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COXWOLD, a township, a parish, and a sub-district in N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the Thirsk and Driffield railway, 7½ miles SE by E of Thirsk; and has a station on the railway, a post office under Easingwold, and a fair on 25 Aug. Acres, 1, 369. Real property, £2, 220. Pop., 374. Houses, 79. The parish includes also the townships of Oulston, Yearsley, Newburgh, Wildon-Grange, Angram-Grange, and Thornton-on-the-Hill-cum-Baxby in the district of Easingwold, the township of Birdforth in the district of Thirsk, and the township of Byland-Abbey in the district of Helmsley. Acres, 14, 252. Rated property, £12, 355. Pop., 1, 205. Houses, 228. The property is not much divided. Shandy Hall was, for seven years, the residence of Lawrence Sterne; and was the place where he wrote his "Tristram Shandy" and other works. Newburgh Park includes the site and part of the buildings of an Augustinian priory, founded in 1145. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Yearsley, in the diocese of York. Value, £351. Patron, Trinity college, Cambridge. The church is chiefly perpendicular English, of elegant character, with an octagonal tower, surmounted by pinnacles; and contains some handsome monuments of the Bellasyses and the Fauconbergs. The p. curacy of Birdforth is a separate benefice. A school has £37 from endowment; and other charities £110. -The sub-district comprises the Easingwold township of Coxwold parish, and two entire other parishes. Acres, 13, 907. Pop., 1,824. Houses, 350.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township, a parish, and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Coxwold AP/CP Coxwold SubD Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Coxwold |
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