MENTHORPE and BOWTHORPE are hamlets forming a township with a station at Menthorpe Gate on the Selby and Market Weighton branch railway, in the parish of and 3 miles north-east from Hemingbrough, and 5 miles north-east from Selby. The principal landowner in Menthorpe is Mr. Robert Chaplin, and Sir Robert James Milo Walker bart. of Sand Hutton, is sole landowner in Bowthorpe. Of the tithe arising from the township of Newthorpe, £19 goes to the vicar of Skipworth and £151 to impropriators. The soil is clay, also subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and some land in pasture. The area is 1,088 acres of land, 5 of tidal water and 2 of foreshore; rateable value, £980; the population in 1911 was 44.