BURTON-LEONARD, a parish partly in the liberty
of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, and partly in the
lower division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding,
of the county of YORK, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from Knaresborough,
containing 518 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of York, rated in the
king's books at £3. 1. 0£., and endowed with £200
royal bounty. The church, dedicated to St. Helen, is a
small plain structure, built about forty years ago.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Many of the inhabitants are employed in the dressing
of flax, and the manufacture of linen.