL, (the seat of Richard Swallow, Esq.) in the township of 
   Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 1.5 miles from Sheffield.
  
NEW-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Darfield; 3 miles from Barnsley.
  
NEWHAY, f.h. in the township and parish of Drax, 5 miles from Selby, 7 from
   Howden and Snaith.
 
NEW-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Bashelleaves, and parish of Mitton; 4 miles
   from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 
 
NEW-HOUSES, ham. in the township and parish of Horton; 6.5 miles from Settle.
 
NEW-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Easington, and parish of Slaidburn; 8 miles
   from Settle.  This farm belongs to the school at Bentham.
 
NEW-HOUSES, 3 f.h. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 10 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
NEWHILL, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; (the seat of 
   John Naylor, Esq.) 5 miles from Rotherham.
 
NEW-INN, ham. in the township and parish of Horton; 6.5 miles from Settle, on
   the road to Hawes.
 
NEWLAND, f.h. in the township of Warley, and parish of Halifax; 2.5 miles from
   Halifax.
 
NEWLAND, in the parish of Drax, wapentake of Barkston Ash; 5 miles from Snaith, 
   9 from Selby, 16 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 269.
  
NEWLAND-PARK, (the seat of Sir Edward Smith Dodsworth, Bart.) in the township 
   and parish of Normanton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 4.5 miles 
   from Wakefield, 6.5 from Pontefract.
 
           Sir Edward Smith, the second and present Baronet, was born in 1768, 
   and in 1789, succeeded his father, Sir John Silvester, to the Baronetage, who 
   married a daughter of the late John Dodsworth, Esq. of Watlass, in this
   county.  He took the name of Dodsworth in 1821.
  
NEW-LAITHS, s.h. in the township of Horsforth, and parish of Guiseley; 5 miles
   from Leeds.
  
NEW-LAITHES, s.h. in the township of Carlton, and parish of Royston; 2 mile from
   Barnsley.
  
NEWMARKET, in the parish of Whitkirk, lower-division of Skyrack; 3.5 miles from 
   Leeds.
  
NEW MILLER DAM, in the townships of Sandal-Magna and Crigglestone, and parish of 
   Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 
   3.5 miles from Wakefield, 6.5 from Barnsley.
  
NEWSAME, f.h. in the township and parish of Spofforth; 3.5 miles from Wetherby,
   5 from Knaresborough.
  
NEWSHOLME, in the township and parish of Keighley, east-division and liberty of 
   Staincliffe; 2.5 miles from Keighley, 8 from Skipton, 10 from Colne, (Lanc.) 
  
NEWSHOLME, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 2 
   miles from Gisburn, 9 from Settle, 10 from Skipton.  --Pop. 75.
  
NEWSOME, ham. in the township and parish of Almondbury, liberty of Pontefract; 2
   miles from Huddersfield.
 
NEWSOME-GREEN,  -See Temple-Newsome.
  
NEWSTEAD-HALL, (a seat of John Naylor, Esq.) in the township and parish of 
   Hemsworth, wapentake of Staincross; 5 miles from Pontefract, 6 from 
   Wakefield, 9 from Barnsley.
  
NEWTHORPE, in the parish of Sherburn, wapentake of Barkston Ash, liberty of St.
   Peter; 3 miles from Abberford, 7 from Ferrybridge, 11 from Selby.  --Pop. 83.
 
NEWTON, in the parish of Slaidburn, west-division of Staincliffe, liberty of 
   Bolland; (Newton-Hall, the seat of Thomas Parker, Esq.) 7 miles from 
   Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 13 from Settle, 18 from Lancaster, 22 from Skipton.  --No
   Market.  --Fairs, March 14, April 14, and September 16, for horned cattle.
   --Pop. 581.
 
           Here is a School, founded by John Brabbin, of Newton in Bolland, by 
   Will, dated 23rd March, 1768, and endowed it with twenty guineas, for the 
   purpose of instructing all the people called Quakers, male and female, and 
   six children of the poor inhabitants of the township of Newton; and a house 
   and school-room which he erected, and a garden adjoining.  By a lapse of
   several years, the salary has accumulated to forty guineas per annum.  It is
   managed by trustees elected, according to the tenure of his Will, on the 
   recommendation of the Quakers, who assemble at their monthly-meetings, held 
   at Settle.  The present master, James Noddle, was elected in 1813, and the
   number of scholars average about thirty.  Other children, not Quakers, can be
   admitted, provided there is not above a certain number of that sect.
  
NEWTON, in the township and parish of Sprotbrough lower-division of Strafforth 
   and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 1.5 miles from Doncaster, 11 from 
   Rotherham.
 
NEWTON, ham. in the township of Alverthorpe with Thorns, and parish of
   Wakefield, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from Wakefield.
  
NEWTON, BANK, --See Bank Newton.
 
        The Mansion of the Cattertons, who had lands here in the 31st of Edward 
   III. remains nearly entire; and immediately adjoining to it, on the north-
   east, is a little Chantry, now an out-house in the garden, adjoining to
   which, many bones are said to have been dug up.  From the shape of one of the
   windows, yet remaining, one would conjecture this humble foundation to be as
   old as the Cattertons.
        Bank-Newton, has its name from the family of Banks, who held the manor 
   more than three centuries, but more anciently Cold Newton, from its exposed 
   situation.  --Whitaker's Craven.
 
NEWTON HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Nid; the house being within the
   township and parish of Nid; but nearly the whole of the land is in Ripley.
   1 mile from Ripley
 
        This was formerly a seat of the ancient family of the Vavasours, a 
   branch of which resided here, before the year 1570, and after the year 1610, 
   as appears by the parish register.  The situation is on a small eminence,
   commanding a fine view of the surrounding country.  Over the front door, is a
   shield of arms, containing those of Vavasour, Ingilby, and several others.
   The estate, consisting of upwards of 404 acres of land, was lately purchased 
   by Matthew Thackwray of Harrogate, Esq. and is now, by purchase of the late
   Sir John Ingilby, the property of the present Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, 
   Bart.
 
NEWTON KYME, a parish town, in the wapentake of Barkston Ash; (Newton Hall, the 
   seat of Thomas Lodderton Fairfax, Esq.) 1.5 miles from Tadcaster, 5 from 
   Wetherby, 11.5 from York, 13 from Ferrybridge.  --Pop. including Towlston,
   184.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of the
   Ainsty, value, 14L.  Patron, Thomas Lodderton Fairfax, Esq.
 
         This place takes its name from being formerly in the possession of the 
   "Barons de Kime"; though it has since long been in the ancient family of 
   Fairfax.  --Drake.
         Here some antiquaries place the Roman Calcaria, in the fields near St.
   Helen's Ford, there being no argument to fix it at Tadcaster, but what will 
   equally agree to this place.  Many Roman coins have been ploughed up here,
   particularly some of Constantius, Helena, and Constantine; also, an alabaster 
   urn, containing ashes, melted lead, rings, &c.  --Camden.
         Dr. Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle, who crowned Queen Elizabeth,
   was a native of this place.  --Camden.
         Here is a School, founded in 1787, by the late Thomas Fairfax Esq.
 
NEWTON, LITTLE, s.h. in the township of Hellifield, and parish of Long Preston,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Settle.
 
NEWTON, POTTER, -- See Potter Newton.
 
NEWTON-WILLOWS, f.h. in the township of Ledston, and parish of Ledsham, liberty
   of Pontefract; 5 miles from Pontefract.
 
NIDD, a parish town, in the lower division of Claro, liberty of Ripon; (Nidd 
   Hall, the seat of Francis Trapps, Esq.) 2 miles from Ripley, 3.5 from 
   Knaresborough, 21.5 from York.  --Pop. 86.  The Church is a vicarage, in the
   deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, +3L. 6s. 10.5d. p.r.
   !110L.   Patron, the King, as Duke of Lancaster.
 
NOBLETHORPE, s.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3.5 miles from
   Penistone.
 
NORLAND, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Halifax, 7 from Huddersfield.  --Pop.
   1,665.
 
           On the edge of Norland-Moor, amongst a large ridge of rocks, is a 
   very ponderous stone, which projects over the side of the hill, and has a 
   very uncommon appearance; it is called the Lad-stone, but, for what reason, 
   no inhabitant of the place can tell.  Mr. Watson observes, that if the name
   is British, it may come from Llad, to kill or slay, and might be the place
   for the execution of criminals, in the time of the Druids, who were extremely
   lavish of human blood -not only criminals, captives, and strangers, were 
   slain at their sacrifices, but their very disciples were put to death, 
   without mercy, if they were wilfully tardy in coming to their assemblies.
   -Watson's Halifax.
  
NORMANTON, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of 
   Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Wakefield, 5 from Pontefract, 25 from York.  --Pop.
   250.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the deanry of
   Pontefract, value, +7L. p.r. 150L.  Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge.
 
         In this Church is buried the celebrated James Torre, Esq. whose
   manuscript collections of the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of this county stand 
   unrivalled.  He died at Snydall, in this parish, July 31, 1699.  -Drake's
   Ebor. Preface.
           Here is a Grammar School, founded and endowed with 10L. per annum, by
   John Fraston, Esq. in the year 1591, for all scholars of his sir-name, and
   thirty others, out of the parishes of Normanton and Warmfield.  -The money is
   paid out of the University of Oxford.
  
NORTH-BIERLY, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Bradford, 8 from Halifax, 12.5 from 
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 6,070.  Here is a Chapel, but not consecrated.
  
NORTH-COTE, f.h. in the township of Coniston-with-Kilnsey, and parish of
   Burnsall, liberty of Staincliffe; 2.5 miles from Kettlewell, 13 from Skipton. 
  
NORTH-CROFTS, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3.5 miles from
   Penistone.
  
NORTH-CROSLAND, in the township of South-Crosland, and parish of Almondbury; 2 
   miles from Huddersfield.
  
NORTH-LANE HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Long-Drax, and parish of Drax; 5 miles
   from Snaith.
  
NORTH-DEIGHT0N, (the seat of John Brewin, Esq.) - See Deighton, North.
  
NORTH LEYS, ham. in the township of North-Stainley-with-Slenningford, and parish
   and liberty of Ripon; 2 miles from Ripon.
  
NORTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Mirfield; 2.5 miles from Dewsbury,
   5 from Wakefield.
  
NORTHORPE, f.h. in the township of Wortley, and parish of Tankersley; 4.5 miles
   from Penistone.
  
NORTHOWRAM, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; (Northowram-Hall, the seat of J.F. Dyson, Esq.) 2.5
   miles from Halifax, 6.5 from Bradford.  --Pop. 6,841.
  
NORTH-PASTURE, 4 f.h. in the township of Sawley, and parish of Ripon; 3 miles
   from Pateley Bridge, 9 from Ripon.
  
NORTH-SIDE HEAD, f.h. in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 9 miles from Pateley Bridge.
  
NORTON, in the parish of Campsall, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 7.5 miles from Pontefract, 8.5 from Doncaster and Ferrybridge.
   --Pop. 668.
  
NORTON-PRIORY, ham. situated as above.
  
NORWOOD, in the township of Clitton-with-Norwood, and parish of Fewston, 
   lower-division of Claro; 6 miles from Otley, 11 from Knaresborough.  --Pop.
   included in Clifton.
  
NORWOOD-HALL, (the seat of James Wheat, Esq.) in the township of Brightside 
   Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 2.5 miles from Sheffield 
  
NOSTAL-PRIORY, (the seat of Charles Winn, Esq.) in the township of 
   Purston-Jaglin, and parish of Wragby, wapentake of Osgoldcross; 5 miles from 
   Pontefract, 7 from Ferrybridge.
 
           In the reign of Henry I. Ralph Adlave, that King's Chaplain, founded
   a Priory here, for Canons regular of the order of St. Austin, in the year
   1120; the situation was very woody, and had previously been chosen by a few 
   Hermits, where they had built themselves a little Hall, and an Oratory or 
   Church, dedicated to St. James.  The Priory founded by Adlave, was dedicated
   to St. Oswald, the King and Martyr, to which were granted many privileges.
   Robert de Laci granted the Monks the wood in which it was built, with two 
   oxgangs of Land, in Hardwic; for which reason, the Lacies family looked upon 
   themselves, and were always deemed, as founders.  At the suppression its
   revenues were valued at 606L. 9s. 3d. Speed,  -492L. 18s. 2d. Dugdale.  The
   site was given in the 31st Henry VIII. to Thomas Leigh, Doctor of Laws, one
   of the visitors of religious houses; it afterwards became the property of Sir 
   Richard Gargrave, Knight, who sold it to ---- Ireland, Esq. by him it was
   sold to George Winn, Esq. who was afterwards created a Baronet by King
   Charles II.  --Burton.  --Leland.
           The present house was built by Sir Rowland Winn, Bart. in the
   beginning of the last century, near the site of the old Priory.  It stands on
   an eminence in the midst of a fertile and well cultivated tract of country.
   The family of Winn is descended from the House of Gwydir, who left Wales in 
   the sixteenth century and settled in London.  The immediate ancestor of this
   branch was George Winn, Draper to Queen Elizabeth; whose grand-son George was 
   created a Bart. by King Charles II., 1660, at which time he resided at
   Nostall.  On the death of Sir Roland Winn, in 1805, the title devolved upon
   his cousin Edmund Mark Wynn, Esq. of Ackton, and the family estates so his
   nephew, John Williamson, Esq. who, on coming of age, obtained his Majesty's
   license to bear the name and arms of Winn.  He died in 1817, and was
   succeeded by his only brother, Charles, the present possessor.  --Betham's
   Bar.  -Neal's Views.
 
NOTTON, in the parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Barnsley, 6.5 from Wakefield, 10 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. 339.
  
NUN-APPLETON, --See Appleton, Nun.
  
NUNDROOK, ham. in the township and parish of Mirfield; 4.5 miles from
   Huddersfield, 8.5 from Wakefield, 11 from Leeds.
 
NUN-MONKTON, a parish-town in the upper-division of Claro; 8 miles from York, 11 
   from Knaresborough and Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 344.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, p.r. !45L.
   but by the addition of lands since, it is 81L.
 
           In the time of King Stephen, William de Arches and Ivetta, his wife, 
   founded here a Nunnery, and dedicated it to the Blessed Virgin, for 
   Benedictines, and endowed it with divers lands, afterwards confirm to the 
   Nunnery by Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York.  -Valued at the dissolution at
   75L. 12s. 4d.  -Dugdale.  - Burton.
           The site was granted 29th Henry VIII. to John Nevil, Lord Latimer;
   the present owner is Payler Tufnal Jolliff Esq.
 
NUNWICK, 4 f.h. in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro;
   2.25 miles from Ripon, 7.5 from Boroughbridge, 10.5 from Bedale.  --Pop. 28.
   One house and farm at Howgrave, in the parish of Kirklington, belong to this 
   township.
 
OAKENSHAW, f.h. in the township and parish of Crofton; 1.5 miles from Wakefield,
   7 from Pontefract.
 
OAKS, f.h. in the township and parish of Darton; 3 miles from Barnsley, 7.5 from
   Penistone.
 
OAKS GREEN, s.h. in the township of Rastrick, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
OAKWELL-HALL, s.h. in the township of Gomersall, and parish of Birstall; 6 miles
   from Bradford, 8 from Halifax.
 
OAKWORTH, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of Staincliffe; 3
   miles from Keighley, 10 from Skipton.
 
OCKENEY, f.h. in the township of Walkingham-with-Ockeney, and parish of
   Knaresborough, lower-division of Claro; 3.5 miles from Knaresborough, 5 from
   Ripley.  --Pop. included in Walkingham.
 
OGLETHORPE, in the township of Bramham-with-Oglethorpe, and parish of Bramham, 
   wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 4 miles from Tadcaster.
 
        This place was formerly the residence of the ancient family of 
   Oglethorpe, one of whom was Reve of the county at the time of the Norman 
   Conquest: they continued seated here till the civil wars, when their estates 
   here were lost for their loyalty.  Of this family was James Edward
   Oglethorpe, born in 1698, founder of the Colony of Georgia, General of the
   forces of South Carolina, &c.  -He died June 30th, 1785.  A monument is
   erected in the church of Cranham, to the memory of the General and his wife,
   written by Mr. Capel Loft.  He was author of "An account of the Colony in
   Georgia," and "An Essay on Plantations, or tracts relating to the Colonies,
   1732."  --Nichols' Anecdotes, vol. 2. where a detailed account of this
   respectable family is given.
 
OKENSHAW, in the township of Cleck-Heaton, and parish of Birstall, 
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 6 miles from Bradford and Halifax.
 
OLD-BOOTH, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 6 miles
   from Penistone, 12 from Sheffield.
  
OLDCOTES, f.h. in the township of Hawkeswick, and parish of Arncliffe; 5 miles
   from Kettlewell, 11.5 from Settle.
 
OLD-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Emley; 7.5 miles from Huddersfield
   and Wakefield.
 
OLDHAM-MILL, a Mill, in the township of Wombwell, and parish of Darfield; 3 
   miles from Barnsley, 7.5 from Rotherham.
 
OLD-TOWN, ham. in the township of Wadsworth, and parish of Halifax; 9 miles from
   Halifax, 12 from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 
 
OLERS, and OLERS, NETHER, ham. in the township of Slaithwaite, and parish of
   Huddersfield; 8 miles from Huddersfield.
 
ONES-ACRE, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 5 miles
   from Sheffield, 9 from Penistone.
 
ORGRAVE, in the parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, 
   liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield.  --Pop. 47.
  
OSGOLDCROSS, a wapentake, bounded on the east by part of the county of Lincoln; 
   on the south, by the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill; on the west, by 
   the wapentakes of Staincross, and Agbrigg and Morley; and on the north, by 
   that of Barkston-Ash.  In this wapentake are the market-towns of Pontefract
   and Snaith.  It contains 63 townships, 19 of which are parish-towns, 5,927
   inhabited houses, and 30,199 inhabitants.
  
OSSENDIKE, in the township of Ryther-with-Ossendike, and parish of Ryther, 
   wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Tadcaster, 7 
   from Selby.  --Pop. included in Ryther.
 
OSSETT, in the parish of Dewsbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles from Wakefield, 3 from Dewsbury.  --Pop.
   4,775.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. 115L. 5s.  Patron, the
   Vicar of Dewsbury.
  
OSWINTHORPE, or OSMONDTHORPE, in the township of Halton, parish and borough of 
   Leeds; 2 miles from Leeds.
 
           Oswinthorpe, or Ossinthorpe, the "villa regia" of Bede, is said to 
   have been the residence of Oswyn, King of Northumberland.  Certain remains of
   old works, which the late Alderman Skelton levelled, filling up several 
   trenches, &c. which had continued to the time of Charles I. when the present
   fabric was built.  In one of the windows, is a piece of stained glass, which
   was preserved when the old hall was demolished.  -It represents a King, with
   a very antique Crown, Sword, and a Shield, bearing the arms of the "East 
   Angles", for here Edwin was relieved when an Exile.  Here have been also
   pavements and causeways, found under ground, when ploughing.  The third King
   from this Edwin, was Oswin, a virtuous prince, but more devout than brave, 
   and who was murdered in 651, from whom, most probably, the place received its 
   name.  His remains were interred in Whitby Abbey, by order of his daughter,
   Edelfelda.  Several hundred years after this, a family of the Osmunds resided
   here, and shewd a strong inclination to have it called Osmundthorp.
   --Thoresby.
  
OTLEY, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of 
   Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; (Manor-House, the residence of Matthew Wilson, 
   Esq.) 8 miles from Harewood, 10 from Leeds, Bingley and Bradford, 12 from 
   Keighley, and Ripley, 13 from Knaresborough, 15 from Skipton, 16 from
   Wetherby, 28 from York, 208 from London.  --Market, Friday.  --Fairs, first
   Monday after August 2, for horses and horned cattle; Friday between new and 
   old Martinmas-day for hiring servants; Fortnight Fairs on Fridays, for horned 
   cattle and sheep.  --Principal Inns, White Horse, Black Horse, and New Inn.
   --Pop. 3,065.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the
   deanry of the Ainsty, value, +13L. 1s. 8d. p.r. !128L.
 
           Otley is a well-built town, delightfully situated on the banks of the 
   Wharfe.  It is, according to Dr. Whitaker, the "Othleai" of Domesday, the
   field of "Othe", or Otho, a personal appellation, not uncommon in England 
   before, or after the conquest.  It is one of the great Saxon Parishes, the
   parent of several others, which were separated in the universal spirit of 
   church building, after the conquest.  At this time it was of great extent,
   and contained 81 square miles, comprehending the present parish of Otley, 
   part of Wistow, Guiseley, and a part of Ilkley, including Middleton and 
   Stubham.  -It now contains, besides the parish-church, six chapels.  The
   manor of Otley was given to the See of York, by King Athelstan; and in 
   Kirkby's Inquest, 1287, it was returned, that the Archbishop of York held in
   Otley, half a fee.  -In the Nomina Villarum, 1316, the Archbishop is also
   returned as lord, as his successors have been to the present day; and who 
   have a civil, as well as spiritual jurisdiction within the place, where 
   justice is administered by Magistrates, holding their commission under the 
   metropolitan, for the liberty of "Cawood, Wistow, and Otley."  The site of
   the ancient Mansion of the Archbishop of York, at the north-end of the town,
   is still denominated the Manor House; and when the present house, which
   occupies the site, was erected, some ancient and strong foundations were
   taken up. This, with "the Gallows," in the vicinity of the town, and the
   peculiar jurisdiction with it, are all the relics now remaining of this
   ancient place, once inhabited by the metropolitans.  The Kitchens of the
   manor-house here, were built, Drake informs us, by the munificent Archbishop
   Bowet, who, in consequence consumed at Otley, some portion of the four-score
   tuns of claret, with a proportionate quantity of other elements of
   hospitality, which he is said to have annually expended.  But whether it was
   ever honoured by the residence of any of his successors, is uncertain.
           Here is a Grammar School, founded in 1611, by Thomas Cave, who made 
   the Feoffees a body corporate.  Their seal is a Rod, on one side, with a Palm
   branch on the other; motto, -Deum Pave, tomo cave- Fear God, and mind thy 
   book; being a pun upon the founder's name.  In the Church, which is a
   spacious building, are several ancient monuments, especially of the families 
   of Fairfax, Fawkes, Vavasour, Palmes, and Pulleyn.  Nothing of the original
   Saxon church remains, excepting, perhaps, the north door, which has a 
   circular arch.  The fortnight fairs in Otley, have long been famous for fat
   cattle; and large quantities of corn are sold in this market weekly, and sent 
   into the manufacturing districts, south-west of Otley.
           At the south-east of the town, on a craggy cliff, is the hill, called 
   "Otley Chevin," which rises high over the road to Leeds, and together with 
   Romaldsmoor and Pool Bank, forms a mountainous range, extending to the River 
   Wharfe.
  
OTTERBURN, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale; 8 miles from Settle, 9 from 
   Skipton.
 
OUGHTERSHAW, ham. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff; 8.25
   miles from Kettlewell, 14 from Settle.
  
OUGHTY-BRIDGE, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 5 miles 
   from Sheffield, 9 from Penistone.
  
OULTON, in the township of Woodlesford-with-Oulton, and parish of Rothwell, 
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; (Oulton House, 
   the seat of John Blaydes, Esq.) 5 miles from Wakefield and Leeds.  --Pop.
   included in Woodlesford.
 
           Here was born, 1661, the celebrated Critic, Mr. Richard Bentley, who
   was Chaplain to Bishop Stillingfleet.  He was the first who preached the
   lecture, founded by Mr. Boyle.  He is advantageously known as a Critic, by
   his editions of Horace, Terence, Phaedrus, &c.  He died in 1742.  -Biog.
   Brit.
  
OUSEBURN, GREAT, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of the 
   Forest of Knaresborough; 4 miles from Boroughbridge, 7 from Knaresborough, 14
   from York.  --Pop. 437.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in
   the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, +3L. 10s.  Patron,
   the King.
  
OUSEBURN, LITTLE, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro, liberty, of St. 
   Peter, diocese of Chester; 5 miles from Boroughbridge, 8 from Knaresborough,
   13 from York. --Pop. 293.  The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to
   the Holy Trinity, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, value, 3L. 8s. 4d. p.r.
   96L. Patron, the Precentor of York.
  
OUSEFLEET, in the parish of Whitgift, wapentake of Osgoldcross; 7 miles from 
   Howden and Crowle, (Linc.) 14 from Snaith.  --Pop. 253.
 
OUSEFLEET-GRANGE, f.h. in the township of Ousefleet, and parish of Whitgift; 7
   miles from Howden and Crowle, (Linc.) 
  
OUSE-HEAD, (Obelisk) in the parish of Great Ouseburn; 3.75 miles from 
   Boroughbridge, 7.5 from Knaresborough.
 
           Here stands a neat little pillar, which marks the head of the River 
   Ouse.  This celebrated head, whose waters would scarcely wet your shoe-soles,
   is a burlesque upon two noble rivers, the Ure and the Swale, by depriving 
   them of their names, and usurping a dignity in favour of a dirty puddle.
   --Hutton.
  
OUSLETHWAITE, (the seat of William Elmhirst, Esq.) in the township of 
   Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 1.5 miles from Barnsley.
  
OVENDEN, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 1.25 miles from Halifax, 10.75 from Keighley.  --Pop.
   6,360.
 
           One Anthony Bentley of Ovenden, Gent. paid in 1630, ten pounds
   composition money, for not receiving the order of Knighthood at the
   coronation of Charles I.  --Watson.
  
OWLCOATS, ham. in the township of Pudsey, and parish of Calverley; 3 miles from
   Bradford, 7.5 from Leeds.
  
OWLERTON, in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 2.5 miles 
   from Sheffield.
 
OWLSHAW, s.h. in the township of Gisburn-Forest; 4 miles from Settle, 16 from
   Skipton.
  
OWRAM, NORTH,  --See Northowram.
 
OWRAM, SOUTH,  --See Southowram.
  
OWSTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract, 
   (Owston-Hall, the seat of Phillip Davis Cook, Esq.) 6 miles from Doncaster, 
   10 fron Pontefract, 31 from York.  --Pop. 306.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +7L. 0s. 2.5d.
   p.r. 100L.  Patron, Phillip Davis Cook, Esq.
  
OXNOP-FAR, and NEAR. 2 h. in the township of Thornton, parish of Bradford; 5
   miles from Keighley, 8 from Halifax.
 
OXSPRING, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Penistone, 6 from Barnsley, 12 from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 247.
  
OXTON, (Ainsty) in the parish of Tadcaster; (the seat of John William Clough, 
   Esq.) 1 mile from Tadcaster, 9.5 from York.  --Pop. 66.
 
PACEGATE, f.h. in the township of Beamsley, and parish of Skipton; 9 miles from
   Skipton.
  
PADDOCK, and )  in the township and parish of Huddersfield, 
PADDOCK-FOOT,)  Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley;
                1 mile, from Huddersfield, 8.5 from Halifax.
  
PADSIDE, in the township of Hampsthwaite-with-Padside, and parish of 
   Hampsthwaite, lower-division of Claro; 4.5 miles from Pateley Bridge, 6.5
   from Ripley.  --Pop. included in Hampsthwaite.
  
PAGE-FOLD, s.h. in the township of Bashelleaves, and parish of Mitton; 4 miles
   from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 
  
PAGE-HALL, (the seat of George Bustard Greaves, Esq.) in the township and parish
   of Ecclesfield, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 3 miles from 
   Sheffield, 4.5 from Rotherham.
  
PAINSLEY, f.h. in the township of Horton, and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 1.5 miles from Gisburn.
  
PAINTHORPE, in the parish of Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and 
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; (Painthorpe House, the seat of William Brown, 
   Esq.) 4 miles from Wakefield.
 
PANNALL, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro; 2.5 miles from 
   Harrogate, 5.5 from Knaresborough, 6 from Ripley, 8 from Otley, 23.5 from
   York.  --Pop. 1,314.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Robert,
   Knaresborough, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +5L. 5s.  Patron, the Rev.
   R.B. Hunter.
 
           The first Minister that occurs, is John Brown, one of the brethren of 
   the house of St. Robert, Knaresborough, 1348: and in the following year, the
   church was given, by the Earl of Cornwall, to the brethren of the said 
   Priory.
           Pannall was anciently called Rosehurst, by contraction, Rossett.
   --History of Knaresborough.
  
PARADISE, f.h. in the township of Horton, and parish of Gisburn; 9 miles from
   Settle, 11 from Skipton.
  
PARK-GATE, ham. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.
  
PARK-GATE, s.h. in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham; 3.5
   miles from Rotherham.
  
PARK-GATE HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Guiseley; 2.5 miles from
   Otley, 10 from Leeds.
  
PARK-GATE, and PARK-HOUSE, 2 or 3 h. in the township and parish of Emley; 8
   miles from Huddersfield and Wakefield.
  
PARK-GRANGE, (the seat of Samuel Roberts, Esq.) in the township and parish of 
   Sheffield; 1.5 miles from Sheffield.
  
PARK-HILL, (the seat of A.B. St. Ledger, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Firbeck, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Tickhill, 6 
   from Worksop, (Notts.) 
 
PARK-LANE, ham. in the township and parish of Hatfield; (the seat of William
   Pilkington, Esq.) 5.5 miles from Doncaster.
  
PARK-LODGE, (the seat of William Hepworth, Esq.) in the township of Idle, and 
   parish of Calverley; 3.5 miles from Bradford.
  
PARLINGTON, a township, in the parish of Abberford, lower division of Skyrack, 
   liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Richard Oliver Gascoigne, Esq.) 1 mile 
   from Abberford.  --Pop. 226.
 
           This has long been a seat of a branch of the ancient family of 
   Gascoignes of Gawthorpe, the Baronetage of which became extinct, on the death 
   of the late Sir Thomas Gascoigne, when Richard Oliver, Esq. of Parlington,
   succeeded him in his estates, and in compliance with his will, assumed the 
   name Gascoigne.  A pedigree of the Gascoignes is given in Thoresby's
   Leodiensis.
  
PATELEY BRIDGE, in the township of High and Low Bishopside and parish of Ripon, 
   lower division of Claro, liberty of Ripon; 9 miles from Ripley, 10 from 
   Grassington, 11 from Ripon, 14 from Knaresborough and Harrogate, 15 from
   Skipton, Masham, and Otley, 16 from Kettlewell, 32 from York, 224 from 
   London.  --Market, Saturday.  --Fairs, Easter and Whitsun-Eve; May 11;
   September 17, (if on a Saturday,) if not, on the first Saturday after; Monday 
   after October 10; and Christmas-Eve; for cattle, woollen cloth, pedlary-ware, 
   &c.  --Principal Inns, the Crown, and George.  ---Pop. included in High and
   Low Bishopside.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in
   the deanry of Ripon, value, p.r. !87L. 11s. 4d.  Patrons, the Dean and
   Chapter of Ripon.
 
           This is a small market-town situated upon the banks of the river 
   Nidd, and may be considered as the capital of Nidderdale.  It derives
   considerable wealth from the lead-mines on the opposite side of the river, at 
   Greenhow-Hill, &c.  A little above the town, there is a lead-mill, where the
   manufacture of sheet-lead, and lead-pipes is carried on to a great extent.
   The market was granted to the Archbishop of York, in the 18th Edward II. when
   the King was at York.  The town consisting of one street, is tolerably
   well-built.
  
PAW-HILL, or WELL, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone,
   Liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Penistone.
  
PALEY-GREEN, HIGH and LOW, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Giggleswick,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 2 miles from Settle.
  
PAYTHORNE, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 9 
   miles from Settle, 11 from Skipton and Colne, (Lanc.)   --Pop. 242.
  
PECKFIELD-HOUSE, s.h. in the township and parish of Garforth; 4 miles from
   Abberford, 7 from Pontefract.  It is on the edge of the Roman Road, from
   Castleford to Abberford.
  
PENISTONE, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 12.75 from Huddersfield, 13.75 from 
   Sheffield, 14 from Wakefield, 15 from Rotherham, 26 from Stockport, (Chesh.) 
   45 from York, 176 from London.  --Market, Thursday.  --Fairs, last Thursday
   in February; last Thursday in March; first Thursday in May; and Thursday 
   after old Michaelmas day, for horses and horned cattle.  --Principal Inn,
   Rose and Crown.  --Pop. 645.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. John
   the Baptist, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +16L. 14s. 2d. p.r. 146L.
   18s, 4d.  Patron, the Right Hon. Major General Godfrey Bosville.
 
           This is a small market-town, little superior to a village, as the 
   population will evince.  It is chiefly noted for the number of moor sheep
   sold at its markets and fairs.
           Here is a Free Grammar School, endowed with 100L. per annum, -and
   also the interest of 200L. for the education of eight poor girls.
  
PENNIGENT-HILL, in the parish of Harton, wapentake of Ewcross; 6.5 miles from 
   Settle.
 
           This is a towering mountain, whose height Mr. Jeffries found to be
   3,220 feet above the level of the sea.  On the base of this mountain are two
   awful orifices, called Hulpit and Huntpit-Holes: the former looks like the 
   ruins of an enormous Castle, with the walls standing and the roof fallen in; 
   the latter resembles a deep funnel, dangerous to approach.  Horton-Beck runs
   through one of these pits, and Bransil-Beck through the other; each of these 
   brooks passes under-ground for about a mile: Horton-Beck emerging again at 
   Dowgill Scar, and Bransil-Beck at Bransill-Head; but, what is more 
   extraordinary, these subterraneous brooks cross each other in the bowels, of 
   the earth, without mixing their waters; the bed of the one being one stratum 
   above the other, which circumstance was discovered by the muddy water, after 
   a sheep washing, going down the one passage, and the husks of oats down the 
   other.  On the west side of the base of this mountain, are the remains of
   many ancient places of interment, called Giant's Graves; some of which have 
   been opened; and found to contain skeletons, bedded in peat earth, none of 
   which appeared to be larger than the ordinary size.  --Tour to the Caves.
 
PHILADELPHIA, in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 1.5 
   miles from Sheffield.  Near this place are the Horse Barracks, built in 1794.
  
PIGBURN, in the township and parish of Brodsworth, lower division of Strafforth 
   and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from Doncaster, 11 from Barnsley.
  
PILLEY, in the township and parish of Tankersley, wapentake of Staincross, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Barnsley, 7 from Penistone and Rotherham. 
  
PISSMIRE-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Dewsbury; 1.5 miles from
   Dewsbury.
  
PITTS-MOOR, in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield, 
   which it adjoins on the north.
  
PLEDWICK, s.h. in the township and parish of Sandal-Magna, liberty of Wakefield;
   2.5 miles from Wakefield.
  
PLUMPTON; in the parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro; 3 miles from 
   Knaresborough, 4 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 208.
 
           This was formerly the seat of the ancient family of Plumpton, who 
   held it of the Percies as "Mesne Lords;" and which lands they have held ever 
   since the 20th of William the Conqueror, in one regular and uninterrupted 
   course of descent, in the Male-line, till it at last ended in Robert Plumpton 
   Esq. who died in France, about the year 1749, from whom the estate went to
   his aunt, Anne, who sold it to the late Daniel Lascelles, Esq.
           The pleasure grounds comprise about twenty three acres, are laid out 
   with much taste, and diversified with large rocks, flowers, shrubs, and 
   evergreens, and at the foot of the rocks is a beautiful lake, covering about 
   seven acres of ground.  There is one rock, surrounded with water of immense
   magnitude, of the same grit as the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge; it is 
   about fifty feet in length, and near the water's edge, without a joint.  The
   singularity and beauty of the situation of these grounds, cause numbers of 
   people to resort here during the summer months, which are always open for 
   public inspection on Tuesdays, and occasionally on Fridays.
 
POG-MOOR, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 1.75 miles from
   Barnsley, 6.5 from Penistone.
  
POLLINGTON, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Cowick 
   and Snaith; 2 miles from Snaith, 7 from Thorne, 8.5 from Ferrybridge.  --Pop.
   483.
 
           The Manor of this place is copyhold, and the custom is there, that if 
   a copy-holder dies seized of lands, having no issue male; but daughters, and 
   does not surrender to them in his life-time, the same shall escheat to the 
   Lord of the said Manor, and the daughters shall not inherit.  Sir Henry
   Savill, of Methley, Bart. purchased this Manor of Sir Thomas Metham, Knight;
   and John Saville, Esq. of Methley aforesaid, now enjoys the same, 1674.
   --Blount's Ancient Tenures.
  
POND, f.h. in the township of Huntshelf, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles from
   Penistone.
  
PONTEFRACT, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty 
   of Pontefract; 2 miles from Ferrybridge, 11 from Abberford, 9 from Wakefield, 
   13 from Leeds, 14 from Snaith, Barnsley, and Selby, 15 from Doncaster and 
   Tadcaster, 17 from Wetherby, 20 from Rotherham and Thorne, 24 from York, 177 
   from London.  --Market, Saturday.  --Fairs, first Saturday after January 13;
   first Saturday before February 2; first Saturday after February 13; Saturday 
   before Palm-Sunday, Low Sunday, and Trinity-Sunday; Saturday after September 
   12; and the first Saturday in December, for horses, horned cattle, and sheep: 
   the Fortnight Fairs are on Saturday next after the York Fortnight Fairs.
   -Bankers, Messrs. Leathams, Tew, Trueman, and Co. draw on Messrs. Dennison
   and Co. 100, Fenchurch Street; Messrs. Perfect, Hardcastle, and Co. draw on
   Sir J.W. Lubbock, Bart. and Co. 11, Mansion-House Street.  --Principal Inns,
   Star, Red Lion, and New Elephant.  --Pop. 4,447.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +13L. 6s. 8d.
   Patron, the King.
 
           The situation at this place is extremely pleasant, as the town, 
   crowning a fine eminence, is approached on all sides by a considerable 
   ascent.  The houses are handsome, the streets open, spacious, and clean, and
   the country about it adorned with many elegant Mansions.
           According to Leland and Drake, this place rose out of the ruins of 
   Legeoleum, which, in Saxon times, was called Kirkby, but changed by the 
   Normans to Pontefract, from a broken bridge that was here.
           Here Ilbert de Lacy, in the time of the Conqueror, built a very 
   strong Castle: which devolved, by marriage, to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, one
   of the chief opponents of Gaveston, who, being taken in arms against Edward
   II. was condemned in his own Castle, and beheaded near this place.  Here,
   Richard II. was confined a close prisoner by order of Henry IV. who, "by
   indirect and crooked paths, had met the crown," and therefore wished for the
   death of Richard; and one of those assassins, to be found in every corrupt
   court, ready to commit the most horrid crimes for reward, came to the place
   of this unfortunate monarch's confinement, and with eight of his followers,
   rushed into his apartment.  The King, concluding their design was to take
   away his life, resolved not to fall unrevenged, but to sell it as dear as he
   could; wherefore, wresting a pole-axe from one of the murderers, he soon laid
   four of their number dead at his feet.  But he was at length over-powered,
   and struck dead with a blow of a pole-axe.  Froisard, who had been secretary
   to his grandfather, says that he died in the tower, and that his body was
   placed on a litter, the head on a black cushion, and his face uncovered and
   carried through Cheapside, where the procession halted two hours.  In the
   year 1417, the Duke of Orleans was a prisoner in this Castle, by order of
   Henry V; and, in the year 1461, the innocent Anthony, Earl of Rivers, Richard
   Lord Grey, Sir Thomas Vaughan, and Sir Richard Hawse, were all murdered here,
   by the tyrannic order of Richard III.  In the civil wars of Charles I. this
   Castle several times changed its masters; but, the last and most remarkable
   siege was in the year 1647, when it surrendered to General Lambert; and, in
   1649, was, by a resolution of Parliament, ordered to be dismantled: all the
   ammunition being first removed, conveyed to York, and lodged in
   Cliffords-Tower, a great number of people were employed, with pick-axes,
   iron-crows, spades, and shovels, to demolish this noble fortress, which they
   fully accomplished in about ten weeks: the charge for which amounted to the
   sum of 777L. 4s. 6d., an enormous sum in those days.

                   O Pomfret, Pomfret, O thou bloody prison! 
                   Fatal and ominous to noble Peers! 
                   Within the guilty closure of thy walls, 
                   Richard the second here was hacked to death.
                                           Shakespeare's Richard II.

           Some fragments of mouldering ruins mark the place where this strong 
   Castle stood, which serve to shew the infelicity of former times, when 
   domestic broils convulsed and desolated the land.
           The Church of All-Saints was formerly the parish church, but at what 
   time built, or by whom, is not known.  There appears to have been a Church
   here at the time of the survey, but Mr. Boothroyd, the historian of
   Pontefract, observes, this Church cannot be referred to a period so remote: 
   the erection of this structure, from the style of its architecture, may, with 
   greater probability, be referred to the time of Henry III.  It was so much
   damaged during the siege of the Castle, that the inhabitants have ever since 
   assembled for the celebration of divine service in the Chapel of St. Giles,
   now the parish-church.
           Here was a Benedictine Priory, founded by Robert de Lacy, in 1090, 
   dedicated to St. John; a house of Dominicans, or preaching Friars; a house of
   Carmelites, or white Friars, built by Edmund de Lacy; a house of Austin 
   Friars, and several Hospitals.
           This borough was incorporated by Richard III.; and sends two Members 
   to Parliament; the right of Election, is in the inhabitant house-holders, of 
   which there are about 700.
           The town is governed by a Mayor, Recorder, twelve Aldermen, with a 
   Common Council, consisting of twenty-four Burgesses.
           Pontefract has been long celebrated for its gardens and nurseries,
   and the finest liquorice in the kingdom, for which it is thus noticed by
   Drunken Barnaby:-
                           Veni Pomfret, ubi miram 
                           Arcem, Angus regibus diram; 
                           Laseris ortu celebrandam, 
                           Varils gestis memorandam: 
                           Nec in Pomfret repens certior, 
                           Quam pauperculus inertior.

           Lun, the author of the Newcastle Rider, and some other poems, was a 
   native of this place.  Though bred to the humble profession of a barber, and
   without the advantage of a literary education, some of his pieces, for 
   keenness of satire, and justness of sentiment, would not disgrace the pen of 
   Churchill.
           John Bramhall, Archbishop of Armagh, in 17th century, was born at 
   Pontefract.  He had the living of (rectory) St. Martin's, Micklegate, York.
   In 1623, he had two public disputations at Northallerton, with a secular 
   priest and a Jesuit, which gained him great reputation.  --Magna Brit.
 
PONTEFRACT-PARK, a township, (extraparochial) in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, 
   liberty of Pontefract;  1.5 miles from Pontefract.  --Pop. 47.
 
