FOLKTON. This parish comprises the townships of Folkton and Flixton, containing 5,010 acres, and a population of 529 persons. The rateable value is £3,293.; and the assessed property amounts to £1,135.

The Township of Folkton contains 2,540 acres, and 183 inhabitants. The principal proprietors of the soil are James Bell Tate, Esq. (Lord of the Manor), and the Rector, in right of his church. The township includes East and West Flotmanby, anciently a village and chapelry, but now consisting of two farms. The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, with a sinecure Rectory, rated, the former at £8. 11s. 10d., the latter at £15., and both now returned at £874. per annum nett. Rector, the Rev. Herbert Phillips. The tithes were commuted in 1802 for land, there are about 1,700 acres belonging to the church.

The Church (St. John the Evangelist) is a neat stone structure, comprising a nave and chancel, with a low tower, containing three bells.

A new window of three lights was erected in the east end, in 1854, by the Rector, There is an ancient circular font.

The Village of Folkton is situated in a pleasant valley, on the northern side of the wolds, about 6 miles S.S.E. from Scarborough..

Flixton Township.-Area, 2,500 acres; population, 316 souls. Principal landholders, Lord Londesborough and George Ringrose, Esq.

The Village is situated nearly 1 mile W. of Folkton.

In the reign of King Athelstan, Acchorne, Lord of this place, built an hospital, for one alderman and fourteen brothers and sisters, at Flixton, for the preservation of persons travelling that way, that they might not be destroyed by the wolves, and other wild beasts, then abounding in this neighbourhood. It was restored and confirmed in 1447, by the name of Carman's Spittle, but was dissolved before 1535, and a farmhouse now occupies its site.

There is a Primitive Methodist Chapel here, built in 1821. Between the villages of Folkton and Flixton is a National School, built by the late W. J. Denison, Esq.

FOSTON-ON-THE-WOLDS.-The townships of Foston, Brigham, Gembling, and Great Kelk, are comprised in this parish, and the area of the whole is 4,931 acres, with a population of 786 souls. Amount of assessed property, £5,531. The acreage of Foston Township is 1,110, of the rateable value of £1,519., and the number of inhabitants is 340. The chief proprietors of the soil are Ralph Creyke, Esq., Wm. St. Quintin, Esq. (Lord of the Manor), Mr. W. B. Johnson, John Rickaby, Esq., and Mr. W. Dixon. The surface is level and open, and the soil clay intermixed with sand.

The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, rated at £15. 8s. 64d., and returned

at £102. per annum, having been augmented with £400. of Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1782; and with a Parliamentary grant, of £1,200. in 1824. Patron and Incumbent, Rev. Ralph Otterburn. The tithes of Foston were commuted in 1766, and those of Brigham in 1776. The Church (St. Andrew) is a neat fabric, containing a nave, north aisle, chancel, and tower. The walls of the chancel are several inches out of the perpendicular, but are supported by immense brick buttresses. The nave is divided from the aisle by four pointed arches, resting on circular columns. The font is circular. In the churchyard is the mutilated effigy of a crusader.

The Village, which is nearly a mile in length, is pleasantly situated about 5 miles E.S.E. of Driffield, on a stream celebrated for its trout, flowing into the river Hull, and on the banks of which is a very extensive flour mill, to which vessels of 60 tons burthen have access. This mill was built in 1747, and is now occupied by Mr. James Naylor. Close to it is a brewery, malt kiln, &c., established in 1839, and now in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Smith. The latter establishment had formerly been a tannery. There is also in the village an agricultural implement manufactory, belonging to Mr. John Agars. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Independents, the latter built in 1814, at the cost of Mr. Samuel Stables, of this place, who died in 1816. There is an Almshouse for three poor widows, founded in 1717, by Ann Walker, and endowed with 30s. per ann. The poor inmates have likewise the rent of an acre of land, £4. per annum. Brigham Township extends over an area of 1,470 acres, and contains 139 inhabitants. The rateable value is £1,553. The principal landowners are Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. (Lord of the Manor), and Mr. Wm. Hought. Seven farm houses, a few cottages, an inn, and a small Methodist chapel, now constitute the township. The family of Brigham, of Brigham, possessed the whole of the Brigham estate from the year 1100 to 1793. The pedigree of this family is fully recorded in the Herald's College, in regular lineal descent, from 1100 to 1853, the present representative and heir male being William Brigham, Esq., of Foxley House, Lymm, Cheshire.* In 1394 the estate of Wyton was added by marriage, and later the Dunnington estate, both of which were sold in 1767; and in 1793 the Brigham estate was sold by the father of the present Mr. Brigham, in accordance with the will of his uncle W. Brigham, Esq., of Brigham and Wyton, to Sir Christopher Sykes, Bart., Sledmere, except a small farm, which the present representative of this

