Bilton, West Riding

Description
Bilton, a township, a village, and a parish in W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the York and High Harrogate railway, 5 miles ENE of Wetherby station, and has a post office under York; money order office, Tockwith ; telegraph office, Wetherby. Acreage, 1923; population of the civil parish, 237; of the ecclesiastical, 376. The parish includes also the township of Bickerton. A Cistercian nunnery was founded here, at Symingthwaite, about 1160, by Bertram de Haget. The living is a discharged vicarage in the diocese of York; net value, £261 with residence. Patron, the Dean and Chapter of Ripon. There is a Wesleyan chapel.