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charge £74• joint net yearly value £101, including 6~ acres mustard, wheat, beans, oats, clover and turnips, with a of glebe, with residence, in the gift of theEarlof Etfingham, good portion of rich grazing land and some market gardens. and held since r889 by the Rev. Anthon:y Bathe M.A. of The acreage is 1,450; rateable value, £2,682; the popula­ Brasenose College, Oxford, who resides at Paull : the im­ tion in r88r was 267. propriate tithe amounts to £104; and out of the tithes £r r6s. 6d. is paid to Lister's hospital, Hull. There is PosT OFFICE. - Edward Barnfather, receiver. Letters a Wesleyan chapel erected on a site given by Mr. John F. through Hull arrive at 8.50 a.m. & are dispatched at 6 Butlers, farmer, who also built the attached Sunday school p.m. Burstwick is the nearest money order offica & at his sole expense. There is also a Primitive Methodist is the nearest telegraph office chapel. The principal landowners are Charles H. J ohnson A School Board of 7 members was formed March 26, x875, esq. of Thorngumbald Hall, John Leonard esq. and Miss for the United District of Thorngumbald & Ryhill & Mary Craven, Esplanade, Scarborough. The soil is day Camerton; Arthur Percival Iveson, Hedon, clerk to the and sand ; subsoil, also clay and sand. The chief crops are board; the school is situated in the parish of Ryhill Elletson John, Sunnyside Elletson James, market gardener Peck Willhm Alfred, market gardener J ohnson Charles Hargitt, Thorngum­ Fisher Samuel, farmer Readmg Room (EdwardThos.Gray,sec) bald hall Gray Edward Thomas, grocer Roe Mary Ann (Mrs.), Royal Mail P.H. COMMERCIAL. Gray William, market gardener & shopkeeper Hart John, farmer Sergeant George, machine owner Barnfather Edward, wheelwright & Hart John, hay & straw dealer Slampford Willia.m, farmer & cattle dlr shopkeeper, Post office Hart William, farmer Starkey Henry, market gardener Beadle Thomas, market gardener & frmr Hodgson William, farmer Wallgate William, farmer Burnham Edward, farmer, Stockholm Leonard John, farmer, Thorneycroft Willingham George, blacksmith Close Robert Henry, machine owner Marriott George,farmer, St. Martin's ho Willingham Wright, farmer Dibnah Charles, bricklayer Peck Thomas, market gardener

THORNTON is a township, parish and village, situated church here, also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. near the north side of the canal, about 4t miles Melbourne Hall, the seat of Capt. Arthur Chambers, is a large south-west from Pocklington station on the York and Mar­ mansion of brick, situated near the village in a finely­ ket Weighton section of the Nort.h Eastern railway, in the wooded park. Waiter Cliff esq. who is lord of the manor, llowdenshire division of the Riding, Wilton Beacon division and the Dean and Chapt.er of York are the chief landowners. of the wapentake of Harthill, Wilton Beacon petty sessional The soil is clay and sand ; subsoil, clay and sand. The chief division, Pocklington union and county court district, rural crops are wheat, turnips, barley, oats and seeds. The area deanery of Pocklington, archdeaconry of the Ea8t Ridmg is 3.048 acres of land and 15 of water; rateable value, and diocese of York. The parish comprises the townships £2,905 ; the population in rBgr was 388. of THORNTON, MELBOURNE and STORTHWAITE. The church PosT 0FFICE.-George Becket, receiver. London & other of St. Michael is a small but ancient edifice of brick and letters are received through York, via Pocklington, by foot stone in the Early English sty le, consisting of chancel, nave, post; arrive at ro. 15 a. m. ; dispatched at 4.40 p.m. aisles and a western turret containing 2 bells: there are 120 Pocklington is the neare~t money order & telegraph office. sittings. The register dates from the year r61o. The Postal orders are issued here, but not paid living is a vicarage, with the chapelry of Allerthorpe annexed, A School Board of 5 members was formed July 20, r875, for tithe rent-charge £215, joint net yearly value £252, includ­ Melbourne ; Richard Charles Bruce, clerk to the board & ing 69 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord attendance officer Chancellor, and held since 1893 by the Rev. Gwyn Lloyd Board School (mixed), erected in 1878 at a cost of £1,240, Moore Rees, of St. Bees, who resides at Allerthorpe. The for 100 children; average attendance, 40; James Henry tithes were in 1777 commuted for land and a money pay­ Phillips, master ment. Lord Leconfield is lord of the manor and sole land­ CARRIERS TO :- owner. The soil is principally sandy; subsoil, sand. The YORK--George Gorwood & John Kidd, tues. & sat chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips and seeds. The POCKLINGTON-Charles Kidd, sat area of the township is 2,314 acres; rateable value, £1,760 ; the population in 1891 was rsr. Storwood is a township on the , Parish Clerk, William Becket. 3! miles west from and in the parish of Thornton and 8 miles south-west from Pocklington. Here is a Melbourne is a township and village near the south Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1837 by Mr. Thomas Jennings. side of the canal, 1 mile south-west from and in the parish The land is occupied by various freeholders. The area is of Thornton and 5 south-south-west from Pocklington, in the 1,2o6 acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value, £r,os9; Willon Beacon division of Harthill wapentake. There is a iron the population in 1881 was 83. Thorn ton. Ho ward Miss Parrott William, grocer & draper Simpson James, farmer COMMRRCIAL. CO:IfMF:RCIAL. Brown John, hrmer Himpson John, farmer Gibson Arthur, farmer, The Gnnge Atken William, Blacksmitlls' Arms P.H Smith John, farmer Gibson Mark. farmer Harrow Stephen, tailor Storey Thomas, farmer Gibson William, hrmer Beck et George, boot&shoe m 'I.. Post office 'fodd Frederick, tailor Nicholls .Tames, ftlrmer, East farm Brabbs James, farmer Ward Robert, farmer Nicholls Mich'lel, farmer Brabbs John, fa.rmer West Stephen, farmer Oldrige Thomas, farmer Bwce Richd. Chas. builder & carpenter Whitfield Thomas, farmer D-1le Willi1m, fumer Richudson John, farmer Storwood. Rooke Mark, farmer Dales Willhm, Cross Keys P.H Rooke Willi'lm, farmer F"owler John, farmer Atkinson Charles, farmer Smith Joseph, builder Gorwood George, c 1rrier Copeland Robert, farmer Snow den John, farmer Grant James, blacksmith Hessell Thomas, farmer Storey Robert Gibson, farmer H'1rrison John, farmer J ennings Francis, farmer Stubbings .lames, farmer Hessel Robert, farmer Jennings Robert Edward, farmer Tasker William, farmer Homley Mary(Mrs. ), farmer, The Lodge J ennings Thomas, farmer J ames Thomas, farmer Ricketson Robert, farmer Melbourne. Kidd Charles, shopkeeper & carrier Thompson Matthew, farmer Chambers C<1pt.Arthur, Melbourne hall Leckenby William, shopkeeper

THORPE BASSETT is a parish and small villa~e I.}ear 1 Paley and Austin, architects, of Lancaster, when the north the source of a rivulet, 1! miles south-east from Rillington aisle was rebuilt on its old foundations, and the arcade, station on the York and Scarborough s~ction of the North which had for centuries remained built up in the north wall Eastern railway and 5 east from Malton, in the Buckrose of the nave, was reopened ; a new chancel and vestry were division of the Riding, wapentake and petty sessional division also erected at the same time: the east window contains of Huckrose, Mal ton union and county court district, rural fragments of ancient glass : there are sittings for 100. The deanery of Settrington, archdeaconry of the East Ridin~ register dates from the year 1656. The living is a rectory, and diocese of York. The church of All Saints is a small tithe rent-charge £302, average £250, net yearly value but ancient edifice of stone in the Nor man style, consi1::1ting £255, with residence, in the gift of Earl Fitzwilliam X. G. and of chancel with vestry, nave, north aisle, south porch and a others, and held since x886 by the Rev. George Alexander western turret containing 2 bells: on the north side of the Grenside M.A. of University College, Durham, who is also eha.ncel lies the recumbent mitred effigy of an ecclesiastic: incumbent of the donative of Winteringham. Here is 1 the south doorway is a. fine example of Norman work : the Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Lady Cholmley is lady of the church was restored in x879, nnder the direction of Messrs. mano'F and the principal landowner. The soil is light and