EGTON
Ectune, Egetune (xi cent.); Eggeton (xii-xv cent.);
Egintona, Eggenton (xii cent.); Ecton, Eketon
(xiii and xvi cent.).
Egton is a parochial township, formerly in the
parish of Lythe. (fn. 1) It contains the small market town
of Egton and the hamlet of Egton Bridge, which has
a station on the North Yorkshire and Cleveland
branch of the North Eastern railway. Westonby,
Lealholm and Sletholm in its area were vills in the
12th century, (fn. 2) as were Westonby (Westingby, xiiixv cent.) and Sletholm, the site of which is not
known, in 1284–5 (fn. 3) ; in 1438–9 the lord of Egton
received £10 from the hamlet of Westonby, (fn. 4) no longer
in existence by 1538. (fn. 5) The name survives in
Westonby House, Lodge and Moor. Egton was
assessed for the subsidy in 1301–2 (fn. 6) as 'Egton with
Leaserigg (Lecerigge), and Westonby and Cocket.' (fn. 7)
Part of Egton, including Newbiggin, (fn. 8) and lands in
the parishes of Whitby and Pickering were formed in
1852 into the ecclesiastical parish of Grosmont. (fn. 9)
The area of the present parish is 18,378 acres, of
which 66 acres are covered by water, (fn. 10) 2,005 acres
are arable land, 4,621 acres permanent grass, 1,405
acres woods and plantations and the rest moorland. (fn. 11)
The cultivated land varies from 300 ft. to 600 ft.,
the moors from 800 ft. to over 1,000 ft. above
ordnance datum, the village of Egton lying at an
elevation of about 600 ft.
The subsoil is inferior oolite and middle and upper
lias, the soil being very varied. Grosmont is 'the
birth-place of the interest now attaching to Cleveland
as one of the foremost among the iron-producing
districts of the world. In 1836 the first cargo of
ironstone from Grosmont . . . was sent by the
Whitby Stone Company to the Birtley Iron Company.' (fn. 12) In 1837 the Wylam Iron Company took
the royalties of the Marquess of Normanby, and
in 1839 commenced operations at Grosmont, and
the rest were purchased in about 1845 by Messrs.
Losh, Wilson & Bell. (fn. 13) These mines were still worked
in 1874, (fn. 14) but are now disused. Grosmont has still
slag merchants, quarries and brick manufactures. A
field in this district, called in 1636 the Alum
Garth, points to Grosmont having been one of the
early seats of the alum manufactory. (fn. 15)
Grosmont has a station on the York, Scarborough
and Whitby branch of the North Eastern railway.
Much of the moorland inclosed in the last sixty years
is peaty soil on a stiff clay. (fn. 16) Sir Francis Salvin in
about 1546 inclosed 60 acres of the 2,000 acres of
the common or waste belonging to his manor of
Newbiggin. (fn. 17) An inclosure award for Egton Commons was made in 1854. (fn. 18) The chief crops raised
are barley and oats.
The manor of Egton in 1086 measured 4 'leagues'
by 2 'leagues,' the pasturable woodland 3 'leagues' by
2 'leagues.' (fn. 19) This woodland district formed a forest
appurtenant to the manor of Egton from the 12th to
the 16th century, but no later mention of it has been
found.
William Earl of Albemarle, who usurped royal
authority in the north in the reign of Stephen, is said
to have destroyed the vills of Westonby, Lealholm
and Sletholm in making a chase. (fn. 20) Like the manor,
it was in his hands in the reign of Henry II, as his
ward William Fossard, having committed a serious
offence against him, had been forced to fly the
country (fn. 21) ; it was in the king's hands from 1180 to
1194, (fn. 22) but later in the reign of Richard I was
restored to Joan Fossard, wife of Robert de Turnham. (fn. 23)
Henry III in 1222 granted to Peter de Mauley his
forest of Egton, as his father-in-law Robert de
Turnham had held it in the reign of Richard I. (fn. 24)
Sletholm was partly in the forest in 1272. (fn. 25) 'The
forest called Egton Wood' is mentioned in 1544, (fn. 26)
and is now represented by the East and West Arncliff (fn. 27)
Woods and Limber Hill Wood, where Glaisdale
Beck joins the River Esk. They are a favourite
resort of visitors to Whitby.
