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[[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Yorkshire]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[North Riding of Yorkshire Parishes|North Riding]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Over Silton | [[England]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Yorkshire]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[North Riding of Yorkshire Parishes|North Riding]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] Over Silton | ||
[[Image:Over_Silton_St_Mary_Yorkshire.jpg|thumb|right|Over Silton St Mary]] | |||
== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
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Over Silton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1757 from chapelry Kilburn Ecclesiastical Parish. Other places in the parish include: Kepwick. <br> | Over Silton is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1757 from chapelry Kilburn Ecclesiastical Parish. Other places in the parish include: Kepwick. <br> | ||
SILTON, OVER (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Northallerton, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York; containing, with the township of Kepwick, 271 inhabitants, of whom 98 are in Over Silton township, 8½ miles (N. by E.) from Thirsk. The parish comprises by measurement 1137 acres, of which 178 are arable, 480 meadow and pasture, 99 wood and plantations, and 380 moorland. Excellent stone is quarried for building. From a mountain at the north end of the village is one of the most extensive views perhaps in England, embracing the whole extent of the vale of Mowbray, and the more prominent Westmorland mountains, which latter, though at some distance, add greatly to the beauty of the prospect. The living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of £69; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose tithes have been commuted for £161. 8.: there is an impropriate glebe of 13¾ acres. The church, before the Dissolution, was under the priory of Newburgh, and one of the priests came thence once a month, to officiate here. | SILTON, OVER (All Saints), a parish, in the union of Northallerton, wapentake of Birdforth, N. riding of York; containing, with the township of Kepwick, 271 inhabitants, of whom 98 are in Over Silton township, 8½ miles (N. by E.) from Thirsk. The parish comprises by measurement 1137 acres, of which 178 are arable, 480 meadow and pasture, 99 wood and plantations, and 380 moorland. Excellent stone is quarried for building. From a mountain at the north end of the village is one of the most extensive views perhaps in England, embracing the whole extent of the vale of Mowbray, and the more prominent Westmorland mountains, which latter, though at some distance, add greatly to the beauty of the prospect. The living is a perpetual curacy, with a net income of £69; patrons and impropriators, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, whose tithes have been commuted for £161. 8.: there is an impropriate glebe of 13¾ acres. The church, before the Dissolution, was under the priory of Newburgh, and one of the priests came thence once a month, to officiate here. | ||
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 107-110. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51278 Date accessed: 09 April 2011.<br> | From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 107-110. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51278 Date accessed: 09 April 2011.<br> | ||
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