Agglethorpe

Agglethorpe is in the North Riding, Hang West Wapentake, and the Coverham parish. It is a tiny village of five or six homes and lots of stone fences. It is not much of a town, and it also is not on the way to anywhere. It is not desolate, however. It is pleasantly green with sheep grazing across the countryside. But off the beaten path seems an understatement for Aggelthorpe.

It is the west-most manor that Boyntons were connected with, as far as we know. It was Torchil's final manor after William the Conquerer tossed him out of his 60+ other manors. [A Boynton Story: Torchil de Bovington]

The Sedbury Boyntons may have held the manor at Agglethorpe in the 15th century. That, at least, is the speculation in the relevant Victoria county history.

... Victoria County History ...

The manor of Agglethorpe and 3 carucates of land were still held in 1086 by the Saxon tenant Torchil, who was afterwards succeeded by or became under-tenant of Ribald or his successors.

At the division in 1270 the mesne lordship of Agglethorpe was assigned to Robert de Tateshall, but ultimately came to the Nevills, and the manor in 1612 was still held of Middleham Castle by the yearly payment of a catapult.

William de York held 1 1/2 carucates here in 1286-7 of Robert de Tateshall, and under him held William de Middleton. The remaining 1 1/2 carucates were held of Robert by William son of Walter, probably the William de Agglethorpe assessed for the subsidy here in 1301-2. Geoffrey le Scrope and his heirs received in 1311 a grant of free warren, renewed, as far as Agglethorpe was concerned, in 1328 and 1393. Part of the manor perhaps passed, like that of Sedbury, from the Scropes to the Gascoignes through the Boyntons. Sir Henry Gascoigne, kt., was holding the manor (or part of it) in the early 16th century, and his ancestors were said to have been enfeoffed. In 1563 Richard Gascoigne and Jane his wife conveyed half the manor to Edward Topham, who in 1567-8 received from Thomas Salkeld a similar conveyance.

William Page, ed. (1914) The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, Volume One, reprinted by Dawsons of Pall Mall, p. 220

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This is the map of Agglethorpe. One road that deadends into another; it is not even a proper crossroad. Click on the pictures to see a larger version.

Agglethorpe is the bucolic life. Click on the pictures to see a larger version.