POOL, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of Cawood, 
   Wistow, and Otley; 3 miles from Otley, 8 from Harewood, 10 from Leeds and 
   Bradford, 11 from Ripley.  --Pop. 294.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   value, p.r. !71L. 17s.  Patron, the Vicar of Otley.
  
POOLE, in the township of Byram-with-Poole, and parish of Brotherton, wapentake 
   of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St. Peter and Pontefract; 3 miles from
   Ferrybridge, 5 from Pontefract.  --Pop. included in Byram.
 
POPPLETON, UPPER or LAND, (Ainsty) in the parish of Bishop Hill, Jun. York, 
   liberty of St. Peter; 4 miles from York, 12 from Wetherby and Easingwold.
   --Pop. 346.  The Church is a curacy, of which the Archbishop of York is
   Patron.
 
           The lands here formerly belonged to the Abbot of St. Mary's, York;
   given by Osbern de Archis to this Abbey, almost at its first institution.  At
   South or Land Poppleton, the Church or Prebend of York, had seven carucates
   of land; and the Abbot of St. Mary's two carucates and a half
           Sir Thomas Waddington writes that there was a Mayor of York, killed 
   at Poppleton in the reign of King Richard II. as be conjectured, in some
   controversy betwixt the Abbot and citizens.  -Drake.
  
POPPLETON, NETHER, or WATER, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 4 miles from York, 11 from 
   Easingwold, 13 from Wetherby, 14 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. 254.  The Church
   is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 
   p.r. 74L.  Patron, the Dean and Chapter of York.
  
PORTO BELLO, in the township and parish of Sheffield, upper division of 
   Strafforth and Tickhill; half a mile from Sheffield, 6.5 from Rotherham.
 
POTTER-NEWTON, in the parish of Leeds, lower-division of 
   Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Leeds, 6 from Harewood, 
   9 from Otley.
 
           Potter-Newton, which, Dr. Whitaker says, with Chapel Allerton and
   Gledhow, constitutes the most beautiful portion of the parish of Leeds, was 
   anciently a seat of the Mauleverers, who came over with the Conqueror, and
   which family was seated here at least eight generations.  --Thoresby.
 
POTTERTON, ham. in the township and parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Potterton-Lodge, the seat of Edward Wilkinson, Esq.) 6 miles 
   from Wetherby, 7 from Tadcaster.
  
POTGATE-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of North-Stainley-with-Slenningford, and
   parish of Ripon; 4 miles from Ripon.
  
PRESTON, GREAT, in the parish of Kippax, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 7 miles from Pontefract, 5 from Wakefield and Leeds.  --Pop. 478.
  
PRESTON, LITTLE, in the township of Great-Preston, and parish of Kippax, 
   lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Leeds, 5 from 
   Pontefract and Wakefield.
  
PRESTON, LONG,  --See Long-Preston.
  
PRIESTHORPE, ham. in, the township of Calverley-with-Farsley, and parish of
   Calverley; 3.5 miles from Bradford.
 
PRIESTHORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Bingley; 6 miles from Keighley
   and Bradford.
  
PROVIDENCE-GREEN, s.h. in the township of Green-Hammerton, and parish of
   Whixley; 7 miles from Knaresborough.
  
PUDDING-HOLE, f.h. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 9 miles from Pateley Bridge.
  
PUDSEY, in the parish of Calverley, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Bradford, 6 from Leeds.  --Pop. 6,229.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Lawrence, value, *109L.
   15s.  Patron, the Vicar of Calverley.
 
           This is a populous village, inhabited by persons connected with the 
   woollen manufactory, which may in fact be considered as three villages, under 
   the names of High, Low, and Chapel-Pudsey, being nearly a quarter of a mile 
   distant from each other.
  
PURSTON-JACKLING, in the parish of Featherstone, wapentake of Osgoldcross, 
   liberty of Pontefract; 2.25 miles from Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield, 11 from 
   Barnsley.  --Pop. 244.
 
PURLWELL-HALL, (the seat of Mrs. Taylor) in the township and parish of Batley;
   1.5 miles from Dewsbury, 6 from Wakefield.
 
PYE-NEST, (the seat of Henry Lees Edwards, Esq.) in the township 
   of Skircoat, and parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles 
   from Halifax.
 
QUARMBY, in the parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax.  --Pop.
   including Lindley, 2,040, which being united, form a township.

           Quarmby, anciently the seat of a family of that name.  In the reign
   of King Edward III. 1341, Sir John Elland, being High-Sheriff of Yorkshire, a
   quarrel took place between him and three neighbouring gentlemen: John de
   Lockwood, Sir Robert Beaumont, and Sir Hugh Quarmby; what occasioned the
   dispute does not appear, but it arose to such a dreadful height, as to cause
   the death of all the three, who were murdered in one night, by the Sheriff
   and his men; a circumstance that strongly marks the ferocious manners of the
   times. -Watson.
           The fate of Sir Hugh Quarmby is thus related by a poet of
   those days :-
                        "He raisd the country round about,
                        His friends and tenants all,
                        And for his purpose picked out
                        Stout sturdy men, and tall:

                        To Quarmby-Hall they came by night,
                        And there the Lord they slew;
                        At that time Hugh of Quarmby hight,
                        Before the country knew."
 
QUARRY-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Mirfield; 2.5 miles from
   Dewsbury, 5.5 from Huddersfield.

QUARRY-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2 miles from
   Hudderstfield.
 
QUARRY-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax; 2 miles
   from Halifax.

QUEEN'S HEAD, ham. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax; 3.5
   miles from Halifax, 8.5 from Bradford.
 
QUICK, in the parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 9 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 11 from
   Manchester, (ditto) 15 from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 13,902.

           Quick is a township, comprehending the whole district of
   Saddlesworth, --for particulars, see Saddlesworth.
  
RAISGILL, 2 f.h. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 6 miles from Kettlewell.
  
RAINBROW-PARK, f.h. in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of
   Wath-upon-Dearne; 8 miles from Rotherham, 7 from Barnsley.  This old Mansion
   was formerly a seat of the Fitzwilliams.
 
RAKES, or WREAKS, ham. in the township of Birstwith, and parish of
   Hampsthwaite; 3.5 miles from Ripley, 8.5 from Knaresborough.
 
           Mrs. Alice Shepherd, by Will, dated June 14, 1806, directed that
   1000L. stock, navy five per cent. be transferred, after her death, to
   Trustees therein named, the interest of which to be paid to the minister and 
   churchwardens of Pateley Bridge, for the purpose of educating and clothing
   twenty poor children of the chapelry of Pateley Bridge, by the master of
   Rakes School.  Dr. William Craven, by Indenture, dated August 24, 1812, gave
   800L. navy five per cent. stock to the same, for the like purpose, and
   repairing the school.  -A new School house was built in 1816, for which
   purpose, the Archbishop of York granted a piece of ground upon the
   waste.  The master's salary, who also teaches a Sunday-School, is twenty
   eight guineas, and about thirty guineas is expended in clothing.  --Commis.
   Report.
  
RAMSGILL, in the township of Lower-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, 
   lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from Pateley Bridge, 10 from Masham. 12 from
   Ripon.
 
           Here was born, in 1704, Eugene Aram, who was tried and convicted at 
   York, in 1759, for the murder of Daniel Clarke.  On his trial he delivered a
   written defence, so admirable for its ingenuity, and so replete with 
   erudition and antiquarian knowledge, that it astonished the whole court.
   Though he derived but little advantage from education, yet from the acuteness 
   of his understanding, and his intensely studious disposition, he had acquired 
   considerable knowledge of the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Celtic and other 
   languages, and had, besides, made great progress in the higher branches of 
   mathematics, Heraldry, Antiquities, &c.
  
RAMSGILL, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Ilkley, upper division of
   Skyrack; 5 miles from Otley, 7 from Bingley.
  
RAND-MOOR, or STOCKWELL-GREEN, ham. in the township of Upper-Hallam and parish
   of Sheffield; 3 miles from Sheffield.
  
RASTRICK, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 4 miles from Halifax, 5 from Huddersfield.  --Pop.
   2,796.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, *118L. 7s.  Patron, the
   Vicar.
 
           Here was a Chapel, as early as 1411, which was taken down and 
   handsomely re-built, about six and thirty years ago.  --Whitaker.
           By an inquest, taken in 1284, it appears that the village of Rastrick 
   was rated at thirteen shillings, and contained only six freemen; the rest 
   were, according to that inquest, "Nativi tenentes villains, or bondsmen:" 
   such as were at the arbitrary pleasure of the Lord, both in their persons, 
   children, and goods.  --Watson
  
RATHMELL, in the parish of Giggleswick, west-division and 
   liberty of Staincliffe; 3.5 miles from Settle, 15 from Skipton, 16 
   from Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 328.
  
RAWSTONSTALL, in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax, 
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 9 miles from 
   Halifax and Rochdale, (Lanc.) 
  
RAVENFIELD, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 
   (the Hall, the seat of the Rev. William Hedges) 4 miles from Rotherham, 8
   from Tickhill, 9 from Doncaster, 45 from York.  --Pop. 187.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. James, in the deanry of Doncaster, value,
   !117L.  Patron, the Archdeacon of York.  -It was formerly a Chapel to
   Mexbrough.
  
RAVENTOFTS-HALL, f.h. in the township of Bishop-Thornton, and parish of Ripon; 4
   miles from Ripley, 6 from Ripon.
  
RAVENS' KNOWLES, f.h. in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 1
   mile from Huddersfield.
  
RAW, in the parish of Horton, wapentake of Ewcross; 6.5 miles from Settle, 15.5 
   from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 
  
RAWCLIFFE, in the parish of Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and 
   bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; (the seat of Ralph Creyke, Esq.) 3 miles from 
   Snaith, 7 from Howden and Thorne.  --Pop. 1,496.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to
   Snaith, dedicated to St. James.
  
RAWCLIFFE-BRIDGE, ham. in the township of Rawcliffe, and parish of Snaith,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Snaith.
  
RAWDEN, in the parish of Guiseley, upper-division of Skyrack; 8 miles from Otley 
   and Bradford, 7 from Leeds.  --Pop. 1,759.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   value, p.r. *109L.
 
           This was the ancient seat of the noble family of Rawden, Earls of 
   Moira.  Paulinus de Rawden commanded a body of archers, under William the
   Conqueror, and had this estate, amongst others, granted to him for his 
   services.  In Rawden-Hall, are several vestiges, that have a peculiar air of
   antiquity, which bespeak the dignity and wealth of its ancient owners.  Of
   this family, was Sir George Rawden, who, with 200 Englishmen, repulsed Sir 
   Philem O'Neal, and 2,000 Irish, in 1641, at Lisburne, in Ireland, where they 
   had massacred 40,000 Protestants.  --Camden.  -Thoresby.
  
RAWMARSH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2 
   miles from Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield, 10 from Barnsley, 46 from York.
   --Pop. 1,259.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Lawrence, in the
   deanry of Doncaster, value, 8L. 7s. 3.5d.  Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
 
        Here is a small Charity School, founded early in 1600, by one Thomas 
   Wilson, and Edward Goodwin.
  
RAWTHORPE-HALL, in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 1.5 miles 
   from Huddersfield.  An old Mansion, divided into dwellings.
  
RED-HALL, f.h. in the township of Shadwell, and parishes of Thorner and
   Barwick-in-Elmet; 5 miles from Leeds.
  
RED-HOUSE, s.h. (Ainsty) in the township and parish of Moor-Monkton; 8 miles
   from York, 11 from Boroughbridge.
 
           Red-House, situated upon the river Ouse, is an ancient seat of the
   honourable family of Slingsby.  The house was built by Sir Henry Slingsby, in
   the reign of Charles I. except the Chapel, built by his father.  About the
   year 1562, Francis Slingsby, Esq. purchased Red-House, and Scagglethorpe of
   Robert Oughtred, Esq. whose ancestors had resided here from the time of
   Edward III.  the site of whose Mansion is at a small distance from the west
   front of the present edifice.  Upon the south front of Red-House, is
   inscribed:

                           PR0 TERMINO VITAE, 
                           CIC NOS NON NOBIS.

              On the west front: 
                        PAULISPER ET RELUCEBIS: 
                        ET IPSE, M.R. 29, 1652.

           This old Mansion is going to decay, yet these are apartments in this 
   house, such as the Star Chamber, Chapel, the Servants Hall, and the 
   Staircase, still retaining some if its grandeur, which cannot but be 
   interesting to the curious.  The Staircase is thus described by Sir Henry
   Slingsby himself in his memoirs: "The staircase is above five feet, within 
   the rails, in width: the posts, eight inches square; upon every post a crest 
   is set, of some one of my especial friends, and my brothers-in-law: and, upon 
   that post that bears up the half-pace, that leads into the painted chamber, 
   there sits a blackamoor, (cast in lead by Andrew Karne,) with a candlestick 
   its each hand to set a candle in, to give light to the staircase." These 
   crests and other interesting particulars will be found fully described in the 
   History of Knaresborough.
           From the terrace is a fine view of York, its Cathedral, and 
   neighbourhood; and through the avenues of the Park; Beningbrough and Allerton 
   Parks.
  
RED-HOUSE, p.h. in the township and parish of Adwick-le-Street; 5 miles from
   Doncaster, 10 from Pontefract.
 
RED-MIRES, 2 f.h. in the township of Grantley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 8
   miles from Ripon.
 
REEDHOLME, s.h. in the township, of Thorpe-in-Balne, and parish of Barnby-Dun;
   4.5 miles from Doncaster.
  
REEDNESS, in the parish of Whitgift, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 6.5 miles from Howden, 7.5 from Crowle, (Linc.)   --Pop. 683.
 
REGILL-HOUSES, 2 f.h. in the township of Lower-Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard, 8 miles from Pateley Bridge.
  
RENHOLE, s.h. in the township of Long-Drax, and parish of Drax; 4 miles from
   Snaith.
 
RAYNAR, or RANAR, f.h. in the township of Thurlston, and parish of Penistone; 3
   miles from Penistone.
 
RIBSTONE, GREAT, in the parish of Hunsingore, upper-division of Claro; 
   (Ribstone-Hall, the seat of Sir Henry Goodricke, Bart.) 3 miles from 
   Knaresborough, 4 from Wetherby.  --Pop. including Walshford, 155, which being
   united, form a township.
 
           After the conquest the manor of Ribstone was in the possession of 
   William de Percy, and Ralph Pagnel.  Robert Lord Ross became possessed of it
   in the reign of Henry III. and in 1224, he settled this estate upon the
   Knights Templars, where they had a preceptory, and which they enjoyed till 
   the dissolution of their order; when it was granted to the renowned Charles 
   Brandon, Duke of Suffolk; of whom it was purchased by Henry Goodricke, Esq.
   in 1542; and here this ancient family, which previously flourished for
   several generations at Nottingley, in Somersetshire, have been settled ever 
   since.  -The present Baronet is the seventh: Sir Henry Goodricke, Knight, who
   took arms in the cause of Charles I. being the first Baronet, created August
   14, 1641.
           Ribstone-Hall is situated upon an eminence, almost encompassed by the
   River Nidd, and commanding an extensive and beautiful prospect.  The house is
   well finished, convenient, and elegant.  In the Drawing Room are several good
   family Portraits; and in the Saloon are a number of excellent Pictures,
   copied by eminent artists, from the best originals in the churches, chapels,
   and palaces of Rome.  In the Chapel are some monuments in memory of the
   Goodricke family; and in the churchyard is that sepulchral monument of the 
   standard bearer to the ninth Roman legion, which was dug up in
   Trinity-Gardens, near Micklegate, in York, in the year 1688; and is described
   by Drake in his Eboracum.
           Ribstone is remarkable for being the place, where that delicious 
   apple called the "Ribstone Pippin," was first cultivated in this kingdom.
   --The original tree was raised from a pippin, brought from France; from which
   tree, such numbers have been propagated, that they are now to be met with in 
   almost every orchard in this, and many other counties.  -Hist. Knaresborough.
  
RIBSTONE LITTLE, in the parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro; 3.25 miles 
   from Knaresborough, 3.75 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 195.
  
RICHMOND, ham. in the township and parish of Handsworth; 4 miles from Sheffield,
   5 from Rotherham.
  
RIDDLESDEN, EAST and WEST, 2h. in the township of East-Morton, and parish of 
   Bingley, upper-division of Skyrack, liberty of Cliffords-Fee; 
   (Riddlesden-Hall, the seat of Thomas Leach, Esq.) 2 miles from Keighley, 12 
   from Otley.
  
RIDGE-CROSS, f.h. in the township of Wadsworth, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 9 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 
 
RIGGE, and RIGGE-COTE, 2 ham. in the township of Armley, and parish of Leeds; 3
   miles from Leeds, 9 from Bradford.
 
RIGTON, in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, upper-division of Claro; 6.25 miles
   from Otley, 5 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 429.
 
           Near to Rigton, on a high hill, is that group of rocks, called 
   "Almes Cliff," i.e. Altar Cliff.  At a distance they appear like a stupendous
   fabric, tumbled into ruins.  On the summit of this enormous pile, are several
   basins, hollowed in the stone; one of which is fourteen Inches deep, and two
   feet four inches in diameter.  -Hist. Knaresborough.
  
RIGTON, in the township of Rigton-with-Bardsey, and parish of Bardsey, 
   lower-division of Skyrack; 4 miles from Wetherby, 5 from Harewood, 8 from 
   Leeds.  --Pop. included in Bardsey.
  
RILSTON, in the parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of 
   Cliffords-Fee; (the seat of Richard Waddilove, Esq.) 4 miles from Gargrave, 
   5 from Skipton, 10 from Kettlewell, 14 from Settle.  --Pop. 145.  Here is a
   Chapel of Ease to Burnsall, dedicated to Saint Peter.
 
           Rilston, or Rilliston, gave name and habitation to a family perhaps 
   of the first antiquity of Craven; as there is reason to suppose that William 
   de Risletona, who occurs in the first charters of Cecelia de Romille, was the 
   William, son of Clarenbald, mentioned in the black book of the exchequer, and 
   undoubtedly a Saxon.  The manor continued in the hands of the Rilstones, till
   Isabella, daughter and heiress of John Rillestone, married Miles, son of 
   Walkin Radcliffe of Todmorden, a descendant of whom married John Norton, 
   father of Richard Norton, who was attainted for high treason.  Among the old
   tenants on this estate, mention is made of one "Richard Kitchen, butler to 
   Mr. Norton, who rose in rebellion with his master, and was executed at
   Ripon." 
 
           Mr. Wordsworth lately published a poem, entitled "The White Doe of
   Rilston"  it relates to a white Doe, which tradition says, for a long time 
   "made a weekly pilgrimage from hence, over the fells of Bolton, and was 
   constantly found in the Abbey church-yard, during divine service; after which 
   she returned home as regularly as the rest of the congregation." 
  
RIMINGTON, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 3 
   miles from Gisburn, 8 from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 10 from Colne, (ditto) 12 from 
   Skipton.  --Pop. 698.
 
           This Manor has long been remarkable for a rich vein of Lead Ore,
   which yielded a considerable proportion of Silver; and it is not more than 
   fifty years since a person was convicted and executed at York, for 
   counterfeiting the silver coin, in metal supposed to be procured from the 
   lead of Rimington. William Pudsey, Esq. who held the estate from 1577 to
   1629, is reported in the traditions of the neighbourhood, nearly to have 
   forfeited his life for coining shillings from Silver-Ore obtained here.  They
   were marked with an escalop, which the country people called Pudsey 
   shillings.  -Whitaker.
  
RING-BECK, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 6 miles from
   Masham, 8 from Ripon.
 
RINGSTON-HILL, f.h. in the township of Brierley, and parish of Felkirk; 5.5
   miles from Barnsley.
  
RIPLEY, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; (Ripley 
   Castle, the seat Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, Bart.) 3.25 miles from 
   Harrogate, 5 from Knaresborough, 7.75 from Ripon 9 from Pateley Bridge, 12
   from Otley, 23 from York, 205 from London.  --Market, Monday.  -Fairs, Easter
   Monday, for horned cattle and sheep; August 25, for sheep, and 26 for horses 
   and horned cattle.  --Principal Inn, Star.  --Pop. 251.  The Church is a
   rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of 
   Chester, value, 23L. 8s. 9d.  Patron, Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, Bart.

           This is a small market-town, situated about half a mile south of the 
   river Nidd, on an advantageous bank, and well wooded.  -The market has fallen
   into disuse.  In the Church, are several monuments of the Ingilby family; and
   in the church-yard is a very uncommon pedestal of an ancient Cross, with 
   eight niches, intended, probably, for kneeling in.
           Here is a free-School, built and endowed by Catherine and Mary 
   Ingilby, in 1702; of which Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, Bart. is Trustee.  It
   is endowed with an estate at Sproatley, (E.R.) containing messuages or 
   tenements, and about 153 A. I R. 24 P. subject to a payment of 12L. 8s. 6d.
   for tithes.  It was let under lease dated Sept. 1800, for thirty years, at
   the yearly rent of 40L. to Thomas Hewitt and his wife, which sum he pays to
   the schoolmaster - Mr. Hewitt has under-let it for 120L. per ann.  The School
   premises consist of a spacious School-room, with a house and yard for the 
   master, and a garden in front.  The School is free for the whole parish,
   --Commis. Report.
           Adjoining the town, on the west, is Ripley Castle, the seat of the 
   ancient family of the Ingilbys; which from an inscription carved on the 
   frieze of the wainscot, in one of the chambers of the tower, was built by Sir 
   William Ingilby, Bart. in 1555.  In the civil wars of Charles I. it was a
   garrison for the King, which surrendered to Cromwell a few days after the 
   battle of Marston.  It has been much enlarged of late years; and appears now
   a spacious and commodious Mansion, embattled only for ornament, except the 
   lodge, and the great tower, which still retain their original traces of 
   caption, strength, and security.  In the Library is a valuable collection of
   books: and in the real Staircase, is an elegant venetian window; in the 
   divisions of which on stained glass, are a series of escutcheons, displaying 
   the principal quarterings, and intermarriages of the Ingilby family, since 
   their settling at Ripley, during a course of 430 years.
         Here are preserved, one of the two pigs of lead, found in 1731, on 
   Hayshaw Moor; on these are inscribed, Imperatore Caesure Domitiano Augusto 
   Consule Septimum, and on one side is the word Brig, signifying it had been 
   cast in the country of the Brigantes.
           The owners of Ripley have been in possession ever since the time of
   Richard II.; when Sir Thomas de Ingilby had it in right of his Lady, daughter 
   of ---- Ripley, of this place.  From one of his children, was descended, Sir
   William de Ingilby, Knight and Baronet, so created, May 17, 1642.  The
   present Sir William is the sixth Baronet, and was High Sheriff of the county 
   in 1820; and who has been very recently authorised by his Majesty, to use the 
   name and arms of Amcotts, in addition to those of Ingilby.  His father, the
   late Sir John, having married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Wharton Amcotts, 
   Bart.  --Hist. Knaresborough.  --Pennant.
            The gardens, which are extensive, and ornamented with greenhouses 
   and hothouses, excelled by none in the north of England, are, by the 
   liberality of the present Baronet, open for the public, inspection every 
   Friday.
  
RIPON, a market and parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of 
   Ripon; 6 miles from Boroughbridge, 7 from Ripley, 10 from Masham and Oak-Tree 
   Inn, Leeming Lane, 11 from Harrogate and Thirsk, 12 from Knaresborough, 13
   from Bedale, 17 from Northallerton, 17.75 from Hopper-Lane Inn, 20 from 
   Leyburn and Otley, 43 from York, 212 from London.  --Market, Thursday.
   --Fairs, Thursday after January 13; May 13 and 14; and first Thursday and
   Friday in June, for horned cattle, sheep, woollen cloth, &c. first Thursday
   after August 2; first Thursday in November; and November 23, for horned 
   cattle, &c.  --Bankers, Old Bank, Messrs, Harrisons and Terrys, draw on
   Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co. 76, Lombard Street; Ripon and Nidderdale
   Bank, Messrs. Coates and Co. draw on Messrs. Sir James Esdaile and Co. 21,
   Lombard Street; Ripon Bank, Messrs. Brittains and Thackwray, draw on Sir
   Richard Carr Glynn, Bart. and Co. 12, Birchin Lane.  --Principal Inns,
   Unicorn, and Black Bull.  --Pop. 4,563.  This Church is both parochial and
   collegiate, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Wilfrid, and is built in the form
   of a cross. Patron, the King.
 
           Ripon is situated between the river Ure and the Skell, and stands on 
   an eminence with declivities on every side.  It derives its name from the
   Latin word Ripa, which refers to the situation of the town.
           Here was a Monastery, founded by Eata, Abbot of Melross; but before 
   the Scottish Monks retired from the Monastery, and St. Wilfred was
   appointed Abbot in 663.  By him it was built new from the ground, and when
   completed, was consecrated with great solemnity by himself, to the honour of 
   St. Peter,  He died at the Monastery of Oundle, in 711, aged 76, and was
   interred here; but in 940, his remains were removed to Canterbury, by Odo, 
   Archbishop of that See.  The town continues to this day to honour the memory
   of its benefactor, by an Annual Feast on Saturday following Lammas Day, when 
   the effigy of St. Wilfred is brought into the town with great ceremony,
   preceded by a band of music.
           King Athelstan in the year 924, granted to the Church of Ripon the 
   privilege of sanctuary, which extended a mile on either side the Church.  The
   boundaries yet remain, in the names of Kangel-Cross; Sharow Cross; and 
   Athelstan Cross.
           In the year 950, this town and monastery were burnt by the Danes.
   The Monastery was afterwards rebuilt by Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury.  The
   town was soon after rebuilt and began to flourish; but, in the year 1069; it
   shared in the misery inflicted on the Northumbrians, by the Norman Conqueror, 
   and remained in a state of devastation for sixteen years; after which, it 
   again revived, and remained undisturbed till the year 1319; when the Scots 
   entering England, laid waste the country with fire and sword, and the town 
   and Monastery of Ripon were again reduced to ashes; but, by the liberal 
   donations of the Archbishop of York, and the neighbouring gentry, it was 
   again restored to its former flourishing condition.
           The Church was preserved from the general ruin of religious houses; 
   and the revenues re-granted, by James I. for the support of a Dean and six
   prebendaries, besides petit canons and singing-men.  It is a large, handsome,
   and venerable gothic pile.
           In 1604, King James gave a new Charter to the town, constituting it
   to be governed by a mayor, recorder, and twelve aldermen, with twenty-four
   common councilmen, and a town-clerk.
           Here is an Hospital, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, founded by
   Thurston Archbishop of York, who died in 1144,  --another to St. John
   Baptist, founded in the 9th year of King John by one of the Archbishops of 
   York, -a third to St. Anne founded by one of the Nevils, in the reign of
   Edward IV.  --and a fourth, called Jepson's Hospital, founded and endowed by
   Zacharias Jepson, of York, a native of Ripon.  In the Minster-yard is this
   modest inscription to the memory of its benefactor,  --Hic Jacet Zacharius
   Jepson, cujus aetas fecit 49.  Per paucos tantum Annos Vixit.
           The town was first incorporated in the time of King Alfred, and its 
   government originally vested in a chief magistrate, called Vigilarius, which 
   duty, it was to cause a horn to be blown every night at nine o'clock, and if 
   any inhabitant, after that, sustained any loss by his house or shop being 
   robbed, the community was compelled to render him an adequate consideration 
   for the injury, by an annual tax on every inhabitant.
           In 1767, an Act of Parliament was obtained for making navigable the 
   river Ure, from its junction with the Swale, to Bondgate Green; on which a 
   number of vessels are employed, to the great convenience and benefit of the 
   town and neighbourhood.  These vessels generally bring coals, groceries, and
   other merchandise; and take back lead, butter, &c, &c.
           Henry I. granted a Charter for a Fair of four days; another by King
   Stephen; and a third by Henry V.  At one of these fairs we find Drunken
   Barnaby; 
                         Ad forensem Rippon tendo, 
                         Equi si sint cari, veodo, 
                         Si minore pretio dempti, 
                         Equi a me erunt empti; 
                         Ut alacrior fiat ille, 
                         Ilia mordicant anguillae.
 
            A very elegant Town-Hall was erected, in 1798, being a present to 
   this Corporation, from Mrs. Allanson, of Studley.  It comprises
   Assembly-rooms, a Committee-room for public meetings, and business of 
   Magistrates.
            Here is a Free Grammar-School, situated in Agnesgate, founded in 
   1546, by Edward V. with an allowance for head master and usher; and finished
   in 1553, by King Philip and Queen Mary.  Its revenues are under the
   management of Trustees.
            The Market-place is very spacious, and nearly square, measuring 104 
   yards by 68, and has a fine Obelisk in the centre, 90 feet high, on the top 
   of which are fixed the Arms of Ripon, i.e. a Bugle-Horn and a Spur-Rowel,
   erected by William Aislabie, Esq.
            Not far from the Minster, is a large tumulus composed of gravel and 
   human bones, called Ellshaw or Ailcey Hill, which, in Camden's time, appears 
   to have been called Hillshaw.  "There apperith by est north est, at the toune
   end of Ripon," says Leland, "a great hill of yerth, cast up in a playn close 
   bering now the name of Illshow Hille, where be al likelihod hath been sum 
   great Fortress in the Britons time." 
           Ripon sends two Members to Parliament: the right of election is in 
   the burgage-holders, 146 in number.  The borough is chiefly the property of
   Mrs. Laurence, of Studley-Royal, who possesses by far the major-part of the
   burgage tenures.  The situation of Ripon is pleasant, and the surrounding
   country rich and fertile, and in a high state of cultivation.  --For more
   particular account, see Tourist's Companion, published at Ripon.
  
RIPPONDEN, in the township of Barkisland, and parish of Halifax, Morley-division 
   of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 9 from 
   Huddersfield, 11 from Rochdale, (Lanc.) The Chapel is a perpetual curacy, 
   dedicated to St. Bartholomew, value, p.r. !141L. 10s.  Patron, the Vicar of
   Halifax.
 
           The Chapel of Ripponden is of great antiquity, and was rebuilt in 
   1610, and afterwards renewed in 1737,  The Ministers manse, a very good 
   square house, is the work of the industrious and faithful antiquary, Mr.
   Watson, the historian of this parish, then Minister of the place, and 
   afterwards Rector of Stockport.  Ripponden is situated upon the Riburn, and
   is memorable on account of the immense flood that took place, on the sudden 
   swelling of the River, on the 18th of May, 1772, called Ripponden Flood, 
   which commenced between the hours of three and five in the afternoon; the 
   water rose seven yards perpendicular, and bore down; in its course, several 
   bridges, mills, and a number of houses; many persons also lost their lives on 
   this melancholy occasion.  The Church, at Ripponden, was very much damaged,
   part of the church-yard washed away, the graves laid open, and a coffin was 
   lodged in a tree, at a considerable distance.  -Watson.  -Whitaker.
 
RISHFORTH-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Bingley; 4 miles from
   Keighley.
 
RISHWORTH, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, 
   liberty of Wakefield; 4 miles from Halifax, 5 from Huddersfield, 12 from 
   Bradford.  --Pop. 1,588.
 
           At this place, is a group of stones, laid, seemingly, one above 
   another, to the height of several yards, and called the Rocking stone.
   Tradition says, that it once would rock, but that quality is lost.  The form
   of it is not very unlike the Wring-Cheese in Cornwall, described by Borlase, 
   and perhaps might serve for the same purposes as that.  --Watson.
  
RISPLITH, ham. in the township of Sawley, and parish and liberty of Ripon; 5
   miles from Pateley Bridge, 6 from Ripon.
  
ROACH-GRANGE, s.h. in the township and parish of Kippax; 4 miles from Abberford.
  
ROADS-MOOR HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Whiston, and parish of Rotherham; 3
   miles from Rotherham.
  
ROBERT TOWN, in the township of Liversedge, and parish of Birstall, Morley 
   division of Agbrigg and Morley; 5.5 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax, 
   10.5 from Leeds.
  
ROBIN HOOD'S WELL, ham. east-side in the township of Burghwallis, and parish of
   Owton, west-side in the township and parish of Skellbrook; 6.75 miles from 
   Doncaster.
 
           Robin Hoods Well is a square building, nine feet high, and joins the
   turnpike road.  A mile and a half from this piece, Robin Hood is said to have
   robbed the Bishop of Hereford; and about a quarter of a mile from the Well, 
   is Bishop-Tree-Root.  On this spot stood the Tree, round which Robin made the
   Bishop dance in his boots, after he had robbed him.
 
                           Nescit sitis artem modi, 
                           Puteum Roberti Hoodi 
                           Veni, et liquente vena 
                           Vincto catino catena, 
                           Tollens sitim, parcum odi, 
                           Solvens obolum custodi.
  
ROCARR, f.h. in the township and parish of Selby; 2 miles from Selby, 9 from
   Snaith.
  
ROCHE-ABBEY, in the township and parish of Maltby, upper 
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Tickhill, 6 from 
   Bawtry, 9 from Rotherham.
 
           Richard de Builli and Richard Fitzturgis, founded an Abbey here, in 
   1147, and dedicated it to the blessed Virgin.  The revenues were rated at
   224L. 2s. 5d. according  to Dugdale  -and 271L. 19s. 4d. -Speed.  The site
   was granted 35th Henry VIII. to William Ramsden and Thomas Vavasour.  It is
   now the property of the Earl of Scarboruogh.  One side of the nave of the
   church, under the middle tower, and some odd arches, are all that remain of 
   this considerable structure, except a few small fragment which are scattered 
   to a considerable distance around.
 
           This spot certainly presents a most luxuriant and fascinating 
   landscape; yet we cannot suffer our enthusiasm so far to run away with our 
   senses, as to say with Mr. Dayes, that here "everything a traveller can
   wish, to render a place delightful, will be found concentrated in this most
   enchanting spot; majestic woods, expansive water, romantic rocks, an 
   agreeable ruin, and withal, most commodious walks, for the convenience of 
   viewing its various beauties."
  
ROCKING-STONE HALL, (a Shooting-Box of Mr. Nicholson) in the township of
   Thurscross, and parish of Fewston; 7 miles from Pateley Bridge, 11 from
   Skipton, 12 from Otley.
  
ROCKLEY-ABBEY, f.h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Barnsley.  Anciently a seat of the
   Rockleys; now belongs to the Wentworths.
  
RODLEY, ham. in the township of Calverley-with-Bramley, and parish of Calverley;
   5 miles from Bradford, 6.5 from Leeds.
  
ROECLIFFE, in the parish of Aldborough, lower-division of Claro; 1.75 miles from 
   Boroughbridge, 8 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 248.
  
ROGERTHORPE-HALL, f.h. in the township of Thorpe-Audlin, and parish of
   Badsworth; 4 miles from Pontefract.
  
ROME, f.h. in the township and parish of Giggleswick; 2 miles from Settle.
  
ROOKES, ham. in the township of Hipperholme, and parish of Halifax; 4 miles from
   Halifax.
  
ROSE-HILL, (the seat of Robert Leighton, Esq.) in the township and parish of 
   Rawmarsh; 3 miles from Rotherham.
  
ROSSINGTON, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, 
   soke of Doncaster; (the seat of the Rev. James Stovin, D.D.) 8 miles from
   Doncaster; 5.5 from Bawtry, 42 from York.  --Pop. 383.  The Church is a
   rectory, dedicated to St. Michael, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 11L.
   1s. 5.5d.  Patrons, the Mayor and Burgesses of Doncaster.
 
           The Manor of Doncaster, with an estate of 2,000 acres of land, 
   belongs to the Corporation, who, some time back, built twelve Alms-houses for 
   the aged of both sexes.
 
           In the church-yard, was a stone, the two ends of which are now 
   remaining, where was interred the body of James Bosvill the King of the 
   Gypsies, who died January 30, 1708.  For a number of years, it was a custom
   of Gypsies from the south, to visit his tomb annually, and there perform some 
   of their accustomed rites; one of which was to pour a flagon of ale upon the 
   grave.  --Miller's Don.
           Here is a Free-School, founded as early as 1652.
 
ROSSINGTON-BRIDGE, an inn, in the township and parish of Rossington; 4.5 miles 
   from Doncaster and Bawtry.
  
ROTHERHAM, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and 
   Tickhill; 6 miles from Sheffield, 11 from Tickhill, 12 from Doncaster and 
   Barnsley, 15 from Penistone, 16 from Worksop, (Notts.) 49 from York, 160 from 
   London.  --Market, Monday.  --Fairs, Whit-Monday; December 1, for horses,
   horned cattle, sheep, &c. and Fortnight Fairs on Monday, for horned cattle,
   &c.  --Bankers, Messrs. Walkers, Eyer, and Stanley, draw on Messrs. Everett,
   Walker, and Co. 9, Mansion House Street.  --Principal inns, Crown, and Red
   Lion.  --Pop. 3,548.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Ann, in the
   deanry of Doncaster, value, +16L. 8s. 6d.  Patron, Lord Howard.
 
           Rotherham is situated near the conflux of the rivers Rother and Don; 
   the latter of which being navigable to Sheffield, and communicating with 
   canals and rivers, opens a water communication with all the principal towns 
   in the county; as well as Lincolnshire and Lancashire.  The town is far fron
   elegant; the streets are narrow, and irregular; and the houses have, in 
   general, a dull and dingy appearance.  However, a considerable trade is here
   carried on in coals, an in other articles, by means of the river Don.
           This place is rendered famous by the birth of Thomas Scott, 
   Archbishop of York, usually called Thomas of Rotherham, who founded in this 
   place Jesus College, for a provost, five priests, six choristers, and three 
   schoolmasters, which was valued at the dissolution, at the yearly rent of 
   58L. 5s. 9.5d.  He died of the plague at Cawood, in 1500.  -Drake.
           Here is a Free Grammar-School, founded in 1584, by Laurence Woodnett, 
   and Anthony Collins, Esqrs. formerly of London.  The School is open to the
   boys of the town indefinitely free of expense, for classics only.  This
   School has a claim in its turn to the fellowship and two scholarships at 
   Emanuel College, Cambridge, founded by Mr. Frieston, in case the same are not
   occupied from the Free-School at Normanton.  There is a fellowship also at
   Lincoln College, Oxford.  To this School there is a crown payment of 10L.
   15s. 4d. per annum, to the master.  The master's salary, including house
   rent, &c. 30L. a year; besides which, he has a gratuity from the Feoffees or
   Trustees.  The present master is the Rev. Benjamin Birkitt.  --For an account
   of the Iron Works, see Marsbrough.
 
ROTHWELL, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of 
   Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Leeds, 5.5 from Wakefield, 28 from York.  --Pop.
   including Rothwell-Haigh, and Roydes-Green, 2,155.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +19L. 12s.
   11d.  Patron, Charles John Brandling, Esq.
 
           "This place," says Dr. Whitaker, "appears to have been named when
   first planted by the Saxons, from a rapid and copious Well near the Church." 
   It was distinguished among the numerous Manors of the Lacies, dependent on 
   the Castle of Pontefract, by having a Castlet or Manor-House near the Church, 
   of which a mass of strong grout work yet remains.
           The Church of Rothwell was appropriated to the Priory of Nostel, to 
   which it was given, according to Burton, by Robert de Lacy.  Here is a
   Charity-School, founded by the late John Bromley, gentlemen, of Wakefield, in 
   1722.
  
ROTHWELL-HAIGH, in the township and parish of Rothwell, Agbrigg-division of 
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Leeds, 5.5 from 
   Wakefield.  --Pop. included in Rothwell.
 
           This place adjoins to Rothwell, and had been an ancient Park of the 
   Lacies; and given by Henry VIII. to Thomas Lord Darcy.  It afterwards
   relapsed into a state of nature, and became a mere common.  It contains about
   543 acres, and is now become a fertile and productive tract.
  
ROUGH-BIRCHWORTH, ham. in the township of Oxspring, and parish of Penistone,
   liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Penistone.
  
ROUNDHAY, ham. in the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, lower-division of Skyrack,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Leeds, 10 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 186.
 
           Here the ancient family of the Lacies, from the earliest period, 
   after they became possessed of Pontefract with its dependencies, had a Park; 
   hence the name Roundhay, or the circular Pale.  It was granted by Robert de
   Lacy to the Monks of Kirkstall.  --Whitaker.
  
ROUNDHAY-GRANGE, f.h. in the township of Shadwell, and parish of Thorner,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Leeds.
  
ROUND-GREEN, f.h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 2.5
   miles from Barnsley.
  
ROUND-WOOD, f.h. in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 2.5 miles from
   Rotherham.
  
ROWLE-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Kellington, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Snaith.
  
ROWLEY, in the township of Lepton, and parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division of 
   Agbrigg ad Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Huddersfield, 10 from 
   Wakefield.
 
ROYD, (the seat of Mrs. Hoyle) in the township of Soyland, and parish of
   Halifax; 6 miles from Halifax.
 
ROYD-BRIDGE, f.h. and Tan Yard, in the township of Stansfield, and parish of
   Halifax; 9 miles from Halifax.
  
ROYD-FIELDS, s.h. in the township and parish of Penistone; 1 mile from
   Penistone.
  
ROYD-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of Farnley-Tyas, and parish of Almondbury; 4
   miles from Huddersfield.
 
ROYD-HOUSE, ham. in the township of Shelley, and parish of Kirkburton, liberty
   of Wakefield; 7 miles from Huddersfield.
 
ROYD-MOOR, f.h. in the township of Thurlston, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles
   from Penistone.
 
ROYD-MOOR, f.h. in the township and parish of Hemsworth; 5 miles from
   Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield.
 
ROYDES-GREEN, in the township and parish of Rothwell, Agbrigg-division of 
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Wakefield, 5.5 from 
   Leeds.  --Pop. included in Rothwell.
  
ROYDS, s.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 5 miles
   from Sheffield.
 
           This house, with eleven others, formerly belonged to the dissolved 
   Priory or Hospital of St. John, of Jerusalem; and was distinguished by an
   iron or wooden cross, fixed in some conspicuous part of the building.
   --Hunter's Hallam.
  
ROYDS, a few f.h. in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish of
   Wath-upon-Dearne; 6 miles from Rotherham.
  
ROYDS, ham. in the township of Beeston, and parish of Leeds; 2.5 miles from
   Leeds.
  
ROYDS-HALL, (the seat of C. Dawson, Esq.) in the township of North-Bierley, and
   parish of Bradford; 4 miles from Bradford.
  
ROYSTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 
   4.5 miles from Barnsley, 6 from Wakefield, 9.5 from Pontefract, 34 from York. 
   --Pop. 549.  The Church, a spacious and well-built structure, is a vicarage,
   dedicated to St. John the Baptist, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +17L.
   3s. 4d. p.r. !107L.  Patron, the Archbishop of York.
 
