c. 1720 Bishop Gastrell noted at Barningham: 'Here is a School but not free'. Schoolmaster paid a salary of £4-4-7 1/2 paid out of land given by William Dent, minister and 3 more trustees appointed by Dent. The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth Century', ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990 for 1986), 109.