Within the bounds of this small forest were several
parks, all belonging to the lord of Egton. That of
Cocket (Cokewald) is mentioned in 1348, (fn. 28) that of
Egton in 1348 and 1378, (fn. 29) and those of Newbiggin,
Julian (Gely, xv cent.; Gillye, Jely, xvi cent.; Gilly,
xvii-xix cent.) and Butter (Bydwith, xv cent.;
Bydwick, Buthe, xvi cent.; Bedwith, xvii cent.) (fn. 30)
in 1478, when a chief forester was appointed by the
king for these three parks during the minority of
Ralph Salvin, lord of Egton. (fn. 31)
Wheeldale Moor, which occupies the south of the
parish, belongs to the honour of Pickering. (fn. 32) It is
traversed by Bluewath Beck, which becomes Wheeldale Gill, and flows to join Wheeldale Beck (earlier
Rutmore Beck), afterwards called the Murk Esk.
Lady Hilda (fn. 33) Beck, the Murk Esk and Wheeldale
Beck form the eastern and southern boundaries and
separate the church of St. Matthew and site of the
priory of Grosmont, in Egton parish, from the rest of
the village in Whitby parish.
Nothing that can be identified now remains of
Grosmont Priory, which stood on the left bank of
the Esk, but a fairly clear idea of the arrangement
and extent of the buildings may be obtained from
the survey made at the Suppression. (fn. 34) The church
was apparently an aisleless building measuring 70 ft.
by 30 ft. (all the dimensions given are probably
external). Besides the high altar there were two
altars in the body of the church; there were also
sixteen stalls and three windows containing 40 superficial feet of glass, while the roof was 'low' and
covered with lead. Upon the south side of the
church was a cloister 36 ft. square with walks 7 ft.
wide. The eastern range was formed by a building
containing on the ground floor the revestry and
chapter-house and on the upper floor the dorter,
which measured 36 ft. in length (the exact length of
the side of the cloister) and 18 ft. in width. On the
south side of the cloister was 'the halle,' evidently the
frater, 30 ft. long and 18 ft. wide, with the buttery,
pantry and kitchen at the 'nether' end, the latter
measuring 23 ft. by 18 ft. At the upper end was a
'litle low chamber . . . where they ley their brede'
and 'thereby' another 'chamber' 20 ft. long and
12 ft. wide, with 'a goode chymney of stone and
ij wyndowes.' Assuming, as was usually the case,
that the kitchen, buttery and pantry were at the west
end of the frater, this chamber would be at the east
end, and consequently immediately to the south of
the chapter-house, the position normally occupied by
the calefactory or warming-house, with which it may
almost certainly be identified. The floor above was
occupied by the prior's chamber, which also had a
chimney and two windows 'and a little clossett in
the same chamber,' and measured 20 ft. in length
and 16 ft. in width. It will be seen that while the
length agrees with that of the room below, the width
is 4 ft. more; the additional space on the ground
floor may have been taken up by 'the chamber
where they ley their brede' or by a passage to the
inner court afterwards noticed in detail. All these
buildings are described as of stone 'coveryd w' slate,'
i.e., with slate roofs. On the west side of the cloister
was the 'hygh halle,' the walls of which were of
timber, 20 ft. long and 14 ft. wide. This was
probably the guest-hall, and the 'chamber at the
upper ende,' 14 ft. by 12 ft., the parlour. At the
lower end of the hall were two 'litle chambres,'
and below the hall a 'larder-house,' 32 ft. long and
14 ft. wide. The statement in the survey that the
hall was 'over the west parte of the cloister' suggests
at first sight that the hall overhung the west walk of
the cloister. The width of the undercroft, however,
which is given as the same as that of the hall above,
renders this interpretation unlikely; the phrase
'over,' therefore, more probably refers to the hall
being placed on the upper floor. The survey next
speaks of 'the olde halle by the courte syde (afterwards called the inner court) wt a chamber at eyther
ende . . . xxx foote longe and xviij foote brode.'
This court may have been to the south of the
claustral block, but the arrangement of the buildings
round it cannot be fixed with the same certainty,
as their relative position is not clearly given. There
can be little doubt, however, that the hall here mentioned was the infirmary. It is described as being
'coveryd wt slates and thak' (thatch), but it is not
said whether the walls were of stone or timber. At
the end of the building was a two-storied granary
with timber-boarded walls, and near by 'a litle
overshott water mylne.' The remaining buildings
described as standing round this court were 'the
brewhouse and bakehouse alle one wt a lytille
chamber at one ende . . . xl foote longe and xiiij foote
brode, stone walles and coveryd wt slates,' and a
range of buildings 100 ft. long and 14 ft. wide containing 'a low parler and a low chamber wt ij chambres
over the same, a garnard, a low chamber, alle under
one roofe . . . tymber walles coveryd wt slates.'