           Here is a Free Grammar-School, founded by letters patent, in the 5th 
   of James I.  The endowment consists of a house, garden, and twenty-four acres
   of land, amounting to about 70L. per ann. and the interest of 13L. is paid to
   the master, who also receives 4L. 6s. 11d. from the Dutchy Court of
   Lancaster.  The School is open to the boys of the parish indefinitely, free
   of expense.  --Carlisle.
           Here is also a Charity of the Lady Bolles, for the apprenticing of 
   children.
 
RUDDING-HALL, (the seat of the Hon. William Gordon) in the township of
   Follyfoot, and parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro; 3 miles from 
   Knaresborough, 5 from Wetherby.
 
           This place formerly belonged to Mr. James Collins, who added much to
   the building, laid out the pleasure grounds, and built a very curious rustic 
   gate-way, consisting of three arches, large and lofty, which unfortunately 
   was blown down in 1790.  The present proprietor took down the old house, and
   began the present elegant Mansion in 1807.
  
RUFF-HOLME, f.h. in the township of Newland, and parish of Drax; 3 miles from
   Howden, 6 from Snaith.
  
RUFFORTH, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 5.5 miles from York, 9.75 from Wetherby.
   --Pop. 295.  The Church is a vicarage, value, +4L. 13s. 4d. p.r. !80L.
   Patron, Mrs. Grace Thompson.
  
RUSH-PARK. f.h. in the township and parish of Sherburn; 7 miles from Tadcaster
   and Ferrybridge.
  
RYE-CROFT, f.h. in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 3 miles from Rotherham.
  
RYHILL, in the parish of Wragby, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract; 
   6 miles from Wakefield, 6.5 from Barnsley, 9 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 147.
  
RYTHER, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 
   5 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from Selby, 12 from York, 13 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. including Ossendike, 335, which being united, form a township.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to All Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, 
   value, 6L. 11s. 10.5d.  Patron, the King.

SADDLETHORPE, (Ainsty) ham. in the township and parish of Moor-Monkton; 7 miles
   from York, 11, from Boroughbridge.
 
SADDLEWORTH, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.)
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from
   Dobcross, 9 from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 12 from Huddersfield and Manchester,
   (Lanc.)  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Pontefract,
   value, p.r. !108L.  Patron, the Vicar of Rochdale.

      This place gives name to a large valley, about seven miles long, and five
   broad, in the broadest part, situated in an angle of the county, between
   Lancaster and the north-eastern projection of Cheshire.  It is a bleak
   region, of which a part only is under cultivation; but industry has
   accumulated in it a large number of inhabitants, who gain a comfortable
   subsistence by the manufacture of woollen cloth, for which the place is
   peculiarly famous; indeed, many of the superfine broads made here, vie with
   those of the west of England.  The cutting of several turnpike roads within
   the last fifty years, through this vale, and the Huddersfield canal, which
   passes through the heart of Saddleworth, have tended very materially towards
   reclaiming large tracts of land for the purpose of cultivation, and giving
   facility to trade.  This place is divided into four hamlets or quarters,
   called Meres, viz. Quick-mere, Lord's-mere, Shaw-mere, and Friar-mere.  The
   latter was once an estate belonging the Black Friars, who had a house, or
   grange near Delph, Saddleworth, though in this country, is in the parish of
   Rochdale, (Lanc.) on account of Hugo de Stapleton, Lord of the Manor of
   Saddleworth, having applied to Hugh, Earl of Chester, for leave to erect a
   Chapel for the use of his tenants; to his permission, the Earl made it a
   condition that the Chapel should be annexed to the Abbey of Whalley.  On the
   dissolution of Monasteries, this was annexed to Rochdale.
      The Roman road from Mancunium, passed through a part of this vale; and at
   Castleshaw is the remains of an ancient fortification, supposed, by Mr.
   Whitaker, to have been a fortress of the Primeval Britons, which he thinks
   is pretty plainly evinced by the few relics which have been accidentally
   discovered at it.
      In this neighbourhood are the much frequented and celebrated Rocks of
   Greenfield, as well as several Druidical remains, a Rocking-stone, &c. of
   which, would our limits allow it, a particular description should be given.
   Mr. Bottomley has written a poem descriptive of romantic and almost
   uninhabited part of this country.
 
SAIL-HILL, f.h. in the township of Camblesforth, and parish of Drax; 4 miles
   from Selby and Snaith.
 
SAINT ANN'S CHAPEL-IN-THE-GROVE, see Chapel-le-Grove.
 
SAINT HELENS WELL, f.h. in the township of Canton, and parish of Royston; 2
   miles from Barnsley.

      Helens Ford, or St. Helens Ford, a Ford over the river Wharf, on the great
   Roman road near to Tadcaster.  It takes its name from a Chapel dedicated to
   St. Helen, the mother of Constantine the great; which stood, in Leland's
   time, on the east banks of the river.  Here is still St. Helens Well.
   --Drake.
 
SAINT-IVES, (the seat of Edward Ferrand, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Bingley, upper-division of Skyrack; 1 mile from Bingley, 2 from Keighley, 8
   from Skipton.

      "In point of extensive view, richness of scenery, and wild rocky
   distances," says Dr. Whitaker, "every situation in Airedale, northward, must
   yield the palm to St. Ives."
 
SAINT JOHN'S, a parish-town, in the township of Throapham, upper-division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Tickhill, 8 from
   Rotherham, 50 from York.  --Pop. included in Throapham.   The Church,
   peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. 33L.
   8s. 6d.  Patron, the Lord Chancellor.
 
SAINT JOHN'S, IN THE WILDERNESS, in the parish of Halifax.  --See Marshaw
   Bridge.
 
SALLAY-ABREY, or SAWLEY,- (extraparochial) west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 3 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 12 from Colne, (ditto) 15.5 from
   Skipton.  --Pop. including Tosside, 561, which being united, form a township.

      Here was an Abbey of the Cistercian Order, founded by William de Percy, in
   1147, at which time, Abbot Benedict, with twelve Monks and ten Conversi,
   removed to Sallay from Fountains.  It was valued at the dissolution, at 147L.
   per ann.  The site, with all it's appendages, was granted by King Henry VIII.
   to Sir Arthur Darcy, to be held in capite, by Knights service.  Great part of
   the nave and transept are standing: the choir and chapter-house are yet
   traceable by their foundations: the gateway is converted in a cottage: in the
   walls of the adjoining houses, are several well-cut shields, exhibiting the
   arms of Percy, Lacy, Tempest, Hammerton, &c.  The Manor and Demesnes belong
   at present to the Right Hon. Lord Grantham.  --Grose.
 
SALTERFORTH, in the parish of Barnoldswick, east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 10 from Skipton and Burnley, (Lanc.)
   --Pop. 686.
 
SALTERHEBBLE, ham. in the township of Skircoat, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 1.75 miles from Halifax.
 
SALTERSBROOK, p.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 7.5
   miles from Penistone, 14 from Barnsley.
 
SALTONSTALL, NETHER, and OVER, 2 h. in the township of Warlay, and parish of
   Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 4 miles from Halifax.

      Here was born in 1572, Dr. Edmund Deane, brother to the Bishop of Ossory,
   author of "Spadacrene Anglica, or the English Spaw-Fountain,"  being a brief
   treatise on the Mineral Waters in the Forest of Knaresborough; also,
   "Admiranda Chymica." Some of these tracts, Wood says, were written by Samuel
   Norton.  Dr. Deane was of Morton-College, Oxford, and died about the
   beginning of the civil wars, having practised in York, as a physician, till
   that period. --Watson's Halifax.
 
SANDAL-MAGNA, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Wakefield; 2 miles from Wakefield, 8 from Barnsley, 9 from Pontefract, 30
   from York.  --Pop 888.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Helen, in
   the deanry of Pontefract, value, +13L. 7s. 8d. p.r. 122L. 17s. 2d.  Patron,
   the King.

      The Castle here, was built by John, Earl of Warren, about the year 1320.
   In the reign of Edward III.  Edward Baliol resided here, while an army was
   raising to establish him on the throne of Scotland.  This Castle afterwards
   became the property of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, who was slain in a
   great battle, fought near this place, in the year 1460.  The last siege it
   sustained was in the civil wars of Charles I.;  Col. Bonivant held it for the
   King, and surrendered to the arms of Parliament, in the month of October,
   1645.  In the following year it was dismantled, by the order of Parliament.
      Thomas Zouch, D.D. a man of considerable erudition, was born here in 1737.
   A collection of his works, with a memoir by the Rev. Thomas Wrangham, was
   published in 1820.
      Here is a Free-School for eight Boys, founded by the late Rev. Doctor
   Zouch, who endowed it with 10L. per annum, and a House and Garden.
 
SANDAL, KIRK, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;
   (the seat of George Martin, Esq.) 4.5 miles from Doncaster, 6.5 from Thorne,
   37 from York.  --Pop. 192.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Oswald,
   in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +9L. 0s. 3.5d.  Patron, the King.

      Here was anciently a seat of the family of Rokeby; of which John was
   rector of this parish; he was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin, where dying,
   he ordered his bowels to be buried at Dublin, his heart at Halifax, and his
   body at this place; and over each of his remains, a Chapel to be built, which
   was accordingly done.  In the chancel of the Church, is a marble monument to
   the Archbishop; and another to Sir Thomas Rokeby, Knight, who died Nov. 1689.
      In 1826, the Rev. Robert Wood, rector of Kirk-Sandal, by his Will, devised
   all his freehold estate at Kirk-Sandal, Fishlake, and Barnby-upon-Don, in
   trust for ever, to the use of a Schoolmaster, who shall teach a Grammar-
   School in Kirk-Sandal.

SANDAL-PARVA, or LONG-SANDAL, in the township of Wheatley-with-Sandal, and
   parishes of Kirk-Sandal and Doncaster, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, soke of Doncaster; 3 miles from Doncaster, 8 from Thorne.
 
SANDAL-THREE-HOUSES, in the township and parish of Sandal-Magna,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles from
   Wakefield, 7.5 from Barnsley.

      William Nevison, the renowned Highwayman, was apprehended in the alehouse
   here, by Capt. Hardcastle, in the year 1684.
 
SANDBECK, s.h. in the township of Wetherby, and parish of Spofforth; 1 mile from
   Wetherby.

SANDBECK, (the seat of the Earl of Scarborough) in the township and parish of
   Maltby, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 2.5
   miles from Tickhill, 6 from Bawtry, ,l0 from Rotherham.

      This elegant Mansion, which was built by Richard, the fourth Earl of
   Scarborough, is a magnificent and commodious residence.  The south front is
   in the pure style of Grecian architecture; and the interior corresponds with
   the exterior in elegance.  Amongst a fine collection of pictures in this
   house, a description of which may be seen in Young's Northern Tour, is one,
   in the drawing-room, by Wilson, of "that true, incorruptible, and never to be
   forgotten patriot Sir George Savile, in a sitting posture, with a map of the
   river Calder before him."  --Hist. Doncaster.
      This ancient family of the Lumleys, says Camden and Dugdale, is descended
   from Liulph, a person of great nobility in the time of Edward the Confessor,
   who married Algitha, daughter to Aldred, Earl of Northumberland; and that
   they took the name from their lordship of Lumley, on the banks of the river
   Wear, near Chester-le-Street.
      The first Earl of Scarborough, was Richard, Viscount Lumley, created an
   English Peer, by the title of Baron Lumley, 1681.  He had a principal command
   of the troops that gained the victory at Sedgemoor over the Duke of Monmouth;
   but concurring in the revolution, was, in 1689, created Viscount Lumley, and
   in 1690, Earl of Scarborough: he died in 1721.  The present is the sixth
   Earl.  --Biog. Peerage.
 
SAND-GATE, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield,
   liberty of Hallamshire; 3 miles from Sheffield.
 
SAND-HALL, f.h. in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 4 miles
   from Snaith.
 
SANTINLEY, f.h. in the township of Wintersett, and parish of Wragby, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Wakefield.
 
SAVILLE-HOUSE, s.h. in the township and parish of Penistone; 4 miles from
   Penistone
 
SAWLEY, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro;
   (Sawley-Hall, the seat of Mrs. Norton) 6 miles from Ripon and Pateley Bridge.
   --Pop. 490.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Ripon, value,
   p.r. !71L.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.

      In the time of Henry III. this estate was the property of Thomas de
   Sawley, whose heiress married Robert de Brereton: it afterwards passed into
   the ancient and honourable family of Norton.
 
SAW-WOOD, ham. in, the township of Stainland, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
SAXTON, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract;
   4 miles from Tadcaster, 9 from Ferrybridge, 11 from Pontefract, 14 from York.
   --Pop. including Scarthingwell, 378, which being united, form a township.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of
   the Ainsty, value, p.r. !72L. 10s.  Patron, Richard O. Gascoigne, Esq.

      In the church-yard of this village were interred, the bodies of many of
   those unfortunate people, slain is the memorable battle of Towton, March 29,
   1461; the Earl of Northumberland, it is said, reached York to die.  Leland
   says, Westmorland was interred in the Church of Saxton, where, however, he
   has no distinguishable memorials.  Clifford, according to the tradition of
   his family, was tumbled into a pit with a promiscuous heap of dead bodies.
   Lord Dacre, it appears, had a more honourable burial, as Leland says, he lay
   in a "meane tomb." This tomb is on the north side of the church-yard, now
   much broken and defaced, and the inscription illegible.  When Glover made his
   visitation in 1585, 124 years after the battle, he was told that "Lord Dacres
   was slayne by a boy at Towton field, which boy shot him out of a burtree,
   when he had unclasped his helmet to drink a cup of wyne, in revenge of his
   father, whom the said Lord had slayne before, which tree hath beene
   remarkable ever since by the inhabitants, and decayed within this few years.
   The place where he was slayne is called the North Acres, whereupon they have
   this rhyme:-

                       "The Lord of Dacres
                        Was slayne in the North Acres."

      On a part of the field, most remote from Saxton, Richard III. began a
   Chapel, in order to pray for the slain, but the completion was prevented by
   his death.  At a very small distance from the field of battle, and on the
   bank of the Cock, stands the antique and diminutive Chapel of Leod or Lede.
   This was one of the seats of the ancient family De Tyas, styling themselves
   in Latin, Teutonici, five of whose tombs still remain in the Chapel,
   engravings of which are given in Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.  --Drake.

SCALES, f.h. in the township of Askwith, and parish of Weston; 5 miles from
   Otley, 12 from Knaresborough.
 
SCALES, s.h. in the township of West-Halton, and parish of Long Preston, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 6.5 miles from Settle.
 
SCAMMONDEN, or DEAN-HEAD, in the parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 9 from
   Halifax.  --Pop. 855.  The Church is a perpetual curacy under Huddersfield.
 
SCARCROFT, in the parish of Thorner, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; 7 miles from Wetherby, 8.5 from Leeds.  --Pop. 108.
 
SCAR-HILL, (the seat of William Pollard, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Bradford; 1 mile from Bradford.
 
SCARO, 2 or 3 cotts. in the township and parish of Ripley; 0.5 a mile from
   Ripley, 6.5 from Ripon.
 
SCARTHINGWELL, (the seat of the Hon. Lord Hawke) in the township and parish of
   Saxton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from
   Tadcaster, 8 from Ferrybridge, 10 from Pontefract.  --Pop. included in
   Saxton.

SCAUSBY-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Brodsworth; 3 miles from
   Doncaster, 12 from Barnsley.

       Scausby Lees are noted for being the place, according to the records of
   the corporation of Doncaster, where the famous Aske was encamped with 40,000
   men, during his rebellion in the reign of Henry VIII.  --Hist. Doncaster.
 
SCHOLES, ham. in the township and parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Leeds, 9 from Wetherby,
 
SCHOLES, in the township of Cleck-Heaton, and parish of Birstall,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from
   Halifax, 11 from Leeds and Wakefield.
 
SCHOLES, ham. in the township of Stainland, and parish of Halifax; 4.5 miles
   from Halifax, 5.5 from Bradford.
 
SCHOLES, in the township of Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, upper-division
   of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 3.5 miles from Rotherham,
   9.5 from Barnsley.

SCHOLES, ham. in the township of Wooldale, and parish of Kirkburton, liberty of
   Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield.
 
SCHOLE'S PLAIN, s.h. in the township and parish of Barwick-In-Elmet; 5 miles
   from Leeds.

SCHOLE'S MOOR, ham. in the township of Horton, and parish of Bradford; 2 miles
   from Bradford, 6 from Halifax.

SCHOLE-HILL, 2 or 3 cotts. in the township and parish of Penistone; 0.5 a mile
   from Penistone.
 
SCOSTHROP, in the parish of Kirkby-Malhamdale, west-division of Staincliffe,
   liberty of Clifford's-Fee; 6 miles from Settle, 8.5 from Skipton, 11.5 from
   Kettlewell.  --Pop. 102.

SCOTLAND, ham. in the township of Horsforth, and parish of Guiseley; 4 miles
   from Otley, 6 from Leeds.
 
SCOTTON, in the parish of Farnham, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 2 miles from Knaresborough, 3 from Ripley, 10 from Ripon.
   --Pop. 297.

      This was anciently the residence of the Percies and Pulleyns, whose
   Mansions, still remaining, are converted into farm-houses.  Percys' is now
   the property of the Rev. William Roundell, and retains many marks of
   antiquity.  The houses where the Pulleyns resided, is now the property a Sir
   Thomas Turner Slingsby, Bart. it is a very large building, hath undergone so
   thorough a repair, that scarcely any marks of antiquity remain about it.
   --Hargrove.
 
SCOUT-HALL, s.h. in the township of Northowram, and parish of Halifax; 2 miles
   from Halifax.
 
SCRAITH, f.h. and Wood, in the township of Brightside-Bierlow, and parish of
   Sheffield; 3 miles from Sheffield.
 
SCRIVEN, in the parish of Knaresborough, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; (Scriven-Park, the seat of Sir Thomas Turner Slingsby, Bart.)
   1 mile from Knaresborough, 6 from Boroughbridge, 11 from Ripon.  --Pop.
   including Tentergate, 1,373, which being united, form a township.

      This was anciently a seat of a family of that name, who were Foresters of
   the forest and parks of Knaresborough, from the conquest, to the reign of
   King Edward III. when William de Slingsby married the heiress; from which
   time, it hath continued in the possession of that ancient and honourable
   family.  --Sir Thomas Slingsby, Bart. being the present owner.  --Hargrove

SCURF-HALL, s.h. in the township of Newland, and parish of Drax; 5 miles from
   Snaith, 8 from Selby.
 
SEACROFT, in the parish of Whitkirk, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4.25 miles from Leeds, 10 from Wetherby, 11 from Tadcaster.
   --Pop. 886.

      A famous battle was fought near this place, in the year 655, betwixt
   Penda, King of the Mercians, and Oswy, King of Northumberland: the Mercians,
   though far superior in number, were defeated, and a great part of their army
   cut in pieces, amongst which was Penda, and near thirty of his principal
   officers.  In the year 1643, here happened an engagement between a detachment
   of the parliament's armies, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax, and a large body
   of the king's horse, commanded by Lord Goring, in which the latter gained a
   complete victory.  --Hargrove.
 
SEDBERGH, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 5 miles from
   Dent, 11 from Kendal and Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 13 from Kirby-Stephen,
   (ditto) 14.5 from Hawes, 22 from Askrigg, 25 from Lancaster, (Lanc.) 77 from
   York, 265 from London.  --Market, Wednesday.  --Fairs, March 20; October 29,
   for horned cattle, &c.  --Principal Inns, Kings Arms, and Old Black Bull.
   --Pop. 2,022.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Andrew, in the
   deanry of Kirby-Lonsdale, diocese of Chester, value, +12L. 8s.  Patron,
   Trinity-College, Cambridge.

	Sedbergh is pleasantly situated in a secluded vale, among rugged
   mountains, at the N.W. extremity of the county, upon on the small river
   Rother.  The township of Sedbergh is divided into four parts, called hamlets,
   viz. Frostow and Soolbank, Marthwaite, Cautley and Doughbiggin, and Howgill
   and Bland.
	The town of Sedburgh does not contain any thing of particular interest,
   except the Grammar-School, founded by Edward III. of which the Masters and
   Fellows of St. Johns College, Cambridge, are Patrons, value, about 600L. per
   annum; the present Master is the Rev. Henry Wilkinson.  There are three
   Fellowships and eight Scholarships, at St. John's-College, Cambridge, for
   students from this School.  This is also one of the Schools which is entitled
   to send a candidate for Lady Elizabeth Hastings' Exhibitions.  Among the many
   eminent men educated at this School, was Robert William, a physician of very
   considerable eminence, and born at The Hill, near the town, in 1757.  He was
   educated in the principles of the Quakers, and received his scholastic
   tuition in the Grammar-School, of the place of his nativity, under the care
   of the Rev. Dr. Bateman, and the celebrated Mr. Dawson.  By his death in
   1812, the profession was deprived of one of its brightest ornaments! the sick
   of a humane and discerning physician; and the world of an estimable and
   upright man.
           The humane Dr. Anthony Fothergill, was born at Sedburgh, in 1732-3;
   and his medical studies were diligently pursued, first at Edinburgh,
   afterwards at Leyden, and finally at the Sorbonne at Paris.  He obtained the
   degree of M.D. at Edinburgh, in 1763, on his Thesis, "De Febre
   intermittente," and soon after he commenced practice at Northampton.  In
   1778, he was elected F.R.S. and in 1781, he removed to London; and in 1784,
   to Bath.  In 1803, having acquired a fortune sufficient to enable him to
   relinquish the duties of his profession, he sailed for Philadelphia, where he
   resided till the political disputes between Great Britain and America assumed
   a warlike appearance, in 1812, when he returned to London.  He died May 11,
   1813.  --See Nichols' vol. IX. p.211, wherein is a detailed account of the
   various works he published, and of the humane acts be performed.
 
SEGSWORTH, 2 or 3 h. in the township of Fountain's-Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 2.5 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
SELBY, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, a part in the
   liberty of St. Peter; 8 miles from Snaith, 10 from Howden, 11 from
   Ferrybridge, 12.5 from Tadcaster, 14 from Pontefract, 15 from York, 18 from
   Market-Weighton, 20 from Leeds, 183 from London.  --Market, Monday.  --Fairs,
   Easter-Tuesday; the Monday after Boroughbridge Barnabas-Fair, and old
   Michaelmas-day, for horses, horned cattle, sheep, &c.  --the horse show
   commences September 20, and ends on the 26th; Line-Fairs are on every
   Thursday six weeks, from Michaelmas to Saint Peter's day, old style.
   --Rankers, Messrs. Scholfield, Clarkson, and Co. draw on Messrs.  Spooner,
   and Co. 27, Gracechurch-Street --Principal Inns, George, and Kings Head.
   --Pop. 4,097.  The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary and
   St. Germain, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, p.r. !101L.  Patron, the
   Archbishop of York.

           This place is situated on the west bank of the Ouse, over which is a
   fine Draw Bridge, which facilitates the communication with the East Riding.
   This Bridge, though near seventy tons weight, can be opened and shut in the
   short space of one minute.  Selby, is in all probability, the ancient
   Salebeia, a name which denotes a Roman origin.  History, however, has not
   marked the era of its foundation, nor preserved any authentic documents of
   its state in the times preceding the Norman conquest; but as it appears to
   have been a place of some note at that period, it was probably built by the
   Saxons, on a Roman foundation.  The ancient and famous Abbey, which was once
   the chief ornament and glory of Selby, was founded by William the Conqueror,
   in 1069, for Benedictines, and dedicated to St. Mary, and St. Germains.  In
   the following year, that Monarch coming to Selby, to settle the endowment,
   his Queen, by whom he was accompanied, was here delivered of a son, who was
   afterwards King of England, by the name of Henry I.  And it was probably on
   that account, that the Abbey of Selby was favoured by the succeeding Kings,
   his descendants, with great privileges, as well as adorned with magnificent
   buildings.  The Abbots of Selby, and of St. Mary's at York, were the only two
   mitred Abbots, north of the Trent.  This Monastery flourished in great
   splendour till the time of the dissolution, when its revenues amounted to
   729L. 12s. 10.25d according to Dugdale; or 819L. 2s. 6d. -Speed.  It was
   surrendered by Robert de Selby, the last Abbot, 30th of Henry VIII, in 1539,
   and was granted about two years afterwards to Sir Ralph Sadler, in
   consideration of 736L. paid down, and a rent of 3L. 10s. 8d. per ann.
           The remains of the Abbey-church show it to here been a most noble
   Gothic building, erected at different times, and in different styles of
   architecture.  The nave appears to be the most ancient part: the choir is a
   newer erection.  In 1690, the steeple fell down, and did great injury to the
   south end of the transept, and the roof of the western part of the south
   aisle.  At what time the present steeple was erected, it is difficult to
   ascertain, but it appears to have been in the early part of the last century.
   From the appearance of the west-end of the church, which, with the porch, is
   deserving of particular notice, Mr. Burton seems to think, that "it was
   intended to have three towers, a large one in the middle of the church, and
   two smaller ones at the west end."
           The conventual church of Selby, was made parochial by letters patent,
   dated 20th March, 1618, the 16th James I. and a minister was thereunto
   nominated and appointed by the Archbishop of York.
           Selby is a tolerably well-built town, where there is a manufactory
   for Sailcloth, an Iron-foundry, and a good Ship-yard, where are built a
   great number of vessels from 50 to 800 tons burthen.  The trade of Selby has
   considerably increased of late years, by means of a canal from the Ouse to
   the Aire and Calder.  A navigation is opened between Leeds and Selby, by
   which this place become the loading and unloading port of the West-Riding,
   and to which it may be said to be the key from the German Ocean.  A Branch
   Custom-house has been lately established here, by the lords of the Treasury,
   from which vessels can clear out direct to any part of the kingdom: upwards
   of 500 vessels with cargoes, clear coastwise from hence every year; and the
   Steam Packets that ply between Hull and Selby occasion an influx of company
   hitherto unprecedented in this place.
           Here is an Hospital for 6 or 7 poor Widows, and a School with
   residence for the Master, who teaches the poor children, both founded by Mr.
   Leonard Chamberlain, time unknown; Rent charges for their support about 21L.
   12s. per ann.
           Here was born Thomas Johnson, a botanist, who published the first
   local catalogue of Plants in England.  In the rebellion he took up arms for
   the King: and when at Oxford, was created Doctor of Physic.  In the army he
   held the rank of Colonel and was killed in a Skirmish in 1644.
 
SELSIDE, ham. in the township and parish of Horton; 9 miles from Settle, 13 from
   Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
 
SETTLE, a market-town, in the parish of Giggleswick, west-division and liberty
   of Staincliffe; 10 miles from Ingleton, 11, from Gisburn, 15 from Kettlewell,
   16 from Skipton, 17 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 21 from Dent, 22 from
   Hawes, 26 from Askrigg, 57 from York, 235 from London.  --Market, Tuesday.
   --Fairs, Tuesday before Palm-Sunday, Thursday before Good-Friday, and every
   other Friday till Whitsuntide, for cattle; April 26, for sheep, lambs, and
   horses; Whit-Tuesday, for pedlary; August 19, for cattle and leather, 20 for
   sheep and lambs, 21, for pedlary; Tuesday after October 27; and every other
   Monday throughout the year, for fat cattle.  --Bankers, Messrs. Birbecks,
   Alcock, and Co. draw on Messrs.  Barnard, Dimsdale, and Co. 50, Cornhill.
   --Principal Inn, Golden Lion.  --Pop. 1,508.

           Settle, the capital of Ribblesdale, is an irregular built town, but
   very picturesque, has a large and spacious market-place, and some good houses
   in it, incongruously mixed with others of a very inferior complexion.  -Under
   the cross is the Gaol, entered by a trap-door down a flight of steps, and
   only lighted by a small grate above the door.  The situation of Settle is on
   the east-bank of the Ribble, and under that well known conical rock, called
   Castleberg, backed by a cluster of rugged crags, and anciently crowned with a
   fortification.  The summit of Castleberg once formed the gnomen of a rude but
   magnificent Sun-Dial, the shadow of which passing over some grey stones upon
   its side, marked the progress of time to the inhabitants of the town beneath;
   an instrument more ancient than the dial of Ahaz.  But the hour marks have
   long been removed, and few remember the history of their old benefactor,
   whose shadow now takes its daily tour unobserved.  --Whitaker.  --Northern
   Star.
           At Settle is a National-School, on the plan of Dr. Bell, which is
   supported by subscription.
           Settle forms part of the Percy-Fee, and is included in a charter of
   free warren, obtained by Henry Percy, in the 4th Edward II. along with
   "Gygleswyke and Routhonel."
           "On the Fells east of Settle, and near Wardale-Knots, are two Rocking
   Stones, the larger of which is of an altar shape, about the height of a
   table, and of immense weight, yet moveable with one finger; and when in
   motion, making a noise like distant thunder."  --Whitaker.
           In this town was born, Thomas Proctor, whose merit as a sculptor,
   justly places him among the first of the British artists.  His works, though
   few, are uncommonly fine.  Whoever has his model of Ixion, is in possession
   of a treasure, which ought to be guarded with the greatest vigilance, it
   being, without dispute, one of the first productions of the British school;
   and would have done honour to the best times of Greece or Rome.  He was a
   exemplary and might genius, and his merits have been celebrated by Mr. West,
   in one of his discourses.  His fine group of Diomedes devoured by his horses,
   would have become a point of national taste; but, alas! he dashed it to
   pieces in a fit of despair, because he could not procure fifty pounds for
   that sublime labour.  He died, like Raphael, in the meridian of his days, and
   full of honour.  --He sunk, unaccountably, under the public neglect, when a
   small sum would have preserved a valuable life.  --Dayes' Tour.


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SETTLEBECK, ham. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 0.25 of a mile from
   Sedbergh.
 
SHACKLETON, ham. in the township of Wadsworth, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 9 miles from Halifax.

SHADWELL, in the parish of Thorner, lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5.5 miles from Leeds, 8 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 197.
 
SHAFTHOLME, ham. in the township of Bentley-with-Arksey, and parish of Arksey,
   lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 5 miles from
   Doncaster, 8 from Thorne.

SHAFTON, in the parish of Felkirk, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 7 from Wakefield, 9 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. 235.
 
SHARLSTONE, in the parish of Warmfield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Richard Atkins, Esq.) 4.5 miles from
   Wakefield, 5.5 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 235.
 
SHAROW, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; (Sharow
   Lodge, the seat of Mrs. Cayley,) 1 mile from Ripon, 6 from Boroughbridge.
   --Pop. 103.
 
SHARROWHEAD, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield,
   upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, 1.25 mile from Sheffield.
 
SHAW CROSS, 2 or 3 h, in the township of Soothill, and parish of Dewsbury,
   liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Dewsbury.

SHAW-HALL, ham, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.)  9
   miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
SHAW MILL, in the township of Bishop-Thornton, lower division of Claro; 7 miles
   from Ripon and Knaresborough.

      This is a new village on the banks of a small beck, called, Shaw Beck, and
   the principal place within the township.  Here the Bishop of York calls his
   courts for Thornton.
 
SHEEP HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles
   from Penistone.
 
SHEEP WASH, f.h. in the township of Rathmell, and parish of Giggleswick; 3 miles
   from Settle.
 
SHEFFIELD, a market and parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Hallamshire; 6 miles Rotherham, 12 from Chesterfield,
   (Derbys.) 13.75 from Penistone, 14 from Barnsley, 16 from Bakewell, 18 from
   Doncaster and Worksop, (Notts.) 20 from Bawtry, 24 from Mansfield, (Notts.)
   24 from Buxton, (Derbys.) by Middleton, and 28 by Bakewell, 55 from York, 162
   from London.  --Markets, Tuesday and Saturday.  --Fairs, Tuesday in
   Trinity-Week, and November 28, for horses, horned cattle, &c.  --Bankers,
   Messrs. Morland and Co. 50, Pall-Mall; Sheffield and Rotherham Bank, Messrs.
   Walkers, Eyre, and Stanley, draw on Messrs. Everett, and Co. 9, Mansion-House
   Street; Messrs, Rimington, and Youngs, draw on Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and
   Co. 2, White-Hart Court, Lombard-Street.  --Principal Inns, Tontine, Angel,
   Commercial, and Kings-Head Hotel.  --Pop. 42,157.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to St. Peter, or the Holy-Trinity, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, 12L. 15s. 2.5d.  Patron, the Rev. Thomas Sutton.  Here are also three
   Churches, viz. St. Pauls Church built in 1740, in Norfolk Street; St. James'
   Church, erected in 1788 in the Vicar's-Croft, to both these Churches the
   Vicar of Sheffield is Patron.  Here is also a Chapel at the Duke of Norfolk's
   Hospital, opened in 1777, in which service is celebrated daily: the Rev. Wm.
   Downs is curate and governor, and the Rev. Thomas Robinson, officiating
   curate.

      Sheffield, from sheaf-field, the most populous town in the county, except
   Leeds, is situated upon an eminence at the confluence of the rivers Sheaf and
   Don, over each of which is a stone bridge.  The parish of Sheffield is above
   ten miles in length, and its average breadth about three miles.  In works of
   antiquity, the town of Sheffield is not rich, but principally known as a
   commercial town.  "It was once the seat and favourite residence of a race of
   ancient nobility, by whose history it becomes connected with the general
   history of this kingdom,  --men who were called to the councils of Princes,
   or displayed their prowess in the tented field, while they exercised an
   almost unlimited authority among a tenantry, whose habitations surrounded
   their Castle walls.  The traces of those times are now few, and fast
   obliterating.  Buildings for commercial purpose, occupy the site of the
   baronial Hall; the Park and Chases are inclosed; and the summer Mansion is
   become a mouldering ruin."
     The Castle stood at the north-east part of the town, which, with the
   lordship of Sheffield was granted to Thomas, Lord Furnival, 39 Edward III.
   whose ancestor, Thomas de Furnival, in the reign of Henry III. obtained a
   charter from the King, for the erection of a Castle at Sheffield.  The Manor,
   &c. had previously been in the hands of the Lovetots, the first of whom,
   there is reason to think, built the original Castle.  From the Furnivals, the
   Manor and Castle passed to the Nevils, afterwards to the Talbots, Earls of
   Shrewsbury, and lastly, to the Illustrious family of the Howards.  It was,
   during the time of George, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, who resided here, that
   this Castle was made the prison of the beautiful Mary, Queen of Scots.  In
   this place, Cardinal Wolsey on his way to London, is said to have drank the
   fatal draught, which soon afterwards terminated his existence.  This Castle
   was demolished in the civil wars, and scarcely any vestiges of it now
   remains, except that the names of Castle-Hill, Castle-Ditch, &c. are still
   retained by several places in the vicinity.
      The town of Sheffield was incorporated, so far as regards the manufactory
   in 1624, and is styled "the company of Cutlers of Hallamshire."  It is
   governed by a master, two wardens, six searchers, and twenty-four assistants,
   and the rest commonalty.  By this act of incorporation, it is enacted, that
   it shall be lawful for the master, &c. to make laws for the good order, rule,
   and government of all the members of the said company, &c. and to levy
   reasonable penalties on those who neglect to observe them.  This corporation
   consists of about 600 members, who have a Hall for the transaction of their
   business, called Cutler's-Hall, built in 1638, and in 1726 was re-built in
   its present form.  Sheffield has long been celebrated for its cutlery ware;
   Dr. Gibson, who published his edition of Camden in 1695, says, that Sheffield
   had been for 300 years, the staple for knives.  The cutlery trade in the town
   and neighbourhood, was afterwards prosecuted in the various articles of
   sheath-knives, scissors, sickles, scythes, &c. and in 1758, the silver-plate
   manufacture was begun by Mr. Joseph Hancock, on a very extensive scale,
   comprehending an almost innumerable variety of articles.  The importance of
   Mr. Hancock's discovery soon began to be fully understood: various companies
   were formed; workmen were easily procured from among the ingenious mechanics
   of Sheffield; while the streams in the neighbourhood furnished opportunities
   for erecting mills for the rolling out the metals.  Birmingham early obtained
   a share in this lucrative manufacture; but the honour of the invention
   belongs to Sheffield, as it is supposed to stand unrivalled in the extent to
   which the manufacture is carried, and the elegance and durability of its
   productions.  The introduction of this new branch of trade, gave to Sheffield
   a share in the manufacture of silver-plate; and for the encouragement of this
   manufacture, an assay office was established, and opened in the town in 1731.
   In 1751, the Don was made navigable to Tinsley, within three miles of the
   town which greatly facilitates the export of goods.  Upon the Don, above the
   town, a great number of works are erected for forging, slitting, and
   preparing the iron and steel for the manufactures; and for grinding knives,
   scissors, &c.  The parish of Sheffield is rich in its mineral productions,
   and especially in iron, coal, and stone.  This place, although large, cannot
   boast much of its public buildings, which are in general calculated more for
   utility than shew; we shall therefore briefly point out such as may claim the
   attention of strangers.
      The places for divine worship, according to the established Church, are
   four, viz. St. Peter, or the Holy Trinity, which is the parish-church; it
   stands in the centre of the town, was built in the reign of Henry I. about
   1100, it is a rectangular building, having neither porch nor chapel
   protruding beyond the buttresses.  A tower and spire is near the centre of
   the building.  The numerous changes and re-edifications have left nothing
   remaining of the original fabric, except the massy pillars that support the
   tower.  On the south side of the altar is the Shrewsbury Chapel, founded by
   George, the fourth Earl, in the time of Henry VIII. in which are monuments of
   four Earls of Shrewsbury, the Talbots.
       In the year 1700, was interred here, William Walker, who, from strong
   circumstances, there is reason to believe, was the executioner of Charles I.
   --Gents. Magaz. vol. XXXVII.
       St. Pauls is an elegant modern structure, in the Grecian style; it was
   begun in 1720, but not consecrated till 1740, and finished till 1771, being
   erected through the benefaction of 1000L. from Mr. Robert Downs, an opulent
   silversmith, together with the subscriptions of the gentlemen of the town and
   neighbourhood.  St. James' Church, situated in the Vicarage Croft, erected in
   1788.  And the Chapel at the Duke of Norfolk's Hospital, opened in 1777,
   which is calculated to contain a large congregation.  Divine Service is daily
   celebrated in this Chapel, by a minister of the Church of England, and a
   sermon is preached every Sunday.  For Dissenters, Sheffield, like other large
   towns, has places of worship for almost every sect, there being not less than
   fifteen edifices used by them for that purpose.
        Here is an Hospital, situated near the bridge, called "the Hospital of
   Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury."  It was founded and endowed by Will, dated in
   1616, by Henry, Earl of Norwich, great grandson of Gilbert, Earl of
   Shrewsbury.  In 1770, Edward, Duke of Norfolk, gave to this hospital 1000L.
   which sum was applied to the building of the present Chapel.  The Hospital
   consists of two quadrangles, each containing eighteen dwellings, for the
   accommodation of eighteen men, and the same number of women, being aged and
   decayed house keepers, each of whom is provided with a house and garden, and
   a pension of 5s. per week, with clothing and coals.
        On the north side of the town is an Hospital and School, erected by
   Thomas Hollis, a merchant of London, but a native of Sheffield, for sixteen
   poor cutlers' widows, who have each a separate habitation, and an allowance
   of one guinea every three weeks; and the orator, who is also schoolmaster,
   fifteen guineas quarterly, having also a good house in the Hospital-yard.
   The children in the School of this establishment, amount to about forty, who
   are taught to read.
         About half a mile from the town, is that valuable institution, the
   Infirmary, built by subscription; the first stone of which, was laid in 1793.
   It is a handsome stone building; and is supported by voluntary subscriptions;
   and patients are admitted on the recommendation of subscribers.
         Here is a Free Grammar-School, founded in 1603-4, by Thomas Smith, of
   Crowland, (Linc.) who left to it 30L. a year.  In 1605, it became
   incorporated by letters patent, of 2nd James I.  The present School was
   erected by subscription in 1648, in Townhead-street.  It is open indefinitely
   for boys of Sheffield and the neighbourhood.  The head master's salary is
   fixed at 60L. per annum.  Here are also National Schools, on the plans of
   Bell and Lancaster, and several Sunday and Charity Schools, as well as many
   minor charitable institutions.
        The Town-Hall, is at the south-east corner of Trinity-church, and was
   erected in 1700.
        In Norfolk-street, in the south part of the town, is an elegant
   building, comprising the Assembly-Room and Theatre, first erected in 1762;
   but since taken down, and constructed on a larger scale.
        Sheffield is the capital of a district, known by the name of
   Hallamshire.
        Here was born, the learned divine, John Balguy.  --He was Prebendary of
   Salisbury, and in 1729, he was presented to the vicarage of Northallerton.
   He wrote religious Tracts and Sermons, on several occasions, were published
   in 2 vols 8vo. which are in much estimation.  He died in 1748.
        John Roebuck, an eminent physician, and great benefactor to Scotland,
   was a native of Sheffield, and born in 1718.  In his prosecution of chemical
   experiments, he had been led to bestow great attention to the process of
   smelting iron stone.  He died in 1794.

SHEFFIELD, LITTLE, now incorporated with Sheffield.
 
SHEFFIELD-MANOR, in the township and parish of Sheffield; 1.5 miles from
   Sheffield.

           This was formerly a seat of the Earl of Shrewsbury; now in ruins, one
   large turret only remaining.

SHELFE, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Halifax, 4.5 from Bradford.  --Pop. 1,998.
 
SHELLEY, in the parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 7.5 from Penistone.  --Pop.
   1,329.
 
SHEPLEY, NETHER, in the township of Shepley, and parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg
   division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 6.5 miles from
   Penistone and Huddersfield.
 
SHEPLEY, in the parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Penistone, 7.5 from Huddersfield.  --Pop.
   1000.
 
SHERBURN, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, a part in
   the liberty of St-Peter; 3.5 miles from Abberford, 6 from Ferrybridge, 7 from
   Tadcaster and Pontefract, 8 from Selby, 12.5 from Leeds, 15 from York, 183
   from London.  --Market, Friday.  --Fair, September 25, for horses, linen, &c.
   Principal Inn, Red Bear.  --Pop. 1,144.  The Church, peculiar, is a Vicarage,
   dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, 10L. 17s. 1d.
   p.r. 130L.  Patron, the Prebendary of Fenton.

