Painsthorpe
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Painsthorpe | |
Yorkshire East Riding | |
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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) |
- Painsthorpe in the Domesday Book
References
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 9.
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