Harlthorpe is a

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and former

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, now in the parish of

Foggathorpe Foggathorpe is a village and civil parish on the A163 road in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The village is situated approximately east of Selby and west of Market Weighton. The civil parish is formed by the villages of Foggathorpe an ...

, in the

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, England. It is situated approximately north-east of

Selby Selby is a market town and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, south of York on the River Ouse, with a population at the 2011 census of 14,731. The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...

town centre and north of

Howden Howden () is a market and minster town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Vale of York to the north of the M62, on the A614 road about south-east of York and north of Goole, which lies across the Ri ...

town centre. It lies on the

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. In 1931 the parish had a population of 53. In 1823 Harlthorpe (then Harlethorpe), was in the parish of

Bubwith Bubwith is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The village is situated about north-east of Selby, and south-east of York. It is situated on the east bank of the River Derwent, west of which is the Selby Distr ...

and the

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of Harthill. Population at the time was 93, with occupations including six farmers, a

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, and a shoemaker. Baines, Edward (1823): ''History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York'', p. 212 Harlthorpe was formerly a

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in the parish of Bubwith, from 1866 Harlthorpe was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Foggathorpe.

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* Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Former civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire {{EastRiding-geo-stub