LEDSHAM, a parish in the, upper division of the wapentake of BARKSTONE-ASH, West riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Fairburn, Ledsham, and Ledstone, and containing 881 inhabitants, of which number, 212 are in the township of Ledsham, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from Ferry-Bridge. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £7.4. 2., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. Mrs.Wheler was patroness in 1826. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains a splendid monument to the memory of Lady Elizabeth Hastings; her figure is placed in a reclining posture, and those of Lady Frances and Lady Ann, her sisters, are placed on pedestals by its side; the inscription is in Latin. Lady Elizabeth Hastings, in 1738, founded and endowed a school for twenty orphan girls, and another for twenty boys, all of whom are supplied with books.