STAMFORD-BRIDGE (WEST), a township, joint with Scoreby, in that part of the parish of CATTON which is in the wapentake of OUZE-and-DERWENT, East riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (E.N.E.) from York, containing, with Scoreby, 151 inhabitants. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan. Methodists. The river Derwent separates this township from that of East Stamford. Christopher Wharton, in 1787, gave £600 in support of a school, for twelve boys and six girls; the annual income is about £30, and the expense of the school-house, erected in 1795, was defrayed out of previous accumulations. The celebrated battle between Harold and Tosti, in 1066, was fought near this place.