BELLERBY, a chapelry in the parish of SPENNITHORN, western division of the wapentake of HANG, North riding of the county of YORK, 1§ mile (N.) from Leyburn, containing 407 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £800 royal bounty, and in the patronage of W. Chaytor, Esq.