HALTON-GILL, a chapelry in that part of the parish
of ARNCLIFFE which is in the western division of
the. wapentake of STAINCLIFFE-AND-EWCROSS, West
riding of the county of YORK, 11 miles (N. E. by N.)
from Settle, containing 114 inhabitants. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
York, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar
of Arncliffe. A school was erected in 1630, by William
Fawcett, and endowed by him with an annuity of
£13. 6. 8., for the instruction of poor children.