ACASTER-MALBIS, a parish partly in the ainsty
of the city of YORK, but chiefly in the wapentake of
OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of
YORK, 4 miles (S. by W.) from York, containing, with
the township of Naburn, 657 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of York, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 5.,
endowed with £400 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of P. B. Thompson, Esq.
The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A school
is endowed with land given by John Knowles, in 1603,
which is vested in feoffees, who appoint fourteen poor
children on the foundation. The navigable river Ouse
passes near the village.