MYTON-upon-SWALE, a parish in the wapentake
of BULMER, North riding of the county of YORK, 3
miles (E.) from Boroughbridge, containing 185 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, rated
in the king's books at £6, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Archbishop of York. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. There is a ferry over the Swale
at this place. A battle was fought here, in 1319, between
the Scots and about ten thousand undisciplined
Yorkshiremen, headed by Melton, Archbishop of York,
amongst whom was a great number of priests, in which
the latter were defeated with immense slaughter.