Clint History

Clint is a township and village, 1 ½ miles west from and in the parish of Ripley and 209 miles from London, in the union of Pateley Bridge, and connected with Hampsthwaite by a bridge over the Nidd. There are charities of £13 yearly value. Sir Henry Day Ingilby bart. is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Sir Henry Day Ingilby bart. and F. B. Greenwood esq. The soil is light; the subsoil is sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and potatoes. The area is 1,946 acres; rateable value, £2,018; and the population in 1861 was 482, in 1871, 396.

The Free school Clint, for boys, girls & infants, open to children belonging to this township &Winsley, was founded & endowed by Rear-Admiral Robert Long in 1760 & its income is now £300 yearly. Winsley Hall, the school estate, has been added to by the trustees, & there have been several other important benefactions given, including a library, left by William Mountain, together with a legacy of £140; the average number of scholars is above 100; James Clarke, master.

Infants, Burnt Gates, Miss Fawcett, mistress.

Kelly's Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (1881)