Among the various outbuildings independent of the
inner court mention is made of 'a little corrodye
house wt a chamber xxiiij longe and xiiij ffoote brode,
stone walles coveryd wt thak.' The stables and
offices appear to have been of considerable extent, a
'lathe or barne' measuring 80 ft. by 20 ft. and the
cowhouse 60 ft. by 16 ft. There was also 'a little
rounde dove cote of mudde walles.' The priory
buildings generally seem to have been in a bad state
at the time of the survey.
Ascending the Esk, Egton Bridge (fn. 35) is reached. In
this hamlet are Lealholm Hall (fn. 36) and Bridge Holm. (fn. 37)
North of Egton Bridge is the town of Egton,
which consists of one street ascending the slope of a
hill, with the site of Egton Hall and the new church
of St. Hilda halfway down the hill. The site of
the old church of St. Hilda is half a mile to the
north-west. In 1269 Henry III granted Peter de
Mauley a weekly market on Wednesday for his manor
of Egton and a yearly fair on the eve of the feast of
St. Hilda in winter and the seven following days. (fn. 38)
This market and fair seem to have become disused,
and in 1699 and 1700 William III granted to Henry
Viscount Longueville and his heirs a weekly market
on Tuesday and four yearly fairs (on 24 August, or
if Sunday, 25 August, Tuesday before the feast of
St. Martin in winter, Tuesday before the Purification
of the Virgin, and Tuesday before 1 May). (fn. 39) The
market is still held on Tuesday, and there are now
eleven fairs held yearly for cattle.
The ancient hall of the Salvins at Newbiggin was
the scene of a remarkable affray in the reign of
Henry VIII. According to the story (fn. 40) of Anne
widow of Sir Ralph Salvin, she was attacked, while
hearing mass in the domestic chapel, by Stephen
Milner and others, who 'her take by the legges, and
so drough and trayllyd her oute of the seyd chappell
downe a stayre wyth her hede and dyuers partes of
her body knokkyng ageynst the seyd stayre. . . . After
that done, the seyd ryotous persons dyd in shamefull
and rygorous maner cast the seyd dame Anne ouerthwart apon a horse bakk lyke a sekk, and with roppes
and other ingynes dyd bynd her fast vnto the seyd
horsse, in suche maner that she shuld neyther move
ne styrr to help ne soccour herself.' On the part of
the defendant it was urged that dame Anne had
promised to marry Stephen, but had broken off the
match. Stephen then visited the house with his
friends and 'fownd the seid Anne in her chapell at
mase, and the seide Stephyn went vnto her and kissed
her, and she with her assent and agreement came
with hyme quietly and peseably.' Unfortunately the
result of the suit is not known. The house, long in
ruins, was replaced by 1808 by the present mansion. (fn. 41)
William of Blois (called 'le Gros') Earl of Albemarle (fn. 42) granted to Meaux Abbey the hermitage of
St. Leonard near Egton. (fn. 43)
Among ancient names in the parish are Wood
Dale (Wlvedale, xiii cent.; Wolfenedaleside, xiv
cent.), Shortwaite (fn. 44) (Skirthwayt, xv cent.; Shorsorthsike, Swortwaytside Banks, xvi cent.), Hazelhead (fn. 45)
(Hezilheved, xiv cent.), where seven springs furnish
part of the Whitby water supply, Lampland (a tenement belonging to Grosmont Priory in 1539), and
Grange Farm. (fn. 46)
There are numerous 'howes' and earthworks in the
parish, and a stone with a Roman inscription built
up in a rude stone wall is now in Whitby Museum. (fn. 47)
The ancient road called Wade's Causeway (fn. 48) passed
through the parish, and it is thought that there were
early bridges over Wheeldale Beck and where the
present bridge stands at Grosmont. (fn. 49)
Nearly a third of the population is Roman Catholic.
