470 DILTOY.· EAST RID lNG , [KELLY'~ BILTON. Ingram William, farmer Stainton Arthur, gardener to John Metcalfe George, hay & straw dealer, Arthur Scott esq Cole Rev. Frederick George M.A. Lansdowne house Twidale Richard, market gardener (vicar), Vicarage Perr·y John Frcderick, cowkeeper Woods John Robt. frmr. Turmer hal~ Spear Samue'l Thompson Alfred, hind to Mr. Thompson Miss William Ingram WYTON. Walker James, Ash Tree villa Donkin Henry George, The Grange GANSTEAD. Garbutt David Parkin.son,Wyton lodge Cf)MMERCIAL. Perry Tom, Ganstead Old hall Rodmell Thomas, Red house Butler Geo. Wm. blacksrnth. k sexton Scott John Arthur, Ganstead grange Sumptner John, Central house Duke John, hind to Wm. esq Woods John Robert, Turmer hall Ashby Thon1as, shopkeeper England James, farmer Gordon John William, pig dealer Cape David & Charles, cowkeepers, Fell J oseph William, schoolmaster & ~aylor Harriet (Mrs.), farmer, Hun- Wyton hall overseer, assessor & collector of gerhills I Donkin Hy. Geo. farmer, The Grange income tax Perry Tom, farmer, Ganstead Old hall Richardson Richard, farmer & land- Harrison William, joiner Reffold George Reuben, farmer I owner, The Abbey Holley Wm. hind to Wm.England esq Walker David, fa1·mer ::BIBDSALL is a and pleasantly situated of Exeter College, and domestic chaplain to Lord Middle. village, about 3 miles south from North Grimston ton. Of the ruins of the old church, four arches are station on the Malton and branch of the North remaining, and a po.rtion of the tower mantled with ivy; Eastern railway and 5 south-east from Malton, in the on one of the walls is a crest with the date "16o1," and division of the Riding, Buckrose wapentake the letters "T. 8." There are the remains of a Danish and petty sessional division, Malton union and county t!ncampment at Aldro, with several tumuli. Here are (!Ourt district, rural deanery of Settrington, archdeaconry the kennels of Lord Middleton's hounds. Malton, Pock­ -of the East Riding and diocese of York. The church of lington and York are convenient places for hunting St. Mary, built in 1825 at the cost of Henry, 6th Baron visitors. Birdsall House, the seat of Lord Middleton D.L., Middleton, and standing on an eminence within the Park, J.P. is a mansion built of stone, standing in a park of is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of 160 acres and approached on one side through a noble -chancel, nave, south porch and a lofty embattled west-ern avenue of trees. Lord Middleton is lord of the manor tower with pinnacles, containing 3 bells; the lower stage and chief landowner. The ancient Rectorial or Birdsall of the tower forms the principal entrance: in the chancel .Manor, now occupied by Capt. Lumley Hodgson, is a. is an ancient recumbent effigy in stone, removed from the mansion of stone, the property of Lord Middleton. The Qld church, and there are several handsome marble monu- soil is various ; the subsoil is chalk on the hill and clay ments, including one by Rysbrach to Thomas Southe.by on the low land. The chief crops are turnips, barley, oats -esq. and another by Westmacott to the founder, Baron and wheat. The area is 4,027 acres of land and 4 of Middleton, who died rgth June, 1835: the stained east water; rateable value, £3,2o6; the population of the window was erected to the memory of the late Lord parish in 19II was 347· Middleton, d. 19 Dec. 1877, and there are two others Parish Clerk, Mark Harland. to his widow, Julia Louisa (Bosville), d. 1904: a carved Post, M. 0., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office.- ~ak screen was erected in I90I as a memorial to the Arthur Owen, sub-postmaster. Letters through llon. Mrs. W. Bethell, of Rise Park, : on Malton arrive at 7.15 a.m. & 5.15 p.m.; dispatched the exterior, over the south doorway, are the arms at 6.15 p.m. No delivery of letters on sundays -of the founder, in bronze: the church was thoroughly Wall Letter Box cleared at 6 p.m restored in 1878: there are sittings for about 350 Public Elementary Schools (mixed), erected in IB71, with persons. The register dates from the year 18u. The master's residence, by Julia, dowager Lady Middleton, living is a vicarage, net yearly value [,6o, with 10 at a cost of about £r,ooo, for Bo children; average .acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord