BOLTON-UPON-SWALE, a chapelry in Catterick parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Swale, 2¾ miles SW of Cowton r. station, and 5½ ESE of Richmond. Post Town, Catterick. Acres, 878. Real property, £1,578. Pop., 105. Houses, 23. The property is not much divided. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £100.* Patron, the Vicar of Catterick. The church is good, and contains a monument of Henry Jenkins, a native of Ellerton in the neighbourhood, who died in 1670 at the age of 169. An endowed school at Scorton has £231; and other charities £18.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))