ARMTHORPE, a parish in the southern division
of the wapentake of STRAFFORTH-and-TICKHILL, West
riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from
Doncaster, containing 359 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, rated
in the king's books at £8. 18. 9., and in the patronage
of the Crown, The church is dedicated to St. Mary.
Here is a school, to which, in 1689, Ann Holmes bequeathed
a rent-charge of £2. 10., for teaching six
children and apprenticing poor boys, which endowment
has been augmented with land given by Sir George
Cooke, Bart.