HUNSINGORE, a village, a township, and a parish in Knaresborough district, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Nidd, 2½ miles SSE of Allerton r. station, and 4½ NW by N of Wetherby; and has a post office under Tadcaster. The township comprises 930 acres. Real property, £1, 801. Pop., 192. Houses, 39.—The parish contains also the township of Cattal and that of Great Ribston-with-Walshford. Acres, 3, 660. Real property, £6, 193. Pop., 561. Houses, 114. The property is subdivided. Ribston Hall is the seat of Joseph Dent, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon. Value, £420. Patron, J. Dent, Esq. The church has a tower, is partly ivy clad, and was recently in disrepair. An ancient chapel is attached to Ribston Hall. There is a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))