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Garton, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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GARTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"GARTON, a parish in the middle division of the wapentake of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the county of YORK, containing, with the townships of Garton and Owstwick, part of which latter is in the parish of Rooss, 299 inhabitants, of which number, 160 are in the township of Garton, 12 miles E.N.E. from Kingston upon Hull. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 1. 0., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is a neat structure, dedicated to St. Michael. Here is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists."


"OWSTWICK, a township partly in the parish of GARTON, and partly in that of Rooss, middle division of the wapentake of HOLDEKNESS, East riding of the county of YORK, 12 "miles N.E. from Kingston upon Hull, containing 139 inhabitants."

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