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== Parish History == | == Parish History == | ||
Downholme St Michael and All Saints is an Ancient Parish in the county of Yorkshire. Other places in the parish include: Ellberton Abbey, Ellerton Abbey, Walburn, Stainton near Richmond, and Stainton. <br>DOWNHOLME (St. Michael), a parish, in the union of Richmond, wapentake of Hang-West, N.riding of York; consisting of the townships of Downholme, Ellerton-Abbey, Stainton, and Walburn; and containing 248 inhabitants, of whom 121 are in the township of Downholme, 4¾ miles (S. W. by W.) from Richmond. The parish comprises by computation 6330acres, of which about 1400 are in the township, extending northward to the Swale river. The living is a perpetual curacy, valued in the king's books at £5. 15. 10.,and in the patronage of T. Hutton, Esq. (the impropriator), with a net income of £75. The church, which stands in the dale below the village, is an ancient edifice.There is a school endowed with £15 per annum by the Rev. E. Ellerton. | |||
From: A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 84-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50926 Date accessed: 30 April 2011. <br> | |||
== Resources == | == Resources == | ||