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SINNINGTON. 



Sinnington, a parish town in the wapentake of 

 Pickering Lythe, 4 miles from Pickering, 3 from 

 Kirkby-Moorside, 10 from Helmsley, 12 from Mai- 

 ton, and 27 from York. 



This parish comprises 3 townships, which contain 

 collectively a population of 614 inhabitants; viz. 

 Sinnington 343, Marton 225, Little Edstone 16. 

 The church is dedicated to All Saints, is a perpetu- 

 al curacy, in the deanery of Ryedale, value, accor- 

 ding: to the parliamentary return 80 ; patron the 

 master of Hemsworth school, founded by Archbishop 

 Holgate ; perpetual curate the Rev. Edmund Dow- 

 ker, assistant curate the llev. M. Anthony Mackereth. 



The ancient name of this village was Sevenicton, 

 Sivelington, or Sevenington ; a compound saxon 

 word signifying the town on the river Seven.* It 



* " From Seven the name of the river, ing a place be- 

 <c sides waters, and ton town. This manor was amongst 

 " those assigned by the Conqueror, to Berenger de To- 

 " deni ; and is thus described in the Domesday record. 

 " Manor. In Sevenicton, (Sinnington,) Torbrand had 

 4< three carucates of land to be taxed. Land to two 

 li ploughs. Berenger has there one plough and eight 

 u villanes, and six bordars with three ploughs, and eight 

 " acres of meadow. Wood pasture one mile long, and 

 11 one broad. The whole manor, one mile and a half 

 41 long, and one broad. Value inking Edward's (the 

 " Confessor's) time, fourteen shillings, now eight shil- 

 *' lings.** Bawdwen's Domesday, p: 120. 



*' Seven, saith Leland, risith as 1 could estimate, in the 

 <f side of Blakemore, and thens goith by Sinington, where 

 *' the lord Latimer hath a fair manor place four miles 

 " from the town of Pickering :and about a mile above 

 *' JMewsom* bridge on Hye, goith ynto Rye water. 

 Itinerary, vol. I. p. 59. 



