Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BUGTHORPE, or Buckthorpe

BUGTHORPE, or Buckthorpe, a parish in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on an affluent of the river Derwent, 4½ miles ESE of Gate-Helmsley r. station, and 6 N by W of Pocklington. Post Town, Skirpenbeck, under York. Acres, 1,990. Real property, £2,381. Pop., 245. Houses, 53. The property is all in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £200. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church was repaired in 1859.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Bugthorpe AP/CP       Pocklington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: BUCKTHORPE     |     BUGTHORPE     |     BUGTHORPE OR BUCKTHORPE
Place: Bugthorpe

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