rish of Penistone, wapentake of Stain- cross, 2 miles W. from Penistone.
Moor House, W. R. (8) a haiplet in the township and parish of Hooton Pagnell, wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, 6 miles N. W. from Doncaster.
Moor House, W. R. (8) a small hamlet in the township and parish of Badsworth, wapentake of Osgoldcross, 4i miles S. from Pontefract.
Moor House, E. R. (6) a small hamlet in the township and parish of Humbleton, wapentake of Holderness,
8 miles N. E. from Hull.
Moor House, W. R. (8) a small hamlet in the township and parish of Tickhill, wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, 1 mile E. from Tickhill.
Moor House, N. R. (2) a small hamlet in the township of Snape, pa- rish of Well, wapentake of Hang East, 2 miles E. from Masham.
Moor House, W. R. (8). See Stanley.
Moor House, W. R. (5) a hamlet in the township of Hinderskelf, wapen- pentake of Bulmer, 6 miles W. from Malton.
Moor House, N. R. (1) a small hamlet in the township and parish of Spennythorne, wapentake of Hang West, 2i miles E. from Middleham.
Moor Houses, W. R. (4) a ham- let in the township of Middleton, pa- rish of Hinckley, wapentake of Sky- rack, 8 miles W. from Skipton.
Moor Monkton, (5). See Monk- ton Moor.
Moor Row, N. R. (I) a hamlet in the township and parish of St. John, Stanwick, wapentake of Gilling West,
9 miles N. from Richmond.
Moorsome, Great, N. R. (2) a township in the parish of Skelton, wapentake of Langbarugh, 6 miles E. from Guisborough ; inhabitants, 353. Moorsome is a long straggling village; about a mile to the south stands Free- borough Hill, which serves as a sea- mark ; it is a detached mountain, of a conical form, with a quarry of stone on its summit. |
Moorsome, Little, N. R. (2) a hamlet in the preceding township.
Moor Town, E. R. (6) a township in the parish of Brandsburton, wapen- take of Holderness, 7 miles W. from Hornsea; inhabitants, 29.
Moreby, E. R. (5) a township with Stillingfleet, in the parish of Stilling- fleet, wapentake of Ouse and Derwent, 5i miles S. from York; inhabitants, 404. Moreby Hall is the seat of the Rev. Thomas Preston.
More Hall, W. R. (8). See Bradfield.
Morley, W. R. (8) a township in the parish of Batley, wapentake of Ag- brigg, 4 miles N. from Dewsbury; in- habitants, 5051. At the time of the Domesday survey Morley had a parish church, but it seems to have been re- duced to the state of a chapelry to Bat- ley soon after the conquest, and so to have continued till the time of the Com- monwealth, when the present building was leased out by Savile, Earl of Sus- sex, to certain presbyterian trustees, and since that time it has been used as a place of worship by dissenters : this chapel is said to be the only instance, throughout England and Wales, of an ancient place of worship which was not given back to the establishment at the restoration: it retains much of the form of a church, and has a choir and two side aisles, supported upon wooden pasterns instead of columns.
Morley, W, R. (7). See Agbrigg and Morley.
Morrets, W. R. (4) a hamlet in the township of Embsay, parish of Skipton, wapentake of Staincliffe, 2 miles N. from Skipton.
Morthen, W. R. (8) a hamlet in the township and parish of Whiston, wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, 4 miles S. E. from Rotherham. Mor- then Hall is the seat of Nicholas Timm, Esq. |