The Kilton 1 Line

Kilton Hall, 1795

The genealogy of a significant line of Farndales, descended from John Farndale and Elizabeth Bennison, who came to be associated with the village of Kilton for two hundred and fifty years

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This webpage comprises the genealogical family tree of the Kilton 1 Line and then summarises the deeper ancestry of this line of the Farndales.

The Kilton 1 Line is a very significant hub of many members of the Farndale family, that runs from 1680 to the late twentieth century. Many other Farndale lines derive from the Kilton 1 Line, which in turn then traces back to more ancient lines to 1512.

The family tree is colour coded to show the flow of relationships between individuals. You can also follow the hyperlinks in brown text to link directly to other related family lines and the hyperlink in blue text to reach the webpage of each individual, where you can read about their lives in more detail.

The Liverton 2 Line

John Farndale 27 June 1680 to 5 October 1757 Married Elizabeth Bennison and Catherine Jackson Householder of Brotton, perhaps the first Farndale at Kilton Kilton, Brotton, Liverton FAR00116

William Farndale 5 December 1708 to 28 February 1789 Married Abigail Gear (Goar?) Brotton, Kilton FAR00130

Elizabeth Farndale 7 February 1710 Brotton, Kilton FAR00133

Elizabeth Farndale 23 December 1716 Married Thomas Pickering Skelton, Brotton FAR00139

Ellin Farndale 23 May 1720 Married Christopher Cuthbert Brotton FAR00141

John Farndale Johnny Farndale 28 February 1724 to 24 January 1807 Married Grace Simpson “Old Farndale of Kilton” Farmer, alum house merchant, yeoman and cooper Kilton, Brotton FAR00143

Samuel Farndale 4 April 1735 to 1797 Marred Elizabeth Hutton Cabinet maker and joiner, Wesleyan of Kilton Kilton, Brotton FAR00149

William Farndale 13 July 1743 to 27 April 1777 Married Elizabeth Barry Master mariner of Whitby Whitby, Brotton, Skelton FAR00157

John Farndale 24 March 1750 to 23 October 1825 Married Jane Pybus Farmer at Brotton Kilton, Brotton, Skelton FAR00167

George Farndale 13 May 1753 to 19 November 1782 Married Mary Stephenson The butcher of Brotton FAR00170

Hannah Farndale 17 September 1755 to ? Married James Jackson Whitby (Lythe), Brotton FAR00174

Elizabeth Farndale 17 September 1955 to ? Married Thomas Hall Whitby, Brotton FAR00175

Sarah Farndale 21 January 1758 to 17 August 1759 Kilton, Brotton FAR00178

William Farndale 30 March 1760 to 5 March 1846 Married Mary Ferguson Farmer of Kilton and a merchant of wood, rods, coals, salting bacon; a churchgoer Kilton, Brotton FAR00183

Mary Farndale Born 26 April 1761 Married nee Frankland Skelton, Brotton FAR00185

Grace Farndale Born 2 December 1764 Married nee Fawcet Skelton, Brotton FAR00189

The Brotton 2 Line

The Whitby 3 Line

William Farndale 17 August 1777 to 2 October 1863 Married Mary Davidson Wheelwright and cartwright Guisborough, Brotton, Great Ayton FAR00200

Martha Farndale 6 April 1779 Married Francis Earl Kilton, Brotton, Loftus FAR00203

Elizabeth Farndale 22 July 1781 to ? Married William Smith Kilton, Skelton FAR00204

Abigaile Farndale 2 May 1784 to ? Kilton, Brotton FAR00205

John Farndale 4 May 1788 to ? Married Ann Nicholson Whitby, Danby, Brotton FAR00210

Joseph Farndale 25 October 1795 to 20 April 1877 Married Mary Hill Cartwright of Great Ayton Great Ayton, Middlesborough (Nunthorpe), Kilton, Brotton, Guisborough FAR00228

Henry Farndale 25 October 1795 to 28 December 1857 Agricultural labourer of Great Ayton Great Ayton, Middlesborough (Nunthorpe), Middlesborough (Stainton), Kilton, Brotton, Stokesley FAR00229

George Farndale 1 December 1789 to 8 May 1858 Married Mary Armstrong Agricultural labourer of Brotton after living at Richmond (Easby) and Middlesborough (Marton) and who was born and died at Kilton Kilton, Richmond (Easby), Middlesborough (Marton), Brotton FAR00215