The district was said in 1599 to be 'a bishopric of
Papists and Grosmont Abbey the head house.' It
was 'notorious for receiving priests and fugitives from
beyond sea.' Lord Sheffield of Mulgrave Castle was
ordered to besiege it and did so 'with great celerity
and secrecy,' but found the inhabitants flown. Ornaments for the mass and 'Popish books' were discovered but nothing else, 'though floors, ceilings,
pavements and double walls were broken up and
vaults of strange conveyance found out. At the stairhead was a post as thick as a man's body, on which
the house seemed to bear, but it was really a removable hinge, locked from beneath, covering a hole
at which a man might descend.' (fn. 50) One hundred
and sixty-seven persons were presented for recusancy
in 1690. (fn. 51) An old Roman Catholic chapel at Egton
Bridge was pulled down and a new one, now used as
a school, built in 1795. (fn. 52) The present chapel of
St. Hedda was erected in 1867.
The Wesleyan chapel at Grosmont was erected in
1890, the public elementary school there in 1855; a
public elementary school was built at Egton Bridge in
1867, that at Egton was built by the Messrs. Foster.
Manors
In 1086 (fn. 53) the Count of Mortain was
overlord of EGTON, where before the
Conquest Swen had 3 carucates as a
'manor,' and after his forfeiture the manor was held
in chief.
Niel Fossard was under-tenant in 1086, and Egton
subsequently descended with Mulgrave (fn. 54) until the
death of the seventh Peter de Mauley in 1415, (fn. 55) and
afterwards with Newbiggin (fn. 56) until the 17th century.
Ralph Salvin of Newbiggin made settlements in 1616 (fn. 57)
and 1630, (fn. 58) and by 1686 the manor was in the
possession of Henry Lord Grey de Ruthyn, (fn. 59) created
Viscount de Longueville in 1690. (fn. 60) Talbot his son and
heir, created Earl of Sussex in 1717, (fn. 61) sold the manor
for £38,000 to Robert Elwes of Twickenham in
1730. (fn. 62) He made Egton his
seat and died in 1752. (fn. 63) His
son Cary died in 1782, leaving a son and heir Robert
Cary, (fn. 64) father of Cary Charles
Elwes, who died in 1866, all
lords of Egton. (fn. 65) Cary Charles
Elwes was succeeded by his
son Valentine Dudley Henry
Cary Elwes, (fn. 66) who sold Egton
in 1869 to Messrs. Foster of
Queensbury. Mr. Kenneth
Foster, eldest son of the late
Mr. John Foster, is the present owner.
Elwes. Or a fesse azure with a bend gules over all.
Old Mass House, Egton
Peter de Mauley and his heirs had a grant of free
warren in all their demesne lands of Sletholm,
Westonby, Egton and Cocket, 'if they were not
within the bounds of the forest,' in February
1253–4. (fn. 67)
The family of Lealholm had lands in Egton. (fn. 68)
Lealholm Hall is first mentioned in 1550, when
Robert Barmton conveyed it to Marmaduke Clarionett, (fn. 69) who died seised of the 'manor or capital
messuage of Lelum Hall,' held of the manor of
Egton in 1559, leaving a son and heir William. (fn. 70)
Another Marmaduke Clarionett conveyed tenements
in Egton to Richard Smith in 1597, (fn. 71) and to Richard
Smith, jun., John Smith and William Smith in 1599, (fn. 72)
Sir Richard Cholmley having granted tenements in
Egton and 'Brigham' Green to Thomas Smith early
in 1578–9. (fn. 73) Thomas Smith of Bridge Holme Green
and Lealholm Hall suffered sequestration of his estates
during the Civil War and his heirs compounded
in 1653 (fn. 74) ; the capital messuage of 'BridgeholmGreen-House' was registered among Papists' estates
in the 18th century. (fn. 75) Various members of the
family of Smith made a settlement of the 'newly
erected capital messuage called Bridgeholm Green,'
and a messuage at Lealholm in 1743. (fn. 76) Bridgeholme
Green House was removed in 1890, (fn. 77) the Messrs.
Foster building in its place Egton Lodge as a shootingbox. The lodge was enlarged in 1913 as a country
house by the present owner, Mr. Kenneth Foster.
