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"BROMPTON BY SAWDON, a parish in the wapentake of PICKERING lythe, North riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Brompton, Sawdon, Troutsdale, and the chief part of the township of Snainton, and containing, with the whole of Snainton, 1303 inhabitants, of which number, 516 are in the township of Brompton, 8 miles W.S.W. from Scarborough. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £12> endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Sir G. Cayley, Bart. Tfhe church, dedicated to All Saints, is one of the most spacious and elegant in the county. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Saxon kings of Northumberland are stated to have had a residence here; and on an eminence, called Castle Hill, are the foundations of an ancient castle, about half a mile from which is Gallows Hill, being the place of execution for criminals within the barony. John of Brompton, a monkish historian, who compiled a laborious work on the early annals of England, including the period between the years 558 and 1198, is supposed to have been born here: he lived twenty years in the Benedictine abbey of Whitby, during the abbacy of John of Skelton, which commenced in 1413."
"SAWDON, a township in the parish of BROMPTON BY SAWDON, PICKERING lythe, North riding of the county of YORK, 9 miles W.S.W. from Scarborough, containing 139 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists."
"TROUTSDALE, a township in the parish of BROMPTON BY SAWDON, PICKERING lythe, North riding of the county of YORK, 8 miles W. from Scarborough, containing 45 inhabitants."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]