LANGBAURGH WAPENTAKE EAST DIVISION
BROTTON
Broctune, Brotune (xi cent.); Broketon, Broughton
(xiii cent.).
The parish of Brotton, situated on the sea coast of
Cleveland, includes the townships of Brotton, Kilton
and Skinningrove and the hamlet of Carlin How, and
covers 4,262 acres, of which 1,183 acres are arable
land, 294 acres woods and plantations, and 1,720
acres permanent grass. (fn. 1) The chief crops are wheat,
beans, barley and oats, and the soil is a strong clay
with a subsoil of inferior oolite in Brotton and Kilton
and of lower, upper and middle lias in Skinningrove.
The greatest height is 500 ft. above ordnance datum.
The parish is bounded on the north by the sea,
on the shores of which are Cattersty Sands, outlined
by Cattersty Cliffs and Hunt Cliffs, and on the
west by the Millholm Beck, which is crossed by a
bridge and by two fords.
In the latter half of the 19th century the importance of Brotton was greatly increased by the development of the mining industry. Between 1861 and
1871 several ironstone mines were opened in the
parish. In 1874 there were five mines at work in the
parish, Brotton mines to the north-west of the village,
Kilton mines further south in Kilton, the Cliff and
Huntcliff mines near the coast in Skinningrove, northwest of the village, and the Craggs Hall mines, now
disused, south-west of Skinningrove. (fn. 2) Lumpsey mine,
in the northern part of Kilton near the railway, was
opened in 1880. Other mines now worked are the
Loftus mines in Skinningrove and a mine in Carlin
How. There is a special railway line for the mines
in Kilton, and several public buildings have been
opened in connexion with the miners, such as the
Miners' Hospital at Skinningrove, built by Messrs.
Pease & Co. of the Loftus mines in 1871, and an
institute in Skinningrove opened in 1875.
Brotton is a large village built on the western
slope of the hill, the High Street, which runs east
and west, being the continuation of the road from
Loftus. In the centre of the village is the new
church of St. Margaret; the rectory and schools are
close at hand. The public elementary school in
Brotton was built by Messrs. Bell Brothers, Morrison
& Co. and the lessors of the royalties of ironstone in
Brotton, and was enlarged in 1895. To the southeast of the village is the old church of St. Margaret,
now serving as a mortuary chapel. The Wesleyan
Methodist chapel, built before 1855, lies towards the
eastern end of the village, and there are Primitive
Methodist and United Methodist chapels and a
Salvation Army meeting room. The Roman Catholic
church, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, was built
in 1906.
Brotton Hall, near the centre of the village, is the
manor-house. (fn. 3) Hunley Hall lies about a quarter of
a mile to the north, and the Cleveland Cottage
Hospital, built by Messrs. Bell Brothers in 1874, is
at the eastern extremity of the village.
There is a railway station to the south-west of the
church, on the Saltburn and Whitby branch of the
North Eastern railway. Below the station and due
west of the church is Brotton Grange, while further
north and on the eastern side of the line is New
Brotton, consisting of a few cottages built about
1868. There is another railway station at Skinningrove. The railway runs through Carlin How
(Carlinghowe, xiv and xvi cent.), a mining hamlet
east of Brotton, which from the 14th to the 16th
century belonged to the Elands. (fn. 4) Here there is a
district church dedicated to St. Helen, built and consecrated in 1901. A Wesleyan meeting room has
been superseded by a chapel built in 1912, and there is
a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Castle
The castle of Kilton occupies a commanding situation on a projecting spur on
the west side of Kilton Dale. The sides
of the valley at this point are extremely precipitous
and so thickly wooded that no distant view of the
ruins is possible. The site of the castle on a long
and narrow ridge is unusual, and the result is an
irregular quadrilateral inclosure some 300 ft. long with
an average width of about 60 ft. It is approachable
only on the west side by a narrow neck, once defended
by a deep ditch still in part discernible. On every other
side the ground falls away rapidly from the base of
the walls. Extensive further earthwork defences are
said to have existed in a field to the west, but little
trace of these is now apparent. The castle is evidently of an early type, and it appears to have
become ruinous in the 14th century. Two distinct
dates of building are observable in the existing remains;
the earlier, distinguished by rubble masonry and a
small chamfered plinth course, may perhaps be assigned
to the later part of the 12th century, while the later
ashlar-faced building belongs to the succeeding period
and represents alterations of the early 13th century.
