Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for YEDDINGHAM

YEDDINGHAM, a parish in the district of Malton and E. R. Yorkshire; 1½ mile NNW of Heslerton r. station, and 8½ NE of New Malton. Post town, Malton. Acres, 1,150. Real property, £1,175. Pop., 108. Houses, 20. The property is subdivided. A Benedictine priory was founded here, before 1168, by Roger de Clere. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £205. Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is tolerable.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Yedingham AP/CP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Yedingham

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