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BUGTHORPE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"BUGTHORPE, a parish partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-OF-YORK, and partly in the wapentake of BUCKROSE, East riding of the county of YORK, 7 miles N.N.W. from Pocklington, containing 281 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Bugthorpe' in the Cathedral Church of York, rated in the king's books at £20, and endowed with £400 royal bounty* The church is dedicated to St. Andrew."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]