Middleton, and held attendance, 50; Arthur Hutch croft, master; Mrs. since 1885 by the Rev. Lawrence Stafford Gresley M.A. Minnie Hutchcroft, mistress PRIVA'I'E RESIDENTS. Brigham Artl1ur Wil~on, Wm. Hy. &: Parke Tom Cole, a.ssistant farm bailiff Middleton Lord D.L., J.P. Birdsall Lucy Arm (Mrs.), frmrs.Toisland fm t-o Lord Middleton house; & Carlton & Junior Carlton Brigtham William Henry & Lucy Ann Parsons Edward, land agent to Lord clubs, s w / (Mrs.), farmers, Vessey pasture Middleton, Birdsall grange Gresley Rev. Lawrence Stafford M.A Burnett Philip, jun. farmr. Picksharp R~nder George, estate office (near) ,. Che~ter Thomas, poultryman to Lord R1m~er J. haad plumber to Lord Hodgson Capt. Lumley ,Birds all manor .M1ddleton . ~Iddl,eton . Pal'Sons Edward Birdsall grange..- Hdl George, farmer, :M11l farm Sm1th fhomas, mdoor carpenter to ' Jarvis Harry, farmer, Mount Ferrant Lord Middleton (postal address, Buryt.horpe) Stevenson Robert, clerk of the works COMM:ERCIAf.t. Machin William, head groom to Lord to Lord Middleton .Anderson James, head gardener to Middleton Thornton Robert, stud groom to Lord Lord Middleton NuTJ."ick James, blacksmith to Lord Middlf'ton, Toft house Barford David, head gamekeeper to Middleton Trueman Charles, boot maker Lord Middleton Owen .A.rthur, stationer, & post office Wardell Arth. M. frmr. Grange farm Bishopp Thomas, huntsman to Lord Parke Henry, farm bailiff to Lord Middleton Middleton, Home fatm BISHOP BURTON is a parish, township and pretty columns: this chancel was rebuilt in 1865 by the late village, on the old road from Hull_to Beverley and York, 3 Francis Watt esq. on the former site and a stained east miles west from Beverley stat.ion, 3 south from Cherry window inserted as a memorial to Richard Watt eeq. Burton station and 5 north from Little Weighton station d. 18 March, 1855· and to Hannah, his wife. There are -on the Hull and Barnsley railway, in the four memorial windows to the aforementioned Francis division of the Riding, Hunsley Beacon division of the Watt esq. and in the nave some modern stained glass, wapentake of Harthill, North Hunsley Beacon petty by Mr. C. E. Kempe. No less than four fonts of different sessional division, Beverley nnion and county court dates and also a Saxon figul'e of the Blessed Virgin have district, rural deanery of Beverley, archdeaconry of the been discovered in the farm buildings and replaced in East Biding and diocese of York. The church of All the church: in IQI3 the nave was reseated with carved Saints, standing on a commanding eminence, is an oak benches : there are 300 sitting-a. The churchyard -edifice of stone in varion~ style!!, consisting of chancel, was enlarged in 1870 by an additional half-acre of land, elerestoried nave, aisles, south doorway and a western given by the late E. R. B. Hall-Watt esq. M.A. who t'Jwer containing a. clock and 3 bells ; the base of the has also re-end(}wed the living by a donation of £6,666. tower dates from about nso: the body of the church The register dates from the year 1562. The living is r. was rebuilt in 182o, at a cost of nearly £1,7oo: the vicarage, net yparly value £270, including 49 acres of chancel retains a piscina, and there is a fine monument glebe, with residence, in the gift of the trustees of th& in the llOl'th aisle with a recumbent effigy in alabaster late E. R. Bradley Hall-Wa.tt esq. and held since 1887 to a l~dy of the Gee family (the former possessOTs of the by the Rev. William Allwright Pearman M.A. of Pem­ land) : on the chancel floor is a brass, with Latin in- broke College, Oxford. A new vicarage house wo.11 •cription, to Peter Johnson, vicar, Qb. 23 May, 146o; erected in 1889 at a cost of £1,200. There is a Wesleyan another with a very fine effigy of Johanna.h, wife of chapel, built in 1840, with 116 sittings; a bust of the Balph Rok.eby knt. dated 15~n, and a third, with figures Rf.v. John Wesley, carved from the wood of an ancient 'Of a knight and lady, of the Ellerksr family, with an and remarkable elm tree which stood upon the Village undated inscription; the aisles al"B separated Jrom the Green and was blown down in 1836, and formerly pre­ nave by arcades of four Pointed arches, on octagonal terved in the old Wesll'yan chapel, is now in the vestry

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