Painsthorpe

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Painsthorpe
Yorkshire
East Riding

Painsthorpe, looking west
Location
Grid reference: SE814583
Location: 54°-0’52"N, -0°45’29"W
Data
Post town: York
Postcode: YO41
Dialling code: 01759
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
East Yorkshire

Painsthorpe is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, found about a mile east of the village of Kirby Underdale. This is a remote area: the nearest town is the small town of Pocklington some five miles to the south.

This hamlet was the site of Painsthorpe Abbey, a short-lived Anglican Benedictine monastery.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Painsthorpe)

References

  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 9. 

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