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Pocklington |
 | | Pocklington is a parish and market-town, partly in the liberty of St. Peter of York, but chiefly in the Wilton-Beacon division of the wapentake of Harthill, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, about 195 miles from London, 13 miles east by south from York, and 7 miles north-west of Market-Weighton. |
 | | Pocklington is one of the polling-places for the East Riding, and the centre of a Poor-Law Union comprising 47 parishes ; it has three branch banks, and petty sessions for the Wilton-Beacon division are held here. |
 | | The population of the township of Pocklington was 2,048 in 1831, and 2,323 in 1841. |
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