GOADLAND, otherwise GOATHLAND, a chapelry
in the parish and lythe of PICKERING, North riding of
the county of YORK, 13 miles (N. by E.) from Pickering,
containing 335 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean
of York, endowed with £ 1200 royal bounty. The chapel,
a neat edifice, was erected in 1821. In the dale of
Goadland, within the ancient honour of Pickering Forest
the tenants were bound to promote the breed of a large
species of hawk that resorted to a cliff called Killing
Nab Scar, and to secure them for the king; these birds
continue to haunt the same place, but it is remarkable
that there is seldom more than one brood produced in
a year.