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"FULFORDS AMBO, a parish partly within the liberty of ST-PETER-OF-YORK, but chiefly in the wapentake of OUZE-AND-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Fulford-Gate and Fulford-Water, and containing 847 inhabitants, of which number, 812 are in the township of Fulford-Gate, 1 mile S. from York. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £800 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Thomas Key, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Oswald. There is a place of worship for Wesley an Methodists. The York barracks, and a lunatic asylum, called the Retreat, in connexion with the Society of Friends, are situated in this parish. John Key, Esq., in 1771, assigned a messuage and rent-charge of £9, 12. a year, for the education of twenty children."
"WATER FULFORD, a township in the parish of FULFORDS-AMBO, partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, and partly in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles S.E. from York, containing 35 inhabitants."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]