AINDERBY-STEEPLE, a parish in the eastern division
of the wapentake qf GILLING, North riding of the
county of YORK, comprising the townships of Ainderby
Steeple, Morton, Thirntoft, and Warlaby, and containing
768 inhabitants, of which number, 266 are in the township
of Ainderby-Steeple, 2 miles (W.S. W.) from North
Allerton. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, rated
in the king's books at £ 13. 6.8., and in the patronage
of the Crown. The church is dedicated to St. Helen.