John Farndale 15 August 1791 to 28 January 1878 Married Martha Patton Yeoman farmer of Skelton, Corn Merchant, Insurance Broker John Farndale wrote extensively about Kilton and Saltburn by the Sea Kilton, Brotton, Skelton, Coatham, Stockton, Danby FAR00217

William Farndale 30 September 1793 to 23 October 1831 Twin of Matthew Kilton, Brotton FAR00223

Matthew Farndale 30 September 1793 to 8 August 1884 Married Hannah Thompson Farmer of Kilton who then emigrated to Australia Birregurra, Kilton, Brotton FAR00225

Mary Farndale 24 July 1796 to 31 July 1817 A young girl who died at the age of 21 and was commemorated by a tea pot given to her by a sea captain Kilton, Brotton FAR00232

Martin Farndale 11 April 1798 to 22 June 1885 Married Elizabeth Hours Farmer of Kilton of 200 acres and later 600 acres No Children. He had various children of John (including Charles), his brother living at Kilton at times. He appears to have farmed Kilton Hall Farm, and since he had no children it was then John’s son Charles who then took over farming at Kilton Hall Farm Kilton, Brotton FAR00236

Anna Farndale 19 April 1801 to 22 November 1867 Married William Phillips A farmer’s wife in Skelton after living in Brotton until she was 40 Kilton, Brotton, Skelton FAR00242

Elizabeth Farndale 10 April 1804 to 19 May 1822 She died at the young age of 18 Kilton, Brotton FAR00246

Hannah Farndale 1 March 1802 to 1 March 1802 Born to ‘unmarried’ Elizabeth? Was there a separation? FAR00245

Harriet Farndale 20 January 1805 to 29 June 1833 Also born to an ‘unmarried’ mother Married William Whitelock, a shoemaker, 27 July 1827 FAR00249

The Whitby 5 Line

The Great Ayton 2 Line

The Great Ayton 3 Line

The Birregurra (Australia 1) Line

Elizabeth Taylor’s Ancestors Our smuggler ancestors

William Farndale 30 June 1817 to (after 1901) Married Jane Richardson and Hannah ? A mine labourer in Loftus area (ironstone miner) Loftus, Richmond (Easby), Hilton, Margrove Park, Broughton FAR00260

Martin Farndale 17 December 1818 to 12 July 1862 Married Elizabeth Taylor Agricultural labourer of Skelton Skelton, Kilton, Hutton Lowcross, Great Ayton, Easby FAR00264

George Farndale 15 April 1820 to 25 December 1891 Married Mary Bell Tile maker, ironstone worker and then brick-layer of Middlesborough Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Great Ayton FAR00271

Thomas Farndale 17 February 1822 to 28 March 1854 Married Isabella Bowes Miner in Bishop Auckland, who had a son, but died at the age of 32 Bishop Auckland, Kilton, Easby FAR00280

John Farndale 8 February 1824 to 14 February 1824 Died aged 1 week FAR00287

Matthew Farndale 27 June 1827 to 7 January 1905 Agricultural labourer and then Foreman at East Coatham East Coatham, Stockton, Kirkleatham, Redcar, Coatham FAR00297

Robert Farndale 16 May 1830 to 1875? A carpenter from Brotton Brotton, Loftus FAR00307

William Masterman Farndale 24 March 1831 to 1913 Married Jane Brownbridge Customs officer of Middlesborough Middlesborough, Skelton, Ormesby, Knaresborough, Long Newton, Runcorn, Macclesfield, Whitehaven, Harrogate FAR00312

Mary Farndale 1832 to 1862? Long Newton, Stockton FAR00316

Elizabeth Mary Farndale 15 August 1832 to 12 April 1905 Confectioner Married Joseph Douthwaite Blackburn on 21 August 1853 Skelton, Stockton FAR00319

Teresa (Theresa) Farndale 5 December 1833 to 22 December 1896 Married Thompson Featherstone Tailor’s wife and lodge keeper Skelton, Stockton FAR00325

Annie Maria Farndale 9 June 1835 to 2 March 1907 Lived at Kilton Hall with her uncle Martin until she married Married Thomas Hall Kilton, Skelton, Middlesborough, Brawith Farm, Skutterskelfe, Stokesley, Hutton Rudby Farmer’s wife (200 acres) with ten children FAR00334

John George Farndale 26 October 1836 to 21 February 1909 Married Elizabeth Sanderson Printer’s apprentice and served in the Crimean War before he emigrated to Ontario (possibly via Australia) where he farmed Ontario, Stockton, Skelton FAR00337

