DRINGHOUSES is a township and pleasant village in the Northern division of the Riding, 1 ½ miles south-west from York, formed in 1853 into an ecclesiastical parish from the parishes of Holy Trinity Micklegate, Acomb and St. Mary Bishophill senior, lower division of the Ainsty wapentake, and for parliamentary purposes in the North Riding, York union and county court district, rural deanery of Bishopthorpe, archdeaconry and diocese of York, situated on the Tadcaster and York road; part of the township of Middlethorpe is in this parish. The church of Edward the Confessor is a stone building in the Decorated or Middle Pointed style, built at the sole expense of the late Mrs. Trafford Leigh, afterwards Mrs. M. A. E. Wilkinson, and consecrated on August 8, 1849; it consists of chancel and nave and has 2 bells: there are several mural tablets, to the Barlow family, preserved when the old church was pulled down; all the windows are stained, and the chancel is paved with encaustic tiles. The register dates from the year 1849. The living is a vicarage,; early value £165 in the gift of Mrs. Eason Wilkinson, and held by the Rev. John Nowill Bromehead A.K.C.L. There is a chapel tor Wesleyans. Bricks and tiles of good quality are made in the neighbourhood. Middlethorpe Lodge, the seat of Sir James Meek knt. J.P. is a fine ornamental brick mansion, surrounded by beautiful wooded pleasure grounds and standing close to the road from York to Tadcaster. Mrs. Eason Wilkinson, who is lady of the manor, and Sir James Meek knt. and Messrs. Cattley and Oldfield are chief landowners. The soil is light loam and clay; subsoil clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans. The area is 530 acres; rateable value, £6,015; population in 1871, 381: population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1871 was 403.

National school (mixed), George Leach, master; Miss C. Hughes, mistress.