BURTON-UPON-URE is a scattered township in the Bedale union, Ripon countv court district and parish of Masham, from which it is half a mile north; it extends 2 miles southward to south Cote and to Aldburgh Hall, and consists chiefly of scattered farms; the river Ure flows through the township. Aldburgh Hall, now occupied by Major Edmond Herbert Hills R.E., C.M.G 2 miles south-south-east from the parish church, is a mansion of stone, with a centre and 2 wings: near here was once a castle, founded by William Le Gros, 3rd Earl of Albemarle, who, in 1138, was created Earl of York and died in 1170. Burton House, anciently the seat of the Wyvills, a mansion in mixed styles of architecture, and now the residence of Christopher Hammond esq. J.P. is surrounded by neatly laid out pleasure grounds, and retains many other traces of its former grandeur. Lord Masham, of Swinton Park, Lady Cowell, of Clifton Castle, John Timothy D’Arcy Hutton esq. and the trustees of the late William Barningham esq. are the chief landowners. The soil is clayey and gravel; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,112 acres of land and 46 of water; rateable value, £2,312; the population in 1911 was 151.