Charles Farndale 17 January 1838 to 18 March 1914 Married Ann Dale Took over the farming of Kilton Hall Farm where he farmed 577 acres Kilton, Stockton FAR00341

Emma Farndale 2 December 1839 to 20 December 1839 Stockton, Long Newton, Coatham, Brotton FAR00346

The Bishop Auckland 1 Line

The Coatham Line

The Ontario 1 Line

William Farndale 16 December 1842 to 9 June 1854 Died aged 11 Holly Haugh, Skelton FAR00356

Martin Farndale 19 September 1845 to 17 January 1928 Married Catherine Lindsay The Lindsay Family Farmer of Tidkinhow Tidkinhow, Skelton, Brotton, Kilton, Tranmire, Tancred Grange, Boosbeck FAR00364

John Farndale 26 June 1848 to 10 May 1914 Married Elizabeth Featherstone Railway Signalman and platform porter Loftus, Skelton, Liverton, Moorsholm FAR00376

Matthew Farndale 25 June 1850 to 27 February 1927 Married Mary Liverseed Craggs Hall Farm, Skelton, Stockton, Brotton FAR00383

Charles Masterman Farndale 25 December 1857 to 1889  A ship broker’s clerk who died at 31 in Cockermouth Stockton, Runcorn, Cockermouth FAR00429

Ann Maria Farndale 26 August 1861 to 26 December 1938 Ormesby, Runcorn, Whitehaven, Seamer, Great Ayton, Harrogate FAR00444

William Henry Farndale 10 July 1865 to 8 September 1892 A rail clerk who died aged 27 Ormesby, Cleveland Port, Brotton FAR00466

The Tidkinhow Line

The Loftus 2 Line

The Craggs Line

Joseph Farndale 1875 to 1921 Bricklayer and labourer Married Elizabeth Hannah Abbott in 1900 Eston, Margrove Park, Guisborough, Stockton, Darlington FAR00524

Miggil (Maggie) Farndale 1877 to after 1881 Margrove Park, Broughton FAR00550

John Martin Farndale 1873 to 3 February 1876 Died aged 2 years and 11 months Guisborough, Kilton, Brotton FAR00520

William Farndale 25 April 1875 to 6 February 1948 Married Ada Fawell in 1899 Farmer of Gillingwood Hall Gillingwood, Richmond, Kilton, Saltburn FAR00531

George Farndale 24 August 1876 to 14 February 1970 Farmer and partner of Kilton Hall Farm The last of the Kilton farmers Kilton, Redcar, Saltburn FAR00540

Mary Elizabeth Farndale 1877 to 1938? Married William Hodge in 1927 Dairywork Kilton FAR00560

Grace Farndale 14 April 1880 to 1 March 1966 Dairywork Kilton, Redcar, Saltburn FAR00566

Albert Farndale 1881 to 19 December 1918 An architect of Guisborough Kilton, Guisborough FAR00574

Ernest Farndale 1883 to 4 September 1885 Died aged 2 years and 6 months Kilton, Brotton, Guisborough FAR00589

Sophia Farndale 23 August 1884 to 23 August 1973 Married Maxwell Foster in 1909 Family of 8+ She lived at ‘Kilton’ in Greatham Kilton, Greatham FAR00601A

The Richmond Line

Evelyn Mary Farndale 31 December 1900 to 1978 Domestic Servant Married Richard Green in 1930 Eaglescliffe, Stockton, Eastgate, Marton FAR00703

Lilly Farndale 21 December 1902 to 1976 Married Stanislaus Tempest in 1929 Stokesley, Marton, Darlington FAR00718

Doris Farndale 1905 to 1919 Died aged 14 Eaglescliff, Stockton, Marton FAR00730

William Farndale 23 August 1907 to 18 December 1991 Nurseryman Ingleby Greashaw, Darlington FAR00744

Hilda Farndale 23 May 1909 to ? Married Frederick W Parker in 1934 Ingleby Greashaw, Marton, Darlington FAR00756

Ethel Farndale 4 December 1911 to 1976 Omnibus conductress Married Joseph Hall in 1946 Normanby, Darlington, Richmond, SW Durham, Barnard Castle FAR00777

Elsie M Farndale 1918 to 1931 Died aged 13 Darlington FAR00844

Kenneth Farndale 1920 to 1922 Died aged 1 Darlington FAR00857

If you are subscribed to Ancestry you can also visit the Farndale Family Tree on Ancestry, which links the whole family together.

