The sale resulted in the ownership of all the Scawton farms and dwellings being in the hands of eight individuals.
Cecil William Aykroyd of Birstwith Hall, Harrogate purchased the following
Occupied by Thomas Dawson
Occupied by William Cornforth
Plus 86 acres of moorland. * This was moorland not Moor House Farm
John Hetherington of ‘Ennismore’, Moorgate, York purchased the following
Occupied by Harry Hawkins
Occupied by Henry Thompson
Occupied by Reginald Sturdy
Occupied by Albert Anderson
Plus 31 acres known as Cow Close Wood
Frederick and Florence Annie Ingham purchased the 84 acres of Prospect Farm in the occupation of Thomas Herbert Wood and a cottage in the tenancy of Henry Horner Brown.
David York the sitting tenant of Old Rectory Farm purchased its 10 acres plus another 19 and ‘all that gait or right to departure of four cattle in common with others having similar rights’.
John Richardson of Rievaulx Terrace purchased the 11 acres known as the Pheasantry which wass let to George Gamble and Rose Cottage let to Harry Bush. He also bought the dwelling known as ‘The Cottage’.
Doctor William Leslie Roberts purchased the 91 acres of Vicarage Farm held by Harry Anderson and the purchase included the rights of three Scawton tenants to ‘cow gaits’, a tradition that went back at least 250 years. William Cornforth had 5, David York 4 and Thomas Butler Dawson 3.
A family named Morrison purchased Moor House Farm where Jack Hebden was the tenant and Pond Farm which was occupied by John William Meggison.
The Dunelm Trust of Darlington purchased the Hare Inn whose tenant was John Bentley Armitage paying rent of £26 per annum.
Dividing total rents by acreages produces a figure of 11s 1d compared with that of 14s 2d in 1812, another sign that farmers were having a bad time. Seventeen years earlier when the Wombwells sold the entire Old Byland estate the same calculation produced a figure of 12s 4d
