Acaster Malbis

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Acaster Malbis is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the city of York, England. It is located on the River Ouse, south of York and Bishopthorpe.

The Latin word for a camp is castra which indicates that the Roman army may once have been based here. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Acastre. The Malbis part comes from the land-owning Malbis family. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 578. Until 1996 the parish was part of the district of Selby.

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• *[Map sources] for Acaster Malbis

 

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