Fridaythorpe, East Riding

Description
Fridaythorpe, a township and a parish in the E, R. Yorkshire, 2 miles SSW of Fimber railway station, and 10 W by N of Great Driffield, with a post office under York; money order office. Bishop Wilton; telegraph office, Pock-lington. Acreage, 1920; population, 280. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York; gross value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of York. The church is Norman, and has a low tower. The oak roof, which was damaged by a storm in 1886, was repaired by public subscription. There are We&leyan and Primitive Methodist chapels

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5