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MARTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"MARTON, a parish partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, but chiefly in the upper division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles S. from Aldboroxigh, containing 464 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with Grafton, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £2. 19. 4., endowed with £200 private benefaction and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. "

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]