' 12 COWESHY. NORTH RIDING YORKSHIRE. ( KELLY's , oats, barley and peas ; there is some pasture. Th~ acr_e· Letters through Northallerton arrive at 8.30 a.m. The age is r,165; rateable value, £844; the populatwn m nearest money order office is at Borrowby & telegraph I9II was So. office at Upsal, 2 miles distant. Letter Box cleared at 2.45 p.m Sexton, E. Milner. The children attend the school at Kirby Knowle
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bosomworth Robinson, farmer, Low Houlston Job, farmer Lloyd Wilham Alexander Charles, House farm (letters through Metcalfe Abraham, cowkeeper Cowesby hall Borrowby, Thirsk) Milner Mrs. Ann & Sons, farmers, Braithwaite Thomas, gamekeeper to The Grange COMMERCIAL. W. A. C. Lloyd esq Peacock John, farmer, Ings Bell .John, farmer Dennis Ezard, cowkeeper Smith Foster, shoe maker & cowkpr EAST COWTON is a civil parish and village, one The Primitive Methodist chapel here was erected in mile south-west from Cowton station on the main line 1903. Miss Webb, of Newstead Abbf'y, Notts, is lady of the ~orth Eastern railway, 8 miles north-west from of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is clay and Northallerton and 225 from London, in the Richmond gravel; subsoil, sandy. The chief crops are wheat, oats division of the Riding, Gilling East wapentake and petty and barley, and about a quarter grazing land. The sessional division, Northallerton union and county court area is 3,370 acres; rateable value, £10,970; the popu district, rural deanery of East Richmond, archdeaconry of lation in 1911 was 347· Richmond and diocese of Ripon. The old church of St. Sexton, Thomas Pallister Mary, half a mile from the village,. is now used a_s a Post & M. 0. Office.-Mrs. Ann Meynell, sub-post- mortuary chapel.. A new ?h~rch de~:h~ated to .A;ll Sai~ts mi:SOUTH COWTON are townships effigy of a knight in armour and the other two female forming the ecclesiastical parish of South Cowton, for figures, but without arms or inscription: over the porch merly a chapelry in the parish of Gilling, in the Rich are the arms of Conyers impaling Wyckliffe, and the mond division of the Riding, wapentake of Gilling West, legend: "Orate pro anima Ricardi Conyers et Alicire petty sessional division of Gilling East, rural deanery uxoris sure," and the former founded in the church a of East Richmond, archdeaconry of Richmond and dio cbanb·y dedicated to Our Lady: the nave and tower were ceE~ of Ripon. restored in 1883 at a cost of upwards of £1,ooo, the expense of rer.toration of the nave being partly defrayed NORTH COWTON is a township in Richmond union by thE' late W. Stobart esq. of Pepper Arden: there are and county court district. Here is a station, called 150 sittings. The register dates from the year 1568. Moulton, on the Richmond branch of the North Eastern The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £135, with 2 railway, half a mile west from the village, 7~ miles acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the vicar east-north-east from Richmond and 7~ south from Dar of GiBing, and held since 1907 by the Rev. Thomas lington. The chapel of ease here is an iron building, Ernest Robert Wilford l\I.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Ol.· erected by subscription in 1894, and will seat about JSO ford. Pepper .Arden, occupied by lVilliam Hopper There is also a small Wesleyan chapel. Mrs. Carpenter Williamson "esq. J.P. is a handsome mansion about half a Turnor, is lady of the manor; the Marquess of Zetland mile from the church, situated in a park of 235 acres, K.T., P.C. is the chief landowner. The soil and sub with extensive g-ardens and pleasure grounds. The soil are clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley tower of Cowton Castle, built by Sir Richard Conyers and beans. The town:Jhip contains 1,396 acres; rateable in the rsth century, is still standing, but the main value, [1,892; the population in 1911 was 259. building has been coir.-erted into a farm house. Miss Post & :\I. 0. Office, North Cowton.-Mrs. Sarah Davi· Webb, of Newstead Abbey, Notts, who is lady of the son, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Darlington manor, and the trustees of the late lV. Stobart esq. at 8 a. m. ; dispatched at 6.10 p.m. ; no sun day post. (d. 1905) are the principal landowners. The soil and Scorton & Great Smeaton, 4 & 5 miles distant re subsoil are clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, spectively, are the nearest telegraph offices oats, beans and turnips. The township contains 2,240 acres of land; rateable value, £r,713; the population SOGTH COWTO~ is a township in Northallerton union in 19II was I76; the population of the ecclesiastical and county court district. The church of St. Mary is parish in I9II was 435· an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, Sexton, William Bolton. consisting of chancel, nave, south porch with parvise and Letters received through Northallerton an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 3 Wall Letter Box, South Cowton, cleared 5.20 p.m.; na bells, one of which was re-cast in 1883 at the cost o: sundav collection Miss Amy Stobart : it is partly fitted with oak stalls : • the east window displays a shield of arms of the Conyers Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1875. for So family, supported by an angel, and under it the in- children; average attendance, 61 ; William Franks, scription « Cristofer Conyers ; " below this window are master three effigies in alabaster, one being the recumbent Moulton Railway Station, John S. Shaw, station master NORTH COWTON. cmniERCIAL. Hodgson John, surveyor of highways Craven William T Bar];:er Joseph, farmer to Richmond Rural District Council Hodgson John Barlier William, farmer Hood Robert, Blacksmiths' Arms P.!I Hunter Miss Crooks WiJliam, blacksmith Hulton Frederick, farmer Shout :Miss Davison Ralph, farmer Leggett William, cowkeeper • Wade :Mrs. George Hall Joseph, farmer Lowe John George & Son, farmer~~ Wilford Rev. Thomas Ernest Rohert Hawksby John, cowkeeper McCoy Norman, cow keeper M.A.. (vicar), Vicarage Hodgson John, shopkeeper Marley James, farmer
