Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OSWALDKIRK

OSWALDKIRK, a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in Helmsley district, N. R. Yorkshire. The village stands 1½ mile N of Gilling r. station, and 3¼ S of Helmsley; and has a post-office under York. The township includes the village, and extends into the country. Real property, £2, 401 . Pop., 219. Houses, 44. The parish contains also the township of Ampleforth-Oswaldkirk; is much interlocked with Ampleforth parish; and comprises, jointly with that parish, 3, 573 acres. Real property of O. parish alone, £3, 941. Pop. in 1851, 428; in 1861, 524. Houses, 96. The increase of pop.was mainly in Ampleforth-Oswaldkirk township; and arosefrom the presence of workmen employed in enlarging the Roman Catholic college. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to R. B. Oakley, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £868.* Patrons, the Trustees of the Rev. T. Comber. The church is good, and contains several monuments. There are a Wesleyan meeting-place, a slightly endowed school, and charities £29. R. Dodsworth, the antiquary, was a native.—The sub-district contains also Ampleforth and Gilling parishes, and seven townships in four other parishes. Acres, 16,041. Pop., 2, 124. Houses, 420.


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

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Feature Description: "a village, a township, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Oswaldkirk CP/AP       Oswaldkirk SubD       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Oswaldkirk

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