Higher Dunsforth-cum-Branton Green, 1 mile from Great Ouseburn, is a township and village, partly in the North Riding, in the parishes of Great Ouseburn and Aldborough; attached is the hamlet of Branton Green. There are charities in this township of £6 5s. yearly. Sir H. M. Meysey-Thompson bart. who is lord of the manor, and J. Dawson esq. are the principal landowners. The area is 1,009 acres; rateable £2,117; population in 1871 was 124.