G4RSDALE •. WEST RIDING . 346 nave with a vestry attached, and a turret containing 2 bells. Mrs. Inman, Mrs. Wilson and Mr. Willlam Whaley" The The register dates from about the year 1693, and is in good soil is clay ; the subsoil le ~lay and peat. The chief crop is conditign, The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value grass. The area is 12,172 acrea; rateable v~ ..£4,543~ .£95, with residence and '37 ~~ocres of glebe, in the gift. of the the population in 1871 was 911, mostly seat over the Lord Chancellor and held by the. Rev. Henry Thompsoo M.A.. township in small far111s. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. Garsdale forms part of the Sezton, Thomaa Haygartb. Hawes School Board district. There are chapels for the W es­ leyan and Primitive Methodists and a Meeting house for the Letten received throull'h Sed bergh R.S.O. The nearest Society of Friends. The charities for distribution are £8 131!. money order office is at Sed bergh yearly. The principal owners of the land, which is freehold, National School, endowed with about £17 per annum, d'" are Mis1 Elam, Mr. Thomas Batty, ~lr. Thomas Harrison, rived from land; William Edmondson, master lnman Dr. William R.N. Badgerdub Tiodd Lepnard Thomas, shopkeeper Lang·stroth John, The Junction Thompson Rev. Hen. M.A.[incumbent] Edmondson William, registrar of births Law Leonard, farmer & deaths Longstroth John, joiner COMMERCIAL, Fallowfteld Thomas, shpkpr. & farmer Lund James, farmer, Grisedale Akrigg Michael, farmer, East Hindkeld Handley George, farmer, Banks Mason William, farmer, Birk rigg Alien James, farmer, Blake mire Handley George, shopkeeper MetcaJfe Christopher, farmer Alien Samuel, farmer Handley John, farmer, East Racken- Metcalfe John, farmer AUen Thomas, farmer thwaite Metcalte John, quarry master, & farmer Atkinsou John, farmer, East coat Handley John, farmer, Hill Peacock Thomas, farmer Atkinson Miles, farmer Haudley John, farmer, Long Holme Pratt Robert, farmer Atkinson Richard, farmer, Grouse hall Handley Richard, farmer, Castle Raw John, farmer Batty Richard, farmer, Banks Handley Rowland, farmer, Mostards Raw Joseph, farmer Bell Thomas, farmer, Mudbecks Handley Thomas, farmer Redding Thoma.'t, farmer, Mouse syke Bentham Benjamin, farmer, High scale Handley Thomas, farmer, Fry hill Sheldon William, farmer, Kiln house Blades J ames, farmer Handley Thomas, farmer, Winter scales Sutton Richard, shopkeeper Blades John, farmer Handley William, farmer, Crosthwaite Thompson Betsey (Mrs.), shopkeeper Blades John, farmer Harper John, farmer, Low scale Thompson John, farmer, Garsdale hall Bowness Peter, provision mer. & frmr Harper John, farmer, Swarth gill Tbroupe William, farmer, Grlsedale Buck Michael, yeoman, Long Holme Harper Richard, farmer, Knudmaning Thwaite Simon, farmer, Roger pot Burton James,farmer Harper Richard, farmer, Bellow end Tbwaite Wm. farmer, West Mudbecks Burton James, farmer, Grisedale Harper Rowland, farmer, Pawcett Thwaites Francis, farmer, Mudbecks Burton John, farmer Harper Rowland, farmer, Grisedale Wearing James, farmer, Blirtes Burton Nathan, farmer, Grisedale Harper Thomas, farmer, EastLittle two Wearing Thomas, farmer, Far house Burton Willlam, farmer Haygarth Thos. frmr. West Little town Wilkinion John, yeoman Capstick Thomas, stone ma~on Haygarth William, farmer Wilkinson Michael, farmer Cooper Thomas, farmer, Benbridge end Haygarth William, farmer, Slack Wilkinson Michael, yeoman, Browside Coulthwaite John, ftlrmer, Pot gill Holme William, farmer, Scale Wilson Joseph Hy. yeoman, Whitbeck Cowper Betty (Mrs.), tarmer Hutchinson Robert, yeoman Wino John, farmer, Far end Cowper Robert, farmer, Ray gill lnmao Richard, farmer, Low house Wino Richard, farmer, Ellsgill Cowper Rowland, farmer, Griesdale Inman William, farmer & landowner Yare George, farmer, Grisedale Dinsdale William, farmer, Hill top Lambert William, farmer, WestPinfold