           The nave of this church is purely Saxon, and the work of some one of
   the first Archbishops, who became possessed of the place.  --Whitaker.  Near
   the south-east corner of the churchyard, appears to have been a detached
   Chapel, among the rubbish of which, was dug up the head of a very rich and
   elegant cross.  --Ibid.
           At this place formerly the Archbishops of York had a palace, and
   which once belonged to King Athelstan; not a vestige remains, except such
   parts as may appear in the walls of the church, which was built out of its
   ruins.
           Here is a Grammar-School and Hospital, founded in 1619, by Robert
   Hungate, Esq. who endowed them with 120L. per annum, for the clothing and
   maintenance of the boys, twenty four, in the hospital; and 12L. per annum, to
   the master, payable out of lands in this parish, of Robert Oliver Gascoigne,
   of Parlington, Esq.  A subsequent endowment of 12L. per annum, was awarded to
   the master, on a late enclosure.  There are eight boys upon the foundation,
   who are admitted at the will of Mr. Gascoigne.  There are four exhibitions of
   7L. 10s. each, to St. Johns College, Oxford; and this is one of the schools
   entitled to send a candidate for Lady Elizabeth Hastings' exhibitions.
   --Master's salary, 34L. and assistant, 13L.13s.4d. per annum.  --Carlisle.
           On the 15th of October, 1645, here happened a sharp skirmish between
   the King's and the Parliament's forces, in which Sir Richard Hutton, Sir
   Francis Carnaby, and several other officers on the King's side, were slain.
   --Hargrove.
           Sherburn and the neighbourhood are remarkable for a particular
   species of Plum, called the Winesour.
 
SHERWOOD-HALL, (the residence of William Morritt, Esq.) in the township of
   Egbrough, and parish of Kellington, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from
   Snaith, 7 from Pontefract.
 
SHEEPSCAR, in the township and parish of Leeds, half a mile from Leeds.
 
SHIBDEN-HALL, (the seat of James Lister, Esq.) in the township of Southowram,
   and parish of Halifax; 2.5 miles from Halifax.
 
SHIPLEY, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Mrs. Wainman) 3 miles from Bradford and
   Bingley.  --Pop. 1,606.
 
SHIRECLIFFE-HALL, (the seat of John Watson, Esq.) in the township of Brightside-
   Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield.

           The old Hall, of which no part now remains, a good modern house
   having been built on its site, was anciently the seat of the family of
   Mounteney, descended of Sir Robert de Mounteney, grandson of Maud de Lovetot,
   in the time of Henry III.  --Hunter.
 
SHIRE-GREEN, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 3 miles from Sheffield, 4 from Rotherham, 11 from
   Barnsley.
 
SHIRTCLIFFE-HALL, (the seat of William Bingley, Esq.) in the township and parish
   of Ecclesfield; 2 miles from Sheffield.
 
SHITLINGTON, MIDDLE, in the parish of Thornhill, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberties of Pontefract and Wakefield; 3 miles from Dewsbury, 4 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 1,635.
 
SHITLINGTON, NETHER, or NETHERTON, in the township of Middle-Shitlington, and
   parish of Thornhill, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Dewsbury and Wakefield.
 
SHITLINGTON, OVER, in the township of Middle-Shitlington, and parish of
   Thornhill, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4
   miles from Dewsbury, 4.5 from Wakefield.
 
SHOOTERS HILL, (the seat of J.C. Hilton, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Rossington; 3.25 miles from Bawtry; 6.25 from Doncaster.
 
SHORE, f.h. in the township of Stansfield, and parish of Halifax; 13 miles from
   Halifax.
 
SICKLING HALL, in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, upper-division of Claro; 3
   miles from Wetherby, 5 from Harewood, 6 from Knaresborough -Pop. 257.
 
SIGSWORTH, f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 3 miles
   from Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.
 
SILCOATES, ham. in the township of Alverthorpe-with-Thorns, and parish of
   Wakefield; 1 mile from Wakefield,
         Here is a Grammar-School for the Yorkshire Dissenters.
 
SILKSTONE, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of Pontefract;
   4 miles from Barnsley and Penistone, 10.5 from Wakefield, 39 from York.
   --Pop. 807.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry
   of Doncaster, value, p.r. 17L. l3s. 4d.  Patron, the Archbishop of York.
 
SILKSTON, --Variation on the spelling of Silkstone (above) -B.T.

SILSDEN, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 4
   miles from Keighley, 7 from Skipton, 12 from Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 1,904.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. James, in the deanry of
   Craven, value, p.r. !86L.  Patron, the Earl of Thanet.

SILSDEN-MOOR, ham. in the township of Silsden, and parish of Kildwick, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 4 miles from Skipton.
 
SKELBROOK, in the parish of South-Kirkby, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (the residence of the Rev. Charles Cater) 7 miles from
   Ferrybridge, 7.75 from Pontefract, 8 from Doncaster, 12 from Barnsley.
   --Pop. 115.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Michael, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. 60L.  Patron, the Perrin family.
 
SKELDA, f.h. in the township and parish of Marton, liberty of Staincliffe; 8
   miles from Skipton.
 
SKELDEN, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from Ripon, 6
   from Pateley Bridge, 8 from Masham.  --Pop. 56.
 
SKELDERSLOW, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 3
   miles from Oldham, (ditto)
 
SKELLANDS, f.h. in the township of Scosthrop, and parish of Kirkby Malhamdale; 7
   miles from Settle, 9 from Skipton.

SKELLOW, in the parish of Owston, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Doncaster, 10 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 146.
 
SKELLOW-GRANGE, ham. (The seat of Godfrey Higgins, Esq.) in the township of
   Skellow, and parish of Owston, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Doncaster,
   9 from Pontefract.
 
SKELMANTHORPE, in the townships of Cumberworth, and Cumberworth-half, and
   parishes of High-Hoyland and Emley, liberty of Pontefract; 8 miles from
   Huddersfield and Wakefield.
 
SKELTON, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 2.5 miles
   from Boroughbridge, 3.5 from Ripon.  --Pop. 314.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, in the deanry of Ripon, value, p.r. !78L. 8s. 2d.  Patrons, the Dean
   and Chapter of Ripon.

SKELTON, f.h. in the township and parish of Leeds; 1 mile from Leeds.
 
SKERETH, ham. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low Bentham; 1 mile
   from Ingleton.
 
SKEWKIRK, (Ainsty) f.h. in the township of Tockwith, and parish of Kirk-
   Hammerton; 7 miles from Wetherby, 9 from York.
 
SKIBEDEN, EAST, and WEST, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Skipton, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 2.5 miles from Skipton.
 
SKIERS-HALL, cotts. in the township of Wentworth, and parish of Wath-upon-
   Dearne; 6 miles from Rotherham and Barnsley.
 
SKIP-BRIDGE, an Inn, in the township of Wilstrop, and parish of Kirk-Hammerton;
   8.5 miles from Boroughbridge and York.
 
SKIPTON, a market and parish-town, in the east-division of Staincliffe, liberty
   of Clifford's Fee, (Skipton-Castle, the seat of the Earl of Thanet,) 10 miles
   from Keighley, 11 from Guisburn, 12.75 from Colne, (Lanc.) 13 from Hopper-
   Lane Inn, 15 from Otley and Pateley Bridge, 16 from Settle and Kettlewell, 19
   from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 41 from York, 220 from London.  --Market, Saturday.
   --Fairs, first Saturday after the old twelfth day, called Black Saturday,
   March 13, Saturday before Palm Sunday, Tuesday in Easter-Week, and every
   other Tuesday until Whitsuntide, for lean cattle; Saturday before Whitsun-
   eve, Saturday before Trinity-Sunday, Old Saint James' Day, and Martinmas Day,
   viz. November 21, and 23, and every other Tuesday, throughout the year, for
   fat cattle, &c.  --Bankers, Messrs. Chippendale, Netherwood, and Carr, draw
   on Messrs. Masterman, Peters, and Co. 2, White Hart Court, Lombard Street.
   --Principal Inns, Black Horse, Hotel, and Devonshire Hotel.  --Pop. 3,411.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to the Holy-Trinity, in the deanry of
   Craven, value, +10L. 12s. 6d.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Christ-
   Church, Oxford.

           Skipton, a respectable built town, consisting chiefly of one street,
   is the capital and mart of Craven, which, by having the benefit of the Leeds
   and Liverpool Canal passing close to the town, the greatest facility is
   afforded to its trade.
           At the north-end of the town is the Castle, the erection of which
   elevated this place at once from a poor dependant village to a respectable
   town; for in times of turbulence and disorder, the inhabitants of the
   adjoining country would naturally crowd for protection under its walls.  -And
   although Skipton never had a municipal government, except that of a Reve, and
   was never represented in Parliament, the town is generally, styled in
   Charters, a Burgh, and its inhabitants, Burgesses.
           The Castle, which usually attracts the attention of strangers, was
   the work of Robert de Romille, about the end of the Conquerors, or the
   beginning of his son's reign.  Of the original building, little, besides the
   western door-way of the inner Castle, now remains.  It consists of a treble
   semicircular arch, supported upon square piers.  The oldest part of the
   Castle now remaining, consists of seven round towers, connected by
   rectilinear apartments, which form an irregular quadrangular court within.
   The walls are from twelve to nine feet thick.
           In the civil wars of Charles I. this Town and Castle had a
   considerable share, being a garrison for the King, commanded by Sir John
   Mallory, of Studley.  On the 20th Dec. 1645, it was surrendered to the forces
   of the Parliament; having held out longer than any other Castle in the north
   of England.  The northern wall of the Castle stands on the brink of a
   perpendicular rock, washed by a torrent, to the bed of which, from the
   battlements, is a depth of 200 feet.
           At the west-end of the Bailey stands the Castle Chapel, a well
   proportioned oblong building, of which the original shell is entire: it
   appears to have retained its original till after the death of Thomas, the
   good Earl of Thanet; but is now a stable.
           Robert de Romille, the founder of this baronial Castle, leaving only
   an heiress, Alice, married to William Fitz-Duncan, Earl of Murray, carried
   along with her the honour of Skipton; by whose daughter, Cicely, it passed to
   William le Gross, Earl of Albemarle; here it remained till the reign of
   Richard I. when Avelyne de Fortibus, daughter and heiress, the Countess of
   Albemarle, married Edmund, Earl of Lancaster; whose son Thomas, succeeded
   him, but he, joining in a rebellion against King Edward II. and being taken
   in arms at Boroughbridge, was beheaded at Pontefract, when all his estates
   were escheated to the Crown; and were by that King granted to Robert, Lord
   Clifford, which family, with the exception of a single attainder, have held
   this barony 500 years, during the longer part of which they have resided at
   Skipton Castle, in great wealth and honour.  John Lord Tufton, the second
   Earl of Thanet, having married Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Dorset, by
   Lady Anne Clifford, in 1629, brought this Castle and Lordship into that
   family, where it still remains.
           The Church of Skipton, which was also founded by Robert de Romille,
   is a spacious and respectable building.  Perhaps no part of the original
   structure remains, except four stone seats with pointed arches and
   cylindrical columns, now in the south wall of the nave.  In this Church are
   several ancient monuments to the Clifford family: and beneath the altar,
   unusually elevated on that account, is the vault of the Cliffords, the place
   of their interment, from the dissolution of Bolton Priory to the death of the
   last Earl of Cumberland; which, after being closed many years, the late Dr.
   Whitaker, obtained permission to examine in 1803; wherein he found the bodies
   deposited in chronological order; particulars of which may be seen in his
   history of Craven.
           The town of Skipton has long enjoyed the benefit of a well endowed
   Grammar-School, which was founded in the second year of King Edward VI. 1548,
   by William Ermysted, clerk, Canon Residentiary in the Cathedral Church of St.
   Paul, London, for instructing boys in grammar; and who ordained certain
   statutes for the government of the same.  The whole rental of the lands,
   tenements, &c. with which it was than endowed, amounted to 9L. 15s. 4d. is
   now about 600L. per annum.  There is also an annual payment of 4L. 4s. 10d.
   out of the land revenues of the Crown.
           William Petyt, Esq. in 1707, gave 200L. for the support of two poor
   scholars at Christ College, Cambridge.  And his brother, Sylvester Petyt,
   Esq. by his Will, left 24,048L. old South Sea Annuities, and a Library at
   Skipton, --the gross annual income, in 1815, being 721L. 9s. 2d.  The objects
   of which donation are, persons, wherever resident, standing in need of
   immediate relief, according to the discretion of the Trustees, --and amongst
   whom, the remainder of this sum is annually distributed, after paying 20L. a
   year to Christ College, Cambridge, small salaries to a schoolmaster and
   librarian at Skipton, and putting out annually about fourteen poor children
   apprentices in the county of York, and for buying books for the use of the
   school.  Boys are admitted free of expense, indefinitely throughout the
   parish.  --Carlisle's Gram. School.
           At this place was born, George Holmes, a learned antiquary, in 1662.
   He re-published the first 17 vols. of Rymer's Foedera, and formed a curious
   collection of books, prints, and coins.  He died in 1749.
 
SKIERAM, or SKIERHOLME, ham. in the township of Appletrewick, and parish of
   Burnsall, liberty of Staincliffe; 7 miles from Pateley Bridge, 8 from
   Skipton.
 
SKIRETHORNES, ham. in the township of Threshfield, and parish of Linton, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 6 miles from Kettlewell.
 
SKIRCOTE, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 1.5 miles from Halifax, 7.5 from Huddersfield, 9.5 from
   Bradford.  --Pop. 3,323.

           Here is a free Grammar-School, usually called the Halifax School,
   founded by a charter of Queen Elizabeth, dated the 15th of February, 1585.
   This charter is said to have been procured by Henry Farrer, Esq. of Ewood, at
   his own expense, and who was one of the first governors.  The management of
   the School is vested in governors.  The original endowment being in land, the
   amount of salary is uncertain.  The School is open indefinitely for the
   children of the parish free of expense, for learning the Classics only.  The
   present master is the Rev. Robert Wilkinson.  --Carlisle.

SKIRDEN-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Bolton-by-Bolland, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4.5 miles from Gisburn.
 
SKYRACK, a wapentake, situated between the rivers Wharfe and Aire; having
   Barkston-Ash for its eastern, and part of Staincliffe for its western
   boundary.   In this wapentake are the market towns of Leeds, Bingley, Otley,
   and Harewood, the market of the latter has fallen into disuse.  It contains
   44 townships, 15 of which are parish-towns, 7,102 inhabited houses, and
   30,606 inhabitants; independent of the liberty of Leeds, which is situated
   within this wapentake;  --and in which there are 17,418 inhabited houses, and
   83,746 inhabitants.

SLADES-BARN, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 1.5
   miles from Dobcross, 12 from Huddersfield.

SLAIDBURN, a parish-town, in the west division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Bolland; 9 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 10 from Gisburn, and Long-Preston,
   12 from Settle, 20 from Lancaster and Blackburn, (Lanc.) 21 from Skipton, 62
   from York.  --No Market.  --Fairs, Wednesday before Easter, and November 4.
   --Principal Inn, Hark-to-Bounty.  --Pop. 914.  The Church is a rectory,
   dedicated to Saint Andrew, in the deanry of Craven, value 28L.  Patron the
   Rev. Henry Wigglesworth.

           The Church is a large handsome structure, of red Fell stone, built
   about the time of Henry VIII. and appears to have been repaired in 1726.
   Within the altar is a stone, inscribed to the memory of Nicholas Townley,
   dated 1693.
           This place is situated near the western extremity of the Forest of
   Bolland, on the borders of Lancashire.
           Here is a Free Grammar-School, but when, or by whom founded, we could
   not learn.  The Master's salary 50L. and the Usher or second Master, about
   20L. per annum.  The Courts Leet for the higher division of the Forest of
   Bolland are held here.
           "Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, procured a charter for a Fair at
   Slaydburn, on the eve and festival of St. Peter ad Vinc. and two days after."
   --Whitaker
 
SLAITHWAITE, in the parish of Huddersfield, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Huddersfield, 12 from Halifax, 20
   from Manchester, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 2,871.  The Church is a perpetual curacy
   under Huddersfield, the Vicar of which is Patron, value, p.r. *129L. 8s. 6d.

           The new Road recently cut from Huddersfield to Manchester, passes
   through this place; also the Canal to and from the same place, which greatly
   facilitates its trade.
 
SLATENBERG, 3 f.h. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low-Bentham; 8.5
   miles from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
 
SLEAD-HALL, (the seat of Abraham Firth Macauley, Esq.) in the township of
   Hipperholme, and parish of Halifax; 2 miles from Halifax.

SLENINGFORD, in township of North Stainley-with-Sleningford, and parish and
   liberty of Ripon; (Sleningford-Hall, the seat of Col. Dalton; the Grange, the
   seat of John Dalton, Jun. Esq.) 4.5 miles from Ripon, 5.75 from Masham.
   --Pop. included in North-Stainley.  In the same township and parish is :-
 
SLENINGFORD, OLD, (the seat of Thomas Kitchingman Staveley, Esq.)
 
SMALL-FIELD, a few f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield;
   7 miles from Sheffield, 9 from Penistone.

SMALL-HEDGE, f.h. in the township and parish of Fishlake; 4 miles from Thorne, 9
   from Snaith.

SMALL-SHAW, f.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 3 miles
   from Penistone.

SMAW'S-HALL, in the parish of Tadcaster; 1 mile from Tadcaster, 7 from Wetherby.
 
SMEATON, KIRK, See Kirk-Smeaton.
 
SMEATON, LITTLE, in the Parish of Womersley, liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from
   Ferrybridge, 6.5 from Pontefract, 10 from Doncaster.  Pop. 176.
 
SMIDLEY, ham. in the township of Wombwell, and parish of Darfield; 3 miles from
   Barnsley, 9 from Rotherham.
 
SMITHY-BROOK, 3 or 4 h. in the township and parish of Thornhill; 3 miles from
   Dewsbury, 5 from Wakefield.
 
SMITHIES-MILL, ham. in the township of Monk-Bretton, and parish of Royston, 2
   miles from Barnsley, 8 from Wakefield.
 
SMITHALLS, s.h. in the township and parish of Birkin; 1.75 miles from Ferry
   bridge.
 
SMITHIES, in the parish of Kirkheaton; 3 miles from Huddersfield, 10.25
   from Wakefield.

SNAITH, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty and
   bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 7 miles from Thorne, 8 from Selby, 10 from
   Howden, 11 from Ferrybridge, 14 from Pontefract, 23 from York, 175 from
   London.  --Market, Thursday.  --Fairs, last Thursday in April, for horned
   cattle, sheep, and woollen cloth, Aug. 10, for horned cattle, woollen cloth,
   line, cheese, and quills; and the last Thursday in Sept. which is chartered
   but not now attended.  --Principal Inns, Blue Bell, Black Lion, Bell and
   Crown, and Green-Dragon.  --Pop. 834.  The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Pontefract.  Patron, Henry
   Yarburgh, Esq.

           The town of Snaith is situated on a gently rising ground, about half
   a mile south of the river Aire, and within five miles of the junction of the
   Ouse with the rivers Derwent and Aire.
           In the Church, which is a neat Gothic structure, is the family vault
   of Lord Viscount Downe, in which his ancestors lay interred.
           At the west end of the town stands an old Hall, formerly the
   residence of the Yarburghs.  The country round is extremely flat and
   uninteresting, but abundantly fertile.  Flax is much cultivated in the
   neighbourhood.
 
SNAYGILL, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Skipton, liberty of Staincliffe;
   1 mile from Skipton, 9 from Keighley.
 
SNYDALL, in the parish of Normanton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of Thomas Hodson, Esq.) 3.5 miles from
   Pontefract, 6 from Wakefield.  --Pop 119.
 
SNOWDON-HILL, or SNODNELL, ham. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of
   Penistone, liberty of Pontefract; 2 miles from Penistone, 7 from Barnsley.
 
SNOWDON, UPPER, and LOWER, 2 ham. in the township and parish of Wistow, 5.5
   miles from Otley, 12 from Knaresborough.
 
SOFTLEY, f.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 4 miles
   from Penistone.

           A Farm at Softley, pays yearly to Godfrey Bosville, of Gunthwaite,
   Esq. a 'Whittle'.  --Blount.
 
SOOLBANK, ham. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; 5 miles from Dent, 11
   from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
 
SOOTHILL, UPPER and NETHER, in the parish of Dewsbury, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Dewsbury, 4 from
   Wakefield, 12 from Halifax.  --Pop. 3,099.  These are two villages, but one
   township.
 
SOUTH-CROSLAND, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Huddersfield, 12 from Halifax, 13
   from Penistone.  --Pop. 1,583.
 
SOUTHEY-GREEN, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 3 miles from
   Sheffield, 5 from Rotherham.

           This is a district or part of the parish, that has churchwardens and
   other officers appointed; but all collections and payments are made jointly -
   as the township of Ecclesfield.
 
SOUTHOWRAM, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Halifax, 7 from Huddersfield.  --Pop.
   4,256.

       Here is a Chapel to Halifax, built and consecrated, in 1819
 
SOUTH-WANG, f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill; 1.5 miles from
   Tickhill.
 
SOWERBY, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax, 9 from Huddersfield.  --Pop.
   6,890.  The Chapel, built in 1763, is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Peter, value, p.r. 78L.  Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.

           In this Chapel, is a state of Archbishop Tillotson, erected in
   compliance with the Will of his surviving grand-niece, upwards of thirty
   years ago.  The archbishop was born at Haugh-End, in this township.  --See
   p.307
           At Sowerby, was once a Castle, the foundation of which may yet be
   seen in a field near the top of the town, adjoining to which is piece of
   ground, called the Hell Croft, where, no doubt, the dead were buried.  It is
   not known at what time it was built, but it is clear, however, that during
   the possessions of the Earls of Warren, there was a Castle here, and that
   they frequently resorted hither for the diversions of hunting, hawking, &c.
   This was conveyed by John, the last Earl, to King Edward II.; but when the
   fort was suffered to decline, does not appear.  --Watson.
 
SOWERBY-BRIDGE, at the junction of the townships of Warley, Skircote, Sowerby,
   and Norland, in the parish of Halifax, Morley division of Agbrigg and Morley;
   2.25 miles from Halifax, 5 from Huddersfield, 13.75 from Rochdale, (Lanc.)
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. *144L. 17s.  Patron, the Vicar
   of Halifax.
 
SOWERBY-CROFT, f.h. in the township of Norland, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 3 miles from Halifax.
 
SOYLAND, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 10 from Huddersfield, 11 from
   Rochdale, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 3,242.
 
SOYLAND-MILL, a Mill, in the township of Soyland, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax.
 
SPACEY-HOUSES, 2 Inns, the one on the east-side of the road, is in the township
   and parish of Kirkby Overblow; the other on the west, in the township of
   Follyfoot, and parish of Spofforth, lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from
   Harewood, 6 from Knaresborough, 6.75 from Ripley, 12.5 from Leeds.
 
SPARK-HAGG, f.h. in the township and parish of Selby; 1.75 miles from Selby.
 
SPEN, ham. in the township of Gomersall, and parish of Birstall; 7.5 miles from
   Halifax, 8.5 from Leeds.
 
SPICER-HILL HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone;
   3 miles from Penistone.
 
SPINKSBURN, ham. in the township and parish of Fewston; 9.5 miles from
   Knaresborough, 14.5 from Skipton.

SPINK-WELL, ham. in the township and parish of Dewsbury, liberty of Wakefield;
   half a mile from Dewsbury, 6.5 from Wakefield.
 
SPITAL, s.h. in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearne; 5.5 miles from Rotherham, 7.5
   from Barnsley.
 
SPITAL-CROFT, f.h. in the township of Litton, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 8.5 miles from Kettlewell.
 
SPITAL-HILL, 2 f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill; 1 mile from
   Tickhill.

           This place has its name from an Hospital or Free-Chapel founded here,
   in 1326, having several priests and brethren in it.  It was afterwards
   annexed to the Priory of Humberston.  --Tanner.

SPOFFORTH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; 3 miles from Wetherby,
   4 from Knaresborough, 5 from Harrogate, 18 from York.  --Pop. 895.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty,
   value, 73L. 6s.8d.  Patron, the Earl of Egremont.

           Spofforth Castle is remarkable for having been, for several ages, the
   principal seat of the noble family of Percy; and still continues in the
   possession of one of its descendants, the Earl of Egremont.  This Castle is
   supposed to have been built in the time of Edward III. and is at present in a
   dilapidated state, but yet displays strong marks of a rude and grand mansion.
   After the battle of Towton, so fatal to Henry VI. in which were slain the
   Earl of Northumberland and Sir Richard Percy, his brother, their estates were
   laid waste by the enraged conquerors; and this Mansion was dismantled, and
   reduced from a princely palace to a heap of ruins.  --Archaeol.  --Hargrove.

           Here was born, Lawrence Eusden, a poet, and educated at Trinity
   College, Cambridge.  In 1718, he obtained the Laureatship, which raised him
   several enemies, particularly Pope, who placed him in the Dunciad.  His poems
   are in Nichols' Collection.  He died in 1730.  -Gen. Biog. Dict.
 
SPOFFORTH-HAGGS, or HAGSIDE, ham. in the township and parish of Spofforth; 4
   miles from Knaresborough.
 
SPRINGFIELD-HOUSE, (the seat John Mann, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Bradfield, to which it nearly adjoins.
 
SPRING-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Hartwith-with-Winsley, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 3.5 miles from Ripley.
 
SPRING-WOOD, (the seat of Joseph Haigh, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Huddersfield.
 
SPROTBROUGH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; (the seat of Sir Joseph Copley, Bart.) 3.5 miles from
   Doncaster, 12 from Barnsley, 39 from York.  --Pop. 318.  The Church is a
   rectory, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 44L. 18s.
   9d.  Patron, Sir Joseph Copley, Bart.

           This place is chiefly noted for having been the residence of the
   ancient family of Fitzwilliam.  Sir John Fitzwilliam, who lived here in the
   reign of Henry V. caused a Cross to be erected not far from the Church, with
   these lines engraved on brass :-
                    "Whoso is hungry, and liste to eate,
                    Let him come to Sprotborough to his meate;
                    And for a night, and for a day,
                    His horse shall have both corn and hay;
                    And no man shall ask him when he goeth away."
           In the Church, are several monuments of the Fitzwilliams and Copleys,
   who have been Lords of Sprotbrough for centuries.
           Sprotbrough-Hall was built by Sir Godfrey Copley, who was created a
   Baronet by King Charles II. in the 13th year of his reign.  It presents a
   handsome elevation of stone, in the style of that period, exhibiting a degree
   of magnificence, not seen in modern houses.  It contains a fine collection of
   pictures, procured by Sir Godfrey Copley.  Sir Godfrey left a sum of money to
   the Royal Society, the interest of which was to be disposed of to any person,
   who should make any new discovery in art or nature, or perform any other
   work, which should be thought worthy of that reward.  It is now changed into
   a medal.  --Hist. of Doncaster.
           Here was formerly the Hospital of St. Edmond, called St. Edmund's
   Chapel, about one mile and a half from the Church, founded by -----
   Fitzwilliam.  It has now been demolished some time, and the materials used to
   repair farm-houses and barns.  --Ibid.

STACK-HOUSE, ham. in the township and parish of Giggleswick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; (the seats of Mrs. Clapham, and Misses Lunds) 1 mile from
   Settle, 17 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)
 
STAINBROUGH, in the parish of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2.5 miles from Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone.  --Pop. 194.  Here
   is a Chapel of Ease to Silkstone.
 
STAINBURN, in the parish of Kirkby Overblow, upper-division of Claro; 4.75 miles
   from Otley, 9 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 364.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy under Kirkby Overblow.
 
STAINBURN-MOOR-SIDE, straggled h. in the township of Stainburn, and parish of
   Kirkby Overblow; 4.75 miles from Otley.
 
STAINCROSS, (which gives name to the wapentake) in the township and parish of
   Darton, wapentake of Staincross; 3.5 miles from Barnsley, 7 from Penistone
   and Wakefield.
 
STAINCROSS, a wapentake, which is bounded on the north and north-west by
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; on the east by Osgoldcross; on the
   south and south-east by Strafforth and Tickhill; and on the west by Cheshire.
   --The west part of this wapentake is extremely mountainous and bleak.  In it
   are the market-towns of Barnsley and Penistone.  It contains 40 townships, 8
   of which are parish-towns; 6,012 inhabited houses, and 32,942 inhabitants.
 
STAINFORTH, in the parish of Hatfield, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, a part in the liberty of St. Peter; 3.5 miles from Thorne, 7.5 from
   Doncaster.  --Pop. 694
 
STAINFORTH, GREAT, in the parish of Giggleswick, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 2.25 miles from Settle, 14 from Kettlewell, 21.75 from Askrigg.
   --Pop. 235.

           At this place, is a very beautiful Waterfall in the Ribble, called
   Stainforth Force.  Though on a smaller scale, it may be compared with the
   celebrated Force at Aysgarth: there are two or three other waterfalls upon Mr
   Forster's estate, one in particular, called Cataract Force.
 
STAINFORTH, LITTLE, or, KNIGHT-STAINFORTH, in the township of Great-Stainforth,
   and parish of Giggleswick, west division and liberty of Staincliffe; 2 miles
   from Settle, 14.5 from Kettlewell.

           From a petition to the Earl of Cumberland, among the Bolton MSS. it
   appears that some remains of personal slavery subsisted among the poor people
   here as late as the reign of Elizabeth.  --Whitaker.
 
STAINLAND, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax and Huddersfield.  --Pop. 2,814.

           At no great distance from Stainland, at a place called Slack, but
   within the township of Longwood, in the parish of Huddersfield, is the
   Cambodunum of Antoninus, as discovered by Mr. Watson, the antiquary of
   Halifax.  Particulars of which may be found in his history, and in Loidis et
   Elmete.
 
STAINLEY, NORTH, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 3
   miles from Ripon, 7 from Masham, 10 from Bedale.  --Pop. including
   Sleningford, 285, which being united form a township.
 
STAINLEY, SOUTH, a parish town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 2.75 miles from Ripley, 5 from Ripon, 7 from Knaresborough, 25
   from York.  --Pop. including Cayton, 232, which being united form a township.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of
   Chester, value, p.r. !61L.  Patrons, Horner Reynard, Esq. and the Heirs of
   the late Mrs. Gibson.
 
STAINCLIFFE-HALL; (the seat of Miss Taylor,) in the township and parish of
   Batley; 2 miles from Dewsbury, 8 from Wakefield.
 
STAINCLIFFE, a wapentake, and the largest in this Riding, but not so populous,
   by reason of its mountainousness in the north-west parts.  It is bounded on
   the east, by the wapentake of Claro; the south, and West, by Lancashire; and
   by the wapentake of Ewcross on the north.  It has three market-towns,
   -Skipton, Settle, and Gisburn.  The east-division contains 45, and the West,
   42 townships; 21 of which are parishes; 10,000 inhabited houses, and 51,416
   inhabitants.  Staincliffe comprehends the whole of that district called
   Craven; -but the deanry of Craven extends beyond the wapentake.
 
STAINTON, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2.5
   miles from Tickhill, 6.5 from Bawtry, 9 from Rotherham, 45 from York.  --Pop.
   including Hellaby, 218, which being united form a township.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated, to St. Winifred, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +5L.
   15s. 0d. p.r. !80L.  Patron, the Earl of Scarborough.
 
STAINTON-COTES, f.h. in the township of Bank-Newton, and parish of Gargrave,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 7 miles from Skipton.

STAIRFOOT, ham. in the township of Ardsley, and parish of Darfield; 2 miles from
   Barnsley, 8 from Penistone.

STANBURY, in the township of Haworth, and parish of Bradford; 7 miles from
   Keighley, 8.5 from Bradford.
 
STAND-BRIDGE, 3 or 4 h. in the township and parish of Sandal Magna; 3 miles from
   Wakefield, 7 from Barnsley.
 
STANSFIELD, a township, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 8 miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 12 from Halifax.
   --Pop. 7,275.
         In the same township and parish is:-
 
STANSFIELD-HALL, (the seat of John Sutcliffe, Esq.) Stansfield-Hall is situated
   in a very beautiful part of the valley of Todmorden.  Here lived a family of
   considerable repute, who took their name from their situation.  The original
   of them was one Wyan Marmions, probably of Norman extraction, and a follower
   of Earl Warren.

           In Stansfield, are many Druidical places of worship, such as
   Hawkstones, Bride-Stones, &c. the last consists of one upright stone or
   pillar; called the Bride, whose perpendicular height is about five yards, its
   diameter in the thickest part about three, and the pedestal about half a
   yard; near this stood another large stone, called the Groom, which is now
   thrown down by the country people; and at small distances several others, of
   different magnitudes, and a vast variety of rocks and stones, so scattered
   about the common, that at first view, the whole looks something like a temple
   of the serpentine kind, described by the late Dr. Stukeley.  --Watson

STANK-HOUSE f.h. in the township of Bolton-Abbey, and parish of Skipton; 6
   miles from Skipton.
 
STANK-HOUSE, s.h. in the township and parish of Barwick in Elmet; 3 miles from
   Abberford, 7 from Leeds.
 
STANKS, ham. in the township and parish of Barwick-In-Elmet; 5.5 miles from
   Leeds.
 
STANLEY, in the parish of Wakefield, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 1.5 miles from Wakefield, 8 from Leeds, 14 from
   Huddersfield.  --Pop. including Wrenthorpe, 4,620, which being united form a
   township.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Wakefield, building.

           Here is the Field, famed in ancient story, where, "all on the Green,"
   Robin Hood, Little John, and Scarlet, fought the Pinder of Wakefield; the
   place is yet called Pinder's Field.  Here was a Roman station, where several
   Roman coins have, at different times been found.
 
STANLEY-HALL, (the seat of Benjamin Heywood, Esq.) in the township of
   Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe, and parish of Wakefield, liberty of Wakefield; 1.5
   miles from Wakefield, 6.5 from Leeds.
 
STANNINGLEY, in the townships of Calverley-with-Farsley, Pudsey, and Bramley,
   and parishes of Calverley and Leeds, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley;
   4 miles from Bradford, 6 from Leeds.
 
STANNINGTON, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Sheffield, 12 from
   Penistone.

           This is only the name of an extensive tract of high ground declining
   on the north to the river Loxley, and on the south to the Riveling; there
   being, properly speaking, no village of Stannington, the principal collection
   of houses being known as upper-Gate and Nether-Gate.  Here is a School,
   endowed in 1723, with 40L. for which five children were to be taught, to be
   chosen by Francis Rouksley, of Rivelingside.  --Hunter's Hallamshire.
 
STANSILL, 2 f.h. in the parish of Tickhill, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 2 miles from Tickhill, 7 from Doncaster, 10
   from Rotherham.  --Pop. including Wellingley and Wilsick, 54, which being
   united, form a township.
 
STAPLETON, a township, in the parish of Darrington, wapentake of Osgoldcross,
   liberty of Pontefract; (Stapleton-Park, the seat of the Hon. Edward Robert
   Petre) 4 miles from Ferrybridge, 4.5 from Pontefract, 12 from Doncaster.
   --Pop. 109.

           This Mansion stands in a large and beautiful Park, watered by a
   stream that falls into the river Went, in the midst of the most fertile part
   of the county, bounded by an expanded range of distant hills; it was built by
   Edward Lascelles Esq. afterwards Earl of Harewood, and in which the present
   Earl of Harewood was born.  The centre of the principal front is ornamented
   with four Ionic columns supporting a pediment.  The whole building is of
   stone, and is now entered by a handsome doric portico, lately added.  In the
   Chapel, which is particularly neat, is an admirable Painting of the
   Crucifixion; and in the Library, is a Portrait of the great Lord Petre, by
   Romney; also one of Lady Petre, by Gainsborough; the father and mother of the
   present proprietor, the Hon. Lord Petre.  --Neale's Views.
 
STARBECK, ham. in the township of Bilton-with-High-Harrogate, and parish of
   Knaresborough; 2 miles from Knaresborough.
 
STARBOTTOM, in the parish of Kettlewell, liberty of Staincliffe; 2 miles from
   Kettlewell, 15 from Leyburn, 17 from Settle.  --Pop. included in Kettlewell.
 
STAVELEY, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 3 miles from Boroughbridge, 4 from Knaresborough, 7 from
   Ripon, 20 from York.  --Pop. 331.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to
   All-Saints, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value,
   8L. 17s. 7d.   Patron, the Rev. James Hartley,- the present Rector.
 
STEAD, f.h. in the township of Upper-Hoyland, and parish of Wath-upon-Dearne;
   5.5 miles from Barnsley.
 
STEAN, ham in the township of Lower-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 9
   miles from Pateley Bridge, 10 from Kettlewell.
 
STEEL-BANK, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield; 1.5
   miles from Sheffield.
 
STEETON, (Ainsty) in the parish of Bolton-Percy; 3 miles from Tadcaster, 7 from
   York.  --Pop. 83.

           Steeton hath for some ages been the seat of the ancient and
   honourable family of Fairfax.  It was, by the Conquerors survey, in the
   possession of Osbern de Arches.  Sir John Chamont, knight, was owner of the
   greatest part of the lands here, in the reign of Edward III. and had issue
   two daughters -Joan, who was a nun, and Margaret, married to William, Lord
   Mowbray.  In this manor was anciently five carucates and a half of land;
   whereof Richard de Steeton, held four and a half of Walter de Falconbridge;
   who held the same of the heirs of Brus, and they of the Barons Mowbray; who
   held them of the King, in capite, at the annual rent of seven-pence
   halfpenny.  Another carucate was of the fee of Percy, as of his baronry of
   Spofford; whereof, the Abbot of St. Mary's at York, held the one half, and
   the Prioress of Appleton the other.  It became, afterwards, the seat, of Sir
   Guy Fairfax, knight; one of the judges of the King's Bench, in the times of
   Edward IV. and Henry VII. --Drake.  It hath ever since continued in a younger
   branch of his family.
 
STEETON, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe;
   (Steeton-Hall, the seat of William Sugden, Esq.) 2 miles from Keighley, 7
   from Skipton, 11 from Colne, (Lanc.) --Pop. including Eastburn, 753 which
   being united, form a township.
 
STEETON-HALL, f.h. in the township of South-Millforth, and parish of Sherburn; 8
   miles from Pontefract and Tadcaster.  It was formerly the seat of the Rygate
   family.
 
STEPHEN-PARK, f.h. in the township of Easington, and parish of Slaidburn; 10
   miles from Settle, 18 from Skipton.
 
STIRK-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Gisburn, west division and
   liberty of Staincliffe; 1.5 mile from Gisburn.
 
STIRTON, in the parish of Skipton, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 1.5
   miles, from Skipton, 12 from Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. including Thorlby, 168,
   which being united, form a township.

STOCKDALE, ham. in the township of Settle, and parish of Giggleswick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 2 miles from Settle.  It pays poor rates to Settle, and church
   rates to Stainforth.
 
STOCK, in the township and parish of Bracewell, east-division of Staincliffe,
   liberty of Clifford's-Fee; 5.5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.) 9.5 from Skipton.
 
STOCKBRIDGE, ham. in the township of Bentley-with-Arksey, and parish of Arksey,
   liberty of Tickhill; 2.5 miles from Doncaster.
 
STOCKELD, in the township and parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro;
   (Stockeld-Hall, the seat of Peter Middleton, Esq.) 2 miles from Wetherby, 6
   from Knaresborough.  --Pop. of the Constabulary of Stockeld, 69.

           The ancient family of Middleton is descended from Hippolitus de
   Brame, Lord of Middleton, who was living in the reign of Henry II.  Robert de
   Brame had issue, Sir Peter, who was the first of the family that took the
   name of Middleton; he had issue, Sir Adam, who was living in the year 1324.
   A statue of this knight, in armour, is in the Church at Ilkley.  Sir Peter
   Middleton was High-Sheriff of the County of York, in 1334.  Sir William
   Middleton of Stockeld, was High-Sheriff, in 1526.  --Hist. Knaresborough.
 
STOCKS, ham. in the township of Easington, and parish of Slaidburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 9 miles from Settle.
 
STOCKWELL-GREEN.  -See Rand-Moor.
 
STONE, ham. in the township and parish of Maltby; 3 miles from Tickhill, 6 from
   Bawtry, 8 from Rotherham.
 
STONEBECK, UPPER and DOWN, two townships, in the parish of Kirkbymalzeard,
   lower-division of Claro; the former is on the north-side of the river Nidd,
   containing 568 inhabitants; the latter on the south-side, containing 361;
   commences about 5 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
STONE-BREAKS, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 8
   miles from Rochdale.
 
STONE-GAP, s.h. in the township of Glusburn, and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4.5 miles from Skipton.
 
STONER-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Selby; 1.25 miles from Selby,
   7.75 from Snaith.
 
STONE-ROYD, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkheaton; 5 miles from
   Huddersfield, 9 from Wakefield.
 
STONE-STYLE, ham. in the township of Calverley-with-Farsley, and parish of
   Calverley; 2.5 miles from Bradford.
 
STONESHAW-GATE, (the seat of Gamalial Sutcliffe, Esq.) in the township of
   Heptonstall, and parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 9
   miles from Halifax.

STONE-TROUGH, ham. in the township of Kellbrook, and parish of Thornton, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 2.5 miles from Colne. (Lanc.)
 
STONEY-BANK, 2 f.h. in the township of Easington, and parish of Slaidburn,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 9 miles from Settle.
 
STONEY-ROYD, (the seat of Mrs. Rawson) in the township of Southowram, and parish
   of Halifax; 1 mile from Halifax.
 
STOODLEY, s.h. in the township of Langfield and parish of Halifax; 11 miles from
   Halifax.
 
STORITHES, in the township of Hazelwood-with-Storithes, and parish of Skipton,
   lower-division of Claro; 7 miles from Skipton, 13 from Pateley Bridge, 17.5
   from Knaresborough.  --Pop. included in Hazelwood.
 
STORRS, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 7 miles
   from Sheffield, 11 from Penistone.
 
STORRS, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3 miles from Penistone,
   5.5 from Barnsley.
 
STORTHES-HALL, (the seat of Charles Horsfall Bill, Esq.) in the township, of
   Thurstonland, and parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and
   Morley; 5.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
STORTH, f.h. in the township of Newton, and parish of Slaidburn; 6.5 miles from
   Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 10 from Gisburn.
 
STOTFOLD, in the parish of Hooton-Pagnall, lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; 7 miles from Doncaster, 8.5 from Barnsley.  --Pop 9.  The township
   consists only of one house.
 
STOTT-HILL, ham. in the township of Cowling, and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Colne, (Lanc.)
 
STRAINDS, f.h. in the township of Denby, and parish of Penistone; 3.5 miles from
   Penistone.
 
