REDMIRE, a chapelry in the parish of WENSLEY,
western division of the wapentake of HANG, North riding
of the county of YORK, 6 miles (W. N. W.) from Middleham,
containing 399 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to that of Bolton, in the archdeaconry
of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with
£600 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Rector of Wensley. The chapel
is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyaii Methodists. The Rev. Thomas Baynes, in
1725, founded a free school and endowed it with lands
and tenements now producing an annual income of
about £ 19, for which fourteen children are instructed.
The lead mines formerly in operation here have been almost
exhausted, but calamine is got in abundance. Coal
also is obtained in the neighbourhood; and there is a
fine spring strongly impregnated with sulphur, with
convenient well for bathing, the water having been
found efficacious in the cure of rheumatism, scurvy, and
weakness of sight.