The Deeper Ancestry of the Kilton 1 Line

The matrix below will transport descendants of the Kilton 1 Line into a personal journey into their deep ancestry. It is an extract of the Farndale Story which is bespoke for the Kilton 1 Line descendants. It will take you back to the earliest history of our ancestors and each box will transport you to a more detailed narrative to unlock your history.

			Kirkdale Cave A Time Machine to a different era of geological time in the heart of our ancestral home
			The Primeval Swamp The Iron Age, Bronze Age, Neolithic, and Mesolithic evidence of the people of the immediate vicinity to Farndale
Isurium Brigantum (Aldborough) The Roman Regional Capital of the lands around Kirkdale	Hovingham A Roman Villa on palatial scale just south of Kirkdale	Beadlam A Roman Villa only 2km from Kirkdale in the heart of our ancestral lands	Roman Kirkdale 71 CE to 580 CE The lands which would become the lands of Kirkdale and Chirchebi in Roman and Pagan times	The Roman Arm Purse A Roman arm purse which can be seen in the British Museum in London today, found in about the second century CE by a cairn overlooking Farndale, which will transport you back 2,000 years	Eboracum (York) The Roman Capital of northern England where Constantine was proclaimed Emperor
			Anglo Saxon Kirkdale 560 CE to 793 CE Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Anglo Saxon Period	Anglo Saxon Kirkdale Kirkdale from its founding in about 685 CE to the beginning of the Scandinavian period in about 800 CE	Eoforwic (York) Deirian and Northumbrian York, a political, cultural and educational Hub on the European stage The Deira The people who dominated our ancestral lands	Alcuin and the birth of modern education The world of Ecgbert and Aethelbert, successors to Bede, and their pupil Alcuin, who took York’s powerhouse of knowledge to the court of Charlemagne to pioneer the European educational system
		Orm Gamalson The powerful figure at the heart of the aristocracy, who rebuilt Kirkdale and put our ancestral lands firmly onto the national political stage	Scandinavian Kirkdale 793 CE to 1066 Kirkdale and the Chirchebi Estate in the Scandinavian Period	Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian Kirkdale Kirkdale in the Anglo-Saxon-Scandinavian period from about 800 CE to 1066, with a brief summary of its history through to 1500	Jorvik (York) The Scandinavian centre of northern England	The Kirkdale Sundial A unique treasure whose secrets transport us into the world of the eleventh century upon which you can stare today, imagining direct ancestors who did the same a thousand years ago
		Norman Domination Regime Change	Game of Thrones 1066 to 1200 The People of the Kirkbymoorside (“Chirchebi”) Estate after the Norman Conquest	Rievaulx Abbey This history of the Cistercian monastery of Rievaulx, in whose Chartulary the name Farndale was first recorded in 1154
The Pathfinders Our Pioneer ancestors who left Farndale but took its name to settle in new places	Poachers of Pickering Forest Tales of a surprisingly large number of our forebears who were poachers in Pickering Forest. Their archery skills would foretell the legends of Robin Hood and the English army at Agincourt	Medieval Farming Rural lifestyles from the Norman Conquest	The First Family Tree A model which relies on extensive medieval evidence, to suggest the most probable family tree of the earliest ancestors of the Farndales	The Cradle Thirteenth Century Farndale Clearing the dale to build our new home	The Story of Farndale to 1500 The story of the dale of Farndale to 1500, to accompany the family story	Medieval Warfare Tales of archers and men at arms who fought with Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V and an observation post in the home of the Nevilles and Richard III from which to view the Wars of the Roses
Campsall and Barnsdale Forest The history of the village of Campsall north of Doncaster, where we find our ancestors in the sixteenth century	The History of Doncaster to 1500 The History of pre industrial Doncaster from its Roman inception as Danum to the end of the sixteenth century	The Vicar of Doncaster The Family of William Farndale, the Fourteenth Century Vicar of Doncaster	The Kirkleatham Skelton Line	Arrival in the old Bruce lands around Skelton Castle The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Families of Kirkleatham, Skelton, Moorsholm and Liverton in Cleveland	Kirkleatham A history of Kirkleatham and Wilton, the place where our family first settled in Cleveland
			The Liverton 2 Line
The Miners The family story of mining, mainly for ironstone, the primary resource behind the industrial development of Cleveland	Transition to the Industrial Revolution John Farndale, my great x2 uncle, was a prolific writer who captured the essence of the late eighteenth century and its transition into the Industrial Revolution. The family’s history provides a direct pathway to experience these years of momentous change	Brotton Old Graveyard Three generations of Kilton Farndales in one place. A side trip to nearby Boosbeck and Skelton take you to the gravestones two later generations. Take in Wensley and you’ll find two more recent generations. Seven generations of the family in one short drive	The Kilton 1 Line	The Farmers of Kilton The First Hub The story of the Kilton Farndales, a family who dominated a village, since lost to time, over two centuries	Kilton, the Lost Village The story of the lost village of Kilton and its sylvan landscape Kilton A journey around modern Kilton, of farms, a ruined castle and a small village of Kilton Thorpe to capture the essence of the two century home of Farndales	The Smugglers of Old Saltburn Stories of smugglers, led by my great x3 grandfather known as the King of the Smugglers, and the undoubted involvement of our forebears

