SCORTON, a township in that part of the parish of CATTERICK which is in the eastern division of the wapentake of GILLING, North riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (N. N. E.) from Catterick, containing 496 inhabitants. A free grammar school here is endowed with £200 a year, the bequest of Leonard Robinson, Esq. The school-house, erected in 1760, stands on the north side of a spacious green, around which the village, which is well built, is situated. The buildings on the east side are occupied by a religious community of thirty nuns, of the order of St. Clair, who emigrated to this country from Normandy, in 1795. There are also about twenty boarders, and they have a neat chapel belonging to the establishment. Within the parish is a spring, called St. Cuthbert's well, the water of which is efficacious in cutaneous and rheumatic disorders.