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

STILLINGFLEET:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"STILLINGFLEET, a parish partly in the ainsty of the city of YORK, partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, but chiefly in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Acaster-Selby, Kelfield, and Stilling-, fleet with Moreby, and containing 878 inhabitants, of which number, 404 are in the township of Stillingfleet with Moreby, 7 miles S.W. from York. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £9. 7. 6., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is an ancient structure, exhibiting some portions in the Norman style j attached to it is a chapel, in which is a cross-legged figure in armour, of one of the ancient family of Moreby. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Four poor children are instructed for an annuity of £1. 10., the bequest of the Rev. Mr. Turey."

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"KELFIELD, a township in that part of the parish of STILLINGFLEET, which is in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles N.W. from Selby, containing 286 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A free school was founded by Mrs. Mary Stillingfield, who devised £400 by will, dated in May 1802, to trustees, for the instruction of poor children of this township; the annual income is about £21.6., and twenty children are taught gratuitously."

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"MOREBY, a township, joint with Stillingfleet, in that part of the parish of STILLINGFLEET, which is in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles S. from York. The population is returned with Stillingfleet."

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