Description
Harlsey, East, a village and a parish in the N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 2 miles SE of Welbury station on the N.E.R., and 7 NE by N of Northallerton, and has a post office under Northallerton; money order and telegraph office, Welbury. The parish includes Mount Grace, and comprises 3057 acres; population, 315. Freestone and ironstone exist, but are not worked. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £59 with residence. The church is ancient but good, has a bell tower, and was thoroughly restored in 1885. Ruins of a Carthusian priory, founded in 1396 by the Duke of Surrey, are at Mount Grace, and remains of a Lady Chapel are on a neighbouring eminence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
