Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: ALLERTHORPE.     Church dedication: PATRON SAINT NOT KNOWN.     Church type: Peculiar. Perpetual Curacy.

Area, 2,050 acres. Harthill wapentake, Wilton Beacon *1; Population, 185 *2; Church-room, sufficient; Net value, vide Thornton. -In Allerthorpe, six carucates were of the Soke of Pocklington, formerly belonging to Earl Morcar, but held of the King after the Conquest.

In Waplington, the Barons Greystoke held half a knight's fee, and half a carucate of land was held of Ralph Fitzwilliams.

8th November 1252, Vicarage ordained with Thornton.

The inhabitants buried at Pocklington till 1828, when the Archbishop consecrated a chapel-yard.

Patron, the Dean of York.

Value in 1707 not returned. In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xvii. page 372, it is recommended to be made a parish; and, in 1818, valued at £76. 6s. 3d. per annum.

No return as to glebe house.

The Register Books for baptisms commence in 1620, and for marriages in 1654; for burials in 1828.

Charities:
William Westoby's charity. Rent of 8A. 0R. 15p. of land (subject to some small out payments), distributed among the poor not receiving parochial relief.

Minister's and poor's land, 2a. Half the rent is paid to the minister, and half is distributed among the poor.

The poor houses. Five dwellings given for the poor, by William Bell, 22nd April 1765.

Wood's dole, vide Pocklington. 3s. 6d. per annum to the poor of Allerthorpe, and 1s. 8d. per annum to the poor of Waplington. -Vide 11th Report, page 721.

Post town: Pocklington.

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References:
Torre's MS. (Peculiars), page 718. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. ii. page 95. Bawdwen's Domesday Book (Aluuarestorp), p. 13; (Wap-linton), page 14.

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Notes:
*1 Allerthorpe township is partly within the liberty of St. Peter of York.

*2 Viz. Allerthorpe 167, and Waplington 18. Population only returned at 70 in 1834.