WETWANG, a parish partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, and partly in the wapentake of BUCKROSE, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the chapelry of Fimber, and the township of Wetwang, and containing 526 inhabitants, of which number, 422 are in the township of Wetwang, 5 miles (WbyN.) from Great Driffield. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Wetwang in the Cathedral Church of York, rated in the king's books at £ 9.7.8. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.