HAYTON, a parish in the Holme-Beacon division
of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of Jhe
county of YORK, comprising the chapelry of Beilby,
and the township of Hayton, and containing 416 inhabitants,
of which number, 177 are in the township of
Hayton, 2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Pocklington. The
living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books
at £7.11.0., endowed -with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction
and patronage of the Dean of York. The church is
dedicated to St. Martin.