LECKONFIELD, a parish in the Hunsley-Beacon
division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding
of the county of YORK, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from Beverley,
containing 302 inhabitants. 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, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600
royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Earl of Egremont.
Here was anciently a castle belonging to the
Earls of Northumberland.