STRAFFORTH and TICKHILL, the southernmost, as well as the most extensive
   wapentake in this County; being bounded by the counties of Derby, Nottingham,
   and Lincoln, on the south-west and east; and by the wapentakes of Osgoldcross
   and Staincross, on the north.  It contains four market-towns, Doncaster,
   Rotherham, Bawtry, and Sheffield, also Tickhill, the market of which is
   almost disused; 100 townships, 49 of which are parish-towns; 27,369 houses,
   occupied by 132,640 inhabitants, which includes the liberty or soke of
   Doncaster.
 
STRAW-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Sutton, and parish of Ripon; 1.5 miles from
   Ripon.
 
STREET-HOUSES, 2 f.h. in the township of Snydall, and parish of Normanton; 4
   miles from Pontefract, 5 from Wakefield.
 
STREET-HOUSES, (Ainsty) ham. in the townships of Steeton and Bilbrough, and
   parishes of Bolton-Percy and Bilbrough; 4 miles from Tadcaster, 6 from York.

           The situation of this hamlet near the Roman road, leading from York
   to Tadcaster, occasioned its name.  All the Roman roads, being firmly paved
   with stone, were called streets, as Watling-Street, &c.  Stratum, is the word
   made use of by Venerable Bede, quite through his work, to denote a Roman
   road. --Drake.
 
STREET-FARM, or LODGE, f.h. in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearne; 6 miles from
   Rotherham and Barnsley.
 
STREETSIDE, ham. in the townships of Ossett and Soothill, and parish of
   Dewsbury, liberty of Wakefield; 1.5 mile from Dewsbury.
 
STREET-THORPE, ham. in the township and parish of Kirk-Sandal; (Street-Thorpe
   Hall, the seat of George Parker, Esq.) 4 miles from Doncaster, 8.5 from
   Thorne.

           George Cooke Yarborough Esq. built here, about fifty years ago, a
   handsome Mansion, in which he used to reside.  This place was formerly in the
   possession of the Swift family, whose old mansion is still remaining.
   --Hist. Doncaster.
 
STRIDE-COTTAGE, f.h. in the township of Bolton, and parish of Skipton; 6.5 miles
   from Skipton.
 
STRINDS, s.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 6 miles
   from Sheffield, 11 from Penistone.
 
STUBBING, f.h. in the township and parish of Rawmarsh; 3.5 miles from Rotherham.
 
STUBBS-HALL, f.h. in the township of Hampole, and parish of South-Kirkby; 7
   miles from Doncaster, 9.5 from Pontefract.  --Pop. included in Hampole.
 
STUBBS-WALDEN, in the parish of Womersley, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 7 miles from Pontefract and Ferrybridge.  --Pop. 158.
 
STUBHAM-LODGE, f.h. in the township of Middleton, and parish of Ilkley; 7 miles
   from Otley, 9 from Skipton.
 
STUDFIELD, ham. in the township and parish of Horton; 5 miles from Settle, 17
   from Hawes.
 
STUDFOLD, ham. in the township of Lower-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard;
   8 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
STUDLEY-ROGER, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 1.5
   miles from Ripon, 7.5 from Boroughbridge, 8 from Ripley.  --Pop. 144.

STUDLEY-ROYAL, extra parochial; (the seat of Mrs. Lawrence)

           The celebrated Park and Pleasure Grounds here, have long been admired
   as the first in the north of England, and which are visited by many hundreds
   every season.  They consist of about 650 acres, diversified by various
   inequalities, clothed with large and beautiful timber, and well stocked with
   deer.  The views are many and grand.  Ripon and its Minster are seen to great
   advantage.  It is fall of lofty hedges, which are neatly trimmed, and the
   waters, which are numerous, are kept within borders, "shaven with the scythe,
   and levelled with the roller," and lined with statue, and refreshed with
   cascades.  These grounds were begun to be laid out about the year 1720.
           The Mansion-House, which is large and spacious, is highly finished
   and well protected by stately woods, and ornamented with numerous paintings
   by the first masters.
           No fanciful description can do justice to the exuberant distribution
   of nature and art, which surrounds one on every side, on entering these
   beautiful and enchanting grounds; the mind can never cease to wonder, in
   contemplating nor the eye tire in beholding them.
           The first of the name of Aislabie who possessed this enchanting
   place, was George Aislabie, Esq. principal Registrar in the Ecclesiastical
   Court at York, who died in 1674.  He married Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir
   John Mallorie; Sir John's son dying under age, he became master of his
   fortune.  His son John was Mayor of Ripon, in 1702, and Chancellor of the
   Exchequer, in 1718; he died in 1742, and his son William, in 1781.  Being no
   male issue, the estates descended to his two daughters; the eldest was widow
   of Charles Allanson, Esq.  On her death in 1808, it descended to the wife of
   William Lawrence, Esq. whose daughter is the present possessor.
           In these grounds stand the Ruin's of Fountains-Abbey, the grandest,
   and most beautiful, perhaps, the kingdom can produce, and which give an
   additional interest to the unequalled grounds of Studley.  --See article,
   Fountain's-Abbey.
 
STUMP-CROSS, ham. in the township of Morley, and parish of Batley, liberty of
   Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Dewsbury.
 
STUMPER LOW-HALL, s.h. in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of
   Sheffield; 3 miles from Sheffield.
 
STURTON-GRANGE, a township, in the parish of Abberford, lower-division of
   Skyrack; 3 miles from Abberford, 8 from Leeds, 11 from Tadcaster.  --Pop. 92.
 
STUTTON, in the parish of Tadcaster, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 1 mile from
   Tadcaster, 11 from Ferrybridge, 13 from Pontefract.  --Pop. including
   Hazelwood, 256, which being united, form a township.
 
SUMMER-SCALES, ham. in the township of Beamsley, and parish of Skipton; 7 miles
   from Skipton, 16 from Knaresborough.
 
SUMMER-CROFT, s.h. in the township of Long-Drax, and parish of Drax; 5 miles
   from Selby.
 
SUNLEY-RAINS, f.h. in the township of Studley-Roger, and parish of Ripon; 1.5
   miles from Ripon.
 
SUTTON, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 2 miles
   from Ripon, 8 from Masham.  --Pop. 86.
 
SUTTON, in the parish of Brotherton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St.
   Peter and Pontefract; 1 mile from Ferrybridge, 3 from Pontefract, 12 from
   Tadcaster.  --Pop. 74.
 
SUTTON, in the parish of Kildwick, east-division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Clifford's-Fee; 5 miles from Keighley and Skipton, 9 from Colne, (Lanc.)
   --Pop. 1,092.
 
SUTTON, in the parishes of Campsall and Burghwallis, wapentake of Osgoldcross,
   liberty of Pontefract; 7 miles from Doncaster, 11 from Ferrybridge.  --Pop.
   145.
 
SUTTON-GRANGE, f.h. in the township of Sutton, and parish of Ripon; 2 miles from
   Ripon.
 
SWALLOW-HILL, ham. in the township and parish of Darton; 2.5 miles from
   Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone.
 
SWAITHE-HALL, f.h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 2
   miles from Barnsley.
 
SWARCLIFFE, a district, in the township of Birstwith, and parish of
   Hawpsthwaite, lower-division of Claro, liberty of Knaresborough;
   (Swarcliffe-Hall, the seat of ----- Greenwood, Esq,) 3.5 miles from Ripley,
   8.5 from Knaresborough.
 
SWARTHEY, ham. in the township of Silsden, and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4.5 miles from Keighley.

SWETTON, 4 f.h. in the township of Laverton, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 5
   miles from Masham, 9.5 from Ripon.

SWIFT-PLACE, f.h. in the township of Soyland, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 6.5 miles from Halifax.

SWILLINGTON, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Swillington-Hall, the seat of John Lowther, Esq.) 6 miles from
   Leeds, 8 from Pontefract and Wakefield, 20 from York.  --Pop. 510.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to Saint Mary, in the deanry of the Ainsty,
   value, 16L. 1s. 8d.  Patron, John Lowther, Esq.

           In this Church, which is a uniform and decent structure, of rather
   late Gothic architecture, are a number of monumental inscriptions to the
   Lowthers, a family that has long been its Patron.  Here are four Alms-Houses,
   founded by Sir William Lowther in 1728.
 
SWINDEN, in the parish of Gisburn, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4.5 miles from Gisburn, 7 from Settle, 8 from Skipton,
   17 from Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop. 37.
 
SWINDON, and SWINDON-WALLS, 2 f.h. in the township of Langsett, and parish of
   Penistone, liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Penistone.
 
SWINDON, scatt. f.h. in the township of Kirkby Overblow-with-Swindon, and parish
   of Kirkby Overblow, liberty of Knaresborough, upper-division of Claro; 7
   miles from Wetherby and Knaresborough, 9 from Otley.  --Pop. included in
   Kirkby Overblow.

SWINDON-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Kirkby Overblow-with-Swindon; 7
   miles from Wetherby.
 
SWINE-LANE-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Purston-Jackling, and parish of
   Featherstone; 1.5 miles from Pontefract.
 
SWINE-FLEET, in the parish Whitgift, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Howden, 10 from Snaith and Crowle, (Linc.)  The
   Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !93L. 18s. 8d.
 
SWINNOW-PARK, (a seat of Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.) in the township of
   Wetherby, and parish of Spofforth, upper-division of Claro, 1.5 miles from
   Wetherby, 7 from Tadcaster.
 
SWINSBY-HALL, f.h. in the township of Little-Timble, and parish of Otley; 6
   miles from Otley.

SWINTON, in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearne, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 8 from Doncaster.
   --Pop. 1,050.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. !132L. 10s.  Patron, the Vicar of Wath.

           The Chapel of Swinton is small, and has, besides the highly enriched
   door, a fine Saxon Arch, separating the nave of the Chapel from the chancel
   end.  The south entrance to this Chapel, like many other Saxon remains, is
   ornamented with a variety of zigzag mouldings, and one of nondescript heads,
   which has among them two radiant roses, remarkable for being so placed.  The
   capitals of the pillars, of which there are three on each side of the door,
   leading into the Church, are variously ornamented.  -Antiquarian Itinerary.
           (Late note: The chapel has been recently re-built, but whether the
   Saxon doorway has been destroyed or not, we have not heard.)
           Two farms, lying in this township, which belong to Earl Fitzwilliam,
   every year change their parish, for one year from Easter-day at twelve at
   noon, till next Easter-day at the same hour, they lie in the parish of
   Mexbrough; and then till Easter-day following, at the same hour, they are in
   the parish of Wath-upon-Dean, and so alternately.  -Blount's Tenures.  These
   farms consist of about 302 acres.  --Ed.
 
SWITHIN, f.h. in the township of Kexbrough, and parish of Darton; 5 miles from
   Barnsley, 6.5 from Penistone.
 
SYKE-HOUSE, a township, in the parish of Fishlake, lower-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; 3 miles from Thorne, 7 from Snaith, 11 from Doncaster.  --Pop.
   551.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Fishlake.
 
SYKES, f.h. in the township of Bowland-Forest, higher, and parish of Slaidburn;
   10 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)
 
SYKES, 2 f.h. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard;
   7 miles from Pateley Bridge, 9 from Masham.
 
SYM-HILL, f.h. in the township and parish of Silkstone; 3 miles from Penistone.
 
SYNINGTHWAITE, (Ainsty) f.h. in the township and parish of Bilton; 4 miles from
   Wetherby, 5 from Tadcaster.

           A Nunnery of the Cistercian Order, dedicated to St. Mary, the virgin,
   was founded here about the year 1160, by Bertram de Haget, who gave the place
   where the Monastery stood.  Catherine Forster, the fourteenth and last
   Prioress, surrendered this convent; at which time, their annual revenue
   amounted, according to Dugdale, to 60L. 9s. 2d.; Speed, 62L. 6s.  The site,
   in the 30th Henry VIII. was granted to Sir Thomas Tempest, Knight.  --Burton.

TADCASTER, a market and parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash and
   Ainsty, a part in the liberty of St. Peter; 6 miles from Abberford, 7 from
   Wetherby, 10 from York, 12 from Ferrybridge, 12.5 from Selby, 14 from
   Pontefract, 15 from Leeds, 190 from London.  --Market, Wednesday.  --Fairs,
   last Wednesday in April, May, September, and October, for horned cattle,
   sheep, pigs, &c.  --Principal Inns, White Horse, Rose and Crown, and the
   Angel. --Pop. 1,651, --the Ainsty, 775.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated
   to St. Mary, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +8L. 4s. 9d.  Patron, the
   Earl of Egremont.

           Tadcaster, a clean well-built town, stands on both sides of the river
   Wharfe, upon the high-road to London; and although it is not a place of much
   trade, the thoroughfare gives it an appearance of liveliness and bustle.

           This town is supposed to have been the Calcaria of the Romans; as the
   distance from York, exactly corresponds with that given by Antoninus in his
   Itinerary.  Many coins of the Roman Emperors have been found here; and the
   place is still famous for its limestone.  Here was formerly a castle; from
   the ruins of which the present noble bridge was erected, near 100 years ago.
   --The middle of this bridge, is the out-bounds of the Ainsty; and may be said
   to be the very out-post or gate of the city of York on that side.

           The trench, which surrounded the town, and of which there are still
   some remains, was probably thrown up during the civil wars of Charles I. by
   the troops under The Earl of Newcastle.

           Sir Thomas Fairfax relates, that, on his hearing the Earl, with 4,000
   men, was advancing to attack him in Tadcaster, where he lay with only 900
   men, the town being quite untenable, he marched out; and a sharp conflict
   took place, which lasted from 11 o'clock in the forenoon, till it was quite
   dark, when both parties drew off.  Sir Thomas retreated to Selby, during the
   night; and the Earl of Newcastle took possession of Tadcaster, where the
   royalists remained, till near the commencement of the siege of York.  There
   were slain, on both sides, about 300, but none of note, except Capt. Lister,
   who was shot in the head by a musket-ball.  In Thoresby's Ducatus Leod.
   there is a remarkable instance of filial affection, relating to that
   gentleman.  -His son passing through Tadcaster many years after, had the
   curiosity to enquire where his father was buried; and, finding the sexton
   digging in the choir, he shewed him a skull, just dug up, which he averred to
   be his father's; the skull, upon handling, was found to have a bullet in it;
   which testimony of the truth of the sexton's words, so struck the son, that
   he sickened at the sight, and died soon after.

           The neighbourhood of this town, is particularly remarkable for the
   bloody field of Towton, the Pharsalia of England.  --See Towton.
 
TAME, NEW, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 7
   miles from Rochdale.
 
TAME, OLD, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 6
   miles from Rochdale.
 
TAME, WATER, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 0.25
   miles from Dobcross.
 
TANKERSLEY, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley, 6.5 from Rotherham, 7 from Penistone, 43
   from York.  --Pop. 625.  The Church, is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, 26L. 0s. 2.5d.  Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam.
 
TANSHELF, in the parish of Pontefract, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract.  --Pop. 356.  Adjoins Pontefract on the west.
 
TAPTON-GROVE, (the seat of William Shore, Esq.) in the township of Upper-Hallam,
   and parish of Sheffield; 1.5 miles from Sheffield.
 
TEMPLE-HURST, in the parish of Birkin, wapentake of Barkston-Ash; 4 miles from
   Snaith, 5 from Selby, 7 from Ferrybridge.  --Pop. 141.
 
TEMPLE-NEWSAM, in the parish of Whitkirk, lower-division of Skyrack; 4.5 miles
   from Leeds, 8 from Wakefield, 9 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 1,166.

           Here formerly stood a Preceptory for Knights Templars, whence it
   derives its name of Temple-Newsam, being called in Domesday only Neshusum.
   After the suppression of the Knights Templars, it was granted by Edward III.
   together with Temple-Hirst, to Sir John Darcy, and his heirs male; in whose
   descendants it remained until the time of Thomas, Lord Darcy, on whose
   attainder, for the active part which he took in the Pilgrimage of Grace,
   became forfeited to the Crown.  Henry VIII. granted it to Matthew, Earl of
   Lenox, who resided here at the birth of his celebrated, but unhappy son,
   Henry, Lord Darnley, husband of Mary Queen of Scots, and father of James I.
   On the death of the Duke of Lenox, it came into to the possession of James I.
   who conferred the same upon his kinsman, Esme Stuart, Duke of Richmond.  The
   Duke sold it to Sir Arthur Ingram, son of a wealthy citizen of London, and
   founder of the Irvine Peerage, who pulled down the old house, and built the
   present magnificent structure on its site.  The old house, was not however
   completely demolished, for Thoresby asserts that the identical apartment, in
   which Lord Darnley was born, remained in his time, and was distinguished by
   the name of the King's Chamber.  It is now the property of the Marquis of
   Hertford, in consequence of his marriage with Isabella Ann Ingram Shepherd,
   the eldest daughter of Charles, the 10th Viscount Irvine.  The last Viscount
   Irvine died here in 1807.

           "In the window of the Kitchen," says Dr. Whitaker, "is a long and
   curious series of armorial hearings, from the Lacies, the first lords of this
   place, down to the Ingrams."  This house boasts a fine collection of
   Pictures, by the most eminent masters, the Gallery for which is 119 feet
   long, and above 20 wide.  Thoresby.  --Neale.
 
TENTERGATE, in the township of Scriven-with-Tentergate, and adjoins
   Knaresborough.
 
THACKLEY, ham. in the township of Idle, and parish of Calverley; 3.75 miles from
   Bradford, 6.5 from Otley.
 
THEABER, s.h. in the township of Burton-in-Lonsdale, and parish of Thornton-in-
   Lonsdale; 2.5 miles from Ingleton.
 
THICK-HOLLINS, (the seat of Joseph Green Armitage, Esq.) in the township of
   Meltham, and parish of Almondbury; 5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
THONG-NETHER, or NETHER-THONG, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Huddersfield, 10 from
   Peniston.  --Pop. 927.
 
THONG, UPPER, in the parish of Almondbury, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 10 from Penistone.
   --Pop. 1,437.

THORNING-HIRST, f.h. in the township and parish of Fishlake; 4 miles from
   Thorne, 7.5 from Snaith.
 
THORLBY, in the township of Stirton-with-Thorlby, and parish of Skipton,
   east-division of Staincliffe; 2 miles from Skipton, 11 from Colne, (Lanc.) 14
   from Settle.  --Pop. included in Stirton.

THORNBER-HOUSE, s.h. in the township of West-Halton, and parish of Long-Preston,
   liberty of Staincliffe; 7.5 miles from Settle.

THORNBOROUGH-HILL, s.h. in the township and parish of Maltby; 3 miles from
   Tickhill.
 
THORNBOROUGH, NORTH, f.h. in the township and parish of Allerton-Mauleverer; 5
   miles from Knaresborough.

THORNCLIFFE, ham. in the township and parish of Kirkburton; 6 miles from
   Huddersfield, 8.5 from Wakefield.
 
THORNE, a market and parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; (the seats of Henry Ellison, and R. Pemberton Milnes, Esqrs.) 6
   miles from Crowle (Lanc.) 7 from Snaith, 11 from Doncaster, 13.25 from
   Howden, 14 from Bawtry, 30 from York, 170 from London.  --Market, Wednesday.
   --Fairs, Monday and Tuesday after June 11, and Monday and Tuesday after
   October 11, for horned cattle, woollen cloth, &c.  --Principal Inns, White
   Hart, Red Lion, Granby's Head, and Royal Oak.  --Pop. 3,463.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. Nicholas, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, p.r. !72L.  Patron, Lord Deerhurst, in right of his wife.

           This place is pleasantly situated in a fruitful country, about a
   quarter of a mile from the south bank of the Don.  Since the cutting of the
   Stainforth Canal, near the side of the town, the trade has considerably
   increased, and vessels now trade regularly from this town to London.

           The Castle, named by Leland, vol.  I. page 38, is no more, and no
   traces remain, except the foundation on the hill on which it stood.  The
   place now bears the name of "Pill-Hill:" and is the property of John Benson,
   Esq. who lately bared the foundations; the top of them was found to be from
   four to five feet thick of cement, &c.; the diameter of the summit about
   twenty-six yards, and the base about twice that number.
           In the marshes, near Thorne, great numbers of oak trees have been
   found, which appear to have been cut down and sunk in the marsh; wedges and
   broken axe-heads, fir cones, acorns, and nuts, with some Roman coins of
   Vespasian and other Emperors.  From the position of the trees, and other
   circumstances, it is evident they grew where they were found, and were
   probably cut down by the Romans, who took that method to prevent the
   continued depredations the Britons made upon them, from their thick woods and
   impenetrable marshes - intercepting their provisions, and killing their
   convoys.  --Peck.
           Of this Church, which is a good Gothic building, the Rev. Abraham de
   Ia Pryme, F.R.S. was minister, he died here, and was buried at Hatfield in
   1704, aged 34: amongst his MSS. is a history of Ripon, (now in Lord
   Shelburne's library) with Selby, Doncaster, and the West-Riding, 1 vol.
   --Peck.
           Here is a Free-School, founded by Henry Travis in 1706, value in 1786
   34L. 16s. 4d. which arises out of two farms, situated in the Levels.

THORNE-QUAY, or WHARFE, in the township and parish of Thorne; 0.75 of a mile
   from Thorne.

           Vessels of a sufficiently large size for the coasting trade, are
   built here, on the banks of the river, the landing place for merchandise; and
   where a considerable trade is carried on in coals, timber, iron, &c.
 
THORNER, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract;
   7 miles from Tadcaster and Wetherby, 8 from Leeds, 16 from York.  --Pop. 708.
   The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of the
   Ainsty, value, +8L. 3s. 4d. p.r. 147L. 10s.  Patron, the King.
 
THORNHILL, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Dewsbury, 6 from Wakefield, 9.5 from Huddersfield,
   35 from York.  --Pop. 1,932, the Church is a rectory, dedicated to St.
   Michael, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 40L.  Patron, the Hon. and Rev.
   J. Lumley Saville.

           Thornhill stands on an eminence, on the south side of the Calder,
   commanding extensive views up and down the vale of that name.  It is
   memorable for the long residence of a family distinguished in the public
   concerns of the County of York.  In the time of Henry III. it was the seat of
   the knightly family of Thornhills, who intermarried with the De Fixbys and
   Babthorpes in the reigns of Edward I. and II.  And in that of Edward III.
   became united with the Savilles of Dodworth, near Barnsley.  The Savilles
   remained here till the civil wars of Charles I. when the house was besieged,
   (having been previously fortified by Sir William Saville, the third baronet
   of this family) taken, and demolished by the forces of Parliament.  Of the
   small fragment that remains, which appears to be about the time of Henry VII.
   an engraving is given in Whitaker's Loidis at Elmete.  On the north side of
   the choir in the Church is the chapel of the Savilles, which boasts of a
   noble collection of monuments to that ancient family; amongst them is a rare
   one of Oak, upon the table of which are three statues of the same material,
   commemorating Sir John Savile and his two wives.  --On the fillet is this
   rude inscription,
                        Bonys emong Stony, lyes here ful styl,
                        Quilst the Sawle wanders wher God wyl,
                        Anno Dni. MCCCCCXXIX

           Sir George Saville, Bart. many years representative in Parliament for
   this county, was the last surviving male descendant of this ancient family.
   He died Jan. 9, 1784, and was buried among the ancestors, at Thornhill,
   having devised his estates to the second son of his sister Barbara, who
   married Richard Lumley Sanderson, afterwards Earl of Scarborough.
           The windows in this Church were once highly ornamented with stained
   glass, of which there are some remains: a particular and interesting account
   of which, and other information respecting this place, may be seen in
   Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete.
           Here is a free Grammar School, founded by the Rev. Charles Greenwood,
   M.A. Rector, in the reign a Charles I. and a free School, founded in 1812, by
   Mr. Richard Walker.
 
THORNHILL-LEES, ham. in the township and parish of Thornhill, liberty of
   Pontefract; 1.75 miles from Dewsbury.
 
THORNHILLS, in the township of Hartshead-with-Clifton, and parish of Dewsbury,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 4.5 miles from
   Halifax, 6 from Dewsbury.
 
THORNS-HALL, s.h. in the township and parish of Sedbergh; a quarter of a mile
   from Sedbergh.
 
THORNS, s.h. in the township and parish of Horton; 12 miles from Settle and
   Askrigg.
 
THORNS, f.h. in the township of Temple-Newsam, and parish of Whitkirk; 2.25
   miles from Leeds.
 
THORNS, in the township of Alverthorpe-with-Thorns, and parish of Wakefield,
   Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from
   Wakefield, 9.5 from Barnsley.  --Pop. included in Alverthorpe.
 
THORN-SEAT, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 7
   miles from Penistone, 8.5 from Hope, (Derbys.)
 
THORNS-HOUSE, (the seat of Benjamin Gaskill, Esq.) in the township of
   Alverthorpe-with-Thorns, and parish and liberty of Wakefield; half a mile
   from Wakefield, 6 from Dewsbury.

THORNTHWAITE, in the parish of Hampsthwaite, lower-division of Claro; 5 miles
   from Pateley Bridge, 6 from Ripley, 10 from Otley.  --Pop. including Padside
   309, which being united form a township.  The Church is a perpetual curacy
   under Hampsthwaite, value p.r. 68L. 5s. 0d.
 
THORNTON, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Bradford, 5 from Halifax.  --Pop. 4,110.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St. James, value, p.r. !140L.
   0s. 0d.  Patron, the Vicar of Bradford.
 
THORNTON, (in Craven) a parish town, in the east-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 6 miles from Skipton, Gargrave, Gisburn, and Colne, (Lanc.) 12
   from Burnley, (ditto) 13 from Keighley and Settle, 47 from York.  Pop. 1,829.
   The Church, which is at some distance from the village, is a rectory,
   dedicated to St. Mary, (Dr. Whitaker says to St. Oswald, or All Saints,) in
   the deanry of Craven, value, 19L. 5s. 2.5d.  Patron, Sir John Lister Kaye,
   Bart. Fortnight Fairs, are on the Mondays before Skipton.

           In this parish are the manors of Thornton, Eureby, and Kellbrook,
   which have never been separated from the earliest times, but have passed
   together, and in succession, through the families of Percy, Kyme, Muncey,
   Roos, Pilkington, Manners, Lister, and Kaye.  In 28th Edward I. Walter de
   Muncey, obtained a charter of free-warren in Thornton, Enreby, and Kellbrook,
   together with a fair and market at Thornton, viz. a market every Thursday,
   and a fair there for five days, viz., on the eve, day, and morrow of St.
   Thomas the Martyr, and two following days.  In 1556, 3 and 4 Philip and Mary,
   the manor and advowson were alienated by Henry, second Earl of
   Northumberland, to William Lister; through which family they have descended
   to the present proprietor.
           Thornton appears to have had some share of the troubles in the time
   of Charles I. for we find, that the Manor-house of Sir William Lister was
   taken by a party of Royalists, in July, 1643, sent by Sir John Mallory, from
   Skipton, which was some time afterwards burnt, and never re-built.  Several
   years since, on digging into the rubbish, an apartment was discovered on the
   ground-floor, with the old furniture undisturbed.  --Whitaker's Craven.
           Here are Alms-Houses for five poor widows, founded by the late Joseph
   Smith, Esq. Banker, London, and endowed it by him with 3s. 6d. each, per
   week, and coals.
 
THORNTON, BISHOP, in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 6
   miles from Ripon, 7 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 647.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Ripon, value, p.r. !65L.  Patrons, the
   Dean and Chapter of Ripon.

THORNTON in LONSDALE, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Ewcross;  1 mile from
   Ingleton, 6 from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.) 11 from Settle, 68 from York.
   --Pop. 535.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Oswald, in the deanry
   of Kirby Lonsdale, value, 28L. 13s. 1d.  p.r. !79L.  Patrons, the Dean and
   Chapter of Worcester.
          Near this village is a tremendous cliff, called Thornton-Scar, partly
   clothed with wood and partly exhibiting the bare rock.  This scar is about
   100 yards high, and runs up a considerable way, varying its elevation, into
   the mountains; along with one, not quite so perpendicular, on the other side:
   these unite so closely at the bottom, that the frightful chasm scarcely
   leaves room for the hurrying brook to escape; by a precipitate flight over a
   succession of small cascades.  At a short distance hence, is Thornton-Fors, a
   fine cascade, which rushes from an aperture in a high rock, and falls at one
   leap nearly thirty yards, partly from the top of a rocky ledge, over half of
   which it falls in one unbroken sheet of four yards wide, and then tumbles
   over a bulging rock into a deep black pool below.  The tops and sides of the
   rocks are beautifully fringed with ivy and other shrubs; they are a few yards
   higher than the cascade; and the whole, viewed from the basin below, forms an
   exceedingly fine picture.
 
THORNTON-LODGE, (the seat of John Horsfall, Esq.) in the township of Lockwood,
   and parish of Almondbury; 1 mile from Huddersfield.
 
THORNVILLE, a township, in the parish of Whixley, lower-division of Claro; 3
   miles from Wetherby, 9 from Knaresborough, 10 from York.  --Pop. 13.
 
THORNVILLE-ROYAL.  -See Allerton-Mauleverer.
 
THORPE, in the township and parish of Burnsall, east-division of Staincliffe,
   liberty of Cliffords-Fee; (a seat of the Rev. Henry Wigglesworth,) 9 miles
   from Skipton and Kettlewell, 10 from Pateley Bridge.

           Thorpe, sometimes called Thorp subtus Montem, is in a most retired
   situation, within a cavity so encircled by high grounds, that it is difficult
   to conceive, at first sight, how the waters escape, and why it is not a lake.
   In a pasture above this village, is a cave, called Knave Knoll Hole, very
   difficult of access, and, from the narrowness of the entrance, equally
   difficult to be discovered.  For these reasons, it seems to have been a
   retreat of some ancient banditti.  Several years ago, Dr. Whitaker discovered
   in it, besides many bones of sheep, &c. the remains of an human skeleton.
 
THORPE, (the seat of John Priestley, Esq.) in the township of Sowerby, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 4.25 miles from Halifax, 6.5 from
   Huddersfield.
 
THORPE, or FINTHORPE.  -See Finthorpe.
 
THORPE, UPPER and LOWER, 2 hams. in the parish of Almondbury; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.
 
THORP-ARCH, (Ainsty) a parish-town, (the seat of Wilmer Gossip, Esq.) 3 miles
   from Wetherby, 4 from Tadcaster, 13 from York.  --Pop. 343.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints, value, +3L. 15s. 5d.  Patron, Mr. Wheeler.
   --For an account of the Spaw, see Boston.
 
THORPE-AUDLIN, in the parish of Badsworth, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4.5 miles from, Pontefract, 5.5 from Ferrybridge, 10 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 344.
 
THORPE-GREEN, ham. in the township of Thorpe-Underwood, and parish of
   Little-Ouseburn; (the seat of Mrs. Robinson,) 6 miles from Boroughbridge, 12
   from York.
 
THORPE-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Selby; 2 miles from Selby, 9
   from Ferrybridge.

THORPE-HALL, s.h. in the township of Thorpe-Stapleton, and parish of Whitkirk; 3
   miles from Leeds.

           In the reign of Edward I. the Stapletons had two carucates of land
   here: and the knights templars, one carucate.  It afterwards became the
   estate of the Skargills, who resided here: one of that family erected a
   chantry at Whitchurch.  The Roman Via Vicinalis, leading from the great
   military road upon Bramham Moor is visible here for 400 paces together.
   -Thoresby.
 
THORPE-HESLEY, in the township of Kimberworth, and parishes of Wath-upon-Dearne
   and Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;  4.25 miles from
   Rotherham, 8 from Barnsley and Sheffield.
 
THORPE-IN-BALNE, in the parish of Barmby-upon-Dunn, lower division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Thorne; 6.5 from Doncaster.
   --Pop. 122.
 
THORPE or LITTLE-THORPE.  --See Littlethorpe.

THORPE-LODGE, (the residence of the Rev. William J. Waddilove,) in the township
   of Whitcliffe-with-Thorpe, and parish of Ripon; 1.75 mile from Ripon.
 
THORPE-ON-THE-HILL, in the parish of Rothwell, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract, (the seat of William Fenton, Esq.) 4.5 miles
   from Leeds and Wakefield.  --Pop. 80.
 
THORPE-SALVIN, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; 5 miles from Worksop, (Notts) 9 from Rotherham, 13 from
   Bawtry, 55 from York.  --Pop. 199.  The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, !53L.
   Patron, the Duke of Leeds.

           The Church of Thorpe-Salvin is remarkable for its handsome Saxon
   Doorway.  In the interior is a very curious stone Font, upon which are cut in
   alto relievo, in compartments, the following figures, representing the
   seasons of the year.  Winter is figured by an old man warming himself before
   a fire in a chimney; Spring, by one riding out a hawking; Summer by a man
   reaping corn and bundling it up into sheaves; and Autumn, by a husbandman
   sowing seed.  The other compartments exhibit the ceremony of Baptism with the
   parents and sponsors.  - See a particular account of this Font, with plate,
   in Archaeolgia. Vol. xii. p.207 and 309.
 
THORPE-STAPLETON, in the parish of Whitkirk, lower-division of Skyrack; 3 miles
   from Leeds, 10 from Wakefield, 13 from Tadcaster.  --Pop. 25.  It contains
   three houses.
 
THORPE, WEST.  -See West-Thorpe.
 
THORPE-UNDERWOOD, a township, in the parish of Little Ouseburn, upper-division
   of Claro; 7 miles from Boroughbridge, 10 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 179.
 
THORPE-VILLE, 2 h. in the township and parish of Almondbury; 2 miles from
   Huddersfield.
 
THORPE-WILLOUGHBY, in the parish of Brayton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty
   of Pontefract; 2.25 miles from Selby, 9 from Ferrybridge, 11 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. 144.
 
THREAPLAND, ham. in the township of Cracow, and parish of Burnsall, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 6 miles from Skipton.
 
THRESHFIELD, in the parish of Linton, east-division and liberty of Staincliffe;
   6 miles from Kettlewell, 9 from Skipton, 11 from Pateley Bridge, 20 from
   Settle.  --Pop. 237.

           Here is a Grammar School, founded in 1674, by the Rev. Matthew
   Hewitt, Rector of Linton, who endowed it with 20L. per ann. for the master,
   and 10L. for the usher, and 50L. for four exhibitions to four scholars, from
   this School, to St. John's College, in Cambridge.  Although this School
   cannot boast of late, either of "able masters or hopeful scholars," Dr.
   Whitaker informs us "that the late Bishop Elphin, Dr. Dodgson, as well as the
   present learned and venerable master of St. John's College, (Dr. William
   Craven,) were among the number of Hewitt's exhibitioners."  And the Rev. Wm.
   Sheepshanks, of St. John's College, Cambridge, a native of Linton, received
   his education in this School.
 
THRIBERGH, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;
   (Thribergh-Park, the seat of John Fullerton, Esq.) 3 miles from Rotherham, 9
   from Doncaster, 46 from York.  --Pop. 315.  The Church is a rectory,
   dedicated to St. Leonard, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 12L. 11s. 5.5d.
   Patron, John Fullerton, Esq.

THROAPHAM, a township, in the parish of St. John's, upper-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; 6.5 miles from Tickhill, 7.5 from Worksop, (Notts.) 8 from
   Rotherham, 10 from Bawtry.  --Pop including St. John's, 50, which being
   united, form a township.
 
THRUSCROSS, in the parish of Fewston, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 5 miles from Pateley Bridge, 8.5 from Ripley, 13 from
   Knaresborough.  --Pop. 600.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Fewston.
 
THUNDERCLIFFE-GRANGE,  (the seat of Lord Howard of Effingham) in the township of
   Kimberworth, and parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 6 from Sheffield, 9 from Barnsley.

           This house was a Grange of the Cistercian Abbey of Kirkstead, in
   Lincolnshire, which had forges and other considerable property in this part
   of the parish of Ecclesfield, and the adjoining parish of Rotherham, of the
   gift of De Busli and De Luvetot.  Previous to the erection of a Grange by the
   monks of Kirkstead, there appears to have been a small hermitage here,
   dedicated to St. John the Baptist.  After the dissolution the Grange was
   bought by one of the family of Rokeby, and passing through the hands of
   several families, the Wombwells, Shiercliffes, and Greens, in quick
   succession, became the property of The Right Hon. Thomas, the third Earl of
   Effingham, who took down the old Grange; and near its site, about the year
   1777, laid the foundation of the present handsome edifice.  On his decease,
   without issue, it passed to his brother Richard, the fourth Earl of
   Effingham, who made it for many years his usual summer residence.  He died in
   1816.  -Hunter's Hallam.
           It is now the property of the present occupier, Kenneth Alexander
   Howard, Baron Howard, of Effingham, K.C.B.
 
THURCROFT, (the seat of Captain Butler) in the township and parish of
   Laughton-en-le-Morthen, and parish of Maltby, upper division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Tickhill, 6.5 from Rotherham,
   9 from Bawtry.
 
THURGOLAND, in the parish of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Penistone, 4.5 from Barnsley, 9.5 from Sheffield.
   --Pop. 819.

THURLSTONE, in the parish of Penistone, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 1 mile from Penistone, 8.5 from Barnsley, 13 from Huddersfield.
   --Pop. 1,524.

           Here was born in 1682, the celebrated Nicholas Saunderson, Professor
   of Mathematics in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of the Royal
   Society.  When only a year old he was, by the small-pox, deprived of his
   sight so that he retained no more ideas of light and colour than if he had
   been born blind.  He was sent early in life to the Grammar-School at
   Penistone, where he laid the foundation of that knowledge of the Greek and
   Roman languages, which he afterwards improved so far, by his own application
   to the classical authors, as to have the works of Euclid, Archimedes, and
   Diophantus read to him in their original Greek.  He died in April, 1739.
   after his death, appeared his "Elements of Algebra," 2 vols. 4to.; which was
   followed, in 1716, by his "Treatise on Fluxions," 8vo.  - Chalmer's
   Biog. Dict.

THURNSCOE, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; (the seat of Charles Palmer, Esq.) 8 miles from
   Doncaster, Rotherham, and Barnsley, 36 from York.  --Pop. 205.  The Church is
   a rectory, dedicated to St. Helen, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 11L.
   7s. 8.5d.  Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam.
 
THURSTONLAND, in the parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Huddersfield.  --Pop. 989.

THURSTONE, and     )   2 hams. in the township of Quick, and
THURSTONE-CLOUGH,  )   parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 2 miles from Dobcross, 11
   from Rochdale, 13 from Huddersfield.
 
THUSKIN-HOLES, s.h. in the township of Hepworth, and parish of Kirkburton; 6
   miles from Huddersfield, 8 from Penistone.
 
THWAITE-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 11 miles from Pateley Bridge.
 
THWAITE-MILLS, ham. in the township and parish of Rothwell; 2.5 miles from
   Leeds, 7 from Wakefield.

THWAITES, f.h. in the township of Garsdale, and parish of Sedbergh; 4 miles from
   Sedbergh, 8 from Kendal, (Westm.)

THWAITES, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of Staincliffe; 1
   mile from Keighley, 9 from Bradford.
 
TICKHILL, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; (Tickhill-Castle, the seat of Frederick Lumley, Esq.) 4
   miles from Bawtry and Blythe, (Notts.) 7 from Doncaster, 9 from Worksop,
   (Notts.) 11 from Rotherham, 43 from York, 156 from London.  --Market, Friday.
   --Fair, August 21, for horned cattle, horses, and sheep.  --Principal Inn,
   Red Lion.  --Pop. 1,830.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in
   the deanry of Doncaster, value, +7L. 2s. 6d.  Patron, George Foljambe, Esq.

           This ancient town is situated in a vale, and the streets of which are
   nearly in the form of a T, by the roads passing through from Doncaster to
   Worksop, and Bawtry to Rotherham.  The market on Fridays, has nearly fallen
   into disuse, being now only for butter and poultry.  In the market-place, is
   a small neat stone building, erected with a dome over it, for the
   accommodation of the country people.
           The Church of Tickhill, is a spacious and handsome structure, with a
   lofty and beautiful tower; and from its architecture, and the arms of England
   and France on the west front of the tower, seems to have been built in the
   reign of Edward III.
           The Castle here was a very strong fortress, situated on a large
   Mount, and encompassed by a high and strong wall.  It was probably built of
   brick, the word in Dutch signifying a brick.  It seems to have been a ruin in
   Leland's time, who observes "the dungeon is the fairest part of the Castelle,
   all the buildinges withyn the area be down, saving the old Haulle."  The
   Conqueror gave it to Roger de Busli, with 49 manors in this county.  It was
   of such dignity, in former times, that all the manors round, belonging to it,
   were styled the honour of Tickhill.  King Henry I. seized on this honour, and
   other succeeding Kings did the like.  King Edward III. gave it to John of
   Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, from whom it passed to Henry IV. and has remained
   in the Dutchy of Lancaster ever since.  In the reign of Charles I. it was
   regarded as a strong fortress, and garrisoned by the King's troops.  After
   the battle of Marston-Moor, and the surrender of York to the Parliament's
   forces, the Earl of Manchester sent Col. Lilburn to reduce, this Castle,
   being induced to it by the complaints of the inhabitants of the surrounding
   country, to whom it was exceedingly oppressive.  After two days siege, the
   garrison capitulated; and Major Monkton, the Governor, Col. and Major
   Redhead, with other officers, some of their wives, eighty musketeers, and
   sixty horse, surrendered themselves prisoners of war.  There was only one
   piece of cannon mounted, one hundred muskets, some powder and match, and
   above a hundred quarters of grain, many barrels of salt, butter, store of
   cheese, powdered beef; besides beasts and sheep.  In 1646-7, the Parliament
   ordered that this Castle, with several others, should be dismantled, and
   rendered untenable.  The circular tower was, in consequence, demolished.
   Since its union with the Crown, in the time of Henry IV. the honour of
   Tickhill, appurtenant to the Castle, has been held either by the Monarch, or
   leased out to courtiers.  In the 17th of James I. 1620, the King demised it
   to Sir John Walker, and other trustees, for ninety-nine years, in trust for
   Prince Henry, then alive, and afterwards for Prince Charles, and to grant,
   assign, and surrender it upon request, according to their discretions after
   this, it was granted to the Sandersons, Earls of Castleton, whose seat was at
   Sandbeck, and has descended in lease, with the possessions of that family in
   1723, to the Earls of Scarborough.  --Camden --Hist. Doncaster.  -Northern
   Star.
           In the Market-Place is an "Hospital, dedicated to St. Leonard, the
   sad condition of the brethren whereof Archbishop Grey recommended to the
   charity of all good people, A.D. 1225."  Over the doorway is an inscription,
   which seems hitherto to have puzzled all antiquaries to decipher.  A little
   to the west of the town are seen the ruins of an ancient Priory, of Augustine
   Friars, founded in the reign of Henry III.  Tanner states it to have been
   granted in the first year of Queen Mary, to Thomas Reeve and George Cotton.
   This house, in a low situation, is now occupied by a farmer, and some remains
   appear of its ancient state.
           Clarell-Hall, the seat of that ancient and respectable family, the
   Clarells, is now only to be found in a heap stones, at no great distance from
   the Church.  In the olden time there appears to have been three Churches or
   Chapels in this parish, viz. St. Mary's, the present Church; St. Nicholas'
   Chapel, in the Castle, and Allhallows, the situation of which is ascertained
   to have been on a hill half a mile north-west of the town.
           At this place was born Ezreel Tongs, D.D. a school master at
   Churchill and at Islington, where he taught both boys and girls.  He first
   discovered to his Majesty, King Charles II. the popish plot, being told it by
   Dr. Oates.  He wrote several books against the Papists, as "the Royal Martyr;
   the Jesuits unmasked; Jesuits Assassins, &c.  He died in 1680."  -Magna Brit.
 
