STOCKTON-on-the-FOREST, a parish partly within
the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, and
partly in the wapentake of BULMER, North riding, of
the county of YORK, 5 miles (N. E.) from York, containing
357 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Prebendary of Bugthorpe in the Cathedral Church of
York, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant. There is a place of worship for
Wesleyan Methodists.