WILTON (BISHOP), a parish partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, and partly in the Wilton- Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Bishop-Wilton with Belthorpe, Bolton, and Youlthorpe with Gowthorpe, and containing 793 inhabitants, of which number, 570 are in the township of Bishop- Wilton with Belthorpe, 41 miles (N.) from Pocklington. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the court of the Dean of York, rated in the king's books at £7. 3. 6-., endowed with £400. private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart, The church is dedicated to St. Edith. .There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Here was formerly a palace, built in the reign of Edward IV., by Bishop Neville, and encompassed with a moat, which still remains. A trifling sum, bequeathed in 1765, by Elizabeth Barnett, is applied for teaching poor children.