The Benefice is a Discharged Vicarage, in the patronage of the Archbishop of York, rated at £4. 13s. 4d., and now worth about £150. per ann. Vicar, Rev. Wm. Robt. Griesbach. At the inclosure, in 1810, about 327 acres of land were allotted in lieu of the great tithes, and 282 acres in lieu of the small tithes. The Church is an ancient structure, in the Norman and Gothic styles; its parts are a nave with a south porch, a chancel, and a west tower, in which are two bells. There has been a north aisle, but it is gone. The edifice bears an apocryphal date, "713." The font is ancient.

The Parsonage House is occupied by Mr. John Dale, who farms a part of the glebe land; another portion of the glebe is farmed by Mr. John Wilson. Sir Tatton Sykes is lessee of the appropriate rectory lands.

The Village is neat, and situated 10 miles W. by N. of Driffield, and 9 N.W. of Pocklington, on the road between York and Bridlington. A Wesleyan Chapel was built here in 1840; a chapel for the Primitive Methodists in 1851; and a parochial school in 1841. The Manor House is in the occupation of Mr. John Johnson, farmer.

NORTH GRIMSTON.-The area of this parish is 1,350 acres; population, 167 persons; rateable value, £1,313.; assessed property, £1,319. Except 148 acres of glebe land, and 35 acres belonging to Y. Yarburgh, Esq., the entire parish is the property of H. Willoughby, Esq., of Birdsall, the impropriator and Lord of the Manor. The soil is various, and the scenery beautiful and picturesque, particularly at the base of Grimston Hill.

The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, in the patronage of the Archbishop of York, and incumbency of the Rev. Edward Trueman. It is rated at £6. 6s. 8d., and now worth about £160. per annum. At the enclosure, in 1793, the vicarial tithes were commuted for 148 acres of land.

The Church (St. Nicholas) is an ancient edifice, consisting of a nave, chancel, porch, and tower. The entrance is Norman. The font is curious. The Vicarage House is a neat residence.

The Village is seated in a valley, 44 miles S.E. of Malton. Here is an intermediate Station on the Malton and Driffield Railway. The School is chiefly supported by Mrs. Willoughby. The poor have two rent charges, viz., £2. Os. 6d., bequeathed by Thomas Langley, Esq., in 1700; and 6s., per annum left by the Rev. Penston.

HELPERTHORPE.-Area, 2,620 acres, of the rateable value of £1,525.; population, 140 persons; assessed property, £2,214. The chief proprietors are Sir T. Sykes (Lord of the Manor), Sir G. Strickland (the impropriator), and Messrs. Robt., Rd., Thos., and Wm. Esh. At the enclosure, in 1801, the tithes were commuted for allotments of 226A. 2R. 15P. to the Vicar, and

245A. OR. 38P. to the Dean and Chapter of York, the impropriators and patrons of the living. The Discharged Vicarage is valued in the King's Books at £4. 19s. 7d., and now at £178. per annum. Vicar, Rev. Samuel Henry Duntze. The Church (St. Peter) is a small plain structure, and the township is considered a parochial chapelry, having no burial ground. The parishioners bury their dead at Weaverthorpe. The chancel and nave are divided by an old oak screen, and there are two bells in the tower. The impropriators of the great tithes pay £20. a year to the Vicar of Helperthorpe, and £30. to the Vicar of Weaverthorpe, to which parish Helperthorpe pays one-fourth of the church rates.

The Village is small, and situated 11 miles E. of Malton, and 10 N.W. by N. of Driffield. A Wesleyan Chapel was built here in 1852. The Manor

House is now a farm house.

HESLERTON. The two townships of East and West Heslerton are comprised in this parish, which is intersected by the York and Scarborough Railway, and partly bounded on the north by the river Derwent, which divides it from the North Riding. West Heslerton contains 2,180 acres, and 351 inhabitants; rateable value, £1,937. The chief landholders are Viscount Downe (Lord of the Manor), Sir Tatton Sykes, and William Thompson, Esq. Amount of assessed property in the parish, £6,087.

