Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FANGFOSS

FANGFOSS, a parish in Pocklington district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the York and Market-Weighton railway, 4 miles NW of Pocklington. It has a station on the railway; it includes the hamlet of Spittle; and its post town is Stamford-Bridge, under York. Acres, 1, 364. Real property, £1, 895. Pop., 170. Houses, 31. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £160. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is modern. Charities, £9.


(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: Fangfoss Ch/AP/CP       Pocklington RegD/PLU       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Fangfoss

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