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

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THORGANBY:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1835.

"THORGANBY, a parish in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 8i miles N.N.E. from Selby, containing, with the township of West Cottingwith, 381 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Mrs. Baldwin. The church is dedicated to St. Elen. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Thomas Dunnington, in 1733, gave a school-house, with a residence for the master, and an annuity of £2 towards his support; which, with the annual sums of £2 by Robert Blythe, £2 by Thomas Bradford, and £10. 10. by Robert Jefferson, is paid for teaching twenty children."


"WEST COTTINGWITH, a township in the parish of THORGANBY, wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 9 miles S.E. from York. The population is returned with the parish. Four poor children are educated for £3. 10., being a portion of the produce of town lands."

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