The Church is a Rectory, valued at £21. 6s. 8d. in the King's Books, and in the patronage of the Crown. Rector, Rev. Charles Wm. Knyvett. The tithes have been commuted for 490 acres of land, and the annual value of the living is returned at £465. The Fabric of the church (St. Andrew) is small but neat, comprising a nave and chancel, with an open turret for two bells on the west end of the roof. The chancel arch is circular, and on the north side of the chancel is an ancient altar tomb, with a pedimental canopy exhibiting a mutilated basso relievo of our Divine Redeemer and the Blessed Virgin. This tomb is supposed to belong to Thos. de Heslerton, the founder of the church. The edifice was restored in 1809, when the north wall was built six feet further south, thereby making the church six feet narrower. Before that period the entrances were on the north and south sides, but since then the entrance is at the west end. A handsome new font was given by Lord Downe in 1853. A fine Rectory House was built in 1820; the grounds. and gardens surrounding it are beautiful.

The

The Village of West Heslerton is seated near the foot of the Wolds, 8 miles E.N.E. of Malton. A Wesleyan Chapel was erected here in 1839. School was built in 1829, at the joint expense of the Hon. Marmaduke Langley (then Lord of the Manor), M. Cannon, Esq., and the Rector. It

is chiefly supported by Viscount Downe, Lady Sykes, and the Rector. A house for the master was built in 1850. Heslerton Station, on the above

railway, is about 1 mile N. from the village.

Heslerton Hall, a modern mansion, was purchased with the estate of Mark Foulis, Esq., in 1854, by Lord Downe. It is pleasantly situated in wellwooded grounds. The Manor House, in the village, is in the occupation of Mr. Henry Abbey, farmer. Wold Farm is in the occupation of Mrs. Jane Abbey; Ling Hall, in that of Messrs. William and Benjamin Kirton; Heslerton Carr, of Mr. Thomas Miles; Carr House, of Mr. John Wilson; and Flats Farm, of Mr. William Dale.

East Heslerton Chapelry.-This township contains 3,990 acres, and 267 inhabitants; rateable value, £2,924.; assessed property, £3,469. Principal landowners, Sir Tatton Sykes (Lord of the Manor), Sir George Strickland, Thomas Candler, Esq., and E. H. Hebden, Esq.

The Village is small, and stands 1 mile E. from West Heslerton. The Chapel of Ease was partly rebuilt in 1806-7. There is a belfry at the west end. The Living is a Curacy, subordinate to the Rectory of Heslerton. Here is a Wesleyan Chapel, erected in 1794, and enlarged in 1840. The Manor House is occupied by Mr. Mark Newlove, farmer; the Grange, by Mr. Alfred Dunhill; Low House, by Mr. Thomas Cordiner; and a farm house called Whin Moor Build, by Mr. Robert Dawson. Another good farm house in the village, is the residence of Mrs. Ann Leighton.

KIRKBY, OF KIRBY-GRINDALYTH.-The three townships of which this parish is composed, comprise in the whole 7,979 acres, and 554 inhabitants. Kirby-Grindalyth Township contains 4,930 acres, and 210 persons; rateable value, £4,340.; assessed property, £5,319. The soil is thin, and rests on a substrata of chalk and flint. The township belongs mostly to Sir Tatton Sykes (the Lord of the Manor), and partly to Sir George Strickland.

The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, in the gift of Sir T. Sykes, and incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Bowstead; and is valued at £8. 9s. 7d. in the King's Books, and now at about £80. per ann. The tithes were commuted in 1850. The Church (St. Andrew) was anciently given by Walter de Espec, to the Priory of Kirkham. The edifice comprises a nave, chancel, and embattled tower at the west end, from which rises a handsome octagonal spire. The nave was rebuilt of brick, in 1826, and has three pointed sash windows in each side. The upper part of the spire was blown down many years ago, and was not restored till 1839. The tower contains three bells. The architecture of the chancel is of the 13th century, and at the east end is a vesica pisces. The nave and chancel are divided by a wall, with a door

in the centre; in the chancel is an ancient stall, and the ancient font, which was brought here from Sledmere, has a fine carved cover.

The Vicarage House was erected in 1849.

The Village is situated in a picturesque vale, 8 miles E.S.E. of Malton. The School is supported by subscription. The Manor House, formerly belonging to the monks of Kirkham, is a fine old building near the church yard, and is now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Parker. Croome House is the residence of Mr. Michael Grundon, farmer. Mowthorpe is a hamlet containing two good farms; High Mowthorpe farm is held by Mr. A. Topham; and Low Mowthorpe by Mr. R. Topham.

