OVERTON, a parish partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK,
East riding, but chiefly in the wapentake
of BULMER, North riding of the county of YORK,
comprising the townships of Overton, Shipton, and Skelton,
and containing 709 inhabitants, of which number,,
59 are in the township of Overton, 4 miles (N. W.) from
York. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated in the
king's books at £4. 8. ll., endowed with £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Mrs. Earle. The church
is dedicated to St. Cuthbert. A free school was founded,
in 1655, under the will of Ann Middleton, who bequeathed
£1000 for its erection and maintenance: the
income is £40 a year, for which fifty boys are instructed.