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

WESTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"WESTON, a parish in the upper division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Askwith and Wes- ton, and containing 475 inhabitants, of which number, 108 are in the township of Weston, 2 miles W.N.W. from Otley. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 11. 5., endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Governors of the grammar school at Sedbergh, The church is dedicated to All Saints."

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"ASKWITH, a township in the parish of WESTON, upper division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles N.W. from Otley, containing 367 inhabitants."

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