LEAD, or Lead Hall, a township in a detached portion of the parish of Ryther-cum-Ozendyke, from which it is about 7 miles distant, is in Tadcaster union and county court district, and is situated about 4 miles south of Tadcaster, on the left bank of the Cock beck. There is a small chapel here, consisting simply of a nave about 18 feet in length, which seems to have been originally a domestic chapel to the adjoining manor house, one of the seats of the ancient family de Tyas, five of whose tombs still remain in the chapel: the inscriptions on these in Longobardic characters are still partly legible, and four of the five bear the arms of Tyas “A Fess with 3 Mulletts in chief.” Sir Edward Marmaduke Vavasour bart. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. In this township is “Cocksford,” the farm of Mr. W. R. Bromet, well known for its valuable breed of shorthorns. The soil is clay and limestone; subsoil clay and limestone rock. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 1,023 acres; rateable value, £1,037; and the population in 1671, 45.