KILLINGHALL, situated on the high road between Harrogate and Ripley, is a township and village formed into an ecclesiastical parish from those of Ripley and Knaresborough in 1880, and is 1 mile from Ripley, 209 from London, from High Harrogate, 17 from Leeds, and 5 miles from Knaresborough, partly in the upper and partly in the lower division of the wapentake of Claro, petty sessional division of Claro, union and county court district of Knaresborough, rural deanery of Knaresborough, archdeaconry of Richmond and diocese of Ripon. The cnurch of St. Thomas the Apostle is a Gothic stone building, built by subscription in 1880, and consists of chancel, nave and aisles, with a bell-turret containing one bell. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £214 with residence, in the gift of Sir Henry Day Ingilby bart. and held by the Rev. Reginald Keightley smith M.A. of St. John’s College, Cambridge. There is a chapel for Wesleyans. The Duke of Devonshire is lord of the manor. William sheepshanks esq. is chief landowner. The soil is light and the subsoil sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 3,515 acres; rateable value, £5,014 2s. 6d.; and the population (1871) 654.

Schools

Church (mixed), supported by subscription, Mrs. Rebecca Mason, mistress.

Board (mixed), James Linskill Watson F.R.G.S, master; Annette Boggette, mistress.