This site was last updated on : 1st February 2012
Allerthorpe is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south west of the town of Pocklington.
The civil parish is formed by the village of Allerthorpe and the hamlet of Waplington. According to the 2001 UK census, Allerthorpe parish had a population of 223.
Allerthorpe has a public house and restaurant, The Plough Inn, and a very popular eighteen hole golf course and lakeland park used for all manner of water sports and fishing activities. Allerthorpe Common, to the west of the village, has a nature reserve.
The parish church of St Botolph is a Grade II listed building.
Thomas Cooke, the machinist and optical instrument maker, was born here. There is a memorial stone near the church gate.
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