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VILLAGES.
AC0MB, pleasantly situated, about