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DANBY WISKE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"DANBY WISKE, a parish in the eastern division of the wapentake of GILLING, North riding of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelry of Yafforth, and the township of Danby-Wislc, and containing 477 inhabitants, of which number, 328 are in the township of Danby-Wisk, 3 miles N.W. from North Allerton. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated in the king's books at £9. 3. 111. The Rev. William Cust was patron in 1811."

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"YAFFORTH, a chapelry in the parish of DANBYWISKE, eastern division of the wapentake of GILLING, North riding of the county of YORK, l mile N.W. from North Allerton, containing 149 inhabitants."