BURYTHORPE, a parish in the district of Malton and E. R. Yorkshire; near the river Derwent, 3¼ miles E by S of Kirkham r. station, and 5 S of New Malton. It includes the hamlet of Thornthorpe; and its Post Town is Kirkham, under York. Acres, 1,225. Real property, £1,561. Pop., 265. Houses, 52. The property is divided among ten. The living is a rectory in the diocese of York. Value, £270. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church was built in 1858; is a handsome edifice in the early English style; and contains an ancient Norman font, which belonged to a previous church. There is a Wesleyan chapel

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