AUGHTON PARISH.

East Cottingwith is a parochial Chapelry annexed to Aughton, but locally separated from it by the intervening parish of Ellerton Priory. Its estimated extent is 1,179 acres; rateable value, £1,793; and a population in 1891, 233. The soil is strong clay in places and mixed clay and sand in others, and subsoil clay; the chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and beans. The land belongs to several freeholders, of whom the following are the most extensive :- the exors. of John Blanchard; J.J. Dunning-Jefferson, Esq., Thicket Priory; H.B. Ratcliffe, 78, Manningham Lane, Bradford; Henry Rogerson; James Lund, Esq., Keighley; and Mrs. Ash, Coldby Hall, West Halton Lincolnshire.The township is in the Pocklington union and county court district, and in the Melbourne division for the election of a member of the county council.

The village is situated on the east bank of the Derwent, three miles north from Aughton, nine miles south-west from Pocklington, and four-and-a-half miles north from Bubwith station, on the selby and Market Weighton railway. The river is here crossed by a ferry, which connects the villages of East and West Cottingwith. A little above the ferry is the entrance to the Pocklington canal. The parochial chapel was rebuilt about the year 1780. It is a small plain edifice of brick, consisting of chancel, nave and a low tower, surmounted by a cupola. The living is a curacy.

The Wesleyans have a small chapel in the village, and their is also a Friends' meeting-house, built about a century ago, and now rented and used by the School Board as a day school. The Board was formed in 1876, for the United District of East Cottingwith and Storwood, and consists of five members.

The poor have 18 acres of land in the township, alloted at the enclosure, and now let for £25 14s. 6d.; and a rent-charge of sand pit, £4; total, £39 14s, 6d. Of this sum £3 is given to the school for the education of six free scholars, and the remainder is applied to the reduction of the rates.

Wall letter box cleared at 4-20 p.m. Letters via York

Arnold George, master Board School
Banks Robert, assistant overseer
Bell Richard, boat owner
Craven James, cowkeeper
Fratson Charles. joiner and wheelright, &c., and vict. Blue Bell
Gospel John Thomas, joiner, &c.
Overend William, shoemaker
Slights James, basket maker, Hall Garth
Slights John Thomas, estate blacksmith, and clerk to East Cottingwith and Storwood School Board.
Slights Thomas, blacksmith
Slights Snowden, basket maker, Ings Lane
Sutcliffe Abraham, pig jobber and vict., Ship
Turner James, grocer


Farmers

Atkinson Thomas, Mill House
Bell George (and carrier to York, Saturday)
Bell John (and carrier to York, Saturday)
Dearing William, Red Cap
Dixon John, Whale Jaws Farm
Horsely Thomas
Houseman Mrs. Eliza
Houseman John (and steam thrasher proprietor and seed crusher), Hod House
Outhwaite Thomas
Pears James (and grocer)
Pears Thomas, Snowball house
Precious John, Sycamore house
Room Alfred
Room Thomas (and yeoman)
Room William, The Elms
Seymour Benjamin, Hall Garth house
Smith George
Wilson Richard (and licenced valuer), Ivy Manor House