SHIPTON, a chapelry in the parish of MARKET-WEIGHTON,
partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK,
and partly in the Holme-Beacon division of the
wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of
YORK, 1 mile (N. W. by W.) from Market-Weighton,
containing 369 inhabitants. It is within the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Weighton in the Cathedral
Church of York. There is a school for the
education of ten boys, endowed with a rent-charge of
£5. 14., by John Hutchinson, in 1714, and another of
£2 by John and Elizabeth Barker, in 1742.