LOWTHORP, a parish in the wapentake of DICKERING, East riding of the county of YORK, 4 miles (E. N. E.) from Great Driffield, containing 149 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty. W. St. Quintin, Esq. was patron in 1808. The church is dedicated to St. Martin; in it was a college, or chantry, for a rector, six chaplains, and three clerks, founded in the reign of Edward HI., by Sir John Haselarton.