WILTON BEACON DIVISION (Western Part)
ALLERTHORPE
The Village of Allerthorpe lies about 13 miles east
of York, just south of the main York-Hull road. (fn. 1)
The largely depopulated village of Waplington is less
than a mile to the south-west of Allerthorpe and
close to Stone beck. Allerthorpe's name suggests a
subsidiary Scandinavian settlement, but Waplington
was apparently Anglian. (fn. 2) The parish, which is
roughly lozenge-shaped, has an area of 2,391 a., of
which Waplington accounts for 812 a. (fn. 3) In 1935 the
civil parishes of Allerthorpe and Waplington were
united. (fn. 4)
The more southerly parts of the parish lie at less
than 50 ft. above sea-level, but the ground rises to
75 ft. at the northern parish boundary. Allerthorpe
village is on the higher ground, and Waplington was
probably similarly located. The soils of the parish
are based upon sand and gravel deposits. (fn. 5) Allerthorpe's open fields lay on the higher ground around
the village, where narrow curving closes still reflect
their inclosure by agreement in 1640. (fn. 6) Waplington
apparently had its own open fields until the inclosure
of 1774, but their location is obscure. Much of the
outlying western part of the parish, including some
of the higher ground, has always been uncultivated;
this waste land was encroached upon in both townships, and virtually disappeared at Waplington in the
late 18th century. (fn. 7) Nevertheless, over 400 a. of 'bare
land and felled woodland' survived into the 1960s in
Allerthorpe, (fn. 8) when it was replanted by the Forestry
Commission. A 15-acre nature reserve was established there in 1965. (fn. 9) Only 23 a. beside a former outgang leading from the village remained as common
land in 1974. (fn. 10) The meadow land of the parish lay
alongside Pocklington beck.
Drainage has long been a problem in the more
low-lying parts of the parish. In 1415 frequent
flooding, presumably on the road through Allerthorpe and Waplington to the mother-church of
Pocklington, was held to justify the granting of
burial rights to Thornton. (fn. 11) The streams and dikes of
the parish formerly drained into Pocklington beck,
which constituted the eastern boundary, but in 1818
the Pocklington canal was completed along the
beck's course. (fn. 12) Part of the canal and one of its locks
lie just within the parish boundary.
Allerthorpe is situated on a minor road which
branches from the York-Hull road and crosses the
parish in a south-westerly direction towards Thornton and Melbourne. In the west of the parish two
minor roads cross the common. The York-Hull
road, which runs along the north-eastern parish
boundary and gives access to the neighbouring
parishes of Pocklington and Barmby Moor, follows
the course of a Roman road. Its repair between
Barmby and Hayton was one of the objects of an
indulgence granted in 1480. (fn. 13) It was turnpiked in
1764 and the trust was renewed until 1881; (fn. 14) two
milestones from this period no longer survive. The
road was widened and realigned in the 1950s and
1960s. (fn. 15)
Pocklington airfield (fn. 16) extended across the main
road into Allerthorpe. The land and buildings adjoining the road have been used for commercial
purposes in recent years, (fn. 17) and other airfield buildings have been converted to farm uses or demolished.
Allerthorpe village street is flanked by wide grass
verges which virtually constitute a small green. (fn. 18)
The church stands at one end, and at the other the
street turns abruptly to become the Melbourne
road. A back lane behind the garths on the north
side of the village joins the street at both ends. The
village consists mainly of small 18th- and 19thcentury houses, but it also includes the larger Gables
farm-house and a Victorian parsonage. Since the
Second World War houses have been built beyond
the church, in the back lane, and alongside the
Melbourne road, among them eight council houses.
There were two licensed alehouses in Allerthorpe in
1755 but later only one. (fn. 19) The Plough was mentioned from 1823 (fn. 20) and is still the only public house
in the village.
