DISHFORTH, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of TOPCLIFFE which is in the wapentake of HALLIKELD,
North riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (N. N.W.)
from Boroughbridge, containing 340 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Dean and Chapter of York, endowed with
£1200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar
of Topcliffe. There is an endowment of £6 per annum,
for teaching six children.