Austhorpe, West Riding

Description
Austhorpe, a township in Whitkirk and Garforth parishes in the W. R. Yorkshire, 1 mile from Crossgates station on the Selby railway, 4 miles E of Leeds; it includes the hamlet of Barrowby. Acreage, 858; population, 194. Leeds is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Crossgates. Smeaton, the civil engineer, bom in 1724, was a native; and his monument, with a representation on it of his greatest work, the Eddystone Lighthouse, is in Whitkirk Church.