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"YORK SAINT OLAVE, a parish partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, East riding, and partly in the wapentake of BULMER, North riding, of the county of YORK, comprising the township of St. Olave Mary- Gate, and part of those of Clifton and Rawcliffe, and containing 99*2 inhabitants, of which number, 666 are in the township of St. Olave Mary-Gate, adjacent to the north-western side of the city of York. The living- is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York."
"CLIFTON, a township in the parishes of YORK SAINT MICHAEL LE BELFREY and YORK SAINT OLAVE, wapentake of BULMER, North riding of the county of YORK, 1% mile N.W. from York, containing 469 inhabitants."
[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835]