DIRECTORY.] NORTH RIDING . KIRKBY. 151 Arthnr Herbert Watson M.A. of Queen's College, O:x.ford. quartet of a mile north of the village. Hare is a Mf"tho­ There ia a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1825. dist chapel. Newby-Wiske Hall, the seat &f Henry Traces of an ancient encampment are visible near this Rutson esq. B.A., J.P. is a mansion of stone suneu.'l'Mled place. The celebrated Roger Ascham, born here in 1515, by luxuriant trees. On the road to Ainderby is Sol­ was Latin secretary to Queen Mary and afterwards to berge, the seat of John Button esq. D.L.• J.P. Hel'e Queen Elizabeth, as well as her tuto-r in the Greek is the site of the old "Solberge" mentioned in D(lmes­ language, and died Dec. 30, 1568. Dr. William Palliser, day, and which has been partially excavated. There Bishop of Cloyne (1693) and Archbishop of Cashel are no manorial rights. The principal landowners a1'6 (1694-I726), was also a native of this place. Sion Hill, • Henry Rutson esq. B.A., J.P. and John llutton esq. the seat c.f Percy Stancliffe esq. is near the village. D.L., J.P. The acreage is 1,429; rateablt> ,·.ahHl, Percy Stancliffe esq. who is lord of the manor, Earl [2,694; the population in I9II was 192. Cathcart and Henry Rutson esq. of , are Post Office, Newby-Wiske. John Weighell, sub-post­ the principal landowners. The soil in many parts of master. Letters from anive at 7 15 the parish is fertile and productive; subsoil, chiefly a.m. &; 4·45 p.m.; di~patched at 5.25 & 7.1o pm.; sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips &c. no delivery of letters on sundays. The nearest money The area of the township is 1,097 acres of land and n order & tell'graph office is at South Ottl':rington, of water; rateable value, £r,665; the population of the half a mile distant township in 19n was 184, and in the parish, 724. Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Kirby-Wiske.-David Boddy, sub­ NEWSHAM-CUM-BRECKENEROUGB is a township in postmastl'r. Letters from arrive at 7.20 a.m.; the parish of Kirby-Wiske; the village, which is small, is dispatched at 4·55 p.m. No delivery of letters on separated from Kirby-Wiske by the . Dr. sundays Hickes, Dean of Worcester, 1683-5. a celebrated non­ juring divine, and in 16g3 consecrated Bishop of Thetford :M.A.UNBY is a village and township in the parish of by the non-juring prelates, was born at a farmhome,. Kirby-Wiske, on the east bank of the , 2 miles called Moorhouse, in Newsham, June 2oth, 1642, and d. north-west from Kirby-Wiske, and 2 miles south-west 15th Decembe-r, 1715. Breckenbrongh forms a jointtown­ from Otterington station. There is a chapel of ease, ship with Newsham. Of Breckenbrough Castle, described erected in I871, a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1836, and a in the Surtees Society's "Yorkshire Wills," no vestige­ United Methodist chapel, erected in 1855· Hall now remains. Breckenbrough Hall is the seat of Francis is a brick mansion, pleasantly situated within a few Samuelson esq. J.P. The principal landowners are Earl' minutes' walk of the village, and now the seat of Major Cathcart, Thomas 0. I. Pick esq. the trustees of Themas. and Mrs. Bill-Walker. The principal landowners are Greenhill esq. and F. Samnelson esq. J.P. The area is Mrs. Hill-Walker, who is lady of the manor, Henry r,gr3 acres of land and 2 of water; rateable v. Jus,_ Rntson esq. B.A., J.P. and John Button esq. D.L., J.P. /.'8,:J50; the population in rgn was 186. The area is r,531 acres of land and 17 of water; rate­ ltirby-Wiske, about one mile distant, is the n a rest able value, [2,308 ; the population in 1911 was 162. money m·der &; telegraph office Wall LPtter Box cleared at 4.30 p.m. daily Parish Clerk, Fred Pearson. Kirby-Wiske, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order Public Elementary Schools. & telegraph office Kirby-Wiske, erected in 187o, for roo children; aHrage attendance, 52; Alfred Braithwaite, maf:ter; Mi"" \da. NEWBY-WISKI<~ is a village and t