FENTON (KIRK), a parish partly within the liberty
of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, but chiefly
in the upper division of the wapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH,
West riding, of the county of YORK, comprising
the townships of Biggin, Little Fenton, and Kirk-Fenton,
and containing 693 inhabitants, of which number,
416 are in the township of Kirk-Fenton, 5 miles (S.E.
by S.) from Tadcaster, The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Prebendary of Kirk-Fenton in the Cathedral Church of
York, rated in the king's books at £6. 13. 4.