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ton, is a small village on the banks of the Seven, 

 over which there is a neat bridge of one areh. 

 Marton was amongst the lands which at the con- 

 quest remained in the hands of the archbishop of 

 York. 



61 In Marton 3 carucates to be taxed, and there 

 may be two ploughs. St. Peter had, and ha it, 

 with sac and soke. Value in king Edward's time 

 40s,, at present 10s." 



Bawd wen's Domesday, p. 50. 



Seme of the lands at this place, as appears from 

 the following extract, belonged to the nunnery at 

 Yedingham. 



" Marton, super ripam, in Pickering Lythe ; 

 Agnes, daughter of Ralph Flertman, or Kentman, 

 gave to Gundreda, the prioress of Yedingham, one 

 messuage, with a croft, two oxgangs and a a half, 

 three acres and one perch of land, in this territory." 

 Burton's Monasticon, p. 285. 



M1UDLETON. 



Middleton,* a parish town in the wapcntake of 

 Pickering Lythe, I mile from Pickering, 7 from 

 Kirkby- Moors ide, 10 from Malton, and 2s from 

 York The parish of Middleton is wide and exten- 

 sive, stretching in a westerly direction from Pick- 

 ering to Rosedale, and from north to south, from 

 Risebro' to Lockton and Saltersgate ; including 



* Middleton was amongst the lands remaining in the 

 hands of the king, at the time of the Domesday Survey; 

 Bawdwen's Yorkshire. v> 11 



