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Burnsall in York County England History and GeographyBURNSALL, a parish in the eastern division of the wapentake of STAINCLIFFE and EWCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelries of Coniston with Kilnsay, and Rilsdon, and the townships of Appletreewick, Burnsall with Thorp sub Montem, Craco, Harlington, and Hetton with Bordley, and containing 1423 inhabitants, of which number, 329 are in the township of Burnsall with Thorp sub Montem, 9½ miles (N.N.E.) from Skipton. The living is a rectory in medieties, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £36. R. Chippendale, Esq. was patron in 1810. The church is dedicated to St. Wilfrid: at the entrance to the choir each portionist has a pulpit and a reading-desk, from which divine service is performed alternately. This parish is supposed to have been formerly a member of the parish of Linton, the rector of which still receives a modus from the greater part of it, for the tithe of corn. A grammar school was built in 1605, by Sir William Craven, Knt., who also repaired the church in 1612, erected four bridges in the vicinity, and performed various acts of charity: the income of the school is £42 per annum, arising from a rent-charge of £20 given by the founder, £200 by Dame Elizabeth Craven in 1624, and an annuity of £10 to an usher by a subscquent benefactor: only four or five boys are taught Latin; the rest, on an average about thirty, pay for commercial instruction. Sir William was a native of Appletreewick, in this parish, and by industry and frugality amassed considerable property in London, of which city he was lord mayor in 1611. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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