WHITKIRK, a parish in the lower division of the
wapentake of SKYRACK, West riding of the county of
YORK, 4 miles (E.) from Leeds, comprising the townships
of Austhorpe, Seacroft, Temple - Newsom, and
Thorp-Stapleton, and containing 2227 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books at
£13. 5. 7i, endowed with £600 private benefaction,
£900 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the
Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. In a school,
built by subscription, six children are instructed for
an annuity of £10, bequeathed by Richard Brooke, in
1702.