The Golden Age of Kilton

“Kilton formerly belonged to the Twings and Lumleys, who were lords of the manor. Dr Waugh, Dean of Carlisle, and Miss Waugh, into whose hands the estate came, sold it to Mrs Wharton, and this lady made a present of it to the late J Wharton, Esq., of Skelton Castle, MP for Beverley, a gentleman of memorable name. Here was built a neat hall, much admired, and when the sun early n the morning cast its beams upon it and lit its vast windows with Nature’s glory, it was a sight to affect the heart and raise the thoughts to the Great Source of all beauty and splendour, both in nature and grace. A spirit of jealousy led to this fine structure being pulled down, and now not one stone on another remains to tell where it once stood, except stables, granaries and coach houses, yet in good preservation. In this township too stands an old Norman Castle. Few ruins in England can vie this venerable relic of Norman architecture. There is also a fortress here, which in the olden times must have been impregnable. This baronial fortress was no doubt the most powerful one in Cleveland, and in the days of cross bows, broad swords, and battle axes it would be quite secure. But when Cromwell, that inveterate foe to all Roman edifices, came near, he heard and was led by the bell at noon, to the opposite mount, levelled his destructive cannon against this structure, and brought it to the ground.

Kilton formerly contained a few tradesmen – namely two joiners, two coopers, two weavers, one butcher, a publican, a water miller, a rag merchant, an old man with nine children, two sailors, and a banker’s cashier. At one time it had four sailors – one was taken prisoner in the French War, an old man, aged 87, and yet living – another, a missionary to the French prisoners, died in France, aged 87, a noble fellow, was formerly in the Life Guards. Seventy years ago Kilton had eight farmers; it now has only one. It had then fifty four children, now only seven – then twenty four parents, now only five – and then nine old men and women rom eighty to one hundred and five years of age. The inhabitants of this village, as may be expected, were long lived; most of the old men were of the giant tribe, their ages averaging at death eighty seven years. My children’s children comprise the sixth generation of our family that has lived at Kilton estate upwards of two hundred years.

In former days the inhabitants of this district were Jacks, and Toms, and Mats; now they are either Misters or Esquires, and thick as mushrooms around us. In those days there were no Mistresses or Ladies among them, they were all Dames – there were no silk gowns, no veils, no crinolines, no bustles; but home spun garments, giving employment to the inhabitants, warmth and comfort to the wearers, and lasting for fifty years. Specimens at home.

Kilton stands unrivalled for its antiquity, and its beautiful scenery cannot be excelled. The brightest and fairest scenes in Italy cannot be compared to the lovely prospects which Nature displays in this secluded part of Cleveland. This place stands on a ridge of rich loomy land, with Huntcliffe on the north, known to all sea-men. On the east is the beautiful bay of Skinningrove and the hall of AC Maynard Esq, formerly the residence of F Easterby Esq. Skinnngrove was once a noted place for smuggling. On the north west is Old Saltburn which was formerly considered the King of the Smuggling World. Near which is New Saltburn, about to become one of the most fashionable sea bathing places on the eastern coast, thanks to the enterprising gentlemen who conduct the railway operations in this neighbourhood, and who are the public’s benefactors, in a commercial, social point of view, and are indeed, in every sense of the word, the friends of the people.

