Strensall (St. Mary)
STRENSALL (St. Mary), a parish, in the wapentake of Bulmer, union and N. riding of York, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from York; containing 430 inhabitants. It comprises by computation about 2700 acres, of which 1400 are common or open moor on the east of Galtres forest; the greater portion of the cultivated land is arable. The York and Scarborough railway has a station here. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Haxby annexed, valued in the king's books at £4. 13. 4.; and the net income, as recently augmented by a grant from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, is £260: the patronage, until lately, was vested in the Prebendary of Strensall, but the funds of the prebend have been surrendered to the commissioners, and the Archbishop of York now holds the presentation. A school has an endowment of 20 acres of land, with a schoolroom and small orchard. The poor's estate consists of eight tenements and about 70 acres, producing £46 per annum, and of the interest of £72, left by Mrs. Elizabeth Cobb in 1809, but which has been transferred, under the poor law, to the parish funds.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.