THORNTON-le-STREET, a parish in the wapentake
of ALLERTONSHIRE, North riding of the county of
YORK, comprising the townships of North Kilvington
and Thornton le Street, and containing 199 inhabitants,
of which number, 131 are in the township of
Thornton le Street, 3 miles (N.N.W.) from Thirsk.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the court of the Bishop of Durham, for Allerton
and Allertonshire, rated in the king's books at
£4, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal
bounty, and £500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.
The church is dedicated to St. Leonard.