Gastrell noted (c. 17220; 'There is a petty school kept by a master who teaches to read and write, but without salary or pension', The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth century: Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia', The Yorkshire Parishes, 1714-1725, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990), 108.