FULFORD-AMBO, a parish partly within the liberty
of ST-PETER-OF-YORK, but chiefly in the wapentake
of OUZE-AND-DERWENT, East riding of the county
of YORK, comprising the townships of Fulford-Gate and
Fulford-Water, and containing 847 inhabitants, of which
number, 812 are in the township of Fulford-Gate, 1
mile (S.) from York. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with
£800 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, and £600
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Thomas
Key, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Oswald. There
is a place of worship for Wesley an Methodists. The
York barracks, and a lunatic asylum, called the Retreat,
in connexion with the Society of Friends, are situated
in this parish. John Key, Esq., in 1771, assigned a
messuage and rent-charge of £9, 12. a year, for the education
of twenty children.