420 WYKEHAM. NORIH RIDING YORKSHIRE. wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The acreage is (in postmistress. Letters delivered 1 a.m. ; dispatched at eluding Ruston and Langdale End) 8,180 of land and 19 5.30 p.m.; sundays, delivered 7· a.m. (anmmett of 'water; rateable value, £4,o63; the population in months) & 8 a.m. ; dispatched xa.4o a.m. Bromptolt. rgn was 437· a miles distant, is the nearest money order office RUSTON, half a mile west, and Langdale End are Letter Box (Buston) cleared s.IO p.m. week days only :h.BJDleta in this parish. A.t Langdale End is a chapel of Public Elementary Schoill (mixed), for 120 children; ease, built in 1884 by the late Mary lsabel Viscountess average attendance, 59; John Henry Stead, master Downe (d. 1goo), ah a cost of £570. Sexton, Robert Riby. Railway Station, William George Lawson, station mastr Post & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office (letters Carriers to Scarborough.-Georgu Atkinson, thurs. l should have Yorks added). Mrs . .A.nnie Gillance, sub- James Biby, thurs. & sat WfKEHAM. *Martindale John, Moorcock P.H. Yorkshire Penny Bank Ltd. (J. 'l'. Do'!ne Viscount K.O.V.O., O.B., Langdale End Stead, actuary); open mon. eveniag C. I.E. Wykeham abbey; & Oarlton *Nel'lfield Wm. farmer, Hillagreen & United Senice clubs, London ::S~t' *Newton Charles, frmr.Langdale End RUSTON. Gough Reginald Passman Thomas, estate carpentel' COMMERCU.L. Newman Rev. Arthur Oarleton (vicar) Riby John, farmer Dean James, gamekeepel' to Capt.HoJIL COMMERCIAL. *Robinson Arthur Darrell, farmer, J. Dawnay D.B.O (Letters marked thus * should be Langdale End Foster .A.lbert, farmer addressed, Hackness, Scarborough.) Rogers George, estate clerk of works HaTdy James, blacksmith Atkinson George, farmer & carrier Scoby John, farmer, Wykeham carr Jeffels Megginson, farmer Olipstone Fred, gardener to Viscount Simpldn Francis Newton, shoe maker North Waiter, farmer Downe Stephenson Jo11eph, farmer Riby James, carrier •Consitt Wm. farmer, Langdale End Stonehouse Edward C. farmer Stevenson John, shoe maker Gough Reginald, land agt. & forester Thompson Francis William, grocer Temple Frank, farmer Hudson John, Downe Arms P.H •Ward John, farmer, Langdale End Temple Bobert George, farmer .Tewitt John Bobert, farmer *Ward Joseph, farmer, Higher Lang- Tindall John William, tailor Jones Bobert, shopkeeper dale End White Thomas, farmer Y AFFORTH is a small village, on the river Wiske, lnrd of the manor, and the trustees of the late Lieu~. and a civil township in the ecclesiastical parish of Danby Col. Henry Trafford-Rawson aTe the chief landowner&. Wiske, Ii miles wPst from Northallerton, where is the The soil is gravel and clay; subsoil, the same. Tb& :aearest l'Bilway station, in the Richmond division of chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. Acre the Riding, Northallel'ton union and county court dis- age, 1,327; rateable value, £1,616; the population i1t lri
Y .anciently a market town, is a parish and the The living .is a rectory, net yearly value f.196, with ~ head of a petty sessional division (held at Thornaby-on acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the .Arch Tees), and is ~~ miles from the Eaglescliffe junction and bishop of York, and held since 1901 by the Rev. Arthur a quarter of a mile from the Yarm station on the North Garmond11way Waldy M.A. of Merton College, Oxford. Yorkshire and Cleveland braDII~h of the North Eastern The tithe, amounting to £220, is impropriated. T:M railway, 4 miles I!QUth-south-west of Stockton, 14 north Catholic churoh, dedicated to St. Mary, was founded iJt north-east of Northallerton and 234 from London, in the 1795 and rebuilt in 186o near the site of the Black Cleveland division of the Riding, west division of the Friars' monastery, and contains a stained glass window Langbaurgh liblrly, union of Stokesley, county court erected to the memory of Thomas Meynell by his widow. district of Stockton and Middlesbrough, rural deanery of There are also W esleyan and Primitive Methodiat Stokesley, archdeaconry of Cleveland and diocese of York. chapels; the latter was rebuilt in 1897• and now The town, which is supplied with water by the Tees seats 250. The Young Men's Christian Association ha& Valley Water Board and is lighted with gas, consists a branch here, and meetings are regularly held. A eh1efly of one long and broad street running north Cemetery of 2 acres was formed in 1881, at a cost of and 11outh, is nearly surrounded by the Tees and £I,ooo and was enlarged by the addition of I acre ia was very liable to inundations, one of which occurred 1912, and is now under the control of a joint com on February 17, 1753; and again in 1771 and 1881 mittee. A fair ia held annually on the 18th, rgth and ii suffered similar calamities, all of wh1ch did great 2oth of October, which is well attended for the sale damage, but the river below Yarm having since been of horses, cattle and cheese. The market, owing to dredged two feet deeper, the town is not likely to the proximity of the town to that of Stockton, hall be again flooded; the river, which separates it from become extinct. The covered market-cross, built in 1710 the county of Durham, is here crossed by a sub and containing a clock and 2 bells, stands in the centTe stantial stone bridge of five arches and is navigable for of the street ; in the upper floor is a room where the V8'1lsels drawing 8 feet of water and of 6o tons burden. steward of the manor holds a court leet, and all parish On the 3rd of September, 1803, the foundation stone wa.a busine~s is transacted. The charities have been give .. laid for a cast iron bridge across the river, eventually by various benefactors. Edgar Meynell esq. of Durham, eompleted at a cost of £8,ooo; but on the 12th of is lord of the manor and principal landowner. He.-e January, 18o6, when on the point of being opened to the was formerly a house of Dominican or Black Friar!!.. public, it collapsed, owing to some defect in the abut founded by Peter de Brus, who died in 11140; a mansion~ ments. 'rhe original bridga, of which part remains, built on the site, and called the " Frierage," and the was built by Waiter Skirlaw, Bishop of Durham, in property of the lord of the manor, is now occupied by qoo. Near the same SP•)t, and running parallel with Edward Robson Whitwell esq. D.L., J.P. The soil is of the length of the town on the western side, is the fine a clayey and loamy nature, and well adapted for crops of viaduct the North Eastern railway, 780 yards in wheat, oats and beans. The area is 1,197 acres of land'~ length, and consisting of 43 arches, constructed of red 2 of water, 25 of tidal water • Rl'ld 6 of foreshore; rate brick with stone di'&Ssings, erected at a cost of upwards able nine, £7,858 ; the population in 19u was 1,617 iB' of £8o,ooo. The church of St. Mary Magdalene, a plain the civil and 1,558 in the ecclesiastical parish. building of stone, standjng a little to the west of the town, Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Mrs. Sarah Jane Peacock, sob upon the banks of the Tees, was rebuilt in 1730, and postmistress (letters should have Yorks added). Le~ restored in 1878 at a cost of £2,500; it consists of nave, ters arrive from London & all parts at; 6.10 a.m. ~ aislea and an embattled western Norman tower. containing from Darlington, Middlesbrough, London, the South~ 3 bella : most of th& are aWned and there are Stookton et all parts at 4.30 p.m. Letters are dill soo littinp. The register datel! from the year 1645· patched for York and South at 10 a.m.; for Darling-
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