SCORTON is a township and village with a station on the Richmond branch of the North Eastern railway, 5 miles east from Richmond. The village is built nearly in the form of a square; in the centre is a spacious green, raised three or four feet from the level of the road. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel here was built in 1908, and seats 200 persons. The Institute, erected in 1891, is a structure of red brick and ornamental plaster work, and is the property of Mrs. Carpenter Turnor: it includes an assembly and recreation room and a reading room; there is also a library of over 400 volumes, and there are now (1913) nearly 40 members. The Hospital of St. John of God was established here in 1880 for the reception of incurable and convalescent men, and is now (1913) being enlarged at an estimated cost of £15,000; attached is a Roman Catholic chapel, dedicated to St. John of God, and a cemetery; there is also a farm belonging to the Hospital, which is managed by the Religious Hospitallers of St. John of God (Rev. Marin Sur, prior); there are now (1913) 100 in-patients. Mrs. Carpenter Turnor is lady of the manor and chief landowner. The soil and subsoil are gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The township contains 2,738 acres of land and 12 of water; rateable value, £3,696; the population in 1911 was 544, including 124 in the Hospital of St. John.