FERRIBY (NORTH), a parish in the county of the town of KINGSTON-upon-HULL, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of North Ferriby and Swanland, and containing 7 65 inhabitants, of which number, 347 are in the township of North Ferriby, 5 miles (S. E.) from South Cave. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at £8. 13. 4., endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £2300 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. The church, dedicated to All Saints, appears to be a part only of a more spacious structure, and contains some handsome monuments. Two annuities of £ 10 each, one the gift of Luke Lillington, Esq., in 1773, the other that of Sir Henry Etherington, Bart., in 17H1, are paid FE it to a schoolmaster for teaching poor children. The parish is bounded on the south by the Humber. A priory of Knights Templars, founded here by Lord Eustace Vescy, was, at the suppression of that order, converted into a priory of Augustine canons, whose revenue at the dissolution was valued at £95. 11. 7.