CLEASBY, a parish in the eastern division of the
wapentake of GILLING, North riding of the county of
YORK, 3 miles (W. by S.) from Darlington, containing
147 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Richmond, and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £35 per annum private benefaction, and
£20'0 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean
and Chapter of Ripon. The church is a mean, low, and
narrow structure, rebuilt, together with the parsonagehouse,
by Dr. John Robinson, a native of this parish,
Bishop of London, and one of the plenipotentiaries at
the treaty of Utrecht. He also founded a school for six
poor boys, in 1723, and endowed it with sixteen acres
of land, of which the Dean and Chapter of Ripon are;
visitors. The river Tees flows past the village.