BARUGHS AMBO is a township and chapelry of Kirby Misperton parish, consisting of Great and Little Barugh. Great Barugh is 4 miles north from Amotherby station on the Malton and Thirsk branch of the North Eastern railway and equi-distant 7 from Malton, Pickering and Kirby Moorside. Little Barugh is 1 mile north-east of Great Barugh. The church of The Holy saviour at Gt. Baragh, erected in 1850, and since enlarged, is a structure of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a western turret containing one bell: there are 250 sittings: the church is served by the clergy of Kirby Misperton. There is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, built in 1899, at a cost of £400, on a site given by Mr. Farrar. At Great Barugh there are signs of old entrenchments and a paved road, supposed to be of Roman origin; the road is a continuation of the Roman Road from Whitby to Cawthorn & Cropton through Great Barugh on the east bank of the Severn, crossing the Rye near Little Habton and proceeding thence to Appleton-le —Street and Stamford Bridge. Hob Ground House is the seat of Mrs. Scoby. Mrs. Scoby and Abraham Farrar esq. are the principal landowners. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Little Barugh. The land is divided into several freeholds. Messrs. Smith are lords of the manor of Little Barugh, and Mrs. Scoby is the chief landowner. The soil is principally gravel and loam and rich pasture, with a subsoil of clay, producing good crops of wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The population in 1911 was 218; the acreage is 1,460; rateable value, £1,834.

Public Elementary school, Great Barugh, erected in 1859, for 30 children; at present closed. The children attend schools at Brawby, Normanby, Great Habton & Kirby Misperton.