WILTON, a chapelry in the parish of KIRK-LEATHAM,
eastern division of the liberty of LANGBAURGH,
North riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles (N. N.
W.) from Guilsbrough, containing 405 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Cleveland, and diocese of York, endowed with £200
private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Earl of Lonsdale: The chapel is dedicated
to St. Cuthbert. At the west end of the village
is Wilton castle, recently erected upon the site of: the
ancient baronial castle of the Bulmers, which family
possessed it for many generations, till Sir John Buhner,
Knt., was attainted of high treason, when his estates
were confiscated.