SHERIFF-HUTTON, (Yorkshire, N.R.) near York, and scarce 4 m. from the Forest of Galtres, has the shell of a castle, which
with the manor bel. in the R. of Stephen, to the see of Durham; after which they were in the crown, till Edward III.
granted the manor to Ralph Nevil, Ld. Raby; whose son obtained a charter for a Mt. here on M. and a Fair Sept. 14, 15, 16;
but the former, if not the latter, has been long disused.