Nicolson & Burn, Westmorland & Cumberland, I, 222, states that the school house was built out of the parish stock, c. 1663; and there remained the interest of £100 yearly towards a salary for the schoolmaster. Gastrell c. 1720 noted a school; master's salary was £5 per annum, from the interest on £100 raised by contribution of the inhabitants and secured upon tithes. the school was erected first at the charge of the inhabitants. The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth Century', ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990 for 1986),103-4