HUDSWELL, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of CATTERICK which is in the western division of the
wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of
YORK, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from Richmond, containing
305 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Vicar of Catterick. A free school is supported by
the proceeds of an allotment assigned on the enclosure
of waste lands, now amounting to £18 per annum, for
which twelve children are educated gratuitously. Here
are an extensive lead mine and a colliery.