Appleton le Street, North Riding

Description
Appleton-le-Street, a village, a township, and a parish in the N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Roman road to Aldborough, near the river Rye, 1 mile W of Amotherby railway station. Acreage, 1633; population of the civil parish, 151; of the ecclesiastical, with Amotherby, 890. The parish contains also the townships of Swinton, Bronghton, Amotherby, and Hildenley, and the hamlet of Eastliorpe. Post town, Malton, which is the money order and telegraph office. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £309 with residence. The church has an Early Norman tower, and contains two recumbent effigies.