The Grandimontine priory of GROSMONT
(Graunde Monte, Gremounde, Groman, Gromonte,
xvi cent.) had its origin in a gift to the priory of
Grammont in Normandy made by Joan daughter of
William Fossard and wife of Robert de Turnham (fn. 78)
and confirmed by her husband in the time of King
John. Joan granted to the priory a dwelling-house
in the forest of Egton between Egton and Cocket,
200 acres of land, with the woods round their house,
the mill of Egton, the sole right of free fishery in the
stream and all suits, except the grinding of the corn
of the lord's household when he was in the vill. (fn. 79)
The new water-mill in Egton was granted to the
priory in 1478. (fn. 80) Grosmont Priory was surrendered
in 1539 (fn. 81) and in February 1543–4 the king granted
the site and all the possessions of the priory in Egton
parish (including the water-mill at Egton Bridge, (fn. 82)
a fulling-mill and six small woods) to Edmund Wright,
a captain in the Scotch wars, (fn. 83) in fee. (fn. 84) Two years later
Edmund alienated this property to Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby, (fn. 85) whose successor Sir Richard in 1632
bequeathed it to his third son
Richard, (fn. 86) knighted in 1644, (fn. 87)
and a colonel in the service
of Charles I. Richard's two
daughters and co-heirs Margaret and Ursula married respectively John D'Oyley of
Chislehampton and Thomas
Putt of Combe Gittisham,
both made baronets in 1666. (fn. 88)
Sir Thomas Putt, only son
of Ursula, died childless in
1721, (fn. 89) and Sir John D'Oyley, son of the first baronet,
whose sister married John Saunders, in the spring of
1683–4 exchanged the Grosmont estate with the
Saunders family for lands in Oxfordshire. (fn. 90) John
Saunders was the owner in 1725 and D'Oyley
Saunders had still part of the demesnes in 1808, but
the cell and adjoining lands were the property of
Richard and Matthew Agar and John Linskill. (fn. 91)
Cholmley. Gules two steel helms in the chief and a sheaf or in the foot.
NEWBIGGIN was not called a manor while in
the possession of the Fossards (fn. 92) or the Mauleys. On
the division of the Mauley lands after 1415 Sir John
Salvin, kt., son of Elizabeth second daughter of the
sixth. (fn. 93) Peter de Mauley, received among other lands
Doncaster in the West Riding, (fn. 94) the 'barony of Egton,'
Newbiggin, Isle Park (? Gilly Park) and Cocket (Cuckwold Banks). (fn. 95) John died seised of the manor of
Newbiggin and vill of Egton in 1471, leaving a son
and heir Thomas. (fn. 96) The Salvins are afterwards returned as tenants of the manor of Newbiggin, where
they lived, or of the manor of 'Egton alias Newbiggin'; and although there are now distinct manors
of Egton and Newbiggin it seems doubtful that these
existed in early times. The
Salvins seem merely to have
changed the head of the
manor from Egton to Newbiggin. Thomas died in 1477,
leaving a son and heir Ralph,
aged four, (fn. 97) who proved his
age in 1494, (fn. 98) was knighted in
1513, (fn. 99) and died in 1534–5,
leaving a son and heir George. (fn. 100)
George died in 1538, leaving
a son and heir Francis, (fn. 101)
knighted in 1547. (fn. 102) Francis
died in March 1561–2 and
was succeeded by his son
Ralph, (fn. 103) who died in March 1611–12, leaving a son
and heir Ralph, (fn. 104) lord in 1620 (fn. 105) and still in 1623,
when he revived the ancient claim of his family to
the manor of Doncaster and was bought off by the
corporation. (fn. 106) His son William (fn. 107) had succeeded by
1630–1 (fn. 108) and had a son William, aged forty in 1665. (fn. 109)
The latter had sons Francis, Thomas and William. (fn. 110)
William Salvin of Easingwold, a Papist, registered the
manor of Newbiggin and capital messuage as his
estates in 1716–17. (fn. 111) He died in 1726 and his son
Thomas, also described as of Easingwold, (fn. 112) sold the
manor and capital messuage 'in the lordship of
Egton' and all quarries, &c., to George Duck of
Marske for £4,800 in 1736. (fn. 113) In 1812 it was purchased by Henry Walker Yeoman of Woodlands,
owner in 1874. (fn. 114) It is now in the hands of the
trustees of the late Venerable Archdeacon Yeoman.
Salvin. Argent a chief sable with two molets or therein.
