XBBERSTON. 



chapel may be seen a small fragment of the wall, 

 and a deep moat, which has surrounded the house. 



EBBEHSTON. 



This is a village, in the wapentake of Pickering 

 Lythe; 6 miles from Pickering, 11 from Scarboro- 

 ugh, 13 from Malton, and 31 from York ; having 

 a population of 505 The living is a vicarage in 

 the patronage of the dean of York, and the present 

 incumbent is the Rev. Thomas Simpson. 



This village is celebrated for an elegant build- 

 ing, constructed on the plan of a Roman villa, for 

 the rural retirement of one of the Hotham family ; 

 but now the residence of George Osbaldeston, Esq. 

 This small bat beautiful villa is in view of the York 

 road, at the distance of about a mile from it. It is 

 placed at the foot of a delightful eminence, decora- 

 ted with plantations, and the beauty of the scene 

 is heightened by a small sheet of water, rushing 

 down the declivity, and falling in a cascade behind 

 the house; round which it is conveyed by an aque- 

 duct, and reappears flowing in a small and gentle 

 current to the village. 



On the hill above the house, is a small cave in a 

 rock, called Ilfred's hole ; the proper name of which 

 is Alfred's cave. In this cave according to tradi- 

 tion, a Saxon king of that name, flying wounded 

 from his pursuers, took refuge, and continuing in it 

 one night, was the next day conveyed to Driffield, 

 where he died. This cave is almost filled up, by 



