Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for AUGHTON

AUGHTON, a township in Howden district, and a parish in Howden and Pocklington districts, E. R. Yorkshire. The township lies on the river Derwent, 1¾ mile NNW of Bubwith r. station, and 7 NE of Selby. Acres, 1,790. Real property, £2,216. Pop., 202. Houses, 38. The parish includes also the townships of Laytham and East Cottingwith; and its Post Town is Bubwith, under Howden. Acres, 4,295. Real property, £5,711. Pop., 633. Houses, 134. The property is divided among a few. Traces exist of a castle which was the seat of successively the family of Hai and the family of Aske. Here lived Sir Robert Aske, who was executed as a leader of the insurrection called "the pilgrimage of grace," occasioned by the suppression of the monasteries in the reign of Henry VIII.; and here lived also the Aske who was one of the judges of Charles I. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Cottingwith, in the diocese of York. Value, £90.* Patron, A. J. Fletcher, Esq. The church is fair; and there are charities £48.


(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: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Aughton

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