Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Bishop-Thorpe

Bishop-Thorpe, par. and township, E. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Ouse, 3½ miles SW. of York -- par., 739 ac., pop. 477; township, 79 ac., pop. 422; P.O.; contains Bishopthorpe Palace, seat of the Archbishop of York.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bishopthorpe CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Bishopthorpe

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