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WARTER:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"WARTER, a parish in the Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles N.E. from Pocklington, containing 428 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £4, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Lord Muncaster. The church is dedicated to St. James. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. A priory of Black canons, in honour of St. James, was founded here, in 1132, by Geoflry Fitz-Pain, which, at the period of the dissolution of the monasteries, possessed a revenue of £221. 3. 10. "

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]