SANCTON, a parish in the Hunsley-Beacon division
of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the
county of YORK, comprising the townships of North
Cliff, and Sancton with Houghton, and containing 423
inhabitants, of which number, 334 are in the township
of Sancton with Houghton, 2 miles (S. E.) from
Market-Weighton. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese
of York, rated in the king's books at £6. 1. 10., endowed
with £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of J. Broadley, Esq. The church is dedicated to All
Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. A free school is endowed with a rentcharge
of £20, which is paid for teaching about thirty
boys.