MILLINGTON, a parish partly within the liberty
of ST-PETER-of-YORK, but chiefly in the Wilton-Beacon
division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of
the county of YORK, 3 miles (N. E.) from Pocklmgton,
containing 282 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Great Givendale, in
the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of York, lae
is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Jonu
Wilkinson, in 1801, bequeathed £200 for the education
of ten children, and William Flint, in 1804, gave
for teaching four others. Four ancient roads meet
this place, which is supposed to be the Roman
govicia, where are traces of a strong camp defended by
immense earth-works, from sixty to ninety feet in height,
carried indiscriminately over hills and vallies, and encompassed
with four, and in some places six, ditches,
enclosing altogether an area of four thousand one hundred
and eighty-five acres, within which are several tumuli.
About half a mile north-east from the village
foundations of a circular temple and two oblong buildings,
Roman pavements, tiles, coins, and various other
relics of antiquity, have been discovered.