Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARMBY-ON-THE-MOOR, or Barmby-Moor

BARMBY-ON-THE-MOOR, or Barmby-Moor, a parish in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire; near the Market-Weighton railway, 1½ mile W of Pocklington. It has a post office, of the name of Barmby-Moor, under York. Acres, 2,290. Real property, £3,088. Pop., 537. Houses, 110. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £263.* Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church consists of nave and chancel; has a fine octagonal spire; and was repaired in 1828. There are chapels for Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, and charities £53.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Barmby Moor Ch/AP/CP       Pocklington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place names: BARMBY MOOR     |     BARMBY ON THE MOOR     |     BARMBY ON THE MOOR OR BARMBY MOOR
Place: Barmby Moor

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