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Allerton-Mauleverer, a township, a parish, and a small village in the W. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on an affluent of the Nidd, 1 mile from Allerton railway station, and 4 1/2 miles ENE of Knaresborough. The parish includes the townships of Clareton and Hopperton. Post town, Knaresborough, which is the money order office. Area of the parish, 2281 acres; population, 222. The property is all in one estate. It belonged anciently to the family of Mauleverer, passed to Lord Galloway, and was sold, since 1785, successively to the Duke of York, Colonel Thornton, and Lord Stourton. The mansion on it, the seat of Lord Mowbray and Stourton, is a superb structure, and was called for some time Thornville-Royal, then Allerton Hall, and now Stourton Castle. Claro Hill, on the estate, is a remarkable eminence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; value, £60. Patron, Lord Mowbray and Stourton. The church is an old cruciform building in the Norman style. The Roman Catholics have a chapel, a school, and a cemetery. An alien Benedictine priory was founded here in the time of Henry II., and given by Henry VI. to King's College, Cambridge.
