ESHOLT, a township in that part of the parish of
OTLEY which is in the upper division of the wapentake
of SKYRACK, West riding of the county of YORK, 4
miles (S.S.W.) from Otley, containing 355 inhabitants.
Simon de Ward founded a nunnery here in the middle
of the twelfth century, of which a few pointed arches
may still be seen; at the dissolution it was valued
at £19.