BARDSEY, a parish in the lower division of the
wapentake of SKYRACK, West riding of the county of
YORK, comprising the townships of Bardsey with Rigton,
and Wothersome, and containing 372 inhabitants,
of which number, 356 are in the township of Bardsey
with Rigton, 4 miles (S. W. by S.) from Wetherby.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, rated in the king's books
at £4. 1. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of George
Lane Fox, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints:
near it is a mound, called Castle Hill, the supposed site
of a Roman fortress. A school was endowed with about
£18 per annum by Lord Bingley, in 1726. Congreve,
the poet and dramatist, supposed to have been born in
Ireland, was baptized at Bardsey, in-February 1670.