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Blyth in York County England History and GeographyBLYTH, a parish comprising the chapelry of Austerfield in the northern, and the chapelry of Bawtry in the southern, division of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH and TICKHILL, west riding of the county of YORK,'the township of Ranskill, in the liberty of SOUTHWELL and SCROOBY,'the market town of Blyth, the townships of Barnby-Moor with Bilby, Stirrup, and Torworth, and the lordship of Hodsock, in the Hatfield division of the wapentake of BASSETLAW, county of NOTTINGHAM, and containing 3456 inhabitants, of which number, 801 are in the town of Blyth, 31¼ miles (N. by E.) from Nottingham, and 151½ (N.N.W.) from London. This place, anciently called Blia, and Blida, was chiefly noted in former times for its religious and charitable establishments: in 1088, a priory was founded in honour of the Blessed Virgin, by Roger de Builly, and his wife Muriel, for monks of the Benedictine order, which, though considered as an Alien priory, being in some respects subordinate to the abbey of the Holy Trinity, near Rouen, in Normandy, was spared at the suppression of Alien priories, and subsisted till the general dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at £126. 8. 2. An hospital for lepers, dedicated to St. John the Evangelist, was founded by Hugh de Cressy, Lord of Hodsock, in the reign of John, for a warden, three chaplains and brethren, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, was £8. 14.: of these buildings, as well as of a strong castle, which is said to have been anciently erected here, there are not any remains. The town is well built, plesantly situated, and amply supplied with water. The market is on Wednesday, and the fairs are on Holy Thursday, and October 20th. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £14. 9. 4½., endowed with £220 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, a handsome and spacious structure, is dedicated to St. Martin. There is a place of worship for the Society of Friends. A school for ten poor children of the town, and for two from each of the adjoining townships, is endowed with land producing £18 per annum, to which is annually added £5 from the parish funds, as a salary to the master, who is appointed by the Vicar of the parish. Almshouses for six aged people, who have a small allowance of money and coal, have been lately rebuilt, and are supposed to have been originally an appendage to the hospital founded by Hugh de Cressy. There are also almshouses for two aged women, endowed with £10 per annum, under the management of seven trustees, chosen from among the Society of Friends, besides other charitable bequests for the relief of the poor. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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