The Benefice is a Discharged Vicarage, rated at £9. 13s. 64d., and now worth £236. per annum. Patron, the Archbishop of York; Vicar, Rev. Rt. Dallin; impropriator, Sir H. Boynton. The great and small tithes were commuted in 1774 and in 1811. The Church is a small neat edifice, having the usual parts of a parish church. It was thoroughly repaired in 1829. The aisles are divided from the nave by three pointed arches, resting on circular columns. The sedilia remains in the chancel, and the font is circular.

The Village is watered by a small stream, and stands on low ground about 5 miles W. from Bridlington. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here; and the National School is chiefly supported by Mr. and Mrs. Bosville and the Vicar.

The Manor House is a farm house near the village. Spring Dale House is the residence of Mr. William Etherington, farmer.

Thorpe Hall, the property and occasional residence of G. W. B. Bosville, Esq., is a large edifice, consisting of a centre and wings, situated in grounds tastefully laid out, and embellished with richly varied scenery. In enlarging the fish ponds, in 1830, some Roman relics, consisting of urns, swords, and spears, were discovered. Little Thorpe House and farm are in the occupation of Mrs. Foster; and there are two good farms called High Caythorpe and Low Caythorpe, the former occupied by Mr. F. Daggitt, and the latter by Mr. William Jordan.

RUSTON PARVA, or LITTLE RUSTON, is a parish of 910 acres, and 185 inhabitants, and belongs chiefly to W. St. Quintin, Esq. (Lord of the Manor), Y. Yarburgh, Esq., and Mr. T. Oliver. Rateable value, £1,374.; assessed property, £1,504. Limestone of excellent quality is found in abundance, and great quantities are annually burnt into lime, for the supply of the adjacent district. The Living is a Perpetual Curacy, in the gift of Wm. St. Quintin, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. G. Carey. Its present value is £51. per annum, being augmented with £1,000. of Queen Anne's Bounty in 1741 and 1824. The tithes were commuted in 1801.

The Church (All Saints) stands on a hill, and was rebuilt mostly of white brick in 1832, when the old one, a small mean edifice, was taken down. It consists of a nave and chancel, with a bell turret containing two bells. The old font stands in the chancel.

The Village is situated low ground, about 4 miles N.E. from Driffield. On the green are the remains of an ancient stone cross. The Manor House

is a farm house in the village. There is a small Wesleyan Chapel.

Bracybridge Corn Mill, now in the occupation of Mr. S. Lowson, was built

in 1807, on the site of a very ancient mill.

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THWING. This parish includes the township or hamlet of Octon-cumOcton Grange, and contains 4,060 acres of land; its population is 599 souls; rateable value, £3,351.; assessed property, £3,181. Chief proprietors of the soil, Lord Londesborough (Lord of the Manor), Admiral Mitford, Miss Vickerman, Mr. Seth Gibson, and J. Laybourn, Esq. The lordship of Twenge gave name to a family, of whom Sir Rt. de Twenge, Knt., was the first. His posterity inherited this manor successively after him, and the last of them obtained a charter of free warren here, and elsewhere, in 1293, and at the same time procured a grant for a weekly market here on Wednesday, with a fair yearly, "on the eve, day, and morrow of St. Thomas the Martyr." In 1375 the last male heir of this family died without issue, and the estates descended to the heirs of his three sisters.

The Living is a Rectory in medieties, each valued in the King's Books at £8. 12s. 1d.; nett income, £520. Patron, the Crown; Rector, Rev. W.J. Butler. Tithes commuted in 1769. The Church (All Saints) consists of a nave, north aisle and chancel, south porch, with a bell turret on the roof at the west end, containing two bells. Within the porch is a circular arched doorway, the upper part filled up with a basso-relievo of the Holy Lamb, with the flag. The interior is neat. Four pointed arches, resting on octagonal pillars, separate the aisle from the nave. The church was repewed in 1814, by the parishioners, and thoroughly repaired in 1836, at the expens of the late Robt. Prickett, Esq., the then Lord of the Manor, who died in 1844. The chancel arch is circular; the east window is of five lights, and is, together with two windows in the nave, of three lights, filled with stained glass. In the chancel is a tablet to the memory of the above-mentioned Mr. Prickett, who, in his life time, erected a memorial here to Thomas Lamplugh, Archbishop of York, who died in 1691, and was à native of this place. There are other tablets in the church to the families of Lowish, Vickerman, and Topham. The Rectory is now a farm house.

