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"SOUTH STAINLEY, a parish in the lower division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles N.N.E. from Ripley, containing, with the township of Clayton, 232 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the court of the honour of Knaresborough, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Homer Reynard, Esq., and the heirs of the late Mrs. Gibson."
"CLAYTON, a township in the parish of SOUTH-STAINLEY, lower division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles N.N.E. from Ripley. The population is returned with the parish."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]