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fifteenth century, and to be met with in almost as many Cleveland 

 townships. It is one of the commonest open-field-system names, 

 and it simply represents a modern form, ' wheatlands.' The 

 oldest form I have is hvedelandes, and the contained 

 reference is to a long disused system of agriculture, which 

 necessitated such names as wheatlands, linlands, beanlands, 

 peselands, ryelands, haverlands, etc. This last name occurs in 

 half-a-dozen different localities in Danby in my 1656 abstracts." 



In a field known as 'Chapel Hill," in Greenhow Botton, I 

 discovered what appeared to be the foundations of an ancient 

 capelia, and Atkinson wrote, ' The probability is that there were 

 in mediaeval times chapels in every township. . . . There 

 was a chapel even in Little Kildale, besides the parish church. 

 There was a Capella B. Marise Virginis infra ecclesiam 

 parochialem Omnium Sanctorum de Aton ; over and above the 

 Chapels of Little Ay ton, Newton and Nunthorp." 



From about 1150 downwards to the date of the Dissolution 

 of Whitby Abbey, in the 16th century, the tithes, etc., belonging 

 to the Ingleby benefice were in the hands of the Abbot and 

 Monks of Whitby. How were the ''duties" of the church 

 taken during that interval ? On January 23rd, 1891, Atkinson 

 forwarded me the following scrap of information bearing on this 

 enquiry: "There was an authentic ' Robertus Clericus,' who 

 paid to the Fifteenth, conceded to Edward I. in 1302, at Ingleby 

 (Greenhow). I cannot undertake to say he was ' Clerk in Holy 

 Orders.' Probably he was, and, as paying in such case, resident." 

 Another scrap of local information received from Atkinson on 

 April 8th, 1891, was that "In 1306, the King's highway from 

 Broughton to Greenhow was called Scotstye." And on the 25th 

 of May following he expressed the very interesting opinion, 

 " You have the ' letting-down ' of a town, as it strikes me. within 

 your parochial district, though possibly your materials may not 

 be ready to your hand." 



From a letter written by Dr. Atkinson to a member of the 

 Field Club, on June 14th, 1893, I make the following extract : 

 "Hilton Church is one of the most interesting, remaining still 

 in Cleveland. I have not seen it since it was 'restored '—for I 

 think I heard of something of that sort a few years ago. There 

 used to be most curious features in the chancel arch, which 

 arch I had no doubt was a part of the original Norman Church, 

 as well as the two doorways on the north and south (if I 

 remember) sides of the Church. There were also unquestionable 

 indications that the east end of the chancel had had an ai)sidal 



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