STAINBURN, a chapelry in the parish of KIRKBYOVERBLOWS, upper division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (N.E. by E.) from Otley, containing 364 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the court of the honour of Knaresborough, endowed with £12 per annum private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Kirkby- Overblows.