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BARDSEY, a township in Tadcaster district, and a parish partly also in Otley district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township is united to Rigton, under the name of Bardsey-cum-Rigton; lies 5 miles SW by S of Wetherby r. station; and has a post office, of the name of Rigton, under Otley. Acres, 2,745. Real property, £2,920. Pop., 295. Houses, 65. The parish includes also the township of Wothersome, and part of that of Wike. Acres, 3,437. Real property, with the rest of Wike, £4,524. Pop., 318. Houses, 69. The property is divided among a few. Bardsey Grange was probably the birthplace of Congreve, the poet and dramatist; and was the occasional residence and the deathplace of Francis Thorpe, the notorious Baron of the Exchequer. Castle Hill, a little north of the village, was the site of a Roman fort. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £300.* Patron, G. L. Fox, Esq. The church is good early Norman. A school has £20 from endowment, and other charities £5.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Otley RegD Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Bardsey |
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