The ground level within the inclosure is considerably
higher than outside as at Mulgrave, and the curtain
consequently becomes a retaining wall for part of its
height, an arrangement that accounts for the ruinous
state of most of the outer walls at the present time.
The walls are most complete on the north face, where
the lower portions of the curtain and towers are but
little broken; on the south face only fragments of
the rubble core of the walls now exist. The building
was apparently divided into two unequal portions by
a tower placed on the northern curtain and extending half across the inclosure and forming an inner
and outer ward. No trace of the gate-house, which
must have stood at the west end, remains, but to the
north of it is a large mass of ruin apparently of a
building lying east and west, and measuring 64 ft. 9 in.
by about 32 ft. The west and north walls rise to a
considerable height, and in the latter are a row of
corbels to support the floor above. The angle has a
heavily projecting clasping buttress, the interior being
cut away to form a small chamber, probably a garderobe. The jamb of a door leading to a similar
chamber remains at the first floor level. The whole
structure is of the early type of masonry with a plinth
course carried round the buttress, but no windows or
openings exist in either wall. Of the south side of
this building only foundations remain with a single
fragment of the east end. A considerable length of
curtain to the south of this building is standing, but
it is rubble core only. Some 100 ft. to the east
stands the great tower dividing the two wards. It
projects somewhat in advance of the northern curtain,
which was apparently cut away to receive it. The
wall on the west side indeed appears to be a later
insertion, as it is built up against the plinth of the
tower. This structure is of 13th-century date with
massive ashlar-faced walls 8 ft. 6 in. thick. The
existing portion is the basement story only, and is
entered by a doorway on the west side, of which the
head is gone. The exterior has been almost completely robbed of its facing, which was finished at the
base with a deep tabled plinth neatly jointed. The
southern half of the tower is now represented by
foundations only and appears to have had no basement. From this point to the north-east angle of
the fortifications is a distance of rather over 100 ft.
The curtain is apparently original, with a segmental
bastion (some 14 ft. in diameter) about half-way
along, added in the 13th century. Immediately to
the east of this is the mouth of a garderobe pit. The
north-east angle of the castle is defended by a large
bastion projecting in a northerly direction, which is
the best preserved portion of the ruins. The building
is rectangular with a segmental north end and is
14 ft. 2 in. across internally. It dates from the 13th
century with ashlar-faced walls and a similar plinth
to that of the central tower—three courses high and
capped with a small moulding. The southern wall of
the tower has gone, but the other three sides are
more or less complete for the two lower stories. The
ground floor has a small fireplace on the west with
boldly moulded corbels, one supporting a stone hood.
In the centre of the segmental end is a cruciform
loop, and on the east side a deeply splayed singlelight window opening with a plain pointed head. A
second window of similar character exists at the first
floor level. The later 13th-century work of this
tower terminates at a massive buttress on its eastern
face, and the few remaining fragments of the curtain
standing further south on that side are of the earlier
period with a chamfered plinth. A large mass of
rubble core at the south-east angle of the castle probably represents another tower at this point. The
curtain on the southern face follows an irregular line,
which can be traced for almost its whole course, but
with the exception of a fragment of 13th-century
plinth about half-way along no facing or worked stone
is left in position. The ruins have evidently been
much quarried in the past, but within recent years
efforts have been made by inconspicuous repairs to
preserve the remaining fragments of the castle.
Plan of Kilton Castle, Brotton
Kilton Castle was probably built by the Kilton
family and was the residence of their successors the
Thwengs, (fn. 5) Lucy de Thweng being born there in
March 1278–9 (fn. 6) ; it afterwards passed into the hands
of the Lumleys. (fn. 7) It is first mentioned in 1265, (fn. 8)
when Ralph Prior of Guisborough granted a chantry
in the chapel in Kilton Castle to Marmaduke de
Thweng. (fn. 9) It must have been abandoned as a dwellingplace soon afterwards. In 1341 (fn. 10) and 1345 (fn. 11) the
castle is described as small and worthless and the
park, which is then first mentioned, as without
game. The castle followed the descent of the manor
and is last mentioned in 1696. (fn. 12)
Kilton Hall lies to the north-west of the castle,
and further north is Kilton Mill, which was appurtenant to the manor in 1341, when it was described
as broken down. (fn. 13)
Manors
Before the Conquest Uctred held a
'manor' of 12 carucates in BROTTON, (fn. 14) which in 1086 was among
the lands of the Count of Mortain, his tenant being
Richard. (fn. 15) It afterwards passed into the Brus fee, (fn. 16)
and in the division among the heirs of Peter de Brus
in 1272 passed to Lucy wife of Marmaduke de Thweng
of Kilton Castle, (fn. 17) and afterwards with Danby (q.v.)
