Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LASTINGHAM

LASTINGHAM, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on an affluent of the river Severn, near Spaunton-Moor, 6 miles W of Levisham r. station, and 7 NW of Pickering; is picturesquely situated; and has a post-office under York.—The township comprises 690 acres. Real property, £643. Pop., 216. Houses, 54.—The parish contains also the townships of Spaunton, Rosedale-West-Side, Appleton-le-Moors, Hutton-le-Hole, and Farndale-East-Side; the last three of which are in Helmsley district. Acres, 24,663. Real property, with all Farndale, £10,020; of which £252 are in mines, and £22 in quarries. Pop. in 1851,1,380; in 1861,1,597. Houses, 315. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to the Crown of Northumbria; was given by King Ethelwald to Bishop Cedd, for an ecclesiastical establishment similar to that of Lindisfarne; and belongs now to H. B. Darley, Esq. Bishop Cedd's establishment suffered demolition by the Danes; underwent incipient restoration in the time of William the Conqueror; and was soon afterwards removed to York. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £300.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church stands over a vaulted crypt, of very fine work, either Saxon or early Norman; is itself a highly interesting Norman structure, with a tower; has been injured by the introduction of a lantern light to the chancel-roof, and by the blocking up of the apse with a modern painting; contains a font which appears to be Saxon; and had formerly a rich screen of carved oak. The modern painting represents Christ in the garden; and was one of the best works, and a gift, of the painter John Jackson, a native of the village, who died in 1830. There are a chapel of ease, and a day-school, in Farndale; a recently erected memorial church, and a Wesleyan chapel, at Appleton-le-Moors; chapels for Independents, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists, at Hutton-le-Hole; and a Wesleyan chapel, a national school with £15 from endowment, and charities £6, at Lastingham.—The sub-district contains three townships of L. parish, three of Middleton parish, and an extra-parochial tract; and is in Pickering district. Acres, 23,780. Pop. 1,659. Houses, 328.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Lastingham CP/AP       Lastingham SubD       North Riding Riding       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lastingham

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