Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUTTON-BUSHELL

HUTTON-BUSHELL, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Scarborough district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a hill, near Forge valley, 4 miles W of Seamer-Junction r. station, and 6 SW of Scarborough; is an ancient place; and has a postoffice under York..-The township comprises 3, 510 acres. Real property, £3, 622. Pop., 527. Houses, 101.—The parish contains also the township of West Ayton, and comprises 5, 607 a res. Real property, £6, 366. Pop., 912. Houses, 179. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged anciently to the Buscels, who followed William the Conqueror; and belongs now to Lord Downe. Hutton-Bushell Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £320.* Patron, Earl Fitzwilliam. The church is ancient but good; has an embattled tower; and contains monuments of the Osbaldestons. There are a Wesleyan chapel and an endowed school.—The sub-district contains also three other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 35, 445. Pop., 4, 666. Houses, 913.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hutton Buscel AP/CP       Hutton Buscel SubD       Scarborough RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Hutton Buscel

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