to their granddaughter Lucy. (fn. 18) The manor was
settled in 1313 on Lucy and her second husband
Robert de Everingham and their issue with remainder
to the right heirs of Robert. (fn. 19) After his death in
1316 without issue the manor was settled on Bartholomew de Fanacourt, her third husband, for life with
remainder to Adam Lord Everingham of Laxton,
brother and heir of Robert, and his son Adam. (fn. 20)
Lucy died in January 1346–7 (fn. 21) and Bartholomew in
1352, (fn. 22) when the manor reverted to the younger
Adam Lord Everingham. Adam's son William died
in his father's lifetime, (fn. 23) leaving two daughters, Joan
and Katharine, co-heirs to their grandfather at his
death in February 1387–8. (fn. 24) Joan married first
Sir William Ellis (fn. 25) and secondly Robert Waterton, (fn. 26)
while Katharine became the wife of John son of
Thomas de Etton. (fn. 27) In 1401 the manor was conveyed
to Robert Waterton for his lifetime by John and
Katharine Etton, (fn. 28) after which no further reference
to this family occurs in connexion with Brotton.
Robert Waterton held the manor in right of his wife
Joan (fn. 29) ; he died in January 1424–5, when it passed
to Robert Ellis, son of Joan by her first husband. (fn. 30)
In 1435 Robert and his wife Katharine settled it on
themselves and their issue (fn. 31) with remainder to the
right heirs of Robert and contingent remainder to
John Sotehill and his wife Joan, (fn. 32) daughter of Robert's
sister Agnes, wife of Sir John Poucher. (fn. 33) The manor
must afterwards have been conveyed to the Conyers
of Hornby, though the Constables as representatives
of the Sotehills had land here appurtenant to their
manor of Skinningrove. (fn. 34)
The manor was in the possession of Christopher
Lord Conyers in February 1531–2, when he leased
the capital messuage or Hall Place here to Roland
Pudsey. (fn. 35) This manor followed the descent of that
of Skelton, (fn. 36) coming in 1560 (fn. 37) to the three surviving
daughters and co-heirs of John Lord Conyers, Anne
wife of Anthony Kempe, Katharine wife of John
Atherton, and Elizabeth wife of Thomas Darcy.
Anne Kempe's share of the manor followed the same
descent as her third of Skelton (fn. 38) (q.v.) until 1837,
when John Wharton sold his estate here to a
Mr. Barrow. The present owner is Mr. G. B.
Darby. (fn. 39)
The third daughter of John Conyers, Katharine
wife of John Atherton, with her husband made a
conveyance of 'the manor' in the spring of 1588–9, (fn. 40)
and in 1590 obtained licence to alienate their third
to Thomas Moseley and others. (fn. 41) John son of John
and Katharine Atherton (fn. 42) left a daughter and heir
Ann, who married Sir William Pennyman. (fn. 43) He
in 1597 sold to Robert Trotter (fn. 44) lands in Brotton
which henceforward followed the same descent as the
first third of the manor.
In 1566 Thomas Darcy and his wife Elizabeth,
second daughter of John Lord Conyers, made a
settlement of their third of Brotton. (fn. 45) Thomas
Darcy died seised in 1605, (fn. 46) and was succeeded by
his son Conyers (fn. 47) Darcy, afterwards Lord Darcy and
Conyers, who in 1616 settled 'the manor' on his son
Conyers on his marriage with Grace granddaughter
of William Rokeby. (fn. 48)
Conyers. Azure a sleeve or differenced with a crescent or charged with another gules.
Darcy. Azure crusily with three cinqfoils argent.
In 1641 Conyers Darcy the elder, with his son
Conyers and others, conveyed the manor to William
Wiggoner, (fn. 49) who in 1655 made a conveyance of
half the manor to Nicholas Wiggoner. (fn. 50) In 1687
Robert Wiggoner held this estate, (fn. 51) and in 1697
Timothy Wiggoner, probably his son, and others
conveyed it to John Burdett. (fn. 52) Its later history
remains obscure, though it may be this part of the
manor which in 1787 was held by William Jackson
and his wife Mary, (fn. 53) whose descendants, the Misses
Jackson, are landowners here at the present day.