The former Allerthorpe Hall, a large brick and
slate house of three storeys, stands in its own grounds
in the angle between the village street and the Melbourne road. The present house was largely built
between 1802 and 1809 by Charles Stanley on the
site of an 18th-century house (fn. 21) and was substantially enlarged to the east and west during the 19th
century. It was known as the Lodge until c. 1850. (fn. 22)
It was used as a boarding school in the 1870s, (fn. 23) and
T. W. Calverley-Rudston lived there from 1878 to
1915. (fn. 24) It was divided into a number of dwellings in
the 1950s. (fn. 25)
A small estate in Allerthorpe belonged to the
Prickett family, (fn. 26) who were also rectorial lessees, (fn. 27)
and in 1672 they had the largest house in the village,
with seven hearths. (fn. 28) The house was apparently that
now known as the Gables. It originated as a 17thcentury brick building with a main range and a
cross-wing extending towards the street at the east
end. In the 18th century a similar cross-wing was
added at the west end. New windows were put into
the street front and there was some internal remodelling in the early 19th century, but much of this
was swept away in major alterations in the 1880s, (fn. 29)
when the garden front was rebuilt and the roof on
that side heightened. The house was bought in 1947
by James O'Gram, who later purchased the manor. (fn. 30)
The few outlying houses in Allerthorpe include
Manor Farm to the west of the village, Low, formerly Home, Farm, which was part of the Waplington
Hall estate, (fn. 31) and Chicory Farm, where that crop
was presumably grown. A few scattered houses have
been built near the York-Hull road at different
times.
Apart from Waplington Hall (fn. 32) only Manor Farm
and a lodge remain at the probable site of Waplington village. The present Manor Farm is a mid-19thcentury building; an earlier house stands near by
and was disused in 1973. Warren House and a few
cottages lie at some distance from the hall.
Fifty-nine people in Allerthorpe paid the poll tax
of 1377. (fn. 33) The hearth-tax assessment of 1672 listed
31 households in the township; of the 27 that were
chargeable 19 had only a single hearth, 6 had 2 or 3,
and the other 2 had 5 and 7 hearths. (fn. 34) There were 27
families in the parish in 1743 and 1764. (fn. 35) In 1801
the population of Allerthorpe township was 125;
it fluctuated during the rest of the century, rising to
172 in 1871, and stood at 117 in 1901. (fn. 36) It had risen
to 163 by 1921 but fell to 137 in 1931. In 1951
Allerthorpe and Waplington together had a population of 240, and there were 178 inhabitants in
1971. (fn. 37)
Waplington had 15 poll-tax payers in 1377. (fn. 38) The
township was apparently badly hit by the Black
Death, for its tax assessment was reduced by about
40 per cent in 1354; in 1446 the reduction stood at
25 per cent. (fn. 39) In 1584 7 men attended the muster
from Waplington. (fn. 40) There were 13 households in
1672, of which 4 were exempt from the hearth tax
and the rest had one hearth each. (fn. 41) The population
increased from 11 in 1801 to 58 in 1861, but fell to
30 in 1901. (fn. 42) There were 63 inhabitants in 1921 and
49 in 1931. (fn. 43)
William Dewsbury (1621-88), Quaker preacher
and author, was born at Allerthorpe. (fn. 44)
MANORS AND OTHER ESTATES.
In 1086 the
king had 6 carucates at Allerthorpe as soke of his
manor of Pocklington. (fn. 45) By 1185 the estate had been
granted by Richard de Moreville to the Knights
Templars, (fn. 46) and by 1250 the order had also acquired
6 bovates in Waplington by the gift of William son
of Roger of Waplington and Simon the archer. (fn. 47)
Following the Templars' suppression in 1312 the
manor of ALLERTHORPE, together with the
Waplington holding, was transferred to the Knights
Hospitallers. (fn. 48)
On the eve of the Dissolution the order leased the
manor to John Manners for 30 years. (fn. 49) The Hospitallers briefly regained the property from the Crown
in 1558. (fn. 50) For much of Elizabeth I's reign Allerthorpe was in the hands of lessees. (fn. 51) In 1587 the
property, consisting of 12 bovates, 2 closes, and
some meadow, was let to Robert Myers. (fn. 52) Despite a
grant to Edmund Downing and Roger Rante in
1590 (fn. 53) the manor had passed by 1608 to Robert
Myers. From 1625 Thomas Myers held it, described as the manor of Allerthorpe with Waplington
in 1629. It was perhaps another Thomas Myers who
was lord in the 1650s and a third of the same name
whose guardians held the property in the 1670s. (fn. 54)
The last-mentioned may have been the Thomas
Myers who was lord of the manor from 1696 to
1717; he was succeeded by his son Jeremiah by
1719. (fn. 55)
By his will dated 1723 Jeremiah devised the
manor to John Idle and William Cookson in trust; (fn. 56)
the surviving Myers heir released her rights to
Frances Idle, sister of John, in 1766. (fn. 57) Frances died
the following year, whereupon the Idle inheritance
passed to the Revd. Zachary Suger, son of Frances's
cousin Anne Idle. In 1770 Zachary was succeeded
by his sisters Martha Suger (d. c. 1773), Elizabeth
Suger (d. c. 1782), and Jane Wilmer (d. 1806). (fn. 58)
Jane passed the manor to her son-in-law Joshua
Field in 1792. (fn. 59) Field's son John Wilmer Field died
in 1837 seised of the manor and was succeeded by
his daughter Delia and her husband Arthur Duncombe. (fn. 60)
In 1841 the manor consisted of 938 a., including
the common. (fn. 61) In 1844 135 a. were sold to Robert
Denison, (fn. 62) and a further 100 a. were disposed of in
1897. (fn. 63) Arthur Duncombe (d. 1889) was succeeded
by his son C. W. Duncombe, (fn. 64) whose brother G. A.
