8INNINGTON. 



\vas a place formerly of some consequence, being at 

 market town, and successively the residence of the 

 Lords Latimer and Lumley. William Lord Lati- 

 er, whose lordship it was in the 32 of Edward I,, 

 obtained that king's license for a market every 

 week on the Monday, and a fair yearly on the eve- 

 day and morrow of St. Martin in the winter. But 

 though both the fair and market have been discon- 

 tinued, and it has long since ceased to be a baronial 

 residence, still such are the natural beauties of its 

 situation, that it cannot cease to be an object of 

 interest, even when deprived of those adventitious 

 aids. 



Placed at the termination of a romantic vale, 

 clown which the iSeven winds its course ; having 

 woods, varied by masses of bare rock, crowning the 

 heights which rise on either hand to the north of the 

 village, a neat parish church on a commanding 

 eminence, a rustic maypole, and simple bridge, 

 together with several well built houses and neat 

 cottages, interspersed with gardens and orchard 

 grounds, it presents a tout ensemble which cannot 

 fail to render it an object of attraction, even to the 

 most careless observer : and deservedly classes 

 amongst the most interesting situations in a district 

 possessing so many natural beauties. 



The church* is a plain simple structure of small 



* The patronage of this church, together with lands 

 in the parish of Siunington, were bestowed in the reign of 

 Henry III. ou the nunnery of Yedingham, by Kalph de 

 Clere and others, as appears from the following extract, 

 from Burton. 



, (Sinnington,) Ralph de Clere, gaye, 



