Burton Leonard, West Riding

Description
Burton-Leonard, a township and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire, on the Northallerton and Ripon branch of the N.E.R. near Wormald Green station, 5 miles SSE of Ripon, There is a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Acreage, 1796; population, 374. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross value, £294 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of York. The church is a building of stone in the Decorated style, and was consecrated in 1878 , there are also two Methodist chapels.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5