Duncombe was lord in 1913. (fn. 65) In 1919 B. A. C.
Duncombe sold Manor farm, comprising 250 a., to
H. E. Stubbins, and the manor and Allerthorpe
common, amounting to 403 a., to Henry Whitworth. (fn. 66) Manor farm was still held by the Stubbins
family in 1973. The manor and common were sold
by H. P. Whitworth to James O'Gram in 1954. (fn. 67) In
1961 the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food bought 371 a. of the common. (fn. 68)
Although a manor-house was referred to in the
16th-century grants (fn. 69) and a house formed part of the
Hospitallers' estate, (fn. 70) its location is unknown. The
five-hearth house occupied by Henry Johnson,
husband of the widowed Judith Myers, in 1672 was
possibly the manor-house, (fn. 71) and Manor Farm may
stand on its site.
The relationship of the main estate at Allerthorpe
with that held of the Mowbray family is not clear.
By the early 13th century Robert de Maluvel held
3 carucates in Allerthorpe as tenant of Niel de
Mowbray. (fn. 72) John de Mowbray, returned as lord of
Allerthorpe and Waplington in 1316, (fn. 73) died c. 1327,
when his lands included ALLERTHORPE manor
as ¼ knight's fee; his heir was his son John. The site
of a manor-house was mentioned c. 1327. (fn. 74)
The king had 2 carucates at Waplington in 1086
as soke of Pocklington manor, (fn. 75) but by 1198 John le
Poer had been granted 2½ carucates there, which he
held with land elsewhere by the service of providing
an archer for the defence of York castle. (fn. 76) Thenceforth the estate descended, like another at Barmby
Moor, (fn. 77) in the Poer, Chamberlain, Crepping, and
Stodowe families. (fn. 78)
Poer's Waplington holding was divided in the late
12th and early 13th centuries. (fn. 79) The largest part,
comprising 12 bovates, was granted by John le Poer
to John son of Henry of Fishergate, and he or
another of his family conveyed it to Drax priory
(Yorks. W.R.), to be held of Poer and his heirs. (fn. 80) In
1275-6 the prior was paying 2s. rent to Robert de
Crepping. (fn. 81) About 1339 John of Hook granted the
house a further 2 bovates in Waplington, held of
John de Mowbray. (fn. 82) Drax retained its estate until at
least the 1370s, when the prior took action against
the lessee for waste; (fn. 83) the house's connection with
Waplington was apparently severed before the
Dissolution.
