HIPSWELL, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of CATTERICK which is in the eastern division of the
wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of
YORK, 2 miles (S.E. by S.) from Richmond, containing
273 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Catterick. Robert Corkin, in
1757, gave £ 100 towards the endowment of a free
school, the interest of which is paid to the master of
a charity school, in which about thirty children are instructed.