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Bubwith, Yorkshire, England. Geographical and Historical information from 1835.

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BUBWITH:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"BUBWITH, a parish partly in the liberty of ST-PETER-of-YORK, but chiefly in the Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the townships of Breighton, Bubwith, Foggathorpe, Gribthorpe with Willitoft, Harlthorpe, and SpaldingtOn, and containing 1455 inhabitants, of which number, 540 are in the township of Bubwith, 7 miles N.N.W. from Howden. The living is a discharged vicarage, held in medieties; the first, which is rated in the king's books at £7. 2. 6., is in the archdeaconry of the East riding, and diocese of York, and in the patronage of the Crown; the second, rated at £8.0.5., is in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of York. The -church is dedicated'to All Saints. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Me-1 thodists; The village is situated close to the river Derwent, which is crossed by a stone bridge of ten arches, built in 1793, and is the birthplace of Nicholas de Bubwith, Bishop of Bath and Wells, who was one of the English prelates that were present at the council of Constance, in 1415."


"BREIGHTON, a township in the parish of BUBWITH, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles N.N.W. from Howden, containing 179 inhabitants. The village lies on the eastern bank of the river Derwentj opposite to the ferry of Menthorpe."


"FOGGATHORPE, a township in the parish of BUBWITH,. Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 6 miles N. from Howden, containing 137 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists."


"GRIBTHORPE, a township, joint with Willitoft, in the parish of BUBWITH, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles N.E. from Howden, containing 145 inhabitants."


"HARLTHORPE, a township in the parish of BUBWITH, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 72 miles N.W. from Howden, containing 93 inhabitants."


"SPALDINGTON, a township in the parish of BUBWITH, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles N.E. from Howden, containing 361 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Spaldington hall, formerly the seat of the ancient family of Vavasour, is a fine specimen of the Elizabethan style of architecture."


"WILLITOFT, a township, joint with Gribthorpe, in the parish of BUBWITH, Holme-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, 5 miles N. from Howden. The population is returned with Gribthorpe."

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