Certain lands here must have been granted to the
lords of Kilton, for in the 14th century the Lumleys
were lords of a manor here which followed the
descent of their manor of Kirkleatham. (fn. 54)
Marmaduke and Lucy de Thweng obtained a
grant of free warren in Brotton in 1279. (fn. 55) View of
frankpledge occurs among the rights of the lords of
the manor in 1639, (fn. 56) 1681 (fn. 57) and 1732. (fn. 58)
In 1086 the Count of Mortain held 1 carucate in
KILTON (Chilton, xi cent.; Kylton, xiv-xvi cent.)
and 1½ carucates in Kilton Thorp, previously held
by Uctred (fn. 59) ; at the same time 3 carucates in Kilton
and 2½ carucates in Kilton Thorp were held of the
king by Turchil. (fn. 60) By 1309 the overlordship had
passed to the Percys of Kildale. (fn. 61)
Thweng. Argent a fesse gules between three popinjays vert, which arms were taken and borne by Lumley.
In early times Kilton gave a surname to a family,
of whom Ilger de Kilton, an early benefactor to
Guisborough, (fn. 62) was succeeded by his son William, (fn. 63)
who was living in 1219. (fn. 64) William's heir was his
niece Maud, (fn. 65) who married first Richard Hawtrey
(de Alta Ripa), (fn. 66) by whom apparently she had no
issue, and secondly Robert de Thweng, (fn. 67) who was her
husband in January 1228–9. (fn. 68) Robert de Thweng
was noted for his opposition to the foreign ecclesiastics
sent to England in the reign of Henry III, and went
on a successful mission to Rome for the redress of the
matter. (fn. 69) He afterwards went on a crusade, whence
he returned in 1242, (fn. 70) in which year he acknowledged
that he had given the manor of Kilton to his son
Marmaduke and his wife Lucy de Brus, (fn. 71) sister and
co-heir of Peter de Brus. (fn. 72) Marmaduke was dead
by 1284–5, when this manor passed by settlement
to Marmaduke his second son by Lucy de Brus. (fn. 73)
Marmaduke fought in the Scottish wars in the reign
of Edward I, and after the battle of Stirling was put
in charge of the castle there. (fn. 74) He was holding
5 carucates in Kilton in 1302–3 (fn. 75) and died in
1322–3, being succeeded by his son William, (fn. 76) whom
two years previously he had enfeoffed of the manor. (fn. 77)
William died without issue in 1340–1, his widow
Katharine obtaining dower in November 1341 (fn. 78) ;
his brother and heir Robert, parson of Warton in
Kendale, Lancashire, (fn. 79) died before May 1344, and was
succeeded on the death of
Katharine by his brother
Thomas, also a priest. (fn. 80)
Thomas granted the reversion
of Kilton to his nephew Marmaduke Lumley, (fn. 81) son of his
sister Lucy who had married
Sir Robert Lumley, (fn. 82) while
some rights here were also
assigned to his niece Elizabeth,
wife of William de Botreaux,
daughter of his sister Katharine. (fn. 83) Thomas died in June
1374. (fn. 84) Robert Lumley, son
of Marmaduke, died a minor
in the following December, (fn. 85)
his brother and heir Ralph being also a minor. (fn. 86) In
1396 Elizabeth de Botreaux granted her rights in
Kilton to this Ralph Lumley, Lord Lumley, her kinsman, (fn. 87) who, having taken part in the insurrection to
restore Richard II, was slain in a skirmish at Cirencester in January 1399–1400 and attainted. (fn. 88) His
eldest son Sir Thomas died a minor in 1400, (fn. 89) and
the second son John, who succeeded, was restored
in blood in 1412. (fn. 90) At his death in 1420 (fn. 91) his heir
was his son Thomas. (fn. 92) Thomas became Lord Lumley
in 1461 on the reversal of the attainder of his grandfather; he died in about 1480 and was succeeded
by his son George. (fn. 93) Thomas son of George Lord
Lumley died in the lifetime of his father, (fn. 94) who was
therefore succeeded by Richard his grandson in
1507. (fn. 95) Richard Lumley died seised in 1510, (fn. 96) and
his son John in 1524 settled the manor on his
son George on his marriage with Jane daughter of
Richard Knightley. (fn. 97) George was attainted and executed in 1538 for joining in the insurrections of
1536 and 1537 (fn. 98) ; John Lord Lumley then settled
the estates on his grandson John son of George, (fn. 99) who
in 1547 was also restored in blood. (fn. 100) In the reign
of Elizabeth he was suspected of plotting in favour
of Mary Queen of Scots, and was imprisoned in the
