PICKHILL, a parish comprising the township of
Holme with Howgrave, in the wapentake of ALLERTONSHIRE,
and the townships of Ainderby-Quernhow,
Howe, Pickhill with Roxby, Sinderby, and Swainby
with Allarthorp, in the wapentake of HALLIKELD, North
riding of the county of YORK, and containing 686 inhabitants,
of which number, 334 are in the township of
Pickhill with Roxby, 7 miles (W.byN.) from Thirsk.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at
£5. 13. 4., endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£400 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of
Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated
to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. Sarah Eden, in 1742, bequeathed
£200 for teaching twenty poor children. The river
Swale forms the eastern boundary of the parish. Here
was once a castle, and there are still some fields called
the Roman fields.