Churches
The old church of ST. HILDA
stood on high ground on the road to
Glaisdale. It was pulled down in 1878
and a cemetery chapel now occupies a portion of the
site. The churchyard is still used for burials. The
building consisted of a chancel, nave with south aisle,
west tower and south porch, but had gone through
many changes before the date of its demolition. The
pillars, six in number, were of 12th-century date
with square bases and abaci, but some of them had
been mutilated. The arches were plain with square
edges. (fn. 115) The south aisle as it existed before the
demolition had been curtailed in width (fn. 116) and the
interior had generally been spoiled with plaster and
whitewash. An illustration which has been preserved (fn. 117) shows the chancel lighted at the east end by
a square-headed sash window and on the south side by
square-headed two-light windows with trefoiled lights,
apparently of 15th-century date. The porch seems
to have been of comparatively late date and the
tower terminated in an embattled parapet. Both
chancel and nave had low-pitched leaded roofs behind
straight parapets, the nave and south aisle being under
a roof of single span. Some traces of painting are
said to have remained on one of the columns just
below the capital. (fn. 118) The font, which consisted of a
plain circular bowl and stem and was probably coeval
with the arcade, is now at Goathland Church. The
churchyard commands a fine view to the south-west
along the dale; in it are two mediaeval grave slabs
with incised and floreated crosses.
The new church of ST. HILDA, built in 1878–9,
consists of chancel with north vestrles, nave with
north and south aisles, and tower forming a porch on
the south side. The building is of stone with green
slated roofs in a mixed Gothic and Norman style.
As much as possible the stonework of the old church
was used again in the new building, the 12th-century
character of which was determined by the re-use of
some of the original arcade piers. The nave is of
five bays, the three westernmost pillars being those
from the old church with modern capitals and bases, (fn. 119)
and some voussoirs from the original semicircular
arches are built into the arcade. There are also two
stones from the former building dated respectively
1663 and 1702. The tower finishes with a slated
saddle-back roof and contains three bells, two of which
are ancient. The third was given by the parishioners
in 1902. A clock was presented by Mr. Abraham
Foster in memory of Queen Victoria.
The plate consists of a cup of 1607, made by
Robert Casson of York, with modern paten, a cup
of 1704, by John Langwith of York, mounted on a
new stem, and a modern chalice, paten and flagon
of mediaeval design, by Keith & Co., London. (fn. 120)
The registers begin in 1622. (fn. 121)
The church of ST. MATTHEW, Grosmont, was
erected in 1842 on a site given by Robert Cary
Elwes. The living is a vicarage in the gift of the
Archbishop of York.
Advowson
A papal indulgence was granted in
1291 to penitents who visited the
church of St. Hilda at Egton. (fn. 122) This
church was only a chapel dependent on the church of
Lythe, (fn. 123) and the living is now a new vicarage under
the Act of 1868, the Archbishop of York being the
patron.
In 1539 Thomas Richardson held tenements in
Egton of Grosmont Priory at farm, and was charged
with finding one priest to celebrate service in the
chapel of St. Leonard every Sunday.
John Oxlee the divine was curate of Egton 1805–11. (fn. 124)
Charities
In 1640 Ralph Marshall by deed
demised certain closes in Glaisdale,
subject to the yearly rent of 40s., to
be distributed every year in the proportions of
£1 11s. 4d. among the poor of Egton, 6s. 8d. to
the poor of Glaisdale and Lealholm, and 2s. to the
poor of Ugthorpe. The annuity is received from
Mr. Joseph Thomson of Glaisdale and is distributed
by the vicar and churchwardens in accordance with
the trusts among the poor of the several townships.
A customary payment of £1 a year is also made by
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the benefit of the
poor, who also receive £2 2s. a year from the trustees
of Alice Gallilee's charity, Whitby, which is distributed in grocery tickets to twelve recipients (see
under Whitby).
Ecclesiastical district of Grosmont St. Matthew.—
By deed dated 30 July 1850 the sum of £67 0s. 2d.
consols was settled for the repairs of the church, and
Mary Clark, by will proved 1876, left £222 4s. 6d.
consols, the income to be applied for church purposes. The sums of stock are held by the official
trustees. The dividends, amounting to £7 4s. 6d.,
are applied towards cleaning, lighting or otherwise
making comfortable St. Matthew's Church.
The National school was acquired under deeds of
1844 and 1879 and is regulated by a scheme of the
Charity Commissioners of 1878.