* In Poulson's History of Holderness, under the head Wyton, it is stated that the family of Brigham is now extinct, but this is a gross error.

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ancient family purchased in 1823, and which is now in his possession. In the centre of one of the meadows on this property, the present Mr. Brigham placed a small stone pillar, or monument, to the memory of his father, the last possessor of the old family estate, which bears the following inscription, in the old Latin monumental characters:-Gulielmus Brigham, chirurgus, antiquæ religionis cultor eximius, vixit annos lvi.; decessit Mancunii x Kal Sextil ann. MDCCCXV. Monumentum patris optimi indulgentissimi Gulielmus filius nat maximus, heic poni roluit in reliquiis ariti agri, jam a potitis regni Normannis per perpetuam majorum traditi.*

The Hamlet of Brigham is situated on the river Hull, near Frodingham Bridge, about 5 miles S.E. from Driffield, and 1 mile S.W. of Foston.

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Gembling Township contains 1,223 acres, and 110 inhabitants. rateable value is £634. Wm. St. Quintin, Esq., is Lord of the Manor, but a great part of the land belongs to Joseph Dent, Esq., Mr. G. P. Harrison, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Stables, Rev. J. F. Ogle, and Mr. T. D. Wilson.

The Village is situated near the sources of the river Hull, about 6 miles E. by S. of Driffield, and is remarkable for its large green, or common, containing about ten acres, upon which the cottagers rear large numbers of geese. There is a small Primitive Methodist Chapel, built in 1845.

Great Kelk Township.-Area, 1,131 acres; rateable value, £1,398.; population, 197 souls. Principal landholders, Hy. Preston, Esq., and Yarburgh Yarburgh, Esq. The Village is scattered, and stands about 2 miles N. of Foston, and 6 E. by N. of Driffield. The Manor House is a small inn in the village, and is the only property in the township belonging to Mr. St. Quintin, the Lord of the Manor. The Methodists have a chapel here.

Little Kelk is an extra-parochial liberty, containing 640 acres, and 63 inhabitants. It is situated to the north of Great Kelk, and is divided into three farms, belonging to Wm. St. Quintin, Esq., and Mr. Powell.

FOXHOLES.-The township of Foxholes with Boythorpe, and the chapelry of Butterwick, are included in this parish, and contain altogether about 4,200 acres, and 406 inhabitants, of which 2,610 acres and 297 inhabitants are in the township. The rateable value of the township is £1,788., and the assessed property amounts to £1,375. The low grounds are watered by several brooks, and the curious stream called the Gypsies, terminates its

* William Brigham, surgeon, firm and zealous in the faith of his ancestors, lived 56 years. He died at Manchester, on the 10th before the Kalends of August, in the year 1815. A memorial of a good and indulgent father, William, his eldest son, caused this stone to be erected here in the relics of his ancestral territory, handed down to this time from the Norman Conquest, through a continuity of ancestors.

course here. The principal proprietors are Admiral Mitford (Lord of the Manor), and the Hon. Captain Woodhouse.

The Living is a Rectory, in the patronage of B. Sykes, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Richd. Henry Foord. It is rated at £22., and returned at £531. per annum. The tithes were commuted in 1771. The Church is a small ancient building consisting of a nave and chancel, with a door in the west end. There is a small bell turret. The chancel is separated from the nave by a fine Norman arch. The Village is situated in a valley, about 10 miles N. of Driffield. The Wesleyans have a small chapel here.

Boythorpe Hamlet, which is situated about 1 mile S.W. of Foxholes, consists of two large farms, one of which belongs to B. Sykes, Esq., and the other to the Hon. Captain Woodhouse.

