Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HUSTHWAITE

HUSTHWAITE, a village, a township, and a parish in Easingwold district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on a rising ground, near the Thirsk and Driffield railway, 4 miles N by W of Easingwold; and has a station, of the name of Husthwaite-Gate, on the railway, and a post office under Easingwold.-The township comprises 1, 621 acres. Real property, £2, 613. Pop., 446. Houses, 93.—The parish contains also the township of Carlton-Husthwaite, and comprises 2, 431 acres. Real property, £3, 980. Pop., 616. Houses, 127. The property is much subdivided. Husthwaite House is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £108. Patron, Trinity College, Cambridge. The church is ancient, in tolerable condition; and has a tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £ 7.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a township, and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Husthwaite CP/Ch/AP       Easingwold RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Husthwaite

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