GATEFORTH is a town'!hip in the parish of Brayton, 5 Gatefortb Hall, the seat of Henry Brooke Pirman esq. miles south-west from and 2 from the Hambleton sta- lord of the manor an•l principal landowner, is a haod­ tion, in the Eastern division of the Riding, wapentake of some residence, situated in pleasant grounds. The soU and Barkstone Ash, union and county courl district of Selby, subsoil are red sandstone. The chief crops are potatoes and rural deanery of Selby, archdeaconry and diocese of . wheat. The area is 2,062 acres; rateable vah1e, ,£2,332; The church, built and end.,wed by Huruphrey Osbaldeston the population in 1871 was 177. esq. and consecrated 1825, is a building of white brick, cou- Paruh Clerk, Robert Gregory. sisting of chancel, nave and two short aisles, tower with spire -- and a clock. The living is a perpetual curacy, worth £~00 Letters arrive at 9.30 a.m. from Selby, which is the nearest yearly, with parsonage house at Hambleton, in the gift money order office. WALL LBTTEa Box, cleared at of H. B. Firman esq. and held by the Rev. William Henry 4.45 p.m.; no collection on sunday Cleveland B.A.. of 8idney .Sussex College, Cambridge. School {mixed), Robert Archer, master Firman Henry Brooke, Gateforth hall Green Rober4 gamekeeper to H. B. Middleton Johnz farmer Ahe!l Edward, farmer, Lund house Firman esq Mould George, tarme.r Abell John, farmer Gregory Robert, blacksmith Smith Robert, whetolwright Barrie John, wood man Lee John, farm~r Watson Prancis, farmer Dean William, tailor McAndrews Ale:xander, gardener to H. Westoby Charles , farmer Fnrrand Thomas, farmer B. Firmao esq ,

GIGGLESWICK is a parish ------and village, the latter a gleswick, Henry Tennant e3q. and other inhabitants of the mile north-west from Settle and 16 miles north-west from town and parish of Giggleswick in Craven, to the King, for t;kipton, in the Northern division of the Riding, petty ses­ a Grammar school to be "erected and established, for the sional division of West Staiocliffe, western division ofStain­ institution, erudition and instruction of children aod young clitfe and Ewcross wapentake, Settle union and county court men," and accordingly it was granted and ordained that district, North Craven rural deanery, archdeaconry of Cra­ trom that time there should be a " Grammar school In Gig­ ven, diocese of Hlpon, province of York, pleasantly situated gleswick, to be called the Free Grammar School of King on the river Ribble, whach separates it from Settle and is Edward VI. of Glggleswick, and the same school for ever crossed by a brid~e. Tbe church of St. Alkald is an old stone to continue of one achoolmaster or bead mll!lter, and one building in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel under master or usher " and it was ordained that eight men with south aisle, nave with aisles, and tower containing 6 of the'' discreeter and more honest inhabitants of the town belli dating from 1850, aud a clock: there is a very hand­ and parish" should be appointed "~overnol'll/ 1 and be called some oak pulpit dated 1680 and a reading desk on which are by that name j of these the vicar of the parish for the time carved the name11 of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, with this being was to be one; they form, to n~ the language of the 1 inscription- ' Here is the Standardes of the Israelites when charter'-" A Body Corporate and Politick for ever by the the to Canan cam a~anes the Canaanites" : the interior is name or Govemon of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods partly surrounded with galleries : on the floor of the church of the said Grammar School;'' on the decease of any or the are several bra88 inscriptions in ~&n imperfect state. A stone governors, or in case of any of them removing out of the cross stands near the chnrch. The register dates from the parish, then they- have power to " elect and nominate one year 1553 and is in verv good condition. The living is a other fit person into the place of him so dying or removing." vicarage, yearly value £550, including about 30 acres of For the purpose of endowing the achool, granta of church glebe, in the gif\ alternately of John C. Coulthur11t and land:t, tithes and cottages, situated at North Cave and else­ WiJliam Hartley esqrs. and held by the Rev. William Henry where in Yorkshire were made to the governol'!l: the yearly Coulthurst LL.B. of Mall'dalene College, Cambridge. In value of these wa1 at that time giveu in at .£23 3:t. Pow~r the seventh year of the reign or King Edward VI. ~'petition was vested in the governor• to appoint tbe masten~ and was made by the Rev.. ~. ~ owell, vicar of the parish of Gig- " with the advisement of the bishop of the dioceae for tbo