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5 unusual facts about Osgodby


Barlby

In June 2013 building contractors completed a new three-lane roundabout that was built on the A19 and A63 junction between Barlby and Osgodby.

Barlby Hilltop contains Hilltop Primary School, a post office, a library, the Craig Bonner memorial centre, a late nineteenth-century church, and Barlby High School which also serves pupils from the surrounding villages of Osgodby, Riccall, Kelfield, Escrick, Cliffe, North Duffield, South Duffield, Hemingbrough and Bubwith.

Across the bypass is Barlby's smaller sister village, Osgodby with which it forms the civil parish of Barlby with Osgodby.

Barlby with Osgodby

The parish covers Barlby and Osgodby and had a population of 4,533 according to the 2001 census.

William Babthorpe

Sir William Babthorpe (1489/90-1555), of Osgodby and Flotmanby, Yorkshire, was an English politician.


William Greenfield

During his absence in France, one Adam of Osgodby, then the Master of the Rolls, acted as his substitute.


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