BAINBRIDGE, a township in the parish of AYSGARTH,
western division of the wapentake of HANG,
North riding of the county of YORK, l£ mile (S. W.)
from Askrigg, containing 872 inhabitants. The village
is situated upon the river Ure, which is here crossed by
a good stone bridge of three arches. A free grammar
school was- founded by Anthony Besson, Esq., in the
43rd of Queen Elizabeth. In this township there
exists a custom of blowing a horn every night at ten
o'clock, from September 2?th to Shrovetide, intended
as a signal to the benighted traveller, and said to have
originated when the country was an open forest. On
a neighbouring eminence, called Brough Hill, are vestiges
of a Roman fortress, near which, among other
relics, a statue of the Emperor Commodus was found.