TILTS, 2 h. in the township of Langthwaite-with-Tilts, and parish of Doncaster,
   lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from
   Doncaster, 9 from Thorne.  --Pop. included in Langthwaite.
 
TIMBLE, GREAT, in the parish of Fewston, lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Knaresborough; 5 miles from Otley, 12 from Knaresborough, 14 from Skipton.
   --Pop. 233.
 
TIMBLE, LITTLE, in the parish of Otley, upper-division of Claro, liberty of
   Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 4.75 miles from Otley, 13.5 from Knaresborough, 14
   from Skipton.  --Pop. 62
 
TIMBLE-INGS, f.h. in the township of Great-Timble, and parish of Fewston,; 6
   miles from Otley, 13 from Skipton.
 
TINGLE-BRIDGE, s.h. and Bridge, in the township of Brampton-Bierlow, and parish
   of Wath-upon-Dearne; 6 miles from Rotherham.
 
TINGLEY, ham. in the township of West-Ardsley, and parish of Woodkirk; (Tingley
   House the residence of the Rev. W. Wood) 4.5 miles from Wakefield, 5 from
   Leeds.
 
TINKER-BROOK, s.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 7
   miles from Sheffield, 8 from Penistone.
 
TINSLEY, in the parish of Rotherham, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; 2.5 miles from Rotherham, 3.5 from Sheffield.  --Pop.
   327.  The Church is a vicarage, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r.
   !111L.  In Bacon it is stated to be a Chapel to Rotherham, certified value,
   29L. 18s.

TYTHE-DALE, f.h. in the township and parish of Fishlake; 4 miles from Thorne,
   7.5 from Snaith.

TOAD-HILL, and  )  2 f.h. in the township of Thugoland, and parish
TOAD-HOLE,      )  of Silkstone; 3 miles from Penistone.

TOCKWITH, (Ainsty) in the parish of Bilton, 7.5 miles from Tadcaster, 8.5 from
   York.  --Pop. 436.

           At the commencement of the memorable battle of Marston-Moor, in the
   year 1644, the front of the parliament's army extended from the north end of
   Marston-moor, to this village - a distance of nearly three miles.  -Drake.

TODBER, f.h. in the township of Rimington, and parish of Gisburn, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 2 miles from Gisburn.
 
TODMORDEN, a market-town, in the parishes of Halifax and Rochdale, (Lanc.)
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, and hundred of Salford, (Lanc.) 9
   miles from Rochdale, (Lanc.) 9.5 from Burnley, (ditto) 12 from Halifax, 48
   from York, 207 from London.  --Market, Thursday.  --Fairs, Thursday and
   Friday before Easter; September 27 and 28, for horned cattle, pedlary ware,
   &c.
 
TODWICK, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 7
   miles from Rotherham, 7.75 from Worksop, (Notts) 10.25 from Sheffield, 49
   from York.  --Pop. 210.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter and
   St. Paul, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 6L. 14s. 7d. p.r. 148L. 17s. 7d.
   Patron, the Duke of Leeds.
   --In the same township and parish is:-
 
TODWICK-GRANGE, (the seat of George Fox, Esq.)
 
TONG, in the parish a Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Pontefract; (Tong-Hall, the seat of John Plumbe, Esq.) 4 miles from
   Bradford, 6 from Leeds and Wakefield.  --Pop. 1,893.  The Church is a
   perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Pontefract Patron, John Plumbe, Esq.

           Tong, usually styled a Lordship, although within the parish of
   Birstall, is not subject to the vicarage of that Church, excepting the annual
   payment of two shillings to the vicar for synodals; to the repairs of a part
   of the church-yard wall; and an annual payment of five shillings to the
   churchwardens, under the denomination of rogues money.
           Tong, the Tuinc of Domesday, and the lordship of a family of that
   name, from which family it has been successively transmitted to the Mirfields
   and Tempests; Sir George Tempest having built the stately mansion here, in
   1702. -Thoresby - Whitaker.  It is now enjoyed by John Plumbe, Esq.
 
TONG-LANE-END, ham. in the township of Tong, and parish Birstall; 4 miles from
   Bradford.
 
TOOTHILL, s.h. in the township of Rastrick, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax.
 
TOPCLIFFE, 2 f.h. in the township of West-Ardsley, and parish of Woodkirk,
   liberty of Wakefield; 4.5 miles from Leeds.
 
TOPPIT, ham. in the township of Clayton, and parish of High-Hoyland; 6 miles
   from Penistone.
 
TOSSIDE, in the township of Sawley-with-Tosside, and parish of Gisburn,
   west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 7.5 miles from Settle, 13 from
   Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 16 from Skipton.  --Pop. included in Sawley.

           This township consists of a large tract of pasture and moor lands,
   not having any particular cluster of houses or village, called Tosside.
 
TOSSIDE-ROW, (extraparochial) in the township of Sawley-with Tosside; 8 miles
   from Settle, 14.5 from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)
 
TOTTIS, ham. in the township of Wooldale, and parish of Kirkburton; 7 miles from
   Huddersfield, 8.5 from Penistone.
 
TOWLSTON, in the township and parish of Newton-Kyme, wapentake of Barkston-Ash;
   (Towlston-Lodge, the seat of William Prest, Esq.) 3 miles from Tadcaster, 5
   from Wetherby.
 
TOWN-END, in the township of Wooldale, and parish of Kirkburton,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley; 6 miles from Huddersfield, 9 from
   Penistone.
 
TOWN-GATE, ham. in the township and parish of Mirfield; 2.5 miles from Dewsbury,
   6 from Wakefield.
 
TOWN-HEAD, (the seat of the Rev. James Wigglesworth,) in the township and parish
   of Slaidburn, which it adjoins.
 
TOWN-HILL, (the seat of F. Duffield, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Bradford.
 
TOWTON, in the parish of Saxton, wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Towton-Hall, the seat of the Hon. Martin Bladen Hawke,) 2.5
   miles from Tadcaster, 10 from Ferrybridge, 12 from Pontefract.  ----Pop. 94.

           This place must ever remain famous in our history for the greatest
   engagement of nobility and gentry, and the strongest army that was ever seen
   in England, under daring and furious leaders, and which Camden calls the
   English Pharsalia.  This battle was fought on Palm Sunday, 1461, between the
   York party and the Lancastrians.  The right wing of Edward's army, was
   commanded by the Earl of Warwick, the left by Lord Fauconberg, the main body
   by Edward himself; the Lancastrians by the Duke of Somerset, the Earl of
   Northumberland and the Lord Clifford; but the latter was shot in the throat
   before the action commenced, a fate too good for such a monster, who in cold
   blood, some time before, murdered an innocent child 12 years old, the Earl of
   Rutland, Edward's youngest brother, whose moving intercession for mercy might
   have softened the most obdurate heart.
           The number of the Yorkists was 40,660 men, the other full 60,000.
   Before the action commenced, Edward issued a proclamation that no quarter
   should be given.  The conflict lasted ten hours, and victory fluctuated from
   side to side, till at length it settled in the house of York.  The
   Lancastrians gave way and fled to York, but seeking to gain the bridge at
   Tadcaster, so many fell into the small river Cock, which runs into the Wharf,
   as quite filled it up, and the Yorkists went over their backs to pursue their
   brethren.  The number of the slain was estimated at 36,776, among them the
   Earls of Northumberland and Westmorland, and a great many others of the
   nobility; and the wounds they died of being made by battle-axes, arrows and
   swords, caused an immense effusion of blood, which lay caked with the snow,
   which at that time covered the ground, and afterwards dissolving with it, ran
   down, in the most horrible manner, the furrows and ditches of the fields for
   two or three miles.

           The Dukes of Somerset and Exeter fled the field, and carried the
   fatal news to Henry and His Queen and the Prince of Wales, at York, who soon
   fled into Scotland.  After the battle, the Duke of Exeter and the Earl of
   Devonshire were beheaded; and the heads of the Duke of York, and the Earl of
   Salisbury, which had been set upon the Gates at York, were taken down, and
   theirs set up in their place.  Most of the bodies of the slain were thrown
   into five large pits, one of which Drake says he saw opened in 1734.  The
   quarrel between the two Roses, extinguished most of the ancient families in
   the kingdom: more than 100,000 men lost their lives, either by the sword or
   the executioner.

           At Towton, King Richard III. begun a Chapel, as Leyland says, over
   the bodies of the Yorkists slain in this battle, who were buried here, but
   did not live to see it finished.  -Rapin -Stow -Camden -Drake.
 
TRANMORE, f.h. in the township of Egbrough, and parish of Kellington; 6 miles
   from Snaith, 7 from Pontefract.
 
TREETON, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Hallamshire; 4 miles from Rotherham, 7 from Sheffield, 52 from
   York.  --Pop. 364.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Helen, in the
   deanry of Doncaster, value, 12L.  Patron, the Duke of Norfolk.

           Dr. Samuel Drake, brother of the author of the Eboracum, was rector
   of this Church in 1728, where he was buried in 1753.  Like all the Drakes, he
   was a man of learning, and like many of them, an author.  -Hunter's
   Hallamshire.
           Treeton, the lordship of Morcar, Earl of Northumberland, before the
   conquest; afterwards it became the estate of the Furnivals: Thomas de Nevil,
   marrying the heiress, brought this estate into his family, with the title of
   Lord Furnival.  It afterwards, by marriage, came into the possession of John,
   Lord Talbot, the famous general; who, for his eminent services, was created
   Earl of Shrewsbury, by King Henry VI.  To this family succeeded that of
   Pierpoint; of whom, Robert de Pierpoint was, by King Charles I., created Lord
   Pierpoint, of Holm-Pierpoint, Viscount Newark, and Earl of Kingston; who, in
   gratitude and loyalty to his royal benefactor, raised a regiment for his
   service, and was taken prisoner at the surrender of Gainsbrough; and, being
   sent, with others, in a boat, towards Hull, a party of cavaliers, as they
   passed by, called to the boat to stop; and, because they did not, the
   cavaliers fired upon them, and the Earl, with his man, was slain by their
   friends, 1643.  -Magna Brit.  The Duke of Norfolk is now the sole Lord.
 
TROOP, f.h. in the township of Fountains-Earth, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 9
   miles from Pateley Bridge and Masham.

TRUMFLEET, in the township and parish of Kirk-Sandal, lower division of
   Strafforth and Tickhill; 6 miles from Thorne, 7 from Doncaster.

TUDWORTH 2 or 3 f.h. in the township and parish of Hatfield; 1.5 miles from
   Thorne.
 
TUNNERCLIFFE-GATE, f.h. in the township of Dalton, and parish of Kirkheaton; 4
   miles from Huddersfield.
 
TUNSTED, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale; (Lanc.) 1.5
   miles from Dobcross.
 
TURNBRIDGE, scatt. hs. in the township of Cowick, and parish of Snaith, liberty
   of Pontefract; 2 miles from Snaith.
 
TURVIN-VALE, in the chapelry of Sowerby, and parish of Halifax.
 
TWIGENBURY, s.h. in the township and parish of Tankersley; 5 miles from
   Barnsley.
 
TWISLETON, ham. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low-Bentham; 7 miles
   from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)

TYRESALL, in the township of Pudsey, and parish of Calverley, Morley-division of
   Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract;  2.5 miles from Bradford, 8 from
   Leeds.
 
TYERSALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Darfield; 3.5 miles from Barnsley.

UDEN, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 6
   miles from Hope, (Derbys.)
 
UGHILL, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 8 miles
   from Sheffield, 9 from Penistone.
 
ULLEY, or BRAMPTON-ULLEY, in the parishes of Treeton and Aston, upper-division
   of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Sheffield.  --Pop.
   203.
 
ULLESKELF, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberty of St.
   Peter; (the seat of John Shilleto, Esq.) 2 miles from Tadcaster, 9 from
   Selby, 14 from Pontefract.  --Pop. 426.  The Church is a vicarage, in the
   deanry of the Ainsty, value, 34L. 11s. 9d.     Patron, the Prebendary
   thereof.
 
UNDER-BANK, in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; (the seat of
   John Fenton, Esq.) 3 miles from Penistone, 8 from Barnsley, 10 from
   Sheffield.
 
UNDER-BANK, (the seat of James Rawden, Esq.) in the township of Stansfield, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 9 miles from Halifax, 12 from
   Rochdale, (Lanc.)
 
UNDERCLIFFE, ham. in the township and parish of Bradford; (Undercliffe Hall, the
   seat of J. Hustler, Esq.) 1 mile from Bradford.
 
UNSHRIVEN-BRIDGE, s.h. in the township of Hunshelf, and parish of Penistone; 3.5
   miles from Penistone.

           "This Farm," says Blount, "pays yearly to Godfrey Bosville, Esq. of
   Gunthwaite, two broad-head and two feathered Arrows."

UPPER and NETHER-GATE.  -See Stannington.
 
UPPER-MILL, in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.); 9 miles
   from Rochdale, 13 from Huddersfield.  --A Fair for horned cattle is held on
   the 13th of June.
 
UPPER-THONG.  -See Thong, Upper.
 
UPPER-THORPE, ham. in the township of Nether-Hallam;  1 mile from Sheffield.
 
UPTON, in the parish of Badsworth, wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Pontefract, 10 from Doncaster and Wakefield.  --Pop.
   184.
 
UTLEY, ham. in the township and parish of Keighley, liberty of Staincliffe; 1
   mile from Keighley, 9 from Skipton

VIEWS, f.h. in the township of Worsbrough, and parish of Darfield; 1.5 miles
   from Barnsley.
 
VISIT, f.h. in the township and parish of Hemsworth; 6 miles from
   Pontefract, 7 from Wakefield.

WADDINGTON, in the parish of Mitton, west division of Staincliffe, liberty of
   Bolland; 8.5 miles from Gisburn, 14 from Blackburn, (Lanc.) 16 from Burnley,
   (ditto) 20 from Skipton.  --Pop. 687.  The Church is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Helen.  Patron, T. L. Parker, Esq.

           This place, at the time of Domesday, was a parcel of the Terra Rogeri
   Pictaviensis.  In the time of Edward I. it appears to have been in the
   possession of the Tempests, in which family it continued till the reign of
   Charles I. Waddington-Hall, though constructed of strong old masonry, has
   nearly lost all appearances of antiquity.  -Whitaker.
           Here is a Hospital, founded in 1701, by Robert Parker, for ten
   widows; attached to which, is an oratory for divine worship, for which the
   founder ordered prayers to be read daily, morning and evening.  In 1709, the
   rental of the estate belonging to this Hospital, was 66L. 8s.  In 1799, it
   amounted to 254L. instead of ten; there were then fifteen widows.  The pious
   founder died early in life, and was buried in the church-yard of Waddington.
           An Alms-House was founded here in 1690, for twenty poor people of the
   township of Aighton, Bailey, Chidsley, Mitton, Wismall, and Ribchester; and
   endowed with 6L. 13s. 4d. per month, and a suit of clothes to each, every
   year.
 
WADDOW-HALL, (the seat of B.N.R. Battye, Esq.) in the township of Waddington,
   and parish of Mitton, liberty of Staincliffe; 2 miles from Clitheroe, (Lanc.)
   12 from Blackburn and Gisburn.
 
WADLANDS, f.h. in the township of Calverley-with-Farsley, and parish of
   Calverley; 3 miles from Bradford.
 
WADSLEY, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; 3 miles from Sheffield, on the left of the Manchester road.

           This was formerly the seat of the knightly family of Wadsley, who
   held their estate here, by the name of a manor of the great Baron at
   Sheffield Castle; and they had at Wadsley, a Hall, a Park, and domestic
   Chapel, which were not wholly destroyed in the reign of Elizabeth, but of
   which, now only the names remain.  --Hunter
 
WADSLEY-BRIDGE, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 3 miles from
   Sheffield.
 
WADSWORTH, a township, in the parish of Halifax, Morley
   division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 8 miles
   from Halifax, 12 from Rochdale, (Lanc)  --Pop. 4,509.
 
WADSWORTH-LANES, ham. in the township of Wadsworth and parish of Halifax,
   liberty of Wakefield; 7 miles from Halifax.
 
WADWORTH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; (the seat of Sir George Scovell, Bart.) 3 miles from
   Tickhill, 4 from Doncaster, 8.5 from Rotherham --Pop. 614.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +4L. 2s.
   6d.  Patrons, Mrs. Verelst, and Sir Charles Kent, Bart. as heirs of the late
   Mrs. Wordsworth.
 
WAKEFIELD, a market and parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Dewsbury, 9 from Leeds and Pontefract, 10
   from Barnsley, 13 from Huddersfield and Abberford, 15 from Bradford, 20 from
   Doncaster, 25 from York, 182 from London.  --Market, Friday.  --Fairs, July 4
   and 5, for pedlary ware; November 11 and 12, for horses, horned cattle, &c.
   and every other Wednesday, for horned cattle.  --- Bankers, Messrs Leathams,
   Tew, Trueman, and Co. draw on Messrs. Dennison and Co, 106, Fenchurch-Street;
   Messrs. Wentworth, Chaloner, and Rishworth, draw on Messrs. Wentworth, and
   Co. 25, Threadneedle Street.  --Principal Inns, White Hart, Strafford Arms,
   George, Black Bull, and Woodman Inn.  --Pop. 10,764.  There are two Churches,
   the parish-church is a vicarage, dedicated to All Saints, in the deanry of
   Pontefract, value, 20L. 19s. 2d.  Patron, the King.  The other is called St.
   John's Church, value, p.r. 100L.  Patron, the Vicar of All-Saints.

           Wakefield is delightfully situated on the side of a hill, gently
   sloping to the Calder.  The town is well built, most of the streets regular,
   and many of the houses are handsome, large, and lofty.  The Market Cross is
   an elegant structure, being an open colonade of the Doric order, supporting a
   dome, with an ascent of stairs leading to a large room, in which the business
   of the town is transacted.  The Markets are very good, and the fortnight
   Fairs have long been noted for their large supplies of fat cattle, sheep, &c.
   The improvement of the woollen cloth Manufacture, &c. have greatly increased
   the wealth of this town and neighbourhood, and thrown an inexhaustible wealth
   into Yorkshire, clothed its hills with fatness, and filled its broad vales
   with houses and population.  The Stuffs are exposed for sale in a hall,
   resembling the cloth-hall of Leeds.
           The Church is a spacious lofty, light, and uniform Gothic structure,
   and the spire, the highest in Yorkshire; when it was erected is uncertain,
   but in Domesday Book we find that "In Wachfield cum Novem Berewicis, Sandala,
   Sorebi, &c. sunt duo Ecclesiae;" and it is clear, as Mr. Watson observes,
   that Wakefield and Sandal were at that time subsisting.  However, no part of
   the present building can be referred to a period more remote than the reign
   of Henry III.; and it has since under gone many repairs and improvements.
   About half a mile further to the north, is the new Church, erected towards
   the close of the 18th century.  The ground on which it stands was bequeathed
   for that purpose, by Mrs. Newstead, together with 1000L. for the support of
   the minister; and the first stone was laid by The Rev. Dr. Zouch.
           Here is a free Grammar-School, founded and endowed by Queen
   Elizabeth, and improved by private benefactions.  The School-house is a
   spacious building, erected by the Savilles, ancestors of the Earl of
   Mexborough.  There are two Masters - the head Master's salary is 180L. per
   ann. and it has a good Library belonging to it.  There are two Exhibitions
   from this School, one of them for the natives only; and two scholarships at
   Clare-Hall, Cambridge.
         To this Seminary the world is indebted for the scholastic erudition of
   Dr. Bentley; Archbishop Potter; Dr. Ratcliffe; Dr. Zouch; Mr. Joseph Bingham,
   M.A. author of Origines Ecclesiasticae; Rev Thomas Robinson; and Mr. Charles
   Hoole, author of several school books.
           Here is also a Charity-School, for the education and clothing 106
   children of Wakefield; with other charitable donations, amounting to more
   than 1000L. per annum.
           At the bottom of Westgate is the House of Correction for the whole
   Riding.  This prison is a large and noble building surrounded by an outer
   wall, and contains more than 150 cells.  Mr. James Shepherd is the present
   Governor.
           Here is the Register Office for the West Riding; the Clerk of the
   Peace's Office; the Paupers Lunatic Asylum; and other public buildings.
           The river Calder was made navigable in 1688, and in 1760, was
   extended to Elland, near Halifax, which has much increased the trade of this
   place and neighbourhood.  A few miles from the town are numerous Coal Mines,
   and great quantities of coals are carried by water to York, Hull, and other
   places.
           The Manor of Wakefield, of which his Grace the Duke of Leeds is Lord,
   is one of the most extensive manors in the county.
           In 1460, a bloody battle was fought at this place between Richard,
   Duke of York, and Margaret, the Queen of Henry VI.  The Duke had not been in
   his Castle of Sandal with his men, more than two days before the Queen
   approached, at the head of 18,000 men, and much sooner than the Duke
   expected.  She appeared before the Castle with a small party of her army,
   and tauntingly upbraided him with being afraid to face a woman.  Her insults
   repeated, the Duke could refrain no longer, but four days after his arrival,
   drew up his men upon the Green facing Wakefield, and after marching a little
   way down the hill, the battle began.  It should seem that two detachments
   were sent to lie in ambush to attack the Duke in the rear.  It is, however,
   certain that the Duke was deceived in the number of the Queen's troops.
           The ambush parties ware commanded by the Earl of Wiltshire, and Lord
   Clifford.  These two parties attacking the Duke on the right and left at
   the same moment, quickly surrounded him.  The battle lasted half an hour, and
   it is probable that the Duke was killed, about 400 yards from the Castle, by
   Clifford who had sworn destruction to every member of the House of York.  He,
   however, cut off the Duke's head when slain, placed on it a paper crown, and
   carried it on a pole to the Queen, who, rejoicing as much as himself, caused
   it to be placed on the walls of York.  In this fatal conflict fell Sir John
   and Sir Hugh Mortimer, the Duke's uncles, Sir David Hall, Sir Hugh Hastings,
   Sir Thomas Neville, and about 2800 men.  The Earl of Salisbury, Sir Richard
   Limbric, and others, were taken prisoners and beheaded, and their heads
   placed on Micklegate Bar, York. -Hall  --Holingshed  --Rapin.
              The Earl of Rutland, a child of 12 years old, probably remained in
   the Castle with his tutor, Mr. Aspell; but when the battle was lost, he fled
   for safety, without knowing wither to fly.  The savage Clifford had
   intelligence; in a fright the child ran into the house of an old woman, near
   the bridge, begging protection, which the woman durst not grant.  He then
   hastened down a footpath, by the river side; the furious Clifford overtook
   him and his tutor.  The child fell on his knees, wrung his hands, but could
   not speak.  The tutor begged for mercy to the child, but the monster, with
   more than savage ferocity, stabbed him to the heart.  The place where he fell
   is called The Fallings.
           Edward IV. in commemoration of this battle, erected a beautiful
   little Chapel upon the bridge, in which, two priests sung requiems for the
   souls of the slain.  The Chapel is ten yards long, and six yards wide.  One
   end of the building constitutes part of the bridge.  It is three stories
   high, and has nine rooms, three on each floor.  On the outside is curious
   Gothic work, but some of it is gone to decay.  The front is divided into
   compartments, with arches in relief; their spandrils are richly flowered, and
   over each compartment, are five shorter ones, with historical relics.  In one
   is a woman reclined, lamenting a youth, who, at her feet, sits wringing his
   hands: this is probably the Earl of Rutland, begging protection of the old
   woman at the foot of the bridge.  The buttresses are beautifully carved, the
   windows have a rich tracery, and the whole has a charming effect.  Since the
   priests left it, the place has often changed its use.  --Hutton.
           It is now converted into a News-Room, having been previously occupied
   by an old clothesman, who was in the habit of hanging on the precious
   traceries, his filthy ware, and afterwards by a den of flax-dressers.  A
   writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1808, observes, that "it has been
   repaired: repaired ! yes, and in a truly gothic style: the beautiful
   tracery of the windows, rarely to be equalled, is totally demolished - not a
   wreck is left behind; - and its place is now supplied by plain cross-headed
   mullions, filled up with spruce sash squares.  The front, that inimitable
   specimen of rich tracery and chaste ornament, presented itself to the
   despoiler; and in order to give a finish, probably, as he thought, to the
   dilapidated buttresses, he propped them up with short round pillars, -four
   little short round laughable things all in a row."
           The following eminent men were born at Wakefield: Dr. John Potter,
   the son of a linen-draper in Wakefield, and afterwards Archbishop of
   Canterbury, a celebrated antiquary, critic, historian, and theological
   writer, was born here in 1674.  His best works are "Variantes Lectiones et
   Note ad Plutarchi librum de Audiendis Poetis; an edition of Lycophron;"
   "Antiquities of Greece; "a discourse on Church Government;" and "Divinity
   Lectures."  He died in 1747.
           Joseph Bingham, born in 1668.  He wrote a learned and laborious work,
   "Origines Ecclesiasticae;" the first volume of which was published in 1708 in
   8vo. and was completed afterwards in 9 vols. more.  He died, Aug. 17, 1723.
           The celebrated John Burton, M.D. author of the Monasticon Eboracense,
   a work of infinite labour and research, published in 1758.  After he had
   finished his studies at Edinburgh, he settled at York, where he practised as
   a physician.
           Dr. John Radcliffe, a very eccentric character, and most popular
   physician of his age, was born here in 1650.  He was physician to King
   William, but when the King returned from Holland in 1699, being indisposed,
   he sent for Radcliffe, and having shown him his swollen ankles, while the
   rest of his body was emaciated, and skeleton-like, said, "what think you of
   these?  "Why truly," replied the physician, "I would not have your Majesty's
   two legs for your three Kingdoms," by which freedom, he lost the King's
   favour.  His practice was very considerable among the first persons in the
   Kingdom.  He died in 1714.
 
WAKEFIELD-LODGE, in the township of Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe, and parish of
   Wakefield; 1 mile from Wakefield.
 
WALDERSHELF, a part of the township of Bradfield, in the parish of Ecclesfield,
   which with Westnall, form the constablery of Bradfield, Westnall, and
   Waldershelf; 7 miles from Sheffield.
 
WALDING-WELL, (the seat of Sir Thomas White, Bart.) in the township of
   Woodsett-with-Gildingwells; 5 miles from Tickhill.

           This House is somewhat remarkable for standing on the line of contact
   between Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, a small brook or rivulet, which runs
   under a part of the out-buildings, forming the boundary between the two
   counties.
           In the Park was a Priory of Nuns, called St. Mary in the Park,
   dedicated to the Virgin Mary, founded by Ralph de Cheurolcourt.  --Dugdale.
 
WALES, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty
   of St. Peter; 7 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 7.5 from Rotherham, 9 from
   Sheffield, 55 from York.  --Pop. 277.  The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. John, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r. 75L.
   1s. 2d.  Patron, the Duke of Leeds.
 
WALES-WOOD, ham. in the township of Wales, and parishes of Wales and Treeton;
   5.5 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Sheffield.
 
WALKINGHAM-HILL, f.h. (extraparochial) lower-division of Claro; 4 miles from
   Knaresborough and Boroughbridge, 5 from Ripley.  --Pop. including Ockeney,
   24, which being united form a township.
 
WALKLEY, in the township of Nether-Hallam, and parish of Sheffield, upper-
   division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2 miles from Sheffield.
 
WALLERTHWAITE, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of Markington-with-Wallerthwaite,
   and parish and liberty of Ripon, lower-division of Claro;- 4 miles from
   Ripley, 4.5 from Ripon.  --Pop. included in Markington.
 
WALL-HILL, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 9
   miles from Rochdale.
 
WALSHFORD, in the township of Ribston-with-Walshford, and parish of Hunsingore,
   upper-division of Claro; 3 miles from Wetherby, 5 from Knaresborough, 9 from
   Boroughbridge.  --Pop. included in Great-Ribston.
 
WALTON, in the parish of Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Wakefield; 3 miles from Wakefield, 8 from Barnsley.  --Pop. 385.
 
WALTON, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 2 miles from Wetherby, 5 from Tadcaster, 13 from
   York.  --Pop. 247.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !50L.
   Patrons, Mrs. Agnes Goodall, and William Brian Farra, Esq.

           This village hath been long in the possession of the family of
   Fairfax; and anciently contained three carucates of land, held by the heirs
   of Roger de Brus, and divers others, who held the same of the Barons of
   Mowbray, but paid no certain rent.  Peter de Brus granted to William Fairfax
   and his heirs, nine oxgangs, one acre, and three perches of land, with tofts
   and crofts in Walton, of the fee of Mowbray, by a deed without date.
 
WALTON-HALL, (the seat of Charles Waterton, Esq.) in the township of Walton, and
   parish of Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Wakefield; 4 Miles from Wakefield, 8 from Barnsley.
 
WALTON-HEAD, ham. in the township of Follyfoot, and parish of Kirkby Overblow; 6
   miles from Knaresborough.
 
WALTON, UPPER, 2 f.h. in the township of Walton, and parish of Sandal-Magna; 3
   miles from Wakefield, 8 from Barnsley.

WALTON-WOOD, f.h. in the township of Upton, and parish of Badsworth; 4.5 miles
   from Pontefract, 8 from Wakefield.
 
WARDSEND, f.h. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; 2.5 miles from
   Sheffield.

           This ancient place has been held under the Duke of Norfolk's family,
   a part of whose estate it is, by several generations of the family of Rawson,
   in which family it still remains - a pedigree from the 16th Edward IV. may be
   seen in Hunter's Hallamshire.
 
WARLEY, a township, in the parish of Halifax, Morley-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 2.5 miles from Halifax, 8 from Huddersfield.
   --Pop. 4,982.

           This place is mentioned in Domesday-Book, as one of the nine berewics
   belonging to the lordship of Wakefield, by the name of Werla.  Earl Warren
   was found to be Lord of it, at the time of Kirby's inquest.  In this family
   it remained, till the last Earl gave it, with the manor of Wakefield, to the
   Crown.
 
WARMFIELD, a parish-town, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 4 miles from Wakefield, 5 from Pontefract, 25 from York.  --Pop.
   including Heath, 741, which being united, form a township.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 5L. 4s.
   2d.  Patrons, Nine Trustees of the Rev. Barnabas Oley.

           Here is a School, founded and endowed by Dame Mary Bowlse, of Heath
   Halt, in 1660, for educating and apprenticing children.  And an Hospital for
   seven men and a matron, to be chosen from the parishes of Warmfield and
   Normanton, alternately, founded and endowed by John Freston, in 1591: and
   another Hospital for four old widows, founded by Mr. Oles Sagar, about 1558.
 
WARMSWORTH, a parish-town, in the lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill;
   (Warmsworth-Hall, the residence of Francis Offley Edmunds, Esq.) 3 miles from
   Doncaster, 5 from Tickhill, 9 from Rotherham, 40 from York.  --Pop. 335.  The
   Church is a rectory, dedicated to St. Peter, in the deanry of Doncaster,
   value, +6L. 10s. 10d.  Patron, William Wrightson of Cusworth, Esq.  A small
   part of this village is in the parish of Doncaster.

           Here, the celebrated George Fox, and his friends, held their meetings
   at the first rising of the Quakers, "till they were persecuted by the parish
   priest." Being thus driven away, they removed to Balby, where they assembled
   occasionally, for some years, and till a convenient building for that
   purpose, together with a burial place, was provided.  --Hist. Doncaster.
 
WARREN-LANE, ham. in the township of Azerley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard; 5
   miles from Masham, 7 from Ripon.
 
WARSELL, HIGH and LOW, (extraparochial) lower-division of Claro, liberty of
   Ripon; 6.5 miles from Ripon and Ripley.  --Pop. 86.  These two villages with
   Sawley, form the constablery of Sawley with-Warsell.
 
WASS-LANE HEAD, f.h. in the township of Wombwell, and parish of Darfield; 2
   miles from Barnsley.
 
WATER-HALL,  Manor-House, in the township and parish of Penistone; a quarter of
   a mile from Penistone.
 
WATH-UPON-DEARN, a parish-town, in the upper division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; 6 miles from Rotherham, 9 from Doncaster, 11
   from Sheffield, 45 from York.  --Pop. 1,001.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, +15L. 10s. 2.5d.
   Patrons, the Dean and Cannons of Christ Church, Oxford.

           Here is a National School, founded by the Trustees of Mrs. Ellis's
   charity, in 1819.
 
WEARDLEY, in the parish of Harewood, upper-division of Skyrack; 1 mile from
   Harewood, 6.5 from Otley.  --Pop. 191.
 
WEATHERCOTE-CAVE or COAVE, in the wapentake of Ewcross; 10 miles from Hawes.

           This is a stupendous subterranean Cataract, in a huge Cave, the top
   of which is on a level with the adjoining lands.  On approaching its brink,
   the stranger is equally astonished with the sublime and terrible.  The margin
   is surrounded with trees and shrubs, which have an excellent effect, both in
   guarding and ornamenting the steep and rugged precipices, on every side.  The
   Cave is divided in two, by a rugged and grotesque arch of limestone rock.
   The whole length, from north to south, is about sixty yards; and the breadth,
   about thirty.  At the south end, is the entrance down into the little Cave;
   on the right of which, is a subterranean passage, under the rocks, into the
   great Cave; where the astonished stranger sees, with amazement, an immense
   cataract, issuing from a large cavity in the rock, sufficient to turn several
   mills, falling twenty-five yards, in an unbroken sheet, on the rock at the
   bottom, with a noise that amazes the most intrepid ear.  The water disappears
   at it falls, amongst the rocks and pebbles; running, by a subterranean
   passage, about a mile.  The Cave is filled with the spray that arises from
   the water dashing against the bottom; and, from ten to twelve o'clock in the
   forenoon, when the sun shines bright, a small vivid rainbow appears, which,
   for colour, size, and situation, is perhaps nowhere else to be equalled.
   --Tour to the Caves.
 
WEELAND, s.h. in the township of Hensall, and parish of Snaith, liberty of
   Pontefract; 2 miles from Snaith, 7.5 from Selby.
 
WEETON, in the parish of Harewood, upper-division of Claro; 6 miles from Otley,
   8 from Wetherby, 9.5 from Leeds.   --Pop. 310.
 
WEETWOOD-HALL, s.h. in the township of Headingley, and parish of Leeds; 3 miles
   from Leeds, 8 from Bradford.
 
WELDON-HALL, f.h. in the township and parish of Ferry-Fryston; 2 miles from
   Pontefract, 2.5 from Ferrybridge.
 
WELLIHOLE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale (Lanc.); 9
   miles from Rochdale, 12 from Manchester.
 
WELLINGLEY, 2 f.h. in the township of Stansill-with-Wellingley and Wilsick, and
   parish of Tickhill; 2 miles from Tickhill, 7 from Doncaster, 10 from
   Rotherham.  --Pop. included in Stansill.
 
WENTBRIDGE, in the townships of Kirk-Smeaton, Darrington, and Thorpe-Audlin, and
   parishes of Kirk-Smeaton, Badsworth, and Darrington, wapentake of
   Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract, 4.5 miles from Pontefract and
   Ferrybridge, 10.5 from Doncaster.

WENTWORTH, in the parish of Wath-upon-Dearne, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill; (the seat of the Rev. John Lowe), 5 miles from
   Rotherham, 9 from Barnsley, 13.5 from Doncaster.  --Pop. 1,269.  The Church
   is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, in the deanry of
   Doncaster, value p.r. !120L.  Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam.
           In the same township and parish is:-
 
WENTWORTH-HOUSE, the seats of Earl Fitzwilliam, and Right
   Hon. Lord Viscount Milton.

           Wentworth-House, anciently called Woodhouse.  Ralph de Woodhouse,
   according to Drake, gave one moiety of Woodhouse to St. Leonard's Hospital,
   York.  It was afterwards by intermarriages with the Wentworth family, called
   Wentworth Woodhouse.  Wm. Wentworth, Earl of Strafforth, on his monument in
   York Minster, is styled Baron of Wentworth Woodhouse.  This nobleman devised
   the ancient estate of the Wentworth family, to his nephew, the Hon. Thomas
   Watson Wentworth, third son of Edward, Lord Rockingham, grandfather of the
   late Marquis of Rockingham, from whom these estates descended to the present
   noble possessor, Earl Fitzwilliam.
           The superb and much admired mansion of Earl Fitzwilliam, was rebuilt
   by Thomas, the first Marquis of Rockingham, who was made Knight of the Bath,
   by George I., and advanced to the Peerage in the succeeding reign.  He died
   in 1750.  It consists of an irregular quadrangle, inclosing three courts,
   with two grand fronts.  A noble portico in front, is supported by six
   magnificent corinthian columns.  The arms of the Marquis of Rockingham
   ornament the tympanum, and the following motto, so appropriate to the
   inflexible integrity and incorruptible virtue of the late Marquis, runs along
   the entablature, "MEA GLORIA FIDES."
           Many of the apartments are extremely elegant, especially the Hall and
   the Gallery; the former of which is 60 feet square, and 40 feet high, with a
   gallery which runs round the whole.  It is supported by 18 fluted pillars of
   the Ionic order, the shafts of Sienna, with the bases and capitals of white
   marble, the intervening niches are ornamented with some precious marble
   statues, and over them are medallions from the designs of Athenian Stuart.
   The grandeur of its dimensions, the justness of its proportions, the taste of
   its decorations, and the beauty of its contents, give this room an advantage
   over every room of the kind.  The Gallery is 130 feet long, by 18 feet wide.
   The Library is 60 feet by 20, in which is a good collection of books; "but,"
   says Mr. Dibdin, in his Bibliographical Decameron, "it is difficult to know
   what it contains, from the unbibilographical manner in which the titles of
   the books are described in the ancient Catalogue." He appears, however, to
   have met with three Caxtons, viz. First edit. of Chaucer- Mirror of the World
   - Doctrynal of Sapience, 1489, besides other early editions.  This mansion
   contains many other splendid apartments, which are adorned with a collection
   of excellent pictures from the pencils of Guido, Carracci, Titian, Vandyck,
   Luca Giordano, Poussin, West, &c.  A detailed account of the rooms, pictures,
   statuary, and other ornaments, may be seen in Warner's Tour.  In the Chapel,
   which is square, and simple in its decorations, are some good pictures.  The
   Museum contains several valuable antiques.  Every thing without the mansion
   is consistent with the magnificence and expence which reign within.  The Park
   comprises upwards of 1500 acres, richly clothed with wood, and adorned with
   spreading waters; many ornamented temples also break in upon the eye at every
   angle.  From out of the bosom of those majestic woods, a graceful Ionic
   column rears its head; erected by the late Marquis of Rockingham, to
   commemorate the acquittal of his friend Admiral Keppel.  But its chief
   artificial decoration, is the Mausoleum, of fine free stone, about a mile
   from the principal front, built by the present Earl Fitzwilliam, in 1788, in
   honour of his glorious predecessor, the late Marquis of Rockingham, which
   forms a noble object; it is 90 feet high, and consists of three divisions.
           The noble family of Fitzwilliam is of great antiquity, and may be
   traced to William Fitz Godric, cousin of King Edward the Confessor.  His Son,
   Sir William, distinguished himself at the battle of Hastings, in 1066.  And
   the illustrious family of Wentworth is also of Saxon origin; and in the
   Church are many monuments of the family during the 15th, 16th and 17th
   centuries, but in the last century their remains were deposited in York
   Minster.
 
WENTWORTH-CASTLE, (the seat of Frederick Vernon Wentworth, Esq.) in the township
   of Stainbrough, and parish of Silkstone, wapentake of Staincross; 3 miles
   from Barnsley, 5.5 from Penistone, 11 from Sheffield.

           This Castle, which occupies the site of an eminent fortress, was
   built about the year 1730, by Thomas, Earl of Strafford, of whom there is a
   good marble statue, by Ruysbreack, standing in the centre of its area, much
   injured by time and neglect.  It is a large quadrangular building, and over
   the centre window of the north front are the arms of the founder.  The east
   front of this noble mansion is of a modern character, and was erected by
   William, Earl of Strafford, about 1770.  Its architecture is at once both
   elegant and rich.  In the interior are a great many spacious and elegant
   rooms, but its greatest beauty is to be found in the gallery, one hundred and
   eighty feet long, by twenty-four broad, and thirty high, divided into three
   divisions, by magnificent pillars of marble, with gilt capitals.  This room,
   as well as others in the house, is ornamented with statues, and several
   pictures by Vandyck, Sir P. Lely, Vanderhelst, &c.  --Neale.  The Rev. R.
   Warner, in his tour, calls this house a heavy tasteless building.
 
WESKETT-HILL, ham. in the township of Tong, and parish of Birstall; 3 miles from
   Bradford, 8 from Halifax.
 
WESTBROOK-HOUSE, (the seat of Richard Fawcett, Esq.) in the township of Great
   Horton, and parish of Bradford; 2 miles from Bradford.
 
WESTBY, f.h. in the township and parish of Gisburn; 1 mile from Gisburn.
 
WEST-END, in the township of Thurscross, and parish of Fewston, lower-division
   of Claro; 10.5 miles from Otley, 11.5 from Skipton.
 
WEST-END, straggling houses, in the township of Stainburne, and parish of
   Kirkby Overblow; 3.75 miles from Otley, 8 from Ripley.
 
WESTERTON, See Ardsley, West.
 
WESTERTON-HALL, cotts, in the township of West-Ardsley and parish of Woodkirk; 4
   miles from Wakefield.
 
WEST-FIELD, f.h. in the township of Azerley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard, 6
   miles from Ripon and Masham.
 
WEST-FIELD-HOUSE, f.h. in the township and parish of Fishlake; 4 miles from
   Thorne, 7.5 from Snaith.
 