I might go on for ever to dwell on the beautiful scenery around New Saltburn and the interesting associations with it, but I am afraid of trespassing on the forbearance of my readers. The age we now live in is for raking up riches – for there are so many Demas like so living in the world that they have lost all relish for simple details of former times delivered by a grave man like me; but in drawing pubic attention to those hitherto hidden hamlets, dear to every old fashioned Yorkshireman, and which will probably very shortly create more notice, I hope that some ambler pen will take this subject up and do justice in describing this part of the country.

When only four or five years of age I remember my father’s father telling what was done in those days and the old time before them. Many things then told were deemed most important to those of us who then lived together in a state of primitive simplicity, far removed from the occurrences which now surround us. I can refer back to what might have ended in death, but which by over-ruling Providence was otherwise ordered. It was ordained that even to me was given an errand to fulfil, which I am at this time feebly endeavouring to discharge:- namely, to do good in my day and generation.”

“Kilton Hall was a very neat building, with stables, coach houses, lawns and plantations, and the old castle adjoining had a fine bowling green and excellent fish ponds, fed by a rivulet running through a field close by, and which was in a good state of preservation until it was lately filled up and ploughed. Contiguous to the old castle walls there was a fine orchard, which I had the management of about fifty years ago. But this has nearly gone into decay – the towering pear and other fruit trees have become leafless and dead, and withered like an old man ripe from the grave. Such are the changes which a few years make. Thus, it is with inanimate things, so it is with us. We must all fade as a flower, we must all die, for all flesh is grass. “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord endureth for ever”.

Here, let me not forget to notice that, in this enchanting park, rich preserves of game of all kinds, especially that most beautiful bird the pheasant, are numerous, and almost all other game. I have seen rise out from new sown wheat, in my father’s castle field, no less than eighty pheasants at one time. Fifty years later, on my last visit to the old castle, I saw rise out of the same field fifty beautiful pheasant cock, when they soon buried themselves in the vast forest around the old castle. It was here Redman, the poacher’s gun burst and blew out his eye. It was also here Frank, the keeper, shot a large eagle near the old castle, which is now preserved.

The picturesque scenery, however, in this neighbourhood still retains its loveliness, and the late John Wharton, Esq., of Skelton Castle, dd much to improve its beauty. On every side where there was any waste land he planted it with wood to a great extent, and a large number of larches and oaks then planted, I planted with my own hands. On visiting this place lately, what was my astonishment on perceiving that many of these larches were cut and measured fifty cubic feet, while the oaks were in thriving condition and measured twenty four cubic feet. The site of these plantations is delightful, as they are finely sheltered from the piercing north winds.”

(John Farndale, 1864)

Vincent Grainger worked with the Farndales at Kilton in the early 1900s. In about 1985 he made a sound recording about Charles Farndale and his family and Kilton at that time.

It is worth bearing with the recording as there is some description of Kilton at the time, and the Farndales in the 1900s, as the recording goes on.

Vincent Grainger aged 16 Vincent Grainger August 1985 (aged 93)

Vincent Grainger worked on the farm at Kilton Lodge as a member of the family

The area which Tony has kindly highlighted with a red square shows the village of Kilton at that time. So this was Kilton at the time of John Farndale (“Old Farndale of Kilton”).

The smaller red square shows Kilton Hall at the end of the street. The oblong red shapes show the five houses on each side of the street, which are described by John Farndale in his writings. The yellow squares highlight other houses, scattered elsewhere across the village.

John Farndale published a drawing of old Kilton Hall, as it stood in 1795.

By the time of the first O.S. map in 1853, (attached) it seems to have disappeared, and so too had most of the village.

So it seems likely that the village fell into decline in the 1843-53 period when the new owner of Skelton estate, John Thomas Wharton, took over. That said, the 1841 census records only 10 houses in the village so it seems it was declining even then. By the time the next census was taken in 1851, there were about seven buildings left, so the village’s decline seems to have been slow and organic.

In other words John Farndale, who wrote in the mid Victorian era of change and industrial revolution, looked back in his writings to the Kilton of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, “No place can equal Kilton for loveliness”, standing as it does, in the midst of sylvan scenery, beautiful landscape and woodland scenery, and what a perfume of sweet fragrance from wild flowers. The Kilton of that earlier age, the age of Old Farndale of Kilton, was a time when Kilton flourished, and where our family that has lived at Kilton estate upwards of two hundred years were living in Kilton in large numbers. Indeed as well as the Kilton 1 Farndales, there were other Farndales of the Kilton 2 Line and the Kilton 3 Line.