EAST HESLERTON is a township and small village in the parish of Heslerton, 9 ½ miles east-north-east of Malton. In 1879 it was formed into an ecclesiastical parish. The church of St. Andrew, erected in 1877 by Sir Tatton Sykes bart. is an edifice of stone in the Early English style, from designs by the late G. E. Street esq. R.A. and consists of chancel, nave, western narthex porch, baptistery, and a tower on the north side with spire, and containing 3 bells: in the tower are figures of St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Gregory and St. Jerome, the Four Latin Fathers, by Redfern, transferred here from the north porch of Bristol Cathedral in 1876: the chancel is separated from the nave by a beautiful screen of wrought iron and has a groined roof: all the windows are stained: the pulpit is of shell marble, and there is a brass lectern and a carved stone font supported on marble pillars: the church affords sittings for 100 persons. In the burial ground adjoining, the land for which was given by Sir Tatton Sykes bart. stands a cross. The register dates from the year 1845. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £345, including 196 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Tatton Sykes bart. and held since 1902 by the Rev. Thomas Evans Hughes M.A. of Jesus College, Cambridge. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. Sir Tatton Sykes bart. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The area is 3,576 acres of land and 10 of water; rateable value, £4,303; the population in 1911 was 208.