KELLINGTON, a parish in the lower division of
the wapentake of OSGOLDCROSS, West riding of the
county of YORK, comprising the townships of Beaghall,
Egbrough, Kellington, and Whitley, and containing
1328 inhabitants, of which number, 283 are in the
township of Kellington, 7 miles (E. by N.) from Pontefract.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books
at £9. 8. 11., and in the patronage of the Master and
Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is
dedicated to St. Edmund.