BIRDFORTH, a chapelry in the parish of COXWOLD,
wapentake of BIRDFORTH, North riding of the
county of YORK, 4 miles (N.W. by N.) from Easingwould,
containing 42 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and
diocese of York, endowed with £800 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the Archbishop of York. The
antiquity of this place is evinced by its having given
name to the hundred.