OTTRINGHAM, a parish in the southern division
of the wapentake.of HOLDERNESS, East riding of the
county of YORK, 6 miles (S. E. byE.) from liedon,
containing 637 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and
diocese of York, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and
£ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the
Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The church, dedicated
to St. Wilfrid, is principally in the decorated
style of architecture, with a tower surmounted by a spire.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Four poor children are instructed for the interest arising
from £ 100 stock, the gift of Mary Fox, in 1792.