ELVINGTON, a parish in York district, E. R. Yorkshire; on the river Derwent, 4½ miles SSW of Fangfoss r. station, and 6½ ESE of York. Post town, Sutton-on-Derwent, under York. Acres, 2, 256. Real property, £2, 790; of which £26 are in quarries. Pop., 472. Houses, 89. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £280.* Patron, the Rev. J. E. Clarke. The church is good; and there are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.

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