ROSEDALE (WEST-SIDE), a chapelry in the
parish of LASTINGHAM, wapentake of RYEDALE, North
riding of the county of YORK, 11 miles (N.W. by N.)
from Pickering, containing 179 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland,
and diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£600 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Middleton.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Lawrence. A convent of
Benedictine, or Cistercian, nuns, in honour of St. Mary
and St. Lawrence, was founded here in the reign of
Richard I., by Robert, son of Nicholas de Stutevil, which
at the dissolution possessed a revenue of £41. 13. 8.