The Drax estate probably passed to the Percy
family: in 1389 Henry Percy, created earl of
Northumberland, was holding 2 carucates in Waplington of Denise Stodowe, and the custody of
Robert Stodowe's inheritance in the township and
elsewhere was subsequently granted to Henry Percy,
the earl's son. (fn. 84) Waplington was forfeited to the
Crown by the Percys in 1405 but restored to them
in 1416. (fn. 85) In 1455 Henry Percy's lands included
WAPLINGTON manor. (fn. 86) The estate, held in chief
by 1489, (fn. 87) was conveyed to the Crown by Henry
Percy, earl of Northumberland (d. 1537), along with
his other northern estates, in 1537. (fn. 88)
The descent thereafter is confused. As a member
of Pocklington manor Waplington was allegedly
granted to Thomas Bishop during Henry VIII's
reign. (fn. 89) After July 1553 Bishop complained of dispossession by his erstwhile steward Thomas
Doweman, who with Christopher Estofte certainly
secured a royal grant of the property in that
month. (fn. 90) The Doweman, or Dolman, and Bishop
families were apparently intermittently in dispute
over Waplington for the rest of the century, (fn. 91) and
c. 1590 Thomas Dolman was taking the issues of
property in Waplington which was held to belong to
the Crown by Thomas Bishop's attainder. (fn. 92) A
licence for another Thomas Bishop to grant rents
there to Marmaduke Dolman in 1628 may represent
the end of the affair. (fn. 93) Sir Robert Dolman was
dealing in the manor in 1625. (fn. 94) The Crown later
seized part of it for Thomas Dolman's recusancy
but let the property to him from 1629. (fn. 95) The manor
was sequestrated by the Commonwealth and sold in
1653 to Edward Tooke, (fn. 96) but it was apparently
regained by the Dolmans shortly afterwards. (fn. 97)
Under the terms of an Act of 1765, (fn. 98) which
enabled some of Robert Dolman's estates to be sold
to clear the family's debts and provide for its
younger members, Waplington manor was conveyed to George Ewbank and Samuel Waud in
1769; Ewbank sold his interest to Waud in 1772. In
1775 the property passed to Henry Egerton and in
1776 to Samuel Crompton. The latter sold it to
Thomas Chatterton and John Ball in 1788, and the
manor was consequently divided into moieties in
1790. Purchases of 1804 reunited the property in the
hands of Charles Stanley, who sold it to Robert
Cockburn in 1831. Cockburn's tenure was short,
ending in 1837 with a sale to Robert Denison of
Kilnwick Percy, (fn. 99) who retained the property until at
least 1856. (fn. 1) The manor was subsequently held by
the Haffenden family, (fn. 2) before its acquisition by
George Walker in 1882. (fn. 3)
In 1914 Walker's trustees sold Waplington to
Walter Cliff. (fn. 4) A. F. Burton acquired the manor,
Waplington Hall, and three farms, in all comprising
914 a. in Waplington and Allerthorpe, from Cliff's
executors in 1920. (fn. 5) The property has since been
divided. The hall was sold by A. C. Burton in 1950
and thereafter converted into separate dwellings. (fn. 6) In
1972 Burton sold the 334-acre Manor farm to John
Huxtable, but in 1973 his trustees still retained over
500 a. (fn. 7)
A house on the Drax estate was referred to in the
1370s. (fn. 8) No large house at Waplington was mentioned in the hearth-tax assessment of 1672. (fn. 9) A map
of 1839 shows no house, but Stonehouse croft lay
close to a garth on the site of the later hall. (fn. 10) In 1846
Waplington Manor was described as a large mansion
about four years old. (fn. 11) The house, which had been
renamed Waplington Hall by 1856, (fn. 12) was surrounded by a park with a large lake. (fn. 13) It is a large
and irregular building of brick and slate.
Wilberfoss priory held 2 bovates in Waplington
by serjeanty in 1250. (fn. 14) A 2-bovate estate in Allerthorpe, held by Thicket priory of the Hospitallers
at the Dissolution, was granted by the Crown to
Henry Jones c. 1560. (fn. 15)
After 1252 Allerthorpe rectory belonged to the
dean of York. (fn. 16) The tithes of corn and hay in Allerthorpe township were let to George Hall, farmer of
the manor, in 1560 for 43 years, and his successors
as lords of the manor leased them for lives from
1596. (fn. 17) They were worth £51 a year in 1650, when
the wool and lamb tithes yielded about £13. (fn. 18) The
tithes were commuted in 1839 for £185, including
£30 for those of wool and lambs. (fn. 19) The 2-bovate
rectorial glebe, first mentioned in 1593, was apparently let separately in the late 16th and early 17th
centuries, (fn. 20) but from 1616 onwards it was usually
included in the lease of the Waplington tithes.
