WINKSLEY, a chapelry in that part of the parish of RIPON which is in the lower division of the wapentake of CLARO, West riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (W.) from Ripon, containing 176 inhabitants! The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Ripon, belonging to the Archbishop of York, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. The chapel, dedicated to St. Oswald, has lately received an addition of two hundred and twenty sittings, of which one hundred and ninety-five are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £150 towards defraying the expense.