Editing Bishopthorpe (section)

==History==
[[File:St Andrew's Old Church, Bishopthorpe - geograph.org.uk - 574437.jpg|thumb|left|[[Old St Andrew's Church, Bishopthorpe|Old St Andrew's Church]]]]
The village is mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, where it is referred to as Torp/Thorpe or Badetorps, depending on which translation is used.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://keithbriggs.info/documents/DB_place-name_forms_alphabetic.pdf |first=Keith |last=Briggs |title=32434 Domesday Book place-name forms, alphabetic order |page=22 |access-date=25 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Turner |first=J. Horsfall |title=Yorkshire place names, as recorded in the Yorkshire Domesday book, 1086 |location=Bingley | publisher=Thos. Harrison and Sons |date=1901 |page=187 |url=https://archive.org/details/yorkshireplacena00turn/page/186/mode/2up?q=bishopthorpe }}</ref> It came to be known as Thorp-super-Usam or Thorpe-on-Ouse in 1194.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.medievalscotland.org/jes/EnglishCompoundPlacenames/|title=Compound Placenames in English |first=Julia |last=Smith |date=2010 |website=Medieval Scotland |access-date=25 October 2010}}</ref> By 1275 the earliest written record of the name Bishopthorpe, spelt "Biscupthorpe", appears in documents. In 1202, the Prior and monks of St Andrew’s at [[Fishergate]] built the first church here and dedicated it to their patron saint. The name Thorp-super-Usam was therefore gradually superseded by Andrewthorpe or Thorpe St. Andrew. In 1226, Archbishop [[Walter de Gray]] bought property which once belonged to the Abbot of [[Kirkstall Abbey]] and the Priory of St. Andrews. By the year 1241, Archbishop Gray had built a Manor House and Chapel by the river. He conveyed this property to the Dean and Chapter of York, thus ensuring that it remained with successive Archbishops and did not fall into the king's hands during a vacancy.

Bishopthorpe was the site, in 1323, of great council to agree a truce between King [[Edward II]] and [[Robert the Bruce]], whose forces had been harrying Yorkshire following the [[Battle of Bannockburn]], ending the Scots’ [[Great Raid of 1322]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/city-of-kings/king-edward-ii-and-york|title=King Edward II and York |website=History of York |publisher=York Museums Trust 
 |access-date=26 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://edwardthesecond.blogspot.com/2009_05_01_archive.html |first=Kathryn |last=Warner |title=With Irreverent Mind: The Adventurous Career of Henry Beaumont |date=1 May 2009 |website=Edward II |access-date=26 October 2010}}</ref>

In 1405, [[Archbishop Scrope]] was accused of being a traitor by Henry IV and was beheaded in a field near the nunnery of St Clements, now Clementhorpe. In 1763, [[Robert Hay Drummond|Archbishop Drummond]] transformed the Palace by building the now familiar 'Strawberry Gothick' west front and gatehouse. Controversy surrounding the [[1832 Reform Bill]] saw rioters from York attempt to invade the Palace, angered by initial lack of support from Archbishop Harcourt.

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| short_title           = Bishopthorpe Inclosure Act 1757
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| long_title            = An Act for establishing and rendering effectual certain Articles of Agreement, for the dividing and enclosing the Common Fields, Common Meadow Grounds, and Common or Waste, in the Township of Bishopthorpe, in the County of the City of York; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
| year                  = 1757
| citation              = [[30 Geo. 2]]. c. ''32'' {{small|Pr.}}
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The '''{{visible anchor|Bishopthorpe Inclosure Act 1757}}''' ([[30 Geo. 2]]. c. ''32'' {{small|Pr.}}) saw common land enclosed, thus placing strictures on where local people could graze their animals.

In 1763, a school was founded by local yeoman, Charles Crosby and supported by the parish. The twenty boys and girls were taught to read and write and "instructed in the principles of the Christian religion." In 1846, Archbishop Harcourt built a new village school. The former school, built in 1763 and situated in School Lane, was used as a girls' school and a house for the master, but was divided into three houses in the 1890s.<ref name="rem">{{Cite book | last =Anon | title =Bishopthorpe Remembered | year =1988 | publisher =Archbishop of York’s C.E. Junior School | isbn = 0951420003}}</ref>{{rp|38–41}}

The main line of the [[North Eastern Railway (UK)|North Eastern Railway]] was being constructed in 1871 and cut through the west end of the parish running east of Bridge Road.

In 1894, Bishopthorpe became part of the [[Bishopthorpe Rural District]], a [[rural district]] which was abolished in 1937 by a [[Local Government Act 1929|County Review Order]]. In 1895, Bishopthorpe Parish Council<ref>{{cite web |url=https://bishopthorpe-pc.gov.uk/ |title=Bishopthorpe Parish Council}}</ref> was formed.

[[Bishopthorpe Garth]] was designed by [[Walter Brierley]] in 1908.<ref name="nhle">{{NHLE |desc=Bishopthorpe Garth |num=1166773
|access-date=24 September 2023}}</ref> The War Memorial<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bishopthorpe.net/mt/history/archives/2007/05/spring_clean_fo.html |title=Spring Clean for the War Memorial |date=8 May 2007 |website=Bishopthorpe History |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070906035505/http://www.bishopthorpe.net/mt/history/archives/2007/05/spring_clean_fo.html |archive-date=6 September 2007 
}}</ref> was erected in 1921 to parish men who made the supreme sacrifice during the First World War.

The Almshouses, built in 1846 by the Archbishop of York [[Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt]], were demolished in 1963 due to their deterioration and the need to widen the increasingly busy junction at Sim Balk Lane and Main Street.{{r|rem|page=5}}