Leases for lives were adopted in the mid 17th
century, and the Prickett family farmed these
properties in the 17th and early 18th centuries. (fn. 21)
They were followed as impropriators in the 1730s
by the Revd. Leonard Ash. (fn. 22) In 1759 the lease
passed to the Clark family, as relatives of Elizabeth
Ash, (fn. 23) and the Clark trustees were still farming the
tithes in 1839. (fn. 24) The corn and hay tithes of Waplington were worth £14 a year in 1650, the wool and
lamb tithes £3 10s. (fn. 25) In 1839 the dean was awarded
£61 for the Waplington tithes. (fn. 26) The rectory was
vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in
1844. (fn. 27)
ECONOMIC HISTORY.
By 1185 the Templars
had let 5 of the 6 carucates they held at Allerthorpe. (fn. 28)
Their tenants' obligations included carrying services to the order's properties at York, Faxfleet, and
Weedley. (fn. 29) In 1327 the demesne lands of the
Mowbray manor of Allerthorpe consisted of 16 a.
sown with 'winter seed' and 19 a. with 'summer
seed', as well as some fallow land and 6 a. of
meadow. There were few tenants on the manor; 4
bondsmen paid 6s. for 4 bovates of land, and about
10s. was received from free tenants and 4 tenantsat-will. (fn. 30) The Hospitallers' manor had 310 a. of
demesne in 1338, and its tenants' rents were valued
at about £9, including 4s. for works. (fn. 31) The demesne
was farmed out in 1363. (fn. 32) In 1539-40 the Hospitallers' estate in Allerthorpe and Waplington comprised about 40 bovates, excluding the demesne
and some inclosed and waste land. Several individual
strips or 'ridges' of land were rented by tenants,
including two in Ox field. Of a total charge of £22
the rents of the tenants of 15 houses, 18 cottages, and
land accounted for about £15; the residue represented the bailiff's farm of the demesne. (fn. 33)
At the beginning of the 17th century Allerthorpe
had three open fields: Kirk field to the east of the
village, North field towards the Hull-York road, and
South field between the village and Waplington. (fn. 34)
The township also had land in closes, some of which
lay within the confines of the open fields. (fn. 35) Meadow
land, including the Great ings, lay alongside the
beck on the south-eastern boundary of the township. (fn. 36)
To the west of the village, and connected with it
by an outgang, lay the common, where householders were entitled to agist their cattle, to cut
turves once a year, and to take whins and wood for
repairs. (fn. 37) These rights were extinguished by agreement in 1961. (fn. 38) Encroachment on the waste is suggested by 'Moresickeclose', which was mentioned in
1628, and by the New intack in Barmby Butts of
1633. (fn. 39) The common was similarly diminished in
the 18th century. By 1741 another close called
Intack had been made from High moor, (fn. 40) and this
may be the inclosure called New Piece in 1839. (fn. 41)
Some of the land reclaimed from the common was
used as stinted pasture. The manorial court regulated the fencing and grazing of Cow Hold, west of
the village, where tenants had beast-gates, from the
17th to the 19th century. (fn. 42) The Reas, or Old Hold, (fn. 43)
towards Barmby may also have been used in common. Other common pastures probably lay in the
north and east of the township; there were gates in
Prick moor and the Pearts in the 17th and 18th
centuries, (fn. 44) and a close called Ox Hold was mentioned from 1612. (fn. 45)
By 'the exchange and new inclosure' of 1640 the
open fields were divided and allotted in unspecified
amounts to about 20 tenants. (fn. 46) Meadow land was
probably apportioned at about the same time, and in
1656 reference was made to inclosed land in the
ings. One of the new closes was still 'inclosed,
stooped and railed' in 1657, although its lessee was
empowered to remove these temporary divisions
and had agreed to hedge one of its sides. (fn. 47) In the
1780s the seigneurial estate of 448 a. was held by 9
tenants, and 26 freeholders and tenants had a further
504 a. in the parish. (fn. 48)
At Waplington the estate of Drax priory was
worth about £1 a year in 1359 (fn. 49) and had been
farmed out by the 1370s, when Thomas of Waplington was accused of wasting the property. The buildings included cow- and sheep-houses, stables, and
granaries, as well as the house itself. (fn. 50) The Percy
estate in Waplington was said in 1455 to be worth
only £1 net because of neglect there, (fn. 51) but by the
late 15th and mid 16th centuries its annual value had
risen to nearly £4. (fn. 52)
Waplington had its own open fields, mentioned in
1563 (fn. 53) and named in 1774 as North, South, and
Leys fields. In the latter year the lord and the two
other proprietors of the township agreed to consolidate their holdings, and in 1777 the same two
owners ceded their rights in the 169-acre common
to the lord. Closes mentioned in the 18th century
included some like Moor Syke which had almost
certainly been made by encroachment on the
common. (fn. 54)
The common was apparently used as a warren.
