THORP-ARCH, a parish, with a village, in Tadcaster district, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wharfe, and on The York and Harrogate railway, 3½ miles NW of Tadcaster. It took its suffix name of Arch from the family of De Arcubus or De Arches, who came to England with The Conqueror; and it has a post-office under Tadcaster, a r. station, and a fine four-arched bridge. Acres, 1,607. Real property, £3,156. Pop., 388. Houses, 54. The manor, with T. Hall, belongs to W. Hatfield, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £356.* Patron, the Rev.Wheler. The church is Norman. There are an endowed school with £38 a year, and charities £6.

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