Tower between 1570 and 1573. (fn. 101) He made conveyances of the manor at various dates, (fn. 102) but was still
lord in 1607, (fn. 103) and died seised in 1609, succeeded by
his nephew Splandrian Lloyd, son of his sister Barbara. (fn. 104)
By 1669 Kilton was again in the possession of a
branch of the Thweng family. In that year Alphonso
Thweng and Thomas Thweng, probably his son,
made a settlement of the manor. (fn. 105) Thomas Thweng
left a daughter and heir Ann (fn. 106) ; she apparently married
first Chichester Graham, who in 1691 and 1693 held
the manor in right of his wife Ann. (fn. 107) She was certainly married to William Tullie by 1696, when it
was conveyed, probably in trust, to Samuel Diggle. (fn. 108)
William Tullie died without issue in 1741, (fn. 109) and was
succeeded by his nephew Joseph Tullie, (fn. 110) from whom
the estate passed to the Rev. Dr. Waugh, chancellor
of Carlisle. (fn. 111) Dr. Waugh's daughters sold it to John
Wharton (fn. 112) before 1807, (fn. 113) and henceforth it followed
the descent of the manor of Skelton (q.v.), Mr. William
Henry Anthony Wharton being the present lord of
the manor.
The lord of Kilton obtained a grant of free warren
in 1257, (fn. 114) which was confirmed in 1292. (fn. 115) A watermill was appurtenant to the manor in 1341 (fn. 116) and
1344. (fn. 117)
The manor of KILTON THORP followed the
same descent as that of Kilton.
In 1272 the manor of SKINNINGROVE (Scinergreve, xiii cent.; Skynnargreve, xiv cent.; Skynnalgrave, Skynyngravis, xv cent.; Skillingrave, xvi cent.)
was part of the Brus fee. (fn. 118) At the death of Peter
de Brus in that year it descended with Brotton
to the Thwengs. (fn. 119) Lucy de Thweng settled the
manor on her third husband, Bartholomew de Fanacourt, and his heirs in 1339. (fn. 120) He died in March
1352, (fn. 121) when as he was a foreigner his lands were
taken into the king's hands. (fn. 122) Edward III granted
Skinningrove to Peter de Routh, (fn. 123) who later granted
it to Sir William de Everingham, (fn. 124) after which it
seems to have followed the descent of Brotton (q.v.).
In 1494 it was held by Sir John Sotehill, who had
granted it for life to Ralph Ribston. (fn. 125) Sir John's son
George, an imbecile, died in 1502, (fn. 126) and the manor
passed to his sister Barbara, wife of Sir Marmaduke
Constable, who held it in her right in 1545. (fn. 127) His
son Sir Robert died in 1558 and was succeeded by a
son Marmaduke Constable. (fn. 128) On his death in 1574
the estates passed to his son Sir Philip, (fn. 129) who was
followed in 1619 by his son Marmaduke. (fn. 130)
Dundas, Marquess of Zetland. Argent a lion in a flowered tressure gules with a border azure.
In 1622 Marmaduke Constable sold this manor to
Richard Seaton, (fn. 131) who died seised in 1631–2 and was
succeeded by his son John. (fn. 132) John Seaton had livery
of one-third of the manor in 1635; the rest had been
settled by Richard in 1627 on his younger son Zachary. (fn. 133)
After this the manor passed through various hands. In
1685 half of it was conveyed by Elizabeth Lee, widow,
who may have been a daughter of John Seaton, to
John Turner, (fn. 134) and about this time various conveyances
were made by her in conjunction with Nevile Lemon
and his wife Penelope, who must have been an heiress
as it was held in her right. (fn. 135) Penelope Lemon still
held this half of the manor in 1720. (fn. 136) The other half
was held by William and Mary Lee, in right of Mary,
in 1708, (fn. 137) when they conveyed it to John Turner
and Robert Hilton. Robert in 1711 obtained a
quitclaim to it from Elizabeth
Metcalfe, (fn. 138) widow, who may
have been the Lee heiress. In
1756 part of the manor was
held by Joseph and Margaret
Aspden (fn. 139) ; the latter, then a
widow, in 1760 conveyed it
to Anthony Jefferson and John
Richardson. (fn. 140) Ultimately the
greater part of the estate came
to Sir Lawrence Dundas,
bart., (fn. 141) who became Earl of
Zetland in 1838 and died in
1839. (fn. 142) His son Thomas, the
second earl, died in 1873, (fn. 143)
his heir being his nephew
Lawrence. He became Marquess of Zetland in
1892, (fn. 144) and is the present owner of the estate, the
other principal landowners being the trustees of the
late Mr. Anthony Lax Maynard.