The Village stands about 84 miles W. by N. of Bridlington. The Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1839, and the Primitive Methodist Chapel in 1840. The School, and a house for the schoolmistress, were built in 1835, by the late Mr. Prickett. The Manor House, an ancient building in the village, is in the occupation of Mr. John Vickerman, farmer. There is a large tumulus in the parish (the place of sepulture, probably, of some British chieftain and his family), which was enclosed some years ago by Mr. Prickett.

Wold Cottage, the residence of J. Laybourn, Esq., is situated on the north side of the parish, and in a field about one-third of a mile nearly west of the house, a most extraordinary phenomena of nature occurred on the 13th of December, 1795, about three o'clock in the afternoon. A singular stone, 28 inches in breadth, 36 inches in length, and weighing 56 pounds, fell from the atmosphere, and partly buried itself in the ground, on the spot where the late Edward Topham, Esq., of Wold Cottage, erected an obelisk in 1799, to commemorate the event. This stone is of a composition similar to most other meteoric stones which have fallen at various periods in different parts of the world, but it has no counterpart or resemblance to the natural stones of the earth.*

Octon, or Oxton, consists of three or four farm houses and a few cottages, about 1 mile W. from Thwing; and Octon Grange (two farm houses) is situated about a mile from Octon. Near Octon hamlet are the remains of entrenchments, in two divisions.

WILLERBY.-The townships of Willerby, Binnington, and Staxton, are included in this parish; the area of the whole is 4,180 acres; rateable value, £3,644.; assessed property, £3,098. The Township of Willerby contains 1,630 acres, and 63 inhabitants. Lord Londesborough is the owner of all the land. The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, rated at £9. Os. 74d., and returned at £116. per annum. Patron, the Crown; Vicar, Rev. E. Day, of Norton. Tithes commuted in 1801. The Church (St. Peter) is an ancient structure, consisting of a nave, chancel, and low west tower, in which are three bells. There was formerly a north aisle.

The Village is very small, and is situated in a valley about 6 miles S. by W. of Scarborough.

• An account of the falling of this stone, communicated by Mr. Topham, is published in a book on British Mineralogy, by the late Mr. Sowerby, of Lambeth Road, London, in whose museum the stone was deposited. From that account we learn that the stone passed through the air in a north-west direction from the sea coast, and numbers of persons distinguished a body passing through the clouds, though not able to ascertain what it was. In the different villages over which the stone took its direction, numbers of the people heard the noise of something passing through the air, and some persons saw it strike the earth, and deposed to the same on oath before Mr. Topham, who was a magistrate. It embedded itself 10 inches in the earth and chalk rock, and fixed itself so strongly in the latter, that it required some labour to dig it out. Before it touched the earth there was some thunder and lightning at a distance, but at its fall an explosion took place, which alarmed the surrounding country. Mr. Bigland, in one of his tours through Yorkshire, in 1810, saw a portion of the stone in the possession of the late Archdeacon Wrangham, at Hunmanby. It has a black and vitrified surface, exhibiting marks of a volcanic origin; the inside is white, and of a granulated but very compact texture; and its composition is totally different from that of any kind of stone yet discovered. Mr. King, the antiquary, in his account of "sky-fallen stones," has published an account of this, with many curious and learned remarks on those which have fallen at different periods.

Binnington Township. --Area, 910 acres; population, 85 souls. The soil belongs to Lord Londesborough and Sir T. D. Legard.

The Hamlet is small, and is seated on the southern bank of the river Hartford, about three-quarters of a mile E. of Willerby.

Staxton Township contains 1,640 acres, and 274 inhabitants. Lord Londesborough is owner of most of the land. The Hamlet stands about half a mile E. from Willerby. There is a National School, and the Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here.

