South Milford, a village in this parish, now formed into an ecclesiastical parish, will he found under a separarte head.

SOUTH MILFORD is a village, township and ecclesiastical district, formed in 1859 from the parishes of Sherburn and Monk Fryston, 6 miles north from Pontefract, 12 east from Leeds and 1 mile west from Milford Junction, on the North Eastern railway, which has a station here, in the Eastern division of the Riding, wapentake of Barkstone Ash, honour and union of Tadcaster, county court district of Pontefract, rural deanery of Selby, archdeaconry and diocese of York. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, a handsome stone building in the Early English style, erected at the expense of Lady Ashtown and Mrs. Gascoigne and consecrated in November, 1846, consists of chancel, nave, north porch, and vestry standing out from, the main building, in shape of a pavilion on the north; the belfry, of open stone work, contains 1 bell and is surmounted by a cross: a new organ was added in the year 1879. The register dates from the year 1846. The living is a rectory, yearly value, £300, with residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, and held by the Rev. Frederick John Young M.A. of Christ’s College, Cambridge. There is a chapel for Wesleyans. Milford Villa is a handsome Gothic house, the property and residence of William Naylor esq. Lady Ashtown is lady of the manor; B. Crosland and W. Paver esqs. are the chief landowners. Near Milford Junction railway station are the malting works of Mr. William Naylor, of south Milford and Leeds, which, from their extent and architectural features, form a prominent object to travellers by the North Eastern railway; Mr. John R. Middlesbrough has also maltings here. The Boil is limestone and clay; subsoil the same. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,184 acres; rateable value, £9,365, and the population in 1871, was, of the township, 927; the area is, of the ecclesiastical parish, 4,000 acres; population, 1,153.

Board school, erected in 1877, will contain 200 children; H. Knaggs, master; Miss Thompson, infants’ mistress. There are also Sunday schools.