UPPER POPPLETON is a township and village, and ecclesiastical parish formed in 1844 from the parish of Nether Poppleton and St. Mary Bishophill Junior, York, and has a station on the York and Knaresborough railway, in the Northern division of the Riding, Great Ouseburn union, but being in Ainsty wapentake is for parliamentary purposes included in the North Riding, East Ainsty petty sessional division, York county court district, Ainsty rural deanery, and York archdeaconry and diocese, 4 miles north-west from York, and is situate on the York and Boroughbridge turnpike road. The church of All saints is an ancient stone building in the Norman style consisting of chancel, nave, and bell turret containing 1 bell, and has a small Norman font. The existing register dates from the year 1776, the earlier registers being kept at St. Mary’s, Bishophill Junior, York. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with Nether Poppleton, joint yearly value £300 with residence and 54 acres of glebe at Nether Poppleton, in the gift of the Archbishop of York and held by the Rev. John Williams, of St. Bees. A chapel for Wesleyans was built in 1817. Andrew Montagu esq. is the chief landowner and lord of the manor. The soil is sand and clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area is 1,407 acres; rateable value, £2,331; and the population in 1871 was 298.