Note 207 — THE BANKS O' MORTON O' SWALE.[207]
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A pleasant straggling village, in the parish of Ainderby Steeple, near North Allerton, on the east bank of the Swale. Lambard, Bede, and other early writers, inform us that Paulinus, the first archbishop of York, baptized 10,000 persons in this river in one day,—"By cause at that tyme theare weare no churches or oratories yet buylt."