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"LANGTOFT, a parish in the wapentake of DICKERING, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Cotton and Langtoft, and containing 432 inhabitants, of which number, 416 are in the township of Langtoft, which is partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, 6 miles N.W. from Great DriiBeld. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Langtoft in the Cathedral Church of York, rated in the king's books at £8. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists."
"COTTAM, (or Cotton) a chapelry in the parish of LANGTOFT, partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, and partly in the wapentake of DICKERING, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles N.N.W..from Great Driffield, containing 16 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Langtoft in the Cathedral Church of York, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Langtoft."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]