WOLD NEWTON.---The acreage of this parish numbers 1,960, and the inhabitants 276. The assessed property amounts to £2,013.; and the rateable value is £1,650. The chief landholders are the executors of the late A. Rhodes, Esq., and Lord Downe. Admiral Mitford is Lord of the Manor. The soil is light and gravelly, and the surface is diversified with hills and dales, presenting a great variety of scenery, enlivened by a considerable mere, or lake, principally supplied by one of those copious springs called the Gypseys, or Gipseys.*

This parish was anciently a chapelry to Hunmanby, where the inhabitants were accustomed to bury their dead till the consecration of their own churchyard, in 1828. The Living is now a Discharged Vicarage, in the patronage of Lord Downe, and incumbency of the Rev. Joseph Skelton. It is rated at £6. 19s. 91d., and returned at £113. per annum. The Church is an ancient edifice, consisting of a nave and chancel, with a south porch, and a wooden bell turret. There was formerly a north aisle. The chancel was rebuilt in 1850, by the late patron, the Hon. M. Langley. The inner door of the porch is circular-headed, the upper part enclosed with chequer work, and a cross in a circle. The interior is neat, with an ancient circular font; and the east window is filled with stained glass. The Vicarage House was erected in 1839, by the present Vicar, aided by a donation of £100. from the late patron. The Village is picturesquely seated in a valley, about 8 miles N.E. from

* The word is not pronounced the same as gipsy, a fortuneteller; the g, in this case, being sounded hard, as in gimblet.

The Gypseys are streams of water which burst through the unbroken ground in various parts of the Wolds, during the latter part of winter and the early part of spring, and at other periods after heavy rains, sometimes so copious as to fill a drain called the Gypsey-race, 12 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. The Gypseys sometimes flow during two or three months and then totally cease, leaving scarcely a mark to distinguish the place from which the water issued. Hone, in his Table Book, tells us that the young people of North Burton had a custom in former times (in accordance, probably, with some traditionary custom of the Druids) of "going out to meet the Gypsey," on her rise from the Wolds.

Bridlington. There is a small Wesleyan Chapel. The School was built in 1832, by the late Abraham Rhodes, Esq., whose executors allow £20. per ann. towards its support. There is a good Lending Library at the school; and a Clothing Club is established in the parish.

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THIS is the largest Wapentake in the East-Riding, and comprises more than one-third of that great division of Yorkshire. It was enlarged a few years ago by the addition of the whole of the small Wapentake of Hullshire, and by a few townships taken from Howdenshire and Holderness. length is about 23 miles, and its breadth is from 17 to 22 miles. It includes the greater part of the hilly district called the Wolds; and is bounded on the south by the river Humber and Howdenshire; on the west by the river Derwent; on the north by Buckrose and Dickering Wapentakes; and on the east, partly by the latter, but mostly by Holderness, from which it is separated by the river Hull. It was in four, but is now in five divisions, each having a Chief Constable, and deriving their names from four prominent hills, upon which beacons were placed in the early part of the late wars, for the purpose of alarming the country in case of invasion, or other danger. These divisions are called Bainton Beacon, Holme Beacon, Wilton Beacon, and Hunsley Beacon; the latter of which was subdivided, in 1838, into North and South Hunsley Beacon Divisions. These five divisions of Harthill, with the town of Kingston-upon-Hull at their south-eastern extremity, form the Deanery of Harthill and Hull, in the Archdeaconry of the East Riding. The area of the Wapentake, according to the Parliamentary return of the census of 1851, is 276,265 acres, and the population, 47,429 souls.

BAINTON BEACON DIVISION.--The area of this, the most northern division of the Wapentake, is 55,634 acres, and the population is 11,015 souls, viz:-5,606 males, and 5,439 females; and it comprises the market town of Driffield, and the parishes of Bainton, North Dalton, Holme-on-the Wolds, Hutton Cranswick, Kilnwick, Kirkburn, Lockington, Lund, Middleton, Scorborough, Skerne, Warter, and Watton.

BAINTON. The townships of Bainton and Neswick are comprised in this parish; the former contains 2,320 acres, and 404 inhabitants. The rateable value is £3,649.; and the amount of assessed property in 1815, was £3,283. The name of this division of Harthill Wapentake is derived from a beacon