Marmaduke and Lucy de Thweng obtained a grant
of free warren in Skinningrove in 1279. (fn. 145) Mention
of view of frankpledge occurs in 1622. (fn. 146) A watermill was appurtenant to the manor in 1685, (fn. 147) 1687 (fn. 148)
and 1688. (fn. 149)
Churches
The old chapel of ease, dedicated to
ST. MARGARET, was rebuilt in
1778 and is now used as a mortuary
chapel. It is a plain rectangular stone edifice,
measuring internally 67 ft. by 25 ft., with a tower
6 ft. square at the west end. It is lighted at the east
end by a large round-headed window and by three
similar but narrower windows on each side. The
roof is covered with blue slates. The entrance is at
the west end below the tower, which finishes with
a low eaved pyramidal roof. Internally there is a
flat boarded ceiling and a west gallery, approached
through the tower from an external stone staircase. (fn. 150)
At the east end are two mural tablets, one of good
design to William Tullie of Kilton, who died in
1741, with a long inscription, (fn. 151) and a smaller one to
Francis Easterby (d. 1804). There is also a stone in
the floor to 'John Easterby Esq.' The interior was
restored in 1873.
There are two bells in the tower, the oldest, a
mediaeval bell, inscribed in Gothic capitals 'Thomas
de Wald me fecit,' (fn. 152) and the other bearing the date
1778.
In the churchyard is a brass plate, now damaged
and broken, to the memory of Thomas Pressick,
blacksmith, who died in 1770. (fn. 153)
The new church of ST. MARGARET was built
lower down the hill-side in 1888–91. It was the
gift of Miss Jackson of Hunley Hall and consists of
chancel with south aisle, north organ chamber and
vestry, nave of five bays, north and south aisles, and
south and west porches. There is a small bell-turret
on the south side between the chancel and nave. The
roofs are covered with red tiles. The building, which
stands well above the road and is of stone, is a very
good example of modern Gothic work in the style of
the 15th century. (fn. 154)
The plate consists of a cup of 1771, silver gilt,
with the maker's mark 'W.B.,' a paten of 1726,
silver gilt, and a flagon of 1772, made by William
Tuite of London, all three inscribed, 'The Gift of
Joseph Tullie of Kilton Castle Esqr. For the use of
The Communion Table in the Church of Brotton in
the County of York 1773.' (fn. 155) There is also a spoon
with the maker's mark 'A.A.'
The registers begin in 1653.
Advowson
As dependent on the church of
Skelton, the chapel of Brotton was
probably included in the gift made to
Guisborough Priory by Robert de Brus before 1124. (fn. 156)
Peter de Brus III afterwards granted Guisborough an
annual rent of 30s. on condition of the prior and convent finding a perpetual chaplain to celebrate in the
chantry of the chapel of Brotton. (fn. 157) The chapel was
appropriated to the priory in January 1308–9. (fn. 158) It
remained in their possession till the Dissolution, (fn. 159)
when it was granted by Henry VIII to the Archbishop of York in exchange for other manors. (fn. 160) The
archbishop is still patron and impropriator. (fn. 161)
There was a domestic chapel at Kilton Castle in
the 13th century, dedicated to St. Peter, (fn. 162) where
Lucy de Thweng was baptized in March 1278–9. (fn. 163)
Charity
The Barrow Memorial Charity.—
The Rev. James Barrow, by deed
dated 8 April 1880, declared the trust
of £500 consols, the income to be applied for the
benefit of the deserving poor, especially for those
connected with the mining population. The income of £12 10s. a year was in 1904 distributed
by the rector and churchwardens among thirty-nine
recipients.