Between 1777 and 1839 all but 40 a. was inclosed,
some of the closes being named after the warren. (fn. 55)
By the 1850s Warren farm had been established on
the former common. (fn. 56) Two other fields described as
warren in 1839 were later taken into the grounds of
Waplington Hall. (fn. 57)
In the 19th and 20th centuries there were
generally 6 to 8 farmers in Allerthorpe, 2 of whom
had over 150 a. in the 1930s. Waplington was
farmed by one to 3 farmers over the same period; in
the 1930s the township's two farms were under one
management. (fn. 58)
In 1786 at Allerthorpe there were 525 a. of
pasture, 294 a. of meadow, 83 a. of corn, and 49 a. of
fallow and turnips. (fn. 59) Only 77 a. were returned as
under crops in 1801. (fn. 60) There were 700 a. of arable,
421 a. of grassland, and 450 a. of common at Allerthorpe in 1839. In that year Waplington had 647 a.
of arable, 53 a. of grassland, 40 a. of common, and
50 a. of woodland. (fn. 61) By 1905 Allerthorpe and
Waplington together had 942 a. of arable, 522 a. of
permanent grass, and 127 a. of woodland. (fn. 62) Land
use in the two townships changed little from the
1930s onwards; woodland covered a considerable
area of the parish, notably on the common, and
arable was more significant than grassland. (fn. 63) Since
1961 the Forestry Commission has managed about
350 a. of Allerthorpe common. (fn. 64)
The name Hempdike close, mentioned in the
17th century, suggests the retting of hemp, as do the
hemp pits which lay to the west of the village in
1851. There was a saw-mill in Waplington in the
same year; it was presumably steam-operated for
close by was a tank, from which Tank plantation and
Tank cottages were named. (fn. 65) A brickyard had been
established in Waplington by 1840, but was not
mentioned again. (fn. 66) Brickpit plantation is situated
near Warren House in the south-west of the township and Brickpond plantation close to Waplington
Hall. (fn. 67) Gravel was being extracted commercially
from a pit near Chicory Farm in 1973. In 1960 land
and buildings in Allerthorpe which had been part of
Pocklington airfield were sold by the Air Ministry, (fn. 68)
and they have since been used by a timber products
firm (fn. 69) and agricultural trading companies. (fn. 70)
A windmill was mentioned at Allerthorpe as early
as 1327, and there were possibly two in the township by 1338. (fn. 71) In the 16th century George Hall,
farmer of the manor, rebuilt a windmill ; (fn. 72) the mill
may have stood to the north-west of the village, in
or near the field called Mill Doors, and was last
mentioned in 1791. (fn. 73)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Drax priory claimed
amends of the assize of ale at Waplington in 1293. (fn. 74)
Court rolls of the manor of Allerthorpe with Waplington survive for 1608-47, 1653-61, and 1669-
79. (fn. 75) The series is continued by court books
covering 1696-1941. (fn. 76) There are also surrenders and
admissions from 1576 to 1786, (fn. 77) a minute book and
call roll for the period 1860-99, (fn. 78) and a book of
pains for 1812-99. (fn. 79)
In 1609 the manorial officers included a greave, a
constable, a pinder, 4 bylawmen, 2 aletasters, and
2 overseers of highways. (fn. 80) Two affeerors were mentioned in the 18th century. (fn. 81) In 1653 2 of the bylawmen were for the husbandmen and 2 for the
grassmen. (fn. 82) There were only 2 bylawmen at Allerthorpe after the inclosure of the open fields; (fn. 83) in
1758 one was responsible for Low and the other for
High moor. (fn. 84) The bylawmen were said to supervise
the taking of wood from the common as late as
1870. (fn. 85) By the 19th century there were 2 constables
and 2 pinders, and the officers in 1899 still included
2 affeerors, a bylawman, and 2 pinders. (fn. 86)
No parochial records survive before 1835. There
were 2 overseers of the poor at Allerthorpe by 1814,
when they opposed the fiscal demands of the
Pocklington overseers. (fn. 87) Allerthorpe and Waplington joined Pocklington poor-law union in 1836 (fn. 88)
and Pocklington rural district in 1894. (fn. 89) They became part of the North Wolds district of Humberside in 1974.