Duggleby Township contains 1,706 acres, and 294 inhabitants. Thomas Wm. Rivis, Esq., the Lord of the Manor, owns the whole of the township, or nearly so. The Village is seated in a vale below Kirby Grindalyth, and is about 6 miles E.S.E. of Malton. A short distance to the cast is a large tumulus. The School is held in a good brick building, erected at the cost of Mr. Croft, and is chiefly supported by subscription. The Wesleyans built a chapel here in 1826; and the Primitive Methodists a chapel in 1835.

Thirkleby Township lies from 1 to 2 miles E. of Kirby Grindalyth, and consists of two farms, containing 1,343 acres, and a few cottages. The land belongs to Sir Tatton Sykes.

KIRKBY, or KIRBY-UNDERDALE.—This parish includes the hamlets of Garrowby, Uncleby, Painsthorpe, and Hanging Grimston. Area, 5,049 acres; population, 335 souls; rateable value, £3,738.; assessed property, £5,386. Sir Chas. Wood, Bart., is Lord of the Manor, and owner of most of the parish. The surface is diversified by hill and dale, and the soil is loam, with flint in the higher grounds, and clay in the valleys. One of the highest hills is about 800 feet above the level of the sea, and descends gradually to the plain of York; and another hill is of the oolite formation, being the only one of the kind for many miles distant.

The Living is a Rectory, rated at £6. 3s. 4d., and now worth about £1,000. per ann. The patronage is vested in the Crown, and the present Rector is the Hon. and Very Rev. Henry David Erskine, Dean of Ripon, for whom the Rev. Joseph Wm. Atkinson officiates. The tithes were commuted in 1837, for a rent charge of £850., and there are 80 acres of glebe land.

The Church (All Saints) is an ancient edifice, very picturesquely situated, and was thoroughly repaired, at a considerable expense, in 1828. It is in the Norman style of architecture, with Gothic additions. The tower contains two bells. The interior is neat, and at the west end of the nave is a gallery containing an organ. The Rectory House, which is occupied by the

Rev. J. W. Atkinson, is a good building near the west end of the church, and commands some fine views of the surrounding country. Dr. Thirlwall, Bishop of St. David's, and author of the History of Greece, was Rector of this parish from 1833 to 1840.

The Village, as its name implies, lies in a dale, or vale, near the foot of a rapid declivity of the Wolds, 6 miles N. of Pocklington, and about the same distance S. from Malton.

Garrowby, or Garraby Hamlet, extends from 1 to 3 miles S.W. from Kirby-Underdale. The Hall is used as a "shooting box" by Sir C. Wood, and the Old Hall is in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Dale, farmer. Lea Field Farm is held by Mr. Chas. Wigglesworth. Garrowby Hill is the point of junction of the ancient Roman Roads from York to Flamborough, and from Brough to Malton, and here begin those numerous fortifications, described in the Philosophical Transactions for 1747, which continue southward to Millington. (See page 562.)

Painsthorpe is a hamlet of scattered houses, about 1 mile S.E. of the parish church. Here are several tumuli, and two moated sites of ancient mansions, planted with, fir, ash, beech, &c. The Hall is occupied by Mr. Joshua Scholefield, farmer; South Wold Farm by Mr. Richard Beal; and Painsthorpe Wold, by Mr. Timothy Wilson. At South Wold Farm is an ancient stone chair, discovered there some years ago.

The Hamlet of Hanging Grimston, 2 miles N. of Kirby Underdale, now consists of three farm houses, occupied respectively by Messrs. Wm. Kirby, Simeon Arnell, and Peter Gowland. From the unevenness of the surface a large village is supposed to have stood here in former times.

Uncleby, a little north of the parish church, is a small but neat hamlet. The principal occupiers are Mr. George Harper, and Mr. George Pudsey. A School here was built nearly sixty years ago, by Lord Carrington. It is partly supported by the Lord of the Manor. The school room is also used as a place of worship by the Wesleyans.

KIRKHAM.—This is an extra-parochial liberty, containing 290 acres, and 52 inhabitants; rateable value, £420. The place, the name of which signifies the hamlet or place of a church, forms a long, but narrow, and richlywooded acclivity, on the east side of the river Derwent, where there is a good bridge, 6 miles S. by W. of Malton. It belongs to Edward Clough Taylor, Esq., whose seat is a handsome mansion, built in 1839, near the crown of the acclivity. There is no place of worship here now; the inhabitants attend Westow church. Here is a Station on the York and Scarborough Railway. Kirkham is remarkable for the venerable and picturesque remains of a