WEST-GILL, ham. in the township of Garsdale, and parish of Sedbergh; 5 miles
   from Sedbergh, 14.5 from Askrigg.
 
WEST-HADDLESEY.  -See Haddlesey, West.
 
WEST-HOUSE, or WEST-HOUSE FACTORY, in the township and parish of Fewston,
   lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from Otley, 12.5 from Knaresborough and
   Skipton.  -There are usually 500 boys and girls employed here.
 
WEST-HOUSES, in the township of Upper-Stonebeck, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard,
   lower division of Claro; 5.5 miles from Kettlewell, 10 from Middleham, 13
   from Pateley Bridge.
 
WEST-HOUSES, ham. in the township and parish of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, wapentake
   of Ewcross 1 mile from Ingleton.
 
WEST-KEY HILL,  in the township of Weeton, and parish of Harewood; 5 miles from
   Otley and Harewood.
 
WESTNALL, a district or division of Bradfield township, in the parish of
   Ecclesfield; which, with Waldershelf, form the constablery and township of
   Bradfield, Westnall, and Waldershelf.
 
WESTON, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; (Weston Hall, the seat of
   William Vavasour, Esq.) 2 miles from Otley, 12 from Leeds, 5 from
   Knaresborough, 30 from York.  --Pop. 108.  The Church is a vicarage,
   dedicated to All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value,
   +6L. 11s. 5.5d.  p.r. 57L. 6s. 8d.  Patron, the King.
 
WEST-SCHOLES, ham. in the township of Clayton, and parish of Bradford; 3.25
   miles from Bradford, 5.25 from Halifax.
 
WEST-SYKE GREEN, 2 or 3h. in the township of Felliscliffe, and parish of
   Hampsthwaite; 4 miles from Ripley.

          Here is a Free-School, founded in 1711, by John Richmond, by Will,
   dated Sept. 11, `1711.  It is endowed with nineteen and a half acres of land,
   at West Syke Green, for the education of boys, whose parents reside in
   Felliscliffe and Birstwith, in English, Latin, Writing, and Arithmetic.
   -Master's Salary, 14L. per annum.  --Commis. Report.
 
WEST-THORPE, f.h. in the township of Hoyland-Swaine, and parish of Silkstone;
   1.5 miles from Penistone.
 
WESTWICK, 3 f.h. in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro; 2
   miles from Boroughbridge, 4 from Ripon:, 7 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 27.
 
WEST-WOOD, ham. in the township of Golcar, and parish of Huddersfield; 3 miles
   from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax.
 
WETHERBY, a market and post-town, in the parish at Spofforth, upper division of
   Claro; 6 miles from Harewood, 7 from Knaresborough, and Tadcaster, 8 from
   Abberford, 12 from Boroughbridge, 15.25 from York, 16 from Otley and Leeds,
   194 from London.  --Market, Thursday.  --Fairs, Holy-Thursday, and August 5,
   for sheep and pigs, --Principal Inns, Angel, and Dog and Swan.  --Pop. 1,217.
   The Church is a perpetual curacy, of which the Rector of Spofforth is Patron.

           This place is situated upon the river Wharfe, over which there is a
   handsome bridge.  It consists principally of one street, which has of late
   years been considerably improved by the Duke of Devonshire, the chief
   proprietor, by whose directions a number of ruinous houses have been pulled
   down, and new ones, upon a smaller scale, erected of stone.
           The Manor of Wetherby, in the 10th William I. was in the hands of two
   Norman Lords, viz. William de Percy, and Erneis de Burun.  It was afterwards
   in the possession of the Knights Templars, and, together with all their
   estates in England, was forfeited on the abolition of their order, in 1312;
   when it was given with other possessions by the Pope, to the Knights
   Hospitallers of St. John, and confirmed by parliament, in 1324.
           In the civil wars of Charles I., this town had a small Garrison,
   commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax, who in the year 1642, repulsed Sir Thomas
   Glenham in two different attacks.  - See the particulars in History of
   Knaresborough, extracted from the Memoirs of that illustrious Commander.
   Before the erection of a bridge at Wetherby, which is on the great north
   road, the Roman military way crossed the river at Helen's-Ford, between this
   town and Tadcaster.
 
WETHERBY-GRANGE, s.h. in the township of Micklethwaite, and parish of
   Collingham; 1 mile from Wetherby.

          This place is the property of Paul Beilby Thompson, Esq.  The house is
   in an unfinished state, and is only occupied by a farmer, to take care of the
   deer and horses in the Park.  It is sometimes called Micklethwaite-Grange,
   and under which name, it appears, at page 357, incorrect with respect to its
   being extra parochial.

WHAITBER, s.h. in the township of Burton-in-Lonsdale, and parish of
   Thornton-in-Lonsdale; 3 miles from Ingleton.
 
WHARFE, ham. in the township of Austwick, and parish of Clapham; 8 miles from
   Settle.

WHARNCLIFFE-LODGE, (the residence of Lady Viscountess Erne.) in the township of
   Wortley, and parish of Tankersley, wapentake of Staincross; 6 miles from
   Sheffield, 8.5 from Penistone, 9 from Rotherham.

           This house, which is situated on one of the highest peaks of
   Wharncliffe Chase, was built in the time of Henry VIII. by Sir Thomas
   Wortley.  In this house, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, spent much of the first
   two or three years of her married life, the earliest and the happiest.  Here
   was born, that singular and romantic character, her son.
           Wharncliffe is partly a Forest, and partly a deer Park.  It is still
   a member of the great estate of the Wortley family, and is now the property
   of James Stuart Wortley, Esq. and occupied by the mother of this knight of
   the shire.  It is famous, also, for being the scene of the old ballad of "the
   Dragon of Wantley," and a cleft in the rocks is now called the Dragons Den.
   -In Hunter's Hallamshire, page 2, the reader will find an interesting account
   of this place.

WHEAT-CROFT, f.h. in the township of Aldwarke-with-Wheat-Croft, and parish of
   Ecclesfield, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2 miles from
   Rotherham.  --Pop. included in Aldwark.
 
WHEAT-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Throapham, and parish of St. John's; 5
   miles from Tickhill and Worksop, (Notts.)
 
WHEATLEY, (the seat of Sir George Cooke, Bart.) in the parish and soke of
   Doncaster, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 2.25 miles from
   Doncaster, 9 from Thorne.  --Pop. Including Sandal Parva, 169, which being
   united, form a township.
 
WHEATLEY, in the township of Ovenden, and parish of Halifax, liberty of
   Wakefield; 1.5 miles from Halifax.

        Bryan Cooke, Esq. of Sandall, in this county, ancestor of the present
   Baronet, had a son, Bryan, of the same place, who, for his loyalty to Charles
   I., was fined by the sequestrators, 1460L.  His son, George Cooke, Esq. was
   advanced to the dignity of a Baronet, May 10, 1661; which dignity has
   continued in the family, by a lineal succession, to the present time. -Magna.
   Brit.
 
WHEATLEY, ham. in the township and parish of Ilkley; 5 miles from Otley, 10.5
   from Skipton.
 
WHERNSIDE, in the wapentake of Staincross.

           The situation of this Mountain, is about 4 miles from Ingleborough,
   in the midst of a vast amphitheatre of hills.  There are several tarns or
   small lakes near the top; two of them, near 200 yards in length, and almost
   of an equal extent in breadth.  It is obvious to the eye, that this mountain
   is higher than Ingleborough.
 
WHIRLOW, ham. in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 4
   miles from Sheffield.
 
WHISTON, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Hallamshire; 2 miles from Rotherham, 7.5 from Sheffield,  II from
   Tickhill, 50 from York.  --Pop. 859.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to
   St. James, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 10L.  Patron, Lord Howard of
   Effingham.

           The Church is an ancient rectory, having belonged to the Lovetots,
   and descended from them to the Furnivals, Talbots, and Howards, Lords of
   Sheffield.  In the 9th Edward II. Thomas de Furnival was Lord of this Manor,
   which still belongs to his representative, the Duke of Norfolk.  Here is a
   small endowed School, by Frances Mansel, in 1728, value about 30L. per ann.
   -Hunter.
 
WHISTON, UPPER, ham. in the township and parish of Whiston; 2.5 miles from
   Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield.
 
WHITCLIFFE, 2 f.h. in the parish and liberty of Ripon, lower division of Claro;
   1.5 miles from Ripon, 7.5 from Boroughbridge.  --Pop. including Littlethorpe,
   157, which being united, form a township.
 
WHITCROSS, f.h. in the township and parish of Emley, liberty of Wakefield; 7
   miles from Huddersfield and Wakefield.
 
WHITE-HILL, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 2.5
   miles from Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield.
 
WHITE-HOUSES, ham. in the township of High and Low-Bishopside, and parish and
   liberty of Ripon; 1 mile from Pateley Bridge.
 
WHITE-LEE, ham. in the township of Quick, and parish of Rochdale, (Lanc.) 10
   miles from Rochdale.
 
WHITE-LEES, ham. in the township of Scammonden, and parish of Huddersfield; 6.5
   miles from Huddersfield.
 
WHITELEY-WOOD HALL, (the seat of William Silcock, Esq.)
   in the township of Ecclesall-Bierlow, and parish of Sheffield; 3.5
   miles from Sheffield.
 
WHITE-WELL, in the township of the Forest of Bowland, lower, and parish of
   Whalley, (Lanc.) west-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 8 miles from
   Clitheroe, (Lanc.) 13.5 from Gisburn, 17 from Lancaster.  Here is a Chapel of
   Ease under Whalley, built in 1817, value, p.r. 82L. 9s.
 
WHITE-WINDOWS, (the seat of George Priestly, Esq.) in the township of Sowerby,
   and parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 3.5 miles from Halifax, 8 from
   Huddersfield.
 
WHITGIFT, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract;
   6 miles from Howden, 8 from Crowle, (Linc.) 13 from Snaith, 26 from York.
   --Pop. 310.  The Church, peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to St.
   Mary Magdalen, in the deanry of Pontefract.  Patron, Lord Yarborough.

           This place is one of those many villages which encompass the river
   island, wherein are Ditchmarsh and Marsh-Land.  It was anciently the estate
   of the Lacys, Earls of Lincoln, and afterwards descended to Henry, Lord
   Scroop, of Bolton, Chief Justice of the Kings Bench.  -Magna Brit.
           In December, 1614, the Hon. Sir John Sheffield, with his brothers,
   Sir Edmund and Mr. Philip Sheffield, sons to the lord Sheffield, lord
   President of the North, in passing Whitgift-Ferry over the Ouse, were
   drowned, with all their servants, and their bodies never found.  --Drake.
           During the siege of Hull in 1643, the royalists erected a Fort here
   to prevent Hull from receiving supplies by water.  - Tickell's. Hist. Hull.
 
WHITKIRK, a parish, in the township of Temple-Newsam, lower division of Skyrack;
   4.25 miles from Leeds, 8 from Wakefield, 10.75 from Ferrybridge, 21 from
   York.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of the
   Ainsty, value, +13L. 5s. 7.5d. p.r. 120L.  Patron, Trinity College,
   Cambridge.

           In this Church of Whitkirk, was a chantry for two priests on the
   south side of the choir, and valued, 37 Henry VIII. at 12L. 3s. 4d. founded
   by William Scargill, Esq. of Thorpe-Stapleton.  And on the north wall of the
   choir is a mural inscription to the memory of John Sneaton, F.R.S. the
   builder of the Eddystone Light-house".  --Whitaker.
 
WHITLEY, in the parishes of Kellington and Snaith, wapentake of Osgoldcross,
   liberty and bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 6.5 miles from Snaith; 6.75 from
   Pontefract.  --Pop. 284
 
WHITLEY, in the township and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; (Whitley-Hall, the seat of William Bingley, Esq.) 5 miles from
   Sheffield, 9 from Barnsley.
 
WHITLEY-HALL, (the residence of Mr. W. Rayner,) in the township of Whitley, and
   parish of Kirkheaton, liberty of Pontefract; 5.5 miles from Huddersfield, 7.5
   from Wakefield.

           This is the seat of the ancient family of the Beaumonts, the heir to
   which is a minor and a Word in Chancery; the Hall is, in consequence, at
   present occupied by Mr. Rayner, their agent.

           This Hall, built by Sir Richard Beaumont, about the end of
   Elizabeth's reign, and enlarged in 1704, stands advantageously on an elevated
   plain declining to the west.  On the western side of the principal entrance
   is the family Chapel, fitted up with excellently carved oak, and in the taste
   formed by Gibbons, if not executed by him.  The house abounds with an unusual
   number of portraits.  It has been the seat of the Beaumont's family since the
   reign of Henry III.  -Whitaker.
 
WHITLEY-HOUSE, (the seat of Mrs. Hollings) in the township of Manningham, and
   parish of Bradford; 1 mile from Bradford.
 
WHITLEY, UPPER, in the parish of Kirkheaton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 5.5 miles from Huddersfield, 7.5 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 764.
 
WHITLEY, LOWER, in the parish of Thornhill, Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and
   Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 6.5 miles from Huddersfield, 8.5 from
   Wakefield.  --Pop. 903.
 
WHITLEY-THORPE, f.h. in the township of Whitley, and parish of Kellington,
   liberty and bailiwick of Cowick and Snaith; 7 miles from Pontefract and
   Snaith.
 
WHITWELL, f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 8 miles
   from Penistone.
 
WHITWELL-PLACE, s.h. in the township of Elland-with-Greetland, and parish of
   Halifax; 5.5 miles from Halifax.
 
WHITWOOD, in the parish of Featherstone, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4 miles from Pontefract, 6 from Wakefield.  --Pop. 292
 
WHITWOOD-MERE, ham. in the township of Whitwood, and parish of Featherstone; 3.5
   miles from Pontefract.
 
WHIXLEY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Claro; 6 miles from
   Boroughbridge, 7.5 from Wetherby, 8 from Knaresborough, 11 from York.  --Pop.
   467.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of Boroughbridge,
   diocese of Chester, value, 7L. 17s. 1d. p.r. !41L.  Patron, the Heirs of the
   Tancreds.

           This was formerly a seat of the ancient family of Tancred, the last
   of whom, Christopher Tancred, Esq. died in August, 1754, and by his will,
   left his house and estate here, for the maintenance of 12 decayed Gentlemen,
   four in each of the three learned professions; who must be 50 years of age or
   upwards, and unmarried, each of whom received, in 1814, about 50L. per ann.
   and 1s. 6d. per day for providing victuals, &c. besides the use of two large
   gardens; a separate apartment is assigned to each, but, if in health, are
   required to dine together in the dining-room every day.  The Hall is 27 feet
   square.  The Chapel is 27 feet by 21, in it a pulpit and reading desk; the
   former of which appears as if it had never been used; having no entrance.  In
   a vault underneath this Chapel, it is said, the noble founder lays.  20L. per
   ann. is allowed to a Clergyman for officiating here at stated times.  The
   inmates of this Hospital are not allowed to be absent a night without leave,
   and the longest time of absence allowed, is five days.  In the Staircase is a
   Pedigree of the Tancreds, commencing with Richard Tancred, Esq. who married
   Adeliza, daughter of Jordan de Bussey, and ending with the founder of this
   Hospital.  At the end is an account of the several places where the family
   had estates.  Annual value in 1786, was about 1300L. -The trust of this
   Hospital is vested in seven Governors, viz. The Governors of Greenwich and
   Chelsea Hospitals; the Master of the Charter-House; the President of the
   College of Physicians; the Treasurer of Lincoln's-Inn, London; the Masters of
   Caius College; and Christ's College, Cambridge.

           The Church formerly belonged to the Priory of Knaresborough.  Mr.
   Drake supposes that it was built with stones, brought from the ruins of
   Aldburgh; as the marks of fire are very apparent in some parts of the
   building: it is, nevertheless, very probable, that it was burnt, with many
   other Churches in this neighbourhood, by the Scots, in the year 1319.  The
   Park-wall, and most of the houses, in this village, are built with pebbles,
   said to have been taken from the remains of the Roman road.

WIBSEY, in the township of North-Bierley, and parish of Bradford, Morley
   division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Bradford,
   5 from Halifax.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, dedicated to the Holy
   Trinity, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, 104L.  Patron, the Vicar of
   Bradford.

WIBSEY-LOW-MOOR, in the township of North-Bierley, and parish of Bradford,
   Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from
   Bradford, 5 from Halifax.

WICKERSLEY, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; 4 miles from Rotherham, 8 from Tickhill, 9 from
   Sheffield, 47 from York.  --Pop. 432.  The Church is a rectory, dedicated to
   St. Alban, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, 8L. 0s. 2.5d.  Patrons, Henry
   Kater, Esq.

           This place is famous for a fine bed of Stone, peculiarly adapted for
   the making of Grindstones, 5000 of which, are annually sent by land carriage
   to Sheffield.  -Miller's Hist. Doncaster.
 
WIDDINGTON, a township, in the parish of Little-Ouseburn, upper-division of
   Claro; 8 miles from Boroughbridge, 11 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 31.
 
WIGHILL, (Ainsty) a parish-town; 2.5 miles from Tadcaster, 6 from Wetherby, 8.5
   from York.  --Pop. 250.  The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints,
   value, +5L. 3s. 6.5d. p.r. 130L.  Patron, Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.
 
WIGHILL-PARK, (Ainsty) in the township and parish of Wighill; (the residence of
   Richard Yorke, Esq,) 4 miles from Tadcaster and Wetherby, 9 from York.

           The family of Stapleton, of which there have been a succession of
   many worthy Knights, hath long been in possession of this estate.  Sir Robert
   Stapleton, who was Sheriff of this county 23 Elizabeth, met the Judges with
   seven score men in suitable liveries.  He was descended of Sir Miles
   Stapleton, one of first founders of the Garter, and Sheriff for five years
   together, from 29 Edward III.  -Sir John Harrington, in his book, addressed
   to Prince Henry, gives him this great character: "Sir Robert Stapleton, a
   Knight of Yorkshire, when your Highness hath often seen, was a man well
   spoken of; had scarce an equal, and no superior, in England, except Sir
   Philip Sidney."   The Church of Wighill, was given to the Priory of
   Helagh-Park, in the year 1291. -Drake.
          The estate is now the property of Richard Fountayne Wilson, Esq.
 
WIGGLESWORTH, in the parish of Long-Preston, west-division and liberty of
   Staincliffe; 5 miles from Settle, 13 from Skipton and Colne, (Lanc.)  --Pop.
   479.

           Here is a School, free for all the Children in the township, founded
   by Lawrence Clark, about the year 1800.
 
WIGTON, a township, in the parish of Harewood, upper-division of Skyrack; 3.5
   miles from Harewood, 5 from Leeds, 8 from Wetherby.  --Pop. 164.

WIGTWIZLE, f.h. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 6 miles
   from Penistone, 12 from Sheffield.
 
WIKE, in the parishes of Harewood and Bardsey, upper-division of Skyrack; 2
   miles from Harewood, 6.5 from Leeds, 8 from Wetherby.  Pop. 139.
 
WIKE, in the parish of Birstall, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty
   of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Bradford, 5 from Halifax, 8 from Huddersfield.
   --Pop. 1,509.  About half a mile south is:-
 
WIKE, LOWER, in the same township and parish.
 
WILBY, f.h. in the township and parish of Cantley; 2.5 miles from Doncaster, 7
   from Bawtry.
 
WILCROSS-BROW, f.h. in the township and parish of Gisburn; 1 mile from Gisburn.
 
WILLOW-EDGE, (the seat of Thomas Dyson, Esq.) in the township of Skircoat, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 2 miles from Halifax.  --In the same
   township is:-
 
WILLOW-FIELD, the seat of Mrs. John Dyson, and
WILLOW-HALL, the seat of the Miss Dysons.
 
WILSDEN, in the parish of Bradford, Morley-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 5 miles from Bradford and Keighley, 8 from Halifax.
   --Pop. 1,711.
 
WILSALL, in the township of High and Low-Bishopside, and parish and liberty of
   Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 2 miles from Pateley Bridge, 7 from Ripley,
   9.5 from Ripon.

WILSICK, in the township of Stansill-with-Wellingley and Wilsick, and parish of
   Tickhill, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill;
   (the seat of George Parker, Esq.) 2 miles from Tickhill, 5 from Doncaster, 6
   from Bawtry.  --Pop. included in Stansill.
 
WILSTROP, or WILSTHORP, (Ainsty) in the, parish of Kirk Hammerton; 8.5 miles
   from York, 10 from Knaresborough.  --Pop. 95.
 
WINCO-BANK, ham. in the township and parish of Ecclesfield; (Winco-Bank Hall,
   the seat of Joseph Reads, Esq.) 4 miles from Sheffield and Rotherham, 10 from
   Barnsley.
 
WINDFIELD, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 2 miles
   from Rotherham, 10 from Barnsley.
 
WINDHILL, ham. in the township of Idle, and parish of Calverley, liberty of
   Pontefract; 3 miles from Pontefract, 7.5 from Otley.

WINDHILL-GATE, f.h. in the township of Woolley, and parish of Royston; 5 miles
   from Barnsley and Wakefield.
 
WINDLEDEN, s.h. in the township of Thurlstone, and parish of Penistone; 6 miles
   from Penistone.
 
WIND-MILL-HOUSE, p.h. in the township and parish of Crofton; 4 miles from
   Wakefield, 5 from Pontefract.

WINKSLEY, in the parish of Ripon, lower-division of Claro; 5 miles from Ripon, 6
   from Masham.  --Pop. 176.  The Church is a perpetual curacy, in the deanry of
   Ripon, value, p.r. 70L.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.

WINMORE, in the parish of Thorner, wapentake of Skyrack; 6.5 miles from Leeds.

           This place is famous for a great battle fought here, on the 15th of
   November 655.  Penda, King of the Mercians, bore a constant enmity to the
   Northumbrians, and very often made ravages in their dominions, without any
   regard to treaties.  Oswy, the Northumbrian Monarch, did all he could to stop
   these ravages; but, being unable by force of arms, he had recourse to bribes,
   and offered great sums of money, and all the royal ornaments; but the haughty
   Penda, grown grey with age, old as he was, would not hearken to any offers;
   being obstinately resolved to ruin all his territories, and extirpate the
   whole nation.  His army appeared more than sufficient to execute his cruel
   resolution, being thirty times the number of that of Oswy.  In this dreadful
   dilemma, the devoted Northumbrians, seeing no alternative but that of
   conquest or death, received the charge of the Mercians with an heroic
   firmness, scarcely to be equalled in the annals of war.  Oswy, and his son,
   Alkfryd, at the head of their troops, charged like men in despair.  The
   Mercians gave way, and the greatest part of their army was cut to pieces;
   amongst which, was the haughty Penda, and nearly thirty of his principal
   officers.  --Thoresby.
 
WINSLEY, in the township of Hartwith-with-Winsley, and parish of Kirkbymalzeard,
   lower-division of Claro; 3 miles from Ripley, 6 from Pateley Bridge, 7 from
   Ripon.  --Pop. included in Hartwith.
 
WINSKILL, f.h. in the township of Langcliffe, and parish of Giggleswick; 1 mile
   from Settle.
 
WINTERBURNE, in the township of Flasby-with-Winterburne, and parish of Gargrave,
   east-division and liberty of Staincliffe; 7 miles from Skipton, 9 from
   Settle, 11 from Kettlewell.  --Pop. included in Flasby.
 
WINTEREDGE, s.h. in the township of Hipperholme, and parish of Halifax; 3 miles
   from Halifax.

           This House appears, at some remote period to have been of some
   consequence, although in Watson's time it was "not the residence of any
   Gentleman." Under the Garden House is the following inscription:-

                 "Garrulus insano crucietur mundus amore,
                  Dum mea placide vita serena placet."

   Over the door of the Garden House, "Meliora spero."  Still higher over the
   window, "contra vim mortis, non est medicamen in hortis."  And in the said
   Garden-house in an Out-building, called the Workhouse, and in the Kitchen,
   are a variety of figures in stained glass, with appropriate mottoes.
   --Watson's Hist. Halifax.
           Winteredge was held, 42 Elizabeth, of the Crown in fee, by Samuel
   Saltonstall, of Huntwike, and has lately been, says Mr. Watson, in the
   possession of the Priestleys.  --Ibid.
 
WINTERSCALE, f.h. in the township of Garsdale, and parish of Sedbergh; 4 miles
   from Sedbergh, 15.5 from Askrigg.

WINTERSETT, in the parish of Wragby, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 6 miles from Wakefield, 6.5 from Barnsley, 9.5 from Pontefract.
   --Pop. 135.
 
WISTOW, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Barkston-Ash, liberties of St. Peter,
   and of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley; 2 miles from Cawood, 3 from Selby, 12 from
   York.  --Pop. 633.  The Church, peculiar, is a vicarage, dedicated to
   All-Saints, in the deanry of the Ainsty, value, +8L.  Patron, the Prebendary
   thereof.

           The Archbishop of York usually holds a Court of Pypowder at the
   Lammas Fair, at York, the jury of which is impannelled out of this place.
   -Drake.
 
WITHENS, a few h. in the township of Erringden, and parish of Halifax, liberty
   of Wakefield; 10.5 miles from Huddersfield.
 
WITHER, s.h. in the township of Armley, and parish of Leeds; 3.5 miles from
   Leeds, 6.5 from Bradford.
 
WOLFIT, f.h. in the township and parish of Tickhill; 2 miles from Tickhill.

WOMBWELL, in the parish of Darfield, upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill,
   liberty of Tickhill; 4.25 miles from Barnsley, 7.75 from Rotherham, 10 from
   Sheffield.  --Pop. 811.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Darfield.
 
WOMBWELL-WOOD HEAD, 2 f.h. in the township of Wombwell, and parish of Darfield,
   liberty of Tickhill;  4 miles from Barnsley, 8 from Rotherham.
 
WOMERSLEY, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Hawke) 5 miles from Pontefract
   and Ferrybridge, 8 from Snaith, 26 from York.  --Pop. 316.  The Church is a
   vicarage, dedicated to St. Martin, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, +6L.
   11s. 5.5d.  Patron, The Right Hon. Lord Hawke.
 
WOODALE, HIGH and LOW, 2 f.h. in the township of Upper Stonebeck, and parish of
   Kirkbymalzeard; 7 miles from Kettlewell.

WOODALL, in the township and parish of Harthill, upper-division of Strafforth
   and Tickhill; 5 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 9 from Rotherham, 11 from
   Sheffield.

WOODKIRK, a parish, in Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of
   Wakefield; 6 miles from Wakefield and Dewsbury.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Pontefract, value, p.r. 150L.
   Patron, the Earl of Cardigan.
 
WOOD-FOOT, s.h. in the township of Greasbrough, and parish of Rotherham; 2 miles
   from Rotherham.
 
WOOD-HALL HILLS, ham. in the township of Calverley-with Farsley, and parish of
   Calverley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Bradford, 7 from Leeds.
 
WOOD-HALL, (the seat of William Lister Fenton Scott, Esq.) in the township of
   Sicklinghall, and parish of Kirkby Overblow; 2.5 miles from Wetherby, 8 from
   Knaresborough.
 
WOOD-HALL, 2 h. in the township and parish of Womersley; 5 miles from Pontefract
   and Ferrybridge.
 
WOOD-HALL, NETHER, (the seat of John Garland, Esq.) in the township and parish
   of Darfield, lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4 miles from
   Barnsley.
 
WOOD-HALL, OVER, f.h. in the township and parish of Darfield; 4 miles from
   Barnsley.
 
WOOD-HOUSE, (the seat of John Armitage, Esq.) in the township of Rastrick, and
   parish of Halifax, liberty of Wakefield; 5 miles from Halifax, 6 from
   Dewsbury.

           Wood-House, a very ancient Mansion, which, about the year 1330, gave
   name to a family of some account, as already mentioned under the pedigree of
   Rastrick.  It had its name from the materials of which it was built, to
   distinguish it from those of stone.  -Watson.
 
WOOD-HOUSE, ham. in the township and parish of Normanton, liberty of Wakefield;
   4 miles from Pontefract, 5.5 from Wakefield.
 
WOOD-HOUSE, (the seat of John Whitacre, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Huddersfield; 1 mile from Huddersfield, 8 from Halifax.
 
WOOD-HOUSE, GREAT, in the township and parish of Leeds, lower-division of
   Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 1.25 miles from Leeds.
 
WOOD-HOUSE-CARR, in the township and parish of Leeds, lower-division of Skyrack;
   1 mile from Leeds.
 
WOOD-HOUSE, LITTLE, in the township and parish of Leeds, lower-division of
   Skyrack, liberty of Pontefract; 1 mile from Leeds.
 
WOOD-HOUSE, UPPER, (the seat of John White, Esq.) in the township of Rawden, and
   parish of Guiseley; 4 miles from Bradford.

WOOD-HOUSE, YATE, f.h. in the township and parish of Slaidburn; 1 mile from
   Slaidburn.
 
WOODLANDS, (the seat of Mrs. Waterton) in the township and Adwick-le-Street,
   lower-division of Strafforth and Tickhill; 3.5 miles from Doncaster, 11.5
   from Pontefract.
 
WOOD-HOUSE-HALL, s.h. in the township of Skircoat, and parish of Halifax; 4
   miles from Halifax, 10 from Huddersfield.

           Wood-House is a very ancient situation, as appears from its name.
   The present building has the date 1580.  It was purchased for 1800L. by Simon
   Sterne, third son of Dr. Richard Sterne, Archbishop of York.  Sterne, author
   of Tristram Shandy, was of this family.  -Watson.
 
WOODLAND-COTTAGE, (the residence of John Jaques, M.D.) in the township of
   Bilton-with-Harrogate, and parish of Knaresborough; half a mile from
   Harrogate.

           It was originally built by Daniel Lascelles, Esq. about the year
   1771.  Alexander, Lord Loughborough, having purchased the estate some years
   after, made considerable additions to this house, raised a very extensive
   plantation; and also built the house, now the residence of John Jaques, M.D.;
   who purchased the estate of his Lordship's successor, the present Earl of
   Rosslyn.
 
WOODLEE-MILL, a Mill, in the township and parish of Maltby; 5.5 miles from
   Tickhill and Bawtry.
 
WOODLESFORD, in the parish of Rothwell, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 4.5 miles from Leeds, 5 from Wakefield.  Pop.
   including Oulton, 1,526, which being united, form a township.

WOOD-NOOK, 3 or 4 cotts. in the township of Honley, and parish of Almondbury;
   4.25 miles from Huddersfield.
 
WOOD-ROW, s.h. in the township of Shelley, and parish of Kirkburton; 6 miles
   from Huddersfield.
 
WOOD-SEAT, NORTH, )  2 f.h. in the township and parish of
WOOD-SEAT, SOUTH, )  Ecclesfield; 6.5 miles from Sheffield, 7 from Penistone.
 
WOODSETS, in the parish of South-Anston, upper-division of Strafforth and
   Tickhill, liberty of St. Peter; 4.5 miles from Worksop, (Notts.) 6.5 from
   Tickhill, 9.5 from Rotherham.  --Pop. including Gildingwells, 218, which
   being united, form a township.
 
WOODSOME-HALL, (the residence of Richard Gill, Esq.) in the township of
   Farnley-Tyas, and parish of Almondbury, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from
   Huddersfield, 10 from Penistone.

           Woodsome, so called from its situation, almost imbosomed in
   flourishing oak woods, and anciently a seat of the Kayes, but lately of the
   Earl of Dartmouth, whose great-grandfather married the heiress of the Kayes.
   The house is quadrangular and spacious.  The Hall is of the latter end of the
   reign of Henry VIII. or that of his son, Edward VI.  This apartment is
   preserved entire, the rest of the front has been rebuilt, and bears the date
   of 1600.  In this Hall, are two very singular paintings, on board, dated
   1573.  One contains a flat full-faced figure of John Kaye, son of Arthur
   Kaye, and Dorothy Mauleverer, his wife.  Around the father, are the figures
   of his sons, and around the mother, her daughters.  At the feet of the lady
   is a cumbent figure of an aged man, marked 76, in black.  On the margin of
   each is a long catalogue of the noble and generous kin of the parties, and on
   the backs, (for they are painted on both sides) the respective arms of the
   same.  To all these are added, several singular and rude inscriptions,
   particulars of which are given by Dr. Whitaker, in his Leodiensis.
 
WOODSIDE, scatt. hs. in the township and parish of Kildwick, liberty of
   Staincliffe; 4.5 miles from Keighley, 6 from Skipton.
 
WOODTHORPE, (the seat of the Rev. William Wood,) in the township and parish of
   Sandal-Magna, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 3
   miles from Wakefield.
 
WOODTHORPE, (the seat of Hugh Parker, Esq.) in the township and parish of
   Handsworth; 3 miles from Sheffield.
 
WOOLDALE, or WOLFSDALE, in the parish of Kirkburton, Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg
   and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 6.5 miles from Huddersfield, 8 from
   Penistone.

           This place, like many others, very probably took its name from its
   abounding with wolves; which were once so numerous in this part of the
   kingdom, that they attacked and destroyed great numbers of the tame beasts of
   the villages.  The inhabitants, finding all their efforts to destroy them in
   vain, petitioned King Athelston, beseeching him to grant them relief, by
   taking some effectual method to destroy those ferocious animals; for which
   service, they bound themselves, and their successors for ever, to give every
   year one thrave of corn, out of every carucate of land in the Bishopric of
   York.  Their petition was granted, and buildings erected in many places,
   particularly in the woods and forests, for the reception of dogs and
   huntsmen; by whose means, those ravenous creatures were, in a little time,
   entirely extirpated.  It is curious to remark, that the thrave of corn, given
   out of every carucate of land, was afterwards given by government, to the
   Cathedral of York; and is, to this day, called Peter-Corn.

WOOLLEY, in the parish of Royston, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; 5 miles from Barnsley and Wakefield, 10 from Penistone.  --Pop.
   482.  The Chapel is a perpetual curacy.  Patron. G.W. Wentworth, Esq.
   --Similarly situated, is:-
 
WOOLLEY-PARK, (the seat of Godfrey Wentworth Wentworth, Esq.)
 
WOOLLEY-EDGE, scatt. hs. in the township of Woolley, and parish of Royston; 6
   miles from Barnsley and Wakefield.
 
WORLDS-END, ham. in the township of Bilton with High-Harrogate, and parish of
   Knaresborough; three quarters of a mile from High-Harrogate.
 
WORMLEY-HILL, 2 or 3 f.h. in the township of Sykehouse, and parish of Fishlake;
   4 miles from Thorne, 7.5 from Snaith.
 
WORRALL, in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield, upper-division
   of Strafforth and Tickhill; 4.5 miles from Sheffield.
 
WORSBROUGH, in the parish of Darfield, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Worsbrough-Hall, the seat of Francis Edmunds, Esq. and
   Darlay-Hall, the seat of William Newman, Esq.); 3.5 miles from Barnsley, 7
   from Penistone, 11 from Sheffield.  --Pop. 1,392.  The Church is a perpetual
   curacy, dedicated to St. Mary, in the deanry of Doncaster, value, p.r.  *63L.
   0s. 6d.  Patron, the Rector of Darfield.

           This village was anciently styled Washingburgh; which in the reign of
   King Edward IV., was the estate of George, Duke of Clarence, that King's
   brother; who, according to History, was attained, condemned, and suffocated
   in a butt of malmsey wine.  Here is a beautiful parochial Chapel, and a Free
   School.  --Magna Brit.
           Here is a School for six poor Girls, founded in 1714, by William
   Skiers.
           Obadiah Walker, a divine of considerable abilities and learning, was
   born here, in 1616.  Among his published Works, the best is " The Greek and
   Roman History, illustrated" by Coins and Medals, 1692, 8vo.
 
WORTLEY, UPPER and LOWER, in the parish and borough of Leeds,  Morley-division
   of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Leeds, 8 from
   Bradford.  --Pop. 3,126.  Here is a Chapel of Ease to Leeds, under the
   Patronage of five Trustees.
 
WORTLEY, in the parish of Tankersley, wapentake of Staincross, liberty of
   Pontefract; (Wortley-Hall, the seat of James Archibald Stuart Wortley, Esq.)
   5 miles from Barnsley, 5.75 from Penistone, 8 from Sheffield, 10 from
   Rotherham.  --Pop. 904.  The Chapel is a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. !98L.
   Patron, James Archibald Stuart Wortley, Esq.

           The ancient seat of the Wortleys, of which Sir Thomas Wortley was
   High Sheriff of the County, in the 6th and 17th years of Henry VII. and a man
   of great power and consequence in the neighbourhood.  In the pedigrees of
   this great family, he is said to have allied himself in marriage with two of
   the principal houses in the north of England, the Fitzwilliams and the
   Pilkingtons.  He built the Lodge, upon Wharncliffe Chase, now called
   Wharncliffe lodge.  -Hunter.
           There is an amusing account of Taylor, the Water-Poet's visit to this
   place, given in Hunter's Hallamshire, transcribed from one of his rare
   Tracts, entitled "Part of this Summer's Travels, or News from Hell, Hull, and
   Halifax; from York, Linne, Leicester, Chester, &c. with many pleasant
   passages, worthy your observation and reading, by John Taylor.  Imprinted by
   JO. 12mo."  it appears that he returned from his Tour on the 20th of
   September, 1639.
 
WOTHERSOME, 2 h. in the parish of Bardsey, lower-division of Skyrack; 5 miles
   from Wetherby, 5.5 from Tadcaster.  --Pop. 16.

WRAGBY, a parish, in the townships of Purston-Jacklin, Winterset, and Hesle,
   wapentake of Osgoldcross; 5.25 miles from Pontefract, 6 from Wakefield, 14
   from Doncaster, 29 from York.  The Church, donative, is a perpetual curacy,
   dedicated to St. Michael, in the deanry of Pontefract.  Patron, Charles Winn,
   Esq.

WRANGBROOK, 3 f.h. in the township of North-Emsall, and parish of South-Kirkby,
   liberty of Pontefract; 6 miles from Pontefract, 9 from Doncaster.
 
WREAKS, or RAKES --See Rakes.
 
WRENTHORPE, in the township of Stanley-with-Wrenthorpe, and parish of Wakefield,
   Agbrigg-division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Wakefield; 1 mile from
   Wakefield, 8 from Leeds.  --Pop. included in Stanley; but at which there are
   no houses to constitute a town, the principal of the inhabitants being at
   Wrenthorpe.  This place is now commonly called Potovens.

WRETH-HOUSE, f.h. in the township of Oxspring, and parish of Penistone; 2 miles
   from Penistone, 5.5 from Barnsley.
 
WROSE, or WROSE-HILL, ham. in the township of Idle, and parish of Calverley,
   liberty of Pontefract; 3 miles from Bradford.

YARLSBER, ham. in the township of Ingleton, and parish of Low-Bentham; 5 miles
   from Kirby-Lonsdale, (Westm.)

YEADON, UPPER, in the parish of Guiseley, upper-division of Skyrack; 3.25 miles
   from Otley, 6.25 from Bradford, 5 from Leeds.  --Pop. 2,455.
 
YEADON, NETHER, in the township of Upper-Yeadon, and parish of Guiseley,
   upper-division of Skyrack; 4.25 miles from Otley, 5.5 from Bradford, 9 from
   Leeds.
 
YEWS, f.h. and Paper Mill, in the township and parish of Maltby; 4 miles from
   Tickhill.

YEWS, ham. in the township of Bradfield, and parish of Ecclesfield; 4.25 miles
   from Sheffield, 10.5 from Rotherham.
 
YOKENTHWAITE, ham. in the township of Buckden, and parish of Arnecliff, liberty
   of Staincliffe; 5 miles from Kettlewell.
 
YORDAS-CAVE, in the township and parish of Thornton-in-Lonsdale, wapentake of
   Ewcross; 10 miles from Kirby-Lonsdale.

           The entrance to this Cave is through a rude arched opening, four
   yards by seven, like the gateway of some ancient castle; which soon opens
   into an apartment, so spacious and extensive, that, with all the blaze of
   candles, neither the roof nor the walls can be clearly discerned.  No cave,
   in romance; no den of lions, giants, or serpents; nor any supposed haunts of
   ghosts, or fairies, were ever described more dreary or terrific than is this
   gloomy and dismal cavern.  After crossing a little brook, and proceeding
   thirty or forty yards farther, the high roof and walls are seen distinctly,
   as well as the curious petrifactions hanging therefrom.  On the right are
   several other curiously incrusted figures; a projecting one is called The
   Bishops-Throne, from its great resemblance to that appendage of a cathedral;
   another confused mass of incrusted matter, bears some resemblance to a large
   organ.  After entering a narrow passage, of five or six yards, where the roof
   is supported by seven pillars, there is only room for one person in breadth;
   but, the height is very considerable.  At a small distance hence, a cascade
   issues from an opening in the rock, and falls four or five yards into a
   circular apartment, roofed with a fine dome: this apartment, some visitants
   have named The Chapter House.  The whole length of this singular cavern is
   between fifty and sixty yards; its breadth, thirteen yards; and height, forty
   seven feet.  The principal part, here described, lies to the right; but it
   extends also on the other hand, and unfolds some wonderful closets, called
   Yordas Bedchamber, Yordas-Oven. &c.  On the upper side of Yordas-Cave, is a
   quarry of black marble; from which, elegant monuments, chimney-pieces, slabs,
   and other ornaments are dug.

YORK, a city, borough, and town-corporate, is divided into the 
   following parishes, viz.

      -------- The Churches marked thus @ are not now standing.  --------
 
           All-Saints, in Pavement, with St. Peter the Little, a rectory, value
   +5L. 16s. 10.5d. p.r. 67L. 2s.  Patron the King.  --Pop. 554.
 
           All-Saints, North-Street, a rectory, value +4L. 17s. 11d.  p.r. 66L.
   Patron the King.  --Pop. 910.
 
           St. Andrew@.  --Pop. 185.
 
           St. Cuthbert, in Peasholme-Green, a rectory, value +5L. 10s. 10d.
   Patron, the-King.  --Pop. 209, including Helen-Street-on-the-Walls, 398, and
   All-Saints, Peaseholme, 223; total, 830.
 
           St. Crux, in the Shambles, a rectory, value +6L. 16s. 8d.  p.r.
   !104L.  Patron, the King.  --Pop. 827.
 
           St. Dennis, in Walmgate, a rectory, value +4L. 0s. 10d.  Patron, the
   University of Cambridge, held with St. George, Naburn, value p.r. 80L.
   --Pop. 1,093.
 
           St. Giles@,  in the Suburbs.  --Pop. 881.
 