CHURCH.
The early history of Allerthorpe church
is the same as that of Thornton, except that Allerthorpe was not concerned in the confirmation of
1225. The curacy of Allerthorpe was usually held by
the vicar of Thornton from the 17th century, and in
1973 the two places still constituted a united vicarage. (fn. 90)
In 1525-6 a chaplain serving Allerthorpe received
£4 a year. (fn. 91) Allerthorpe was worth c. £76 in 1818, (fn. 92)
and in 1835 the curate's stipend was £60. (fn. 93)
Small tithes in Allerthorpe contributed to the
income of the joint living. At the ordination of 1252
the tithes of gardens, flax, and hemp, as well as a
share of the altarage, were assigned to the vicarage. (fn. 94)
The small tithes were worth £3 in 1650. (fn. 95) By 1684
the inhabitants of Allerthorpe and Waplington were
paying a composition of £5 a year for tithes and
surplice fees, (fn. 96) and in 1839 rent-charges of £60 were
awarded to the vicar of Thornton and Allerthorpe in
lieu of the Allerthorpe tithes and £13 12s. for those
of Waplington. (fn. 97)
In the late 17th century the glebe in Allerthorpe
consisted of two gates in the Cow Hold, the right to
two loads of turf and whins from the common, and
2 a. in Yorkgate close; (fn. 98) by 1726 1 a. in Prick Moor
close had also been acquired. (fn. 99) A small house and
garth belonged to the church in 1684 and were
possibly intended for the curate's use. In the 17th
and 18th centuries, however, the incumbent of the
joint living resided at Thornton. (fn. 1) By 1809 the vicar
had moved to Allerthorpe and occupied a brickbuilt house containing two parlours, a kitchen, a
back kitchen, and seven bedrooms. (fn. 2) The Vicarage
was replaced in the 1860s, when adjoining land was
bought and a large brick house built on the enlarged
site with a grant from the Common Fund. (fn. 3)
In the 18th and early 19th centuries the incumbent also held the vicarage of Barmby Moor and
Fangfoss. (fn. 4) Allerthorpe and Waplington marriages
often took place at Thornton in the 18th century. (fn. 5)
In 1743 there was a service at Allerthorpe once a
fortnight; Holy Communion was celebrated four
times a year and about 45 people communicated at
Easter. (fn. 6) By 1851 services were weekly, (fn. 7) but the
average number of communicants was only about
15 by 1865. (fn. 8) Between 1877 and 1915 two services
a week were generally held. (fn. 9) There were weekly
celebrations of Holy Communion in 1915; at Easter
1914 there were 19 communicants. (fn. 10) In 1973 there
were three services a month in the church, two of
which were held with the Methodists, and a further
united service was held in the Methodist chapel.
The original church of ST. BOTOLPH was
small, and consisted of chancel and nave with pedi
mented bellcot and south porch. (fn. 11) It was in decay in
1615. (fn. 12) In the early 19th century a vestry was added
to the north of the chancel. (fn. 13) It was rebuilt in 1876,
by Arthur Duncombe, (fn. 14) of limestone rubble with
ashlar dressings, in a mixture of 14th- and 15thcentury styles; it comprises chancel with north
vestry and nave with bellcot and south door. The
bellcot is supported by a large corbelled buttress.
The church has two bells as it had in 1552. (fn. 15)
There was one chalice in 1552, a second having been
stolen. (fn. 16) The plate includes a silver communion cup,
made in York in 1570, and a pewter flagon and paten.
