SAWLEY, a chapelry in that part of the parish of
RIPON which is in the liberty of RIPON, West riding
of the county of YORK, 5 miles (S. W. by W.) from
Ripon, containing 490 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop
of York, endowed with £400 private benefaction,
£400 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Ripon.
The chapel is dedicated to St. Michael. The Wesleyan
Methodists have a place of worship here. Six
poor children are taught for the interest arising from
£100, the gift of Ralph Lowther, in 1770.