186 STONEGRAVE. 



size; an accurate description and engraving of 

 which may be seen in the 1 vol. of Rapin's History 

 of England, at the conclusion of the reign of 

 Edward 111. 



STONEGRAVE. 



*$TON EG RAVE, seven and a half miles 8. of Kirk* 

 by-Moorside, ten and a half w of Malton, and 

 eighteen N. of York. This parish consists of three 

 townships, Stonegrave, east Newton, and west 

 Ness and a part of the township of Nunnington ; 

 and contains collectively a population of 397 inha- 

 bitants, viz: Stonegrave 177, east Newton 72, 

 west Ness 65 ; and the Stonegrave portion of the 

 township of Nunnington 83. 



* Spelt in Domsday Stanegrif, Stainegrif, ud Stei ne- 

 grif. Young in his history of Whitby observes, "besides 

 the places which are designated by the appellation Bl 

 dwelling, TUN town, TIIOUP village, B -KG burgh, or 

 HAM home or residence : there are others in this district 

 and its vicinity, which are distinguished by the term 

 GRIP. Various meanings have been assigned to this 

 term, which in the modern names is written GRAVE ; but 

 that which is given by Mr. Marshall, in his rural econo- 

 my of Yorkshire. Vol. 2 p. 323, appears to be the true 

 one. He defines GRIFF to be " a dingle ; or narrow val- 

 ley, with a rocky fissure-like chasm at the bottom." 

 A town or village situated near a dingle of this descrip- 

 tion, was therefore so named. Mulgrif, which in 

 Domesday is simply called grif, is an instance in our 

 immediate neighbourhood. Another grif, near Rievalx 

 Abbey, stills retains its name ; and Stanegrif, now 

 Stonegrave, is in the same quarter. Besides these, there 

 was Walesgrif, now Walsgrave, or more frequently 

 Falsgrave ; and Hildegrif, so named from Lady llildaj 

 Dot far from llackness. 



Young's History of Whitby, p. 85. 



