Home1860 Edition

SHERBURN

Volume 20 · 55 words · 1860 Edition

a market-town of England, in the West-Riding of Yorkshire, 13 miles S.S.W. of York. It has a handsome old parish church, other places of worship for Wesleyans and Roman Catholics, a free grammar-school, national school, and others. In the neighbourhood there are orchards, stone-quarries, and flour-mills. Pop. of the parish, 3754; of the township, 1440.