Osgodby
OSGODBY, a township, in the parish of Hemingbrough, union of Selby, wapentake of Ouse and Derwent, E. riding of York, 2½ miles (E. N. E.) from Selby; containing 168 inhabitants. It comprises 1524a. 20p. of land: the village is seated about a mile east of the river Ouse, which also flows in a very devious course on the south of the township. Certain impropriate tithes were commuted for land in 1811.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.