Butterwick Chapelry.—Area, 1,590 acres; population, 109 souls; assessed property, £1,402. Lord Downe is the Lord of the Manor and owner of the whole, except the rectorial land, for which the tithes were commuted in 1771. The Living is a Perpetual Curacy, augmented with £1,200. of Queen Anne's Bounty; returned at £47. per ann. nett; in the patronage of the Rector of Foxholes, and incumbency of the Rev. Joseph Skelton. The Chapel is an ancient edifice, in which is the monument of a Knight Templar. GANTON, or GALMPTON.-Area, including the hamlet of Potter-Brompton, 3,650 acres; population, 382 souls. The rateable value is £3,549., and the assessed property amounts to £3,623. Sir T. D. Legard is the Lord of the Manor, patron of the living, and owner of the whole parish.

The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, rated at £5. 2s. 6d., and returned at £131. per ann. Vicar, Rev. D. L. Alexander. The Church (St. Michael) consists of a nave and aisles, a chancel, and an embattled tower, from which rises a handsome spire. The tower contains three bells. The whole is apparently of the architecture of the 14th century. The interior is neat, and has several memorials of the Legard family. The Parsonage House, near the church, is a neat residence. The Village is pleasant, and stands about 8 miles S.S.W. from Scarborough, and about half a mile from the Ganton Station on the York and Scarborough Railway.

Ganton Hall, the seat of Sir Thomas Digby Legard, Bart., is a handsome building, picturesquely situated in a vale near the village, and encompassed by fine grounds, plantations, &c. The views from the hills in the vicinity. are very beautiful. The Legard family is of Norman extraction, and became possessed of the lordship of Anlaghby, or Anlaby, near Hull, in the year 1100, by the marriage of the heiress of the estate. The first of the family that settled at Ganton was John, commonly distinguished by the name of

John de Ganton, a younger son of Ralph Legard, Esq., of Anlaby. In 1660 his great grandson, John Legard, Esq., having given proofs of his loyalty and attachment to Charles II., as his father and grandfather had to Charles I., was created a Baronet.

Potter-Brompton consists of three farm houses and a few cottages, and is situated about 1 mile W. of Ganton.

GARTON-ON-THE-WOLDS.-The area of this parish is 4,380 acres according to the census return, but 3,965 acres according to local estimation. The rateable value is £3,565., of which sum the Railway company pays about £500. Amount of assessed property, £4,697. Population, 531 souls. Sir Tatton Sykes, is Lord of the Manor, impropriator, and owner of nearly all the land in the parish. The land is chiefly arable, and in a high state of. cultivation; the soil is various. The Living is a Discharged Vicarage, rated at £5. 6s. 8d.; augmented with £600. of Queen Anne's Bounty; and now returned at £125. per annum. Patron, the Crown; Vicar, the Rev. John Eddowes. The tithes were commuted, for land, at the enclosure in 1774. The Church (St. Michael) is an ancient edifice, containing portions of a modern date, and some interesting details of a Norman character. It is situated upon an eminence, and consists of a nave and chancel, with a massive Norman tower containing three bells. Above the doorway, in the west front of the tower, is a rude basso-relievo of St. Michael overcoming Satan. There is a porch on the south side. The interior is plain; the old oak seats and part of the rood-screen remain; and there is a circular-headed piscina in the chancel. The font is octagonal and ancient.

The Village is neatly built, and pleasantly situated on declivities; and the surrounding scenery is pleasantly enriched with wood. It stands about 3 miles W.N.W. of Driffield. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. The National School, which was rebuilt in 1843, is endowed with about £5. per annum, the proceeds of a £120. share in the Driffield Navigation, bequeathed by Mrs. Jane Cook, in 1779; and is liberally supported by Lady Sykes. The building is of brick, and neat.

The Manor House, now occupied by Messrs. Joseph and Robert Allanson, farmers, is a small ancient brick building, erected about the time of the enclosure of the parish. In the neighbourhood of this house appears the remains of ancient tumuli, and human bones have been frequently turned up in working the soil. Human bones have been found in a field near the church, in the occupation of Mr. Lakin; and human remains have been frequently dug up during the excavations for the railway through the parish. Garton High House, the residence of Mr. John Crust, farmer, is situated,