MARTIN (ST.), a township 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, half of a mile (S. E.) from Richmond, containing
23 inhabitants. About the year 1100, Wymar, chief
steward to the Earl of Richmond, gave the chapel of
St. Martin, with certain land adjoining, to the abbey of
St. Mary, at York, upon which a cell of nine or ten
Benedictine monks was established here, and continued
till the dissolution, when its revenue was estimated at
£43. 16. S.