Cropton, North Riding

Description
Cropton, a village and a township in Middleton parish, N. R. Yorkshire, on the river Leven, 4 1/4 miles NW by N of Pickering station on the N.E.E. There is a post office under Pickering ; money order and telegrapli office, Appleton-le-Moors. Acreage, 4997 ; population, 322. The living is a chapelry in the diocese of York, united with the vicarage of Middleton. There are also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels, and an endowed school. There are some ancient British earthworks at Hallgarth Hill, and traces of an ancient road. Keldy Castle, a small country seat, belongs to the Liddell family.