WILBERFOSS, a parish in the Wilton-Beacon
division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of
the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Newton
upon Derwent and Wilberfoss, and containing 590
inhabitants, of which number, 385 are in the township
of Wilberfoss, 5 miles (W. N. W.) from Pocldington.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of the East riding, and diocese of York, endowed with
£400 royal bounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of W. Wilberforce, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. A Benedictine
nunnery, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Maryj
was founded here, before 1153, by Alan de Catton, which
at the dissolution had a revenue of £28. 8. 8.