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"WHELDRAKE, a parish partly within the liberty, of ST-PETER-of-YORK, but chiefly in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles S.E. from York, containing, with the township of Langwith, 677 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £25. 17. -3-., and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, was rebuilt in 1789. There are places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and Methodists of the New Connexion. A manorial court is occasionally held here, for the recovery of small debts, at which a bailiff is appointed. Nineteen children are educated for about £12 a year, arising from the bequests of Silvester Walker, in 1775, and others."
"LANGWITH, a township in that part of the parish of WHELDRAKE, which is within the liberty of ST-PETER of YORK, though locally in the wapentake of Ouze and Derwent, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles E.S.E. from York, containing 39 inhabitants."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]