           St. Helen, in the Square, a rectory, value +4L. 5s. 5d. p.r. 46L.
   12s. 6d.  Patron, the King.  --Pop. 678.
 
           St. John Delpike@, in Goodramgate and Uggleforth.  --Pop 367.
 
           St. John, in Micklegate, otherwise Ousebridge-End.  --Pop. 938.
 
           St. Lawrence, without Walmgate, a vicarage peculiar, value +5L. 10s.
   with St. John, a perpetual curacy, value, together, p.r. 7L.  Patrons, the
   Dean and Chapter of York.  --Pop. including St. Nicholas, 799.
 
           St. Margaret, in Walmgate, a rectory, value +4L. 9s. 9.5d. p.r. 60L.
   Patron, the King.  --Pop. 808.
 
           St. Martin-le-Grand, in Coneystreet, a vicarage, value +4L.  p.r.
   !110L.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York.  --Pop. 610.
 
           St. Martin-cum-Gregory, in Micklegate, a rectory, value +5L. 16s. 2d.
   -Pop. 562.
 
           St. Mary, in Castlegate, a rectory, value +2L. 8s. 6.5d. p.r. !80L.
   Patron, the King.  --Pop 989.
 
           St. Mary, in Bishopshill-the-Elder, a rectory, value +5L. 0s. 10d.
   p.r. *95L. 6s. 2d.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York.  --Pop. 681.
 
           St. Mary, in Bishophill-the-Younger, is a vicarage, peculiar, value
   +10L. p.r. !146L. 4s. 5d.  Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York.  --Pop.
   767.
 
           St. Michael-le-Belfrey, in Petergate and Minster-yard, peculiar, is a
   perpetual curacy, value +2L. 0s. 10d.  p.r. +35L.  Patrons, the Dean and
   Chapter of York.  --Pop. 1,343.
 
           St. Michael, in Spurriergate, a rectory, value +8L. 12s. 1d. p.r.
   50L.  Patron, the King.  --Pop 593.
 
           St. Maurice, without Monk-Bar, peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, held
   along with St. Trinity, Goodramgate, a rectory, and St. John Delpike, a
   perpetual curacy, value, together, p.r. !97L. 14s. 6d.  Patron, the
   Archbishop of York.  --Pop. 798.
 
           Mint-Yard@, a liberty, in the parish of St. Wilfred.  --Pop 132.
 
           St. Olave, in Marygate,  --See North-Riding.
 
           St. Peter the Little@.  --Pop. 660.
 
           St. Peter-le-Willows@.  --Pop. 418.
 
           St. Sampson, Patrick's-Pool, peculiar, is a perpetual curacy, value,
   p.r. !100L.  Patrons, the Subchanter and Vicars Choral.  --Pop. 1,041.
 
           St. Saviour, in Saviourgate, a rectory, value +5L. 6s. 8d. p.r. 127L.
   Patron, the King.  --Pop. 987.
 
           Holy Trinity, in Goodramgate, a rectory, value +121L. 4s. 9.5d. held
   with St. Maurice.  --Pop. 527.
 
           Holy Trinity, otherwise Christ-Church, in King's Court a vicarage, 
   value +8L. p.r. 41L. 8s.  Patron, the Master of Well Hospital.  --Pop. 737.
 
           Holy Trinity, in Micklegate, a perpetual curacy, value, p.r. +80L.
   held with St. Cuthbert.  --Pop. 845.
 
           St. Wilfred@, in Blake street.  --Pop. 227.
 
 
        Is 10 miles from Tadcaster and Greenhammerton, 12 from Garraby Inn, 13 
   from Easingwold and Pocklington, 14 from Wetherby, 15 from Selby, 17 from 
   Boroughbridge, 18 from Malton and Knaresborough, 19 from Market-Weighton,
   20 from Howden, 21 from Harrogate, 23 from Helmsley, 29 from Driffield, 40
   from Scarborough and Bridlington, 198 from London: 201 from
   Edinburgh.  --Markets, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.  --Fairs, Candlemas
   Fair is held on Thursday and Friday before old Candlemas-day; Palm sun-fair,
   on Thursday before Palm-Sunday; All-Souls'-Fair, on November 13; and
   Martinmas-Fair on November 22, for horned cattle, sheep, horses, &c. in the
   streets of Walmgate, Fossgate, Colliergate, and Pavement; the Statutes for
   hiring servants, are held also in Pavement, on November 22.  St. Luke's-Fair,
   commonly called Dish-Fair, is held in Micklegate, on old St. Luke's day, for
   all sorts of dishes, small wares, &c.  -The Horse-Shows are held
   without-Micklegate Bar, on Monday in the August Race week; the last week in
   September, called Michaelmas-show; and the first whole week before
   Christmas.  There are likewise fairs held in Walmgate, every other Thursday,
   for horned cattle and sheep.  Three Fairs are held on the north-side of the
   city, called the horse-fair, for all sorts of cattle, viz. on Whit-Monday,
   old St. Peter's day, and old Lammas-day.  At the latter Fair, from three
   o'clock on the 11th of August, to the same hour on the 13th, the Sheriff's
   authority of arresting any person within the city and suburbs is suspended,
   the Archbishop's bailiff or substitute having the only power of executing any
   judicial process at that time.  Line Fairs, Saturday before old
   Candlemas-day, Saturday before old Lady-day, Whit-Monday, old
   St. Peter's-day, old Lammas-day, Saturday before old Michaelmas, Saturday
   before old Martinmas, and Saturday before Christmas day.  --Leather Fairs, on
   Peasholme Green, first Wednesdays in March, June, Sept. and
   December.  --Bankers, Messrs, Raper, Swann, Clough, Swann, Bland, and Raper,
   Coney-street, draw on Messrs. Sir R.C. Glyn, Bart. and Co. 12, Birchin-Lane;
   Messrs. Wilson, Tweedy, and Wilson, High-Ousegate, draw on Messrs. Robarts,
   Curtis, and Co. 15, Lombard street; Messrs. Wentworth, Chaloner, Rishworth,
   and Co. Low-Ousegate, draw on Messrs. Wentworth and Co.  25, Threadneedle
   street.   Total Population -City Parishes, 20,787.  --St. Peter's Liberty,
   924.  --York Castle, 152.  --St. Olave, Marygate, 966--Together, 22,829.
 
             York, the capital of the North, and second City in the Kingdom, 
   appears to have been founded by Agricola, about the year 80, after he had 
   finished his conquest of the Brigantes.  It soon became the head-quarters of
   the Roman army, and was the residence of the Roman Emperors.  After the
   departure of that war like, people, this City, and the surrounding country, 
   were exposed to the fury of the Northern Nations, received the barbarous 
   shocks of the Danes, and groaned, under repeated devastations, for more than 
   600 years; notwithstanding which, we find that this City frequently arose out 
   of its ashes, and again recovered its former splendour; for, in less than a 
   century after it had been razed to the ground, by the Norman Conqueror, it 
   was rebuilt, and a Parliament called here by Henry II.; after which, it was 
   honoured with the presence of most of our Kings, from Henry III. to Charles
   I.; during which time, Parliaments, Conventions, Coronations, Royal Marriages 
   and Interviews, at different periods, took place here.  The last visit, paid
   by Charles I., was in the year 1640; soon after which, this City was 
   garrisoned for the King, and surrendered to the arms of the Parliament, July 
   16, 1644.
           Every inquisitive traveller, in the search of antiquities, or 
   curiosities, will be tempted to make some stay at York -among the former, is 
   the arch at Micklegate Bar, and the multangular tower, near the Mint-Yard, 
   both built in the time of the Romans.  The sepulchral monument of the
   standard-bearer at the ninth legion of the Roman army, was dug up near 
   Micklegate; and, in many other parts of the City, have been found Roman 
   altars, stone coffins, tesselated pavements, inscriptions, urns, coins, &c.
           The situation of York is on a plain, on both sides of the river Ouse; 
   and so exactly resembles Rome in its form, that whoever compares the two 
   plans together, will find them exceedingly similar;  -a strong proof of the 
   Roman origin of this City.  In the wall, which is in circumference nearly
   three miles are four gates, and five posterns.  The Cathedral of St. Peter,
   generally called the Minster, the glory of this city, may with justice be 
   pronounced, the most magnificent Gothic structure in the Kingdom; besides 
   which, there are 23 Churches.
           St. Mary's Abbey, now in ruins, was begun by William Rufus, in 1088,
   but in the general conflagration at York, in the reign of King Stephen, was 
   totally destroyed; but the rebuilding of it in 1270, was undertaken by Simon 
   de Warwick, then Abbot.  At the dissolution, Henry VIII. ordered a Palace to
   be built out of its ruins, called the King's Manor.  It continued in that
   state till the reign of James I. who converted it into a regal Palace, for
   his residence at his going and returning from Scotland.  After the
   Revolution, a lease was granted vesting it in private hands, in which it now 
   remains.
           The Old Bridge over the river Ouse, supposed to have been built about 
   the year 1235, is now demolished, and a new one erected in its place.  The
   foundation stone was laid by the Lord Mayor, on the 10th of December, 1810.
   It consists of three elliptical arches, with battlements on each side.  The
   span of the centre arch is seventy-five feet, the span of each side arch 
   sixty-five feet.  The flagged footways are five feet six inches broad,
   leaving a carriage-way of twenty nine feet.
           The Old Bridge over the Foss, built about the year 1406, was lately 
   taken down, and an handsome structure erected in its place.
           Vetus Ballium or old Baile, which Leland and Camden suppose to have 
   been the Platform of a Castle, is situated at the south-east corner of the 
   City.
           The City Walls, by the corroding hand of time, falling fast to decay, 
   are supposed to have been built by Edward I. upon Roman foundations, who
   added to them a number of strong towers, which, in Leland's time, were in a 
   complete state of defence.
           The first production of the York Press, was the Pica of the 
   Cathedral, by Hugh Goes, in 1509.  -Home on Bibliography.
           The Castle, built by William the Conqueror, is now a County Prison, 
   for debtors and felons: the area of this prison is larger than either that of 
   the Fleet or King's Bench, in London, the situation high, pleasant, and airy. 
           In the right wing is a prison for Debtors, which reflects honour on 
   the County.  -In the left wing is an handsome convenient Chapel, ascended to
   by a flight of steps uniform with the right wing, and ornamented with 
   suitable furniture.  --The Women Felons are confined in the New Buildings,
   opposite the County Hall.  --Mr. Staveley is the present Governor.
           On the west side of the area, in the new County-Hall, opened at the 
   Summer assizes, in 1777.  It is a superb building, of the Ionic order, 150
   feet in length, and 45 in breadth.  In the south end thereof, is the Court
   for trial of prisoners; and in the north end, the Court of Nisi Prius.  Each
   of them is thirty feet in diameter, towered with a Dome forty feet high, 
   which is supported by thirteen Corinthian pillars.
           The extent of the City's Liberties is within seventy-seven feet of 
   the Castle Gate, distinguished by the City Arms of the five Lions, placed in 
   the wall in each side.  Here the Sheriffs of the City wait to receive the
   Judges of Assize, and conduct them to the Guild-hall.
           Adjoining the Castle is a very high Mount, on which stands a Tower, 
   consisting of four segments of circles, joined together, called Clifford's 
   Tower.  It was built by the Conqueror, and derived its name from one of the
   Clifford family, who was made the first Governor of it; and though now a 
   ruin, it is a considerable ornament to the City.  It was formerly defended by
   a deep moat, drawbridge and palisadoes.
           The Mansion House, erected for the Lord Mayor, in the year 1725, is a 
   very handsome building - the basement is a rustic arcade, which supports an 
   Ionic order with a pediment.  The State-room, where the Lord Mayor entertains
   the corporation, is forty-nine feet six inches by twenty-seven feet nine 
   inches.
           The Guild-Hall is situated behind the Mansion-House, and is supposed
   to be one of the finest Gothic Halls in the Kingdom.  The City is governed by
   a Lord Mayor, a Recorder, two City Council, twelve Aldermen, two Sheriffs, 
   seventy-two Common Councilmen, and six Chamberlains.
           The Assembly Rooms, in Blake-street, were erected in 1730, from a 
   design of the celebrated Lord Burlington.  From the ceiling are suspended
   thirteen large Lustres of crown glass, each holding sixteen wax candles; but 
   the principal one, given by Lord Burlington, is so brilliantly cut, as to 
   deserve particular notice.
           The Theatre-Royal is at the upper end of Blake-street, and was 
   erected in 1769, by Mr. Baker, and a patent procured for it by his successor,
   the late Tate Wilkinson, Esq.  It is fitted up in a very neat uniform style,
   capable of containing a numerous audience: several judicious alterations have 
   lately taken place in the Interior.
           The Lunatic-Asylum, first established in 1777, is a handsome 
   structure; extending in length 132 feet; in depth 52; and in height three 
   stories.  The patients in this place are treated with all the tenderness and
   indulgence, compatible with steady and effectual government.  The strictest
   economy is observed in the management of the family, and the utmost attention 
   is paid to decency and cleanliness.
           There is another institution in the vicinity of York, belonging to 
   the Quakers, for the same class of patients, called the Retreat.
           County Hospital, or Public Infirmary, is a spacious building, 
   situated out of Monk-Bar, north-east of the city.  It was first instituted in
   1740, by a legacy of 500L. bequeathed by Lady Hastings, for the relief of the
   diseased poor in the county of York, and since raised and supported by the 
   the benefactions, or annual contributions of the humane.  It was for many
   years the only institution of that nature north of the Trent, and in its 
   infancy had many difficulties to struggle with; but through the care and 
   economy of its first patrons, those difficulties were soon overcome, and the 
   extensive utility of the institution becoming obvious, quickly procured it 
   many liberal donations.  The front extends seventy-five feet in length,
   ninety feet in depth, and encloses a court of twenty-six feet four inches by 
   thirty-five feet.  There is a public Medical Library, (established in January
   1810) for the improvement and diffusion of medical and surgical knowledge.
   This excellent charity is entirely dependent upon the benevolence of the 
   public for its support.
           Here is likewise a City Dispensary, for administering relief to the 
   diseased poor, instituted in 1788.
           The York Subscription Library was first instituted in 1794.  The
   foundation stone of a new building, opposite the Post-Office, in St. Helen's
   Square, was laid in 1811.  It now contains about 7000 volumes.  The
   ground-floor, underneath the Library, is occupied as a Subscription 
   News-Room.
           The City Gaol adjoining the Old Baile, was begun in 1802, under the 
   direction of Mr. Peter Atkinson, architect, and completed in 1807.  In the
   front is a Court-yard, where debtors have the privilege of walking.
           In 1514, a new House of Correction was erected on Toft Green, near 
   Micklegate Bar.
           At a short distance on the Fulford Road, are the Cavalry Barracks,
   erected at the expence of about 27,000L.  These handsome buildings stand in
   an area of an oblong square occupying twelve acres of ground; they are 
   constructed on a plan for containing about 260 officers and privates, with 
   stabling for 266 horses.
           The Race-Ground is about a mile south of the city.  It is a plain
   flat, called Knavesmire.  In 1754, the Grand Stand was built by subscription,
   and tickets of admission issued at five guineas each: their present value is 
   now nearly 14L.
           Here are Chapels for Roman Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, 
   Independents, and a Meeting-house for Quakers.
           York is an Archbishop's See; sends two Members to Parliament, being 
   first summoned 23rd Edward I.
           For a particular account of the antiquities of York, see Drake's 
   Eboracum, and Hargrove's History of York.


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                                  WEST RIDING.

                     Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum,
                    THE RIGHT HON. HENRY, EARL OF HAREWOOD.

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                               ACTING MAGISTRATES

The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Downe            Cowick.Hall, Snaith
The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Milton           Wentworth-House, Rotherham
The Right Hon. Lord Hawke                     Womersley-Park
The Hon. Edward Robert Petre                  Stapleton-Park, Ferrybridge
Sir William C. Bagshaw, Knight                The Oakes, Sheffield
Sir Henry Wright Wilson, Knight               Chelsea-Park
Sir Francis Lindley Wood, Bart                Hemsworth, Pontefract
Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, Bart             Ripley
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart                       Sprotbrough-Hall
The Rev. Dr. Geldart,                         Kirkdeighton, Wetherby
The Rev. Dr. Corbett,                         Wortley, Sheffield
The Rev. Dr. Milner,                          Thribergh, Doncaster
The Rev. Dr. Waddilove,                       Ripon
Alderson. the Rev. William                    Aston, Rotherham
Allan, Benlamin Haigh, Esq.                   Green-Head, Huddersfield
Barstow, William, Esq.                        Halifax
Benyon, Thomas, Esq.                          Leeds
Brookshank, Benjamin, Esq.                    Healaugh-Hall, Tadcaster
Bland, Thomas Davison, Esq.                   Kippax-Park, Ferrybridge
Beckett, Christopher, Esq.                    Leeds
Blayds, John, Jun. Esq.                       Oulton, Leeds
Barnes, the Rev. Theophilus,                  Castleford, Ferrybridge
Brookshank, the Rev. Edward Hawke,            Tickhill, Bawtry
Carus, Roger, Esq.                            Lunefield, Kirkby-Lonsdale
Chandler, the Rev. George                     Treeton, Rotherham
Cooke, the Rev. Alexander                     Loversall, Doncaster
Creyke, Ralph, Jun. Esq.                      Rawcliffe-Hall, Snaith
Cunliffe, William, Esq.                       Addingham, Skipton
Cator, the Rev. Charles                       Skelbrook, Doncaster
Cooke, William Bryan, Esq.                    Wheatley, Doncaster
Cooke, Philip Davis, Esq.                     Owston, Doncaster
Coulthurst, John Nicholas, Esq.               Gargrave, Skipton
Currer, the Rev. Danson Richardson,           Whitwell-House, York
Dealtry, Benjamin, Esq.                       Lofthouse-Hall, Wakefield
Dearden, John, Esq.                           Hollings-Hall, Halifax
Dixon, the Rev. Jeremiah                      Woolley, Wakefield
Dawson, Richard Kennet, Esq.                  Frickley-Hall, Doncaster
Edmunds, Francis, Esq.                        Worsbrough, Barnsley
Egremont, John, Esq.                          Wakefield
Entwisle, John, Esq.                          Foxholes, Rochdale
Fawkes, Walter, Esq.                          Farnley-Hall, Otley
Ferrand, Edward, Esq.                         St. Ives, Bingley
Ferrand, Walker, Esq.                         Harden-Grange, Bingley
Forster, the Rev. John                        Ryther, Selby
Fullerton, John, Esq.                         Tribergh, Doncaster
Gibson, Joseph, Esq.                          Whelbrigg, Kirby-Lonsdale
Haigh, Joseph, Esq.                           Springwood, Huddersfield
Hay, the Rev, William Robert                  Rochdale
Heywood, John Pemberton, Esq.                 Wakefield
Higgins, Godfrey, Esq.                        Skellow-Grange, Ferrybridge
Hird, the Rev. Lamplugh                       Low-Moor-House, Bradford.
Horsfall, John, Esq.                          Thornton-lodge, Huddersfield
Horton, Thomas, Esq.                          Howroyd, Halifax
Horton, the Rev. Joshua Thomas,               Ormskirk, Lancashire
Lacy, the Rev. Richard                        Whiston, Rotherham
Landon, The Rev. James,                       Abberford
Lister, Ellis Cuncliffe, Esq.                 Manningham-House, Bradford
Lister, the Rev. Anthony,                     Gargrave, Skipton
Lister, the Hon. Thomas,                      Gisburn-Park, Skipton
Lowe, the Rev. John,                          Wentworth, Rotherham
Lawson, Marmaduke, Esq,                       Boroughbridge
Morritt, William, Esq,                        Sherwood-Hall, Selby
Maude, John, Esq.                             Moor-House, Wakefield
Nevile, Cisristopher, Esq.                    Scaftwoth, Bawtry
North, Richard Toulmin, Esq.                  Whittington, Kirby-Lonsdale
Oxley, Charles, Esq.                          Ripon
Parker, Hugh, Esq.                            Woodthorpe, Sheffield
Parker, Thomas, Esq.                          Browsholme-Hall, Clitheroe
Parker, the Rev. William                      Riccal, Selby
Plumbe, John, Esq.                            Tong-Hall, Leeds
Prest, Willians, Esq.                         Towleston-Lodge, Tadcaster
Rhodes, the Rev. James Armitage               Horsforth-Hall, Leeds
Rudd, the Rev. John,                          Blythe, Bawtry
Rhodes, William, Esq.                         Bramhope-Hall, Otley
Scott, Joseph, Esq.                           Badsworth, Pontefract
Smyth, John Henry, Esq.                       Heath, Wakefield
Stocks, Michael, Esq.                         Catherine-House, Halifax
Sturges, John, Esq.                           Elmfield, Doncaster
Scott, William Lister Fenton, Esq.            Woodhall, Wetherby
Taylor, Michael Angelo, Esq.                  Cantley, Doncaster
Twiss, William, Esq.                          Myrtle-Grove, Bingley
Vavssour, William, Esq.                       Weston-Hall, Otley
Walker, Thomas, Esq.                          Killingbeck, Leeds
Walker, Henry, Esq.                           Blythe, Bawtry
Warde, St. Andrew, Jun. Esq.                  Melton, Doncaster
Waud, Samuel Wilkes, Esq.                     Camblesforth, Selby
Wentworth, Godfrey Wentworth, Esq.            Woolley-Park, Wakefield           akellel~
Williamson, John, Esq.                        Hollings, Harrogate
Wilson, Matthew, Esq.                         Eshton-Hall, Skipton
Wilson, Richard, Fountayne, Esq.              Ingmanthorpe, Wetherby
Wilson, William Wilson Caros, Esq.            Casterton-Hall, Kirby-Lonsdale    onedal~
Wood, the Rev. William                        Woodthorpe, Wakefield
Wortley, James Archibald Stuart, Esq.         Wortley-Hall, Sheffield
Wrightson, William, Esq.                      Cusworth, Doncaster


                 DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS

The Right Hon. Thos. Lord Ribblesdale,        Gisburn Park
The Right Hon. William, Lord Stourton,        Allerton Mauleverer
The Rt. Hon. Thomas Philip, Lord Grantham,    Newby Hall
The Right Hon. Lord Viscoont, Milton,         Wentworth House
The Right lion Lord Viscount Pollington,      Methley Park
The Hon. Frederick Lumley,                    Tickhill Castle
The Hon. Frederick Robinson,                  Newby Hall
The Hon. Thomas Lister,                       Gisburn Park
The Hon. E. Petre,                            Stapleton Park
The Hon. Edward Lascelles,                    Harewood House
The Hon. Henry Lascelles,                     Harewood House
The Hon. G. A. Stapylton Chetwynd
The Honourable William Gordon
The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Marsham                 Kirkby Overblow
The Hon. and Rev. A. H. Cathcart              Kippax
Sir John Beckett, Bart.                       Gledhow
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart.                      Sprotbro'
Sir George Cooke, Bart.                       Wheatley
Sir Edward Dodsworth, Bart.                   Newland Park
Sir Henry Carr Ibbetson, Bart.                Denton Park
Sir William Amcotts Ingilby, Bart.            Ripley
Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart.                   Denby Grange
Sir Charles Kent, Bart.
Sir William Mordaunt Milner, Bart.            Nun Appleton
Sir Thomas Turner Slingsby, Bart.             Scriven
Sir Francis L. Wood, Bart.                    Hemsworth
The Rev. Dr. Milner,                          Thriberg
The Rev. Dr. Waddilove,                       Ripon
Aspinall,Jon.esq.                             Standen Hall,Clitheroe.
Armitage, George, Esq.                        Park Riding, Huddersfield
Armitage, John, Esq.                          Kirklees
Allen, Benj. Haigh, Esq.                      Green Head
Armitage, Joseph, Esq.                        Milns-Bridge House
Bischoff, Thomas, Esq.                        Leeds
Benyon, Thomas. Esq.                          Leeds
Bonwa, William Williams, Esq.                 Chapel-Allerton
Brown, James, Esq.                            Hare Hills Grove
Bland, Thomas Davison, Esq.                   Kippax Park
Beckett, Joseph, Esq.                         Barnsley
Brooksbank, Benjamin, Esq.                    Healaugh
Blayds, John, Esq.                            Leeds
Busfield, William, Esq.                       Upwood
Beaumont, Thomas Richard, Esq                 Bretton Hall
Brandling, Charlas J. Esq.                    Middleton
Brandling, Ralph, clerk,                      Middleton
Briggs, Rawdon, Esq.                          Halifax
Beckett, John Staniforth, Esq.                Barnsley
Beaumont, Thomas Wentworth, Esq.              Bretton
Banks, George, Esq.                           Leeds
Beckett, Christopher, Esq.                    Leeds
Blayds, John, Jun. Esq.                       Oulton
Coulthurst, John N. Esq.                      Gargrave
Currer, Danson Richardson, clerk.             Whitwell
Cooke, William Bryan, Esq.                    Wheatley
Carr, William, Esq.                           York
Chippendale, Robinson, Esq.                   Skipton
Cooke, John, Esq.                             Maltby
Carr, William, Esq.                           York
Cunliffe, William, Esq.                       Addingham
Cooke, Philip Davies, Esq.                    Owston
Chamberlain, Thomas, Esq.                     Skipton
Clayton, Wllllam, Esq.                        Langcliffe place
Chaloner, Robert, Esq.                        York
Collins, William Esq.                         Knaresbrough
Duncombe, Thomas, Esq.                        Copgrove
Dixon, Jeremiah, clerk,                       Woolley
Dixon, John, Esq.                             Suffolk
Dealtry, Benjamin, Esq.                       Lofthouse
Dearden, John, Esq.,                          Halifax
Denison, Edmund, Esq.                         Doncaster
Edmunds, Francis, Esq.                        Worsbro'
Edmunds, Francis Offley, Esq.                 Worsbro'
Ellis, Lister, Esq.                           Castlefield
Field, John Wilmer, Esq.                      Heaton
Ferrand, Edward, Esq.                         St. Ives
Ferrand, Walker, Esq.                         Harden Grange
Fenton, William, Esq.                         Thorpe Hall
Fullerton, John, Esq.                         Thribergh
Farrer, James William, Esq.                   Clapham Lodge
Farrer, Oliver, Esq.                          Clapham
Fitzgerald, Thomas George, Esq.               Boldshay
Fairfax, Thomas Lodington, Esq.               Newton Kyme
Gascoigne, Richard Oliver Esq,                Parlington
Gott, Benjamin, Esq.                          Leeds
Gossip, William, Esq.                         Hatfield
Gally-Knight, Henry, Esq.                     Langold
Garforth, James Braithwaite Esq.              Conistone
Gossip, Randall, Esq.                         Thorpe Arch
Hesleden, Bryan Esq.                          Skipton
Horton, Thomas, Esq.                          Howroyd
Hird, Lamplugh, clerk,                        Low Moor
Hay, William Robert, clerk,                   Rochdale
Heywood, John Pemberton, Esq.                 Wakefield
Hardy, John, Esq.                             Leeds
Higgins, Godfrey, Esq.                        Skellow-grange
Haigh, Joseph, Esq.                           Spring wood
Horsfall, John, Esq.                          Thornton Lodge
Hammerton, James, Esq.                        Hellifield Peel
Jaques, Thomas George, Esq.                   Leeds
Ingleby, Charles, Esq.                        Austwick
Jaques, Thomas, Esq.                          Leeds
Lister, Ellis Cunliffe, Esq.                  Calverley House
Lee, John, Esq.                               Abbey, Knaresbrough
Lowther, John, Esq.                           Swillington
Lee, James, Esq.                              Leeds
Lee, Richard Esq.                             Leeds
Lister, Anthony, Clerk,                       Gargrave
Lee, William, Esq.                            Grove Hall
Lowe, John, clerk,                            Wentworth
Lloyd, Thomas, Esq.                           York
Manby, William, Esq.                          Knaresbrough
Mande, Daniel Salshury, Esq.                  Wakefield
Maude, Francis, Esq.                          Wakefield
Markham, Robert, clerk,                       Bolton Percy
Markland, Edward, Esq.                        London
Micklethwait, Richard, Esq.                   New Laiths
Moore, James, Esq.                            Brockwell
Morritt, William, Esq.                        Sherwood Hall
Markham, William, Esq.                        Becca Lodge
Naylor, John, Esq.                            Wakefield
Oates, Josiah, Esq.                           Burley
Parker, Hugh, Esq.                            Woodthorpe
Parker, Thomas Lister, Esq.                   Browsholme
Paley, George. Esq.
Priestley, Jos. Esq.                          White Windows
Palmes, George, Esq.                          Naburn
Priestley, William, Esq.                      Lightcliffe
Paley, John Green, Esq.                       Bowling Hall
Plumbe, John, Esq.                            Tong Hall
Prest, William, Esq.                          Towlston Lodge
Plumbe, Thomas Richard, Esq.                  Tong Hall
Roundell, Richard Henry, Esq.                 Gledstone House
Rawson, William Esq.                          Halifax
Rawson, Christopher, Esq.                     Halifax
Rhodes, John, Esq.                            Halifax
Rawdon, Christopher, Esq.                     Underbank in Stansfield
Slingsby, Charles. Esq.                       Lofthouse-hill
Scott, Joseph, Esq.                           Badsworth
Shilleto, John, Esq.                          Ulleskelf
Sotheron, Frank, Esq.                         Hooke
Smyth, John Henry, Esq.                       Heath
Smart, James A. Esq.
Smithson, William, Esq.                       Heath
Sinclair, Robert, Esq.                        York
Sturges, John, Esq.                           Bowling Hall
Scott, William  Lister Fenton, Esq.           Woodhall Park
Thompson, Richard John, Esq.                  Kirkby Hall
Trebeck, Thomas, clerk,                       Wath
Torre, James, Esq.                            Snydal
Taylor, Michael Angelo, Esq.                  Cantley
Torre, Christopher, Esq,                      Pontefract
Tempest, Stephen, Esq.                        Broughton Hall
Vavasour, William, Esq.                       Weston Hall
Vincent, John Tunnadine, Esq.                 Hemsworth
Watson, Shepley, Esq.                         Hiendley
Walker, Thomas, Esq.                          Killingbeck
Wainman, Richard Bradley, Esq.                Shipley Hall
Wrightson, William, Esq.                      Cusworth
Wortley, J. A. S. Esq.                        Wortley Hall
Wentworth, Godfrey W. Esq.                    Woolley Park
Wilson, Christophar, Esq.                     Ledston Hall
Wood, William, clerk,                         Woodthorpe
Wilkinson, Edward, Esq.                       Potterton
Wilson, Richard Fountayne, Esq.               Ingmanthorpe
Wood, Henry Rich. Esq.                        Hollin Hall
Wilson, Thomas, Esq.                          York
Waude, Samuel Wilks, Esq.                     Chester Cotes
Walker, Jonathan, Esq.                        Oran
Walker, Henry, Esq.                           Masborough
Wybergh, Thomas Esq.                          Middleton
Wrightson, William B. Esq.                    Cusworth
Wilson, Matthew Esq.                          Eshton
Walker, Samuel, Esq.                          Aldwark
Walker, Thomas, Esq.
Walker, Joshua, Esq.                          Clifton
Walker, Wm. Esq.                              Middleton, Leeds
Waterhouse, John, Esq.                        Halifax
Wilson, Daniel, Esq.                          Dallam Tower
Walker, Joseph, Esq.                          Lascelles Hall
Whitacre, John, Esq.                          Thornton Lodge
Winn, Charles, Esq.                           Nostall Priory
Yarbrough, George Cooke, Esq.
York, John, Esq.                              Halton Place and Bewerley
York, Richard, Esq.                           Wighill Park

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                   Lords and Chiff Bailiffs of Liberties.

        His Grace the Duke of Buccleugh; for Bolland
        His Grace the Duke of Devonshire; for Clifford's Fee
        His Grace the Archbishop of York; for Cawood, Wistow, and Otley
        The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Downe; for Cowick and Snaith
        His Grace the Duke of Norfolk; for Hallamshire
        His Grace the Duke of Devonshire; for Knaresbrough
        John Hardy, Esq. for the Honour of Pontefract
	His Grace the Archbishop of York; for Ripon
        His Grace the Duke of Devonshire; for Staincliffe
        The Right Hon. the Earl of Scarborough; for Tickhill
        His Grace the Duke of Leeds; for the Manor of Wakefield

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                       OFFICERS OF THE RIDING

Clerk of the Peace: Thomas Wybergh, Esq. Isell-Hall, Cockerermouth, Cumberland.
Deputy Clerk of the Peace, and Deputy Sheriff: Thos. Foljambe, gent. Wakefield.
Treasurer: William Lee, Esq. Grove Hall, near Pontefract.
Clerk of General Meetings of Lieutenancy: Christopher Bolland, Esq. Leeds.
Clerk of Indictments and Solicitor: Robert Rodgers. gent. Sheffield.
Governor of the House of Correction, Wakefield: Mr James Shepherd.
Surveyors of Bridges: Mr Bern. Hartley, and Mr Bern. Hartley, jun. Pontefract.

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                      REGlSTER-OFFICE, WAKEFIELD.

             Register, Francis Hawksworth, Esq. Wakefield.
                     Deputy, Mr James Stephenson.

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                                    CORONERS

                         Mr. William Tindall, Skipton.
                           Mr. Thomas Shepley, Selby.
                                  Mr. (unkown)
                          Mr. Edward Brook, Wakefield.
                     Mr. Thos. Robinson Mandall, Doncaster.
                        Mr. James Wigglesworth, Halifax.
                   Mr. Christopher Jewison, Rothwell, Leeds,
                          for the Honor of Pontefract.

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                                CHIEF CONSTABLES

Agbrigg and Morley:       Mr. Wm. Selby, Blackwall, Halilax, for Morley;
                          Mr. Thos. Pitt, Wakefield, for Upper Agbrigg,
                          Mr. John Wiseman, Sandal-Magna, for Lower-Agbrigg
Barkston Ash:             Mr. Edward Trueman, Pontefract;
                          Mr. John Hornsby, Camblesforth,
Claro:                    Mr. John Gilbertson, Roecliffe;
                          Mr. Humphrey Fletcher, Boroughbridge.
Osgoldcross:              Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, Ackworth;
                          Mr. Wm. R. Earnshaw, Rowall.
Staincliffe and Ewcross:  Mr. Wm. Carr, Stackhouse;
                          Mr. Robt. Wildman, Gargrave,
Staincross:               Mr. James Sykes, Worsbrough
                          Mr. Charles Stringer, High-Hoyland.
Strafforth and Tickhill:  Mr. Wm. Workman, Adwick-le-Street;
                          Mr. (unknown)
Skyrack:                  Mr. Robert Parr, Oulton;
                          Mr. Richard Lumb, Swillington.

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                               SUBDIVISION CLERKS
Agbrigg-Division,         Mr. John Campey Laycock, Huddersfield, upper division;
                          Mr. John Barry, Wakefield, lower division
Barkston-Ash,             Mr. Edward Trueman, Pontefract.
Claro,                    Mr. Samuel Powell, Knaresbrough.
Morley,                   Mr. Currer Fothergill Busfield, Cottingley
Osgoldcross,              Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, Ackworth.
Staincliffe and Ewcross,  Mr. John Hartley, Settle.
Staincross,               Mr. George Keir, Barnsley.
Strafforth and Tickhill,  Mr. John Fisher, Rotherham, upper-division;
                          Mr. Richard Danser, Doncaster, lower division.
Skyrack, and Borough of Leeds, Mr Christopher Bolland, Leeds.
City and Ainsty of York,  Mr Richard Townend, York.

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      Places and Times of holding Petty Sessions, with the Clerks' Names.

Agbrigg, Upper,         Huddersfield, Tuesdays, Mr M. Bradley.
Ditto, Lower,           Wakefield, Fridays, Messrs. Wiseman, Dawson, Hargreave,
                          and Hall
Barkston-Ash            Selby, Mondays, and Sherburn, Tuesdays, Mr Hornshy.
Claro,                  Knaresbrough, Wednesdays, Mr. Powell.
Morley                  Halifax, Saturdays, Messrs. Briggs and Moore;
                        Bradford, Thursdays, Messrs. Crosley and Booth.
Osgoldcross,            Snaith, -----, Mr. Hornsby; Wentbridge, Tuesdays, Mr
                          Wilkinson
Skyrack,                Bingley, Tuesdays, Mr. Tolson;
                        Leeds, Tuesdays, Messrs. Smith and Moore.
Staincross,             Wortley, -----, Mr Baker;
                        Barnsley, Wednesdays, and Woolley, Thursdays, Mr.
                          Wiseman.
Staincliffe and Ewcross,Settle, Tuesdays, Skipton, Saturdays, Mr. Wildman and
                          Mr Hall; Kildwick, -----, and Gargrave,-------
Strafforth and Tickhill, Sheffield, Tuesdays, Mr. Albert Smith;
                        Rotherham, Mondays, Mr. Fisher;
                        Doncaster, Saturdays, Mr. Workman;
                        Bawtry, Wednesdays, Mr. Baines.
Borough of Leeds,       Leeds, Tuesdays and Fridays, Mr Nicholson.

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                         The General Quarter Sessions.

        The Christmas Quarter Sessions are held at Wetherby, on Tuesday in the
first whole week after the Epiphany; Wakefield on Thursday after; and Doncaster
on the Wednesday following.
        Easter Quarter Sessions at Pontefract, on Monday in the first whole week
after Easter.
        Midsummer Quarter Sessions at Skipton, on Tuesday in the first whole
week after the 7th of July; Bradford on Thursday after; and Rotherham on the
Wednesday following.
        Michaelmas Quarter Sessions at Knaresbrough, an Tuesday in the first
whole week after the 11th of October; Leeds on Thursday after; and Sheffield
on the Wednesday following.

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        All the Quarter Sessions for the Boroughs and Liberties are held in the
same week as the Riding Sessions, viz:- The City of York on Friday; the Liberty
of St. Peter, at York, on Saturday;  -the Liberty of Ripon on Friday; the
Archbishop; for Cawood, Wistow, and Otley, at Otley and Cawood on Wednesday.

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                                  THE ASSIZES
        For the County and City of York, are held on Saturday three weeks after
Hilary-Term ends; and on Saturday before the seventh Sunday after Trinity.

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                       OFFICERS OF THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT.

              Clerk of Assize, Fletcher Rigge, Esq. Northallerton.
            Deputy Clerk of Assize, Christopher Newstead, Esq. York.
          Clerk of indictments, Christopher John Newstead, Gent. York.
                 Clerk of Arraigns, Henry Newstead, Gent. York.


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                        THE CITY OF YORK, AND THE AINSTY

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                                CITY AND AINSTY.

                                  MAGISTRATES.
                         THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR

                                   RECORDER.
Robert Sinclair, Esq.                         York.

                                 CITY COUNSEL.
John Pemberton Heywood, Esq.                  Wakefield.
Samuel William Nicoll, Esq.                   Fulford.

                                   ALDERMEN.
Thomas Wilson, Esq.                           Fulford.
William Hotham, Esq.                          York.
William Ellis, Esq.                           Fulford Field.
John Kilby, Esq.                              York.
George Peacock, Esq.                          York.
The Right Hon. Lawrence, Lord Dundas,         Marsk Hall,
Isaac Spencer, Esq. (Lord Mayor, 1822)        Poppleton.
Thomas Smith, Esq.                            Huntington.
William Dunsley. Esq.                         York.
William Hutchinson Hearon, Esq.               York.
John Dales, Esq.                              York.
Robert Chaloner, Esq.                         York.
James Saunders, Esq.                          York.

                        OFFICERS OF THE CITY AND AINSTY.
                Clerk of the Peace, Richard Townend, Esq. York.
                    Treasurer, William Ellis, Esq. Fulford.
                  Coroners, Samuel Cowling and Robert Ellison,
          Chief Constables, Wm. Baynes, John Steward, and Thomas Beal.

                             LIBERTY OF ST. PETER.
                                  Magistrates.
Agar, Benjamin, Esq                           Broakfield-House,
Brooksbank, Benjamin, Esq.                    Healaugh Hall.
Blow, the Rev. William                        York.
Croft, the Rev. Robert,                       Rowley.
Dickens, Henry John, Esq.                     York.
Dealtry, the Rev. William,                    Wigginton.
Elliot, the Rev. Robert,                      Wheldrake.
Ellis, the Rev. John,                         Strensall.
Eyre, the Rev. John,
Foulis, John Robinson, Esq.                   West-Heslerton.
Kelly, the Rev. George,
Markham, the Rev. Robert,                     Bolton-Percy.
Read, the Rev. Thomas Cutler Rudston,         Sandhutton.
Rice, the Hon. and Rev. Edward,
Sykes, Sir Mark Masterman, Bart.              Sledmere.
Shilleto, John, Esq.                          Ulleskelf.
Sympson, Robert, Esq.                         York.
Thompson, George Lowther, Esq.                Sheriff Hutton Park.
Waddilove, the Rev. Dr.                       Ripon.

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                            OFFICERS OF THE LIBERTY.
                     Chief Bailiff, John Brook, Esq. York.
              Clerk of the Peace, Christopher Newstead, Esq. York.
       Steward of the Court of Pleas, &c. Henry John Dickens, Esq. York.
                Under Steward, Christopher Newstead, Esq. York.
          Coroners, James Richardson, Gent. York; John Plowman, Gent.
                 Haxby; and Richard Bell, Surgeon, Pocklington.
        Chief Constables, T. Acaster, Brotherton; W. Cooke, Pocklington;
   Thos. Hessay, Bishop Wilton; Wm. Taylor, Husthwaite; and Wm. Fisher, York,

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                               LIBERTY OF RIPON.

                                  MAGISTRATES.
The Mayor of Ripon.
The Right Hon. Lord Grantham,                   Newby Hall, Ripon.
Rev. Robert Darley Waddilove, D.D.              Ripon.
Rev. Thomas Newton,                             Coxwold, Thirsk.
Rev. George Allanson,                           Ripon.
Charles Harrison Batley, Esq.                   Masham.
John Williamson, Esq.                           Ripon.
John Dalton, Esq.                               Slenningford, Ripon,
Charles Oxley, Esq.                             Ripon.
Marmaduke Lawson, Esq.                          Boroughbridge.
Rev. William Dent.                              Crosby Hall.
Henry Richard Wood, Esq.                        Hollin Hall.
Gregory Elsey, Esq.                             Burneston.

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                            OFFICERS OF THE LIBERTY.
       Clerk of the peace, Chief-Bailiff, and Under Steward of the Court
                        Military, Charles Harrison, Esq.
                Deputy ditto, and Coroner, John Cartman, Ripon.
            Chief Constable and Treasurer, J. Gilbertson, Westwick.

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