In 1876 a silver service consisting of a chalice, paten,
and flagon was presented by Charlotte Sykes,
Arthur Duncombe's daughter. (fn. 17)
The registers begin in 1616, with no entries for
baptisms in 1674-81 or marriages in 1674-95, and
burial entries cease in 1695. (fn. 18)
Despite the grant of burial rights to Allerthorpe in
1360, and the entries in the Allerthorpe register,
many Allerthorpe burials took place at Pocklington
from the early 17th century (fn. 19) and there were also
some at Thornton in the 18th century. (fn. 20) The
churchyard at Allerthorpe, described as the 'ancient'
one, was, however, consecrated in 1828 (fn. 21) and used
thereafter.
NONCONFORMITY.
There were three Roman
Catholics at Allerthorpe between 1637 and 1640. (fn. 22)
Members of the Dolman family, lords of Waplington manor, were punished for recusancy in the 17th
and 18th centuries. (fn. 23)
In 1814 the Methodists had seven members at
Allerthorpe, (fn. 24) and a house was registered for dissenting, presumably Methodist, worship in 1824. (fn. 25)
Wesleyan Methodists met in a house in 1851, (fn. 26) but a
chapel was built in 1869-70 and was still used in
1973. (fn. 27) There was also a Primitive Methodist
'preaching-house' at Allerthorpe between 1861 and
1866. (fn. 28)
EDUCATION.
An old woman taught at Allerthorpe in 1743, (fn. 29) and in 1819 12 children attended
an unendowed school there. (fn. 30) By 1835 the school
drew a yearly income of £9 from a bequest of £200
under John Hart's will, dated 1818; 9 of the 23
pupils were then taught free. (fn. 31) In 1865 c. 30 pupils
attended what was described as an unendowed
church school. (fn. 32) It was later united with the
National Society. There were 17 pupils in 1871,
only one a fee-payer. (fn. 33) A new building was provided
in 1874; (fn. 34) its income in 1876 came entirely from the
fees of the 22 pupils. (fn. 35) By a Scheme of 1875 the
school was allotted half the income from the Poor's
Houses, Poor's Land, and Westoby's charities, and
the whole of that from Hart's. (fn. 36) From 1878 the
school received an annual government grant. (fn. 37)
Between 1907 and 1927 30-40 children attended
the school, but by 1938 only nineteen. (fn. 38) In 1956 the
senior pupils were transferred to Pocklington, and in
1958 the school was closed, the junior pupils similarly transferred, (fn. 39) and Hart's charity vested in the
Diocesan Board of Finance. Since 1960 the former
school has been used as a village hall. (fn. 40)
CHARITIES FOR THE POOR.
Thomas Wood,
by will dated 1568, devised a rent-charge of £10
from an estate at Kilnwick Percy for the benefit of
Allerthorpe, Waplington, and many other townships. In 1824 3s. 6d. was distributed in Allerthorpe
and 1s. 8d. in Waplington. (fn. 41) Henry Frederick, Baron
Hotham, owner of the Kilnwick Percy estate, redeemed the rent-charge in 1961 and £7 stock was
subsequently assigned to Allerthorpe and £3 to
Waplington. (fn. 42)
William Westoby's charity had been established
by 1659, (fn. 43) and in the late 17th century its net annual
value was,£4. (fn. 44) In 1813, when the trustees held c.
8 a. in Allerthorpe, the bulk of the income of £15
was distributed in doles of £2 to £6 to unrelieved
inhabitants. (fn. 45)
At the inclosure of the open fields in 1640 two
selions were assigned to the poor of the township, (fn. 46)
and in 1777 the income of £2 from the Poor's Land,
an acre in Prick Moor close, was administered by the
Westoby trustees.
The Poor's Houses charity originated in 1765,
when William Bell gave a house for the poor. By
1813 there were 2 houses divided into 3 dwellings.
Of the 5 dwellings of 1824 2 were occupied rentfree by widows receiving pensions from the Poor's
Land charity and one by a man supported by the
parish. (fn. 47) The houses were sold before 1875. (fn. 48)
By a Scheme of 1875 the Westoby, Poor's Land,
and Poor's Houses charities were consolidated and
half of the net income applied to education. The
poor's share of the income was applied mainly to
gifts of money and goods. The charity lands were
sold in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1973 the income,
together with that from Wood's charity, was £59
from £1,258 stock; grants of over £4 each were
made to seven persons. The educational part of the
income was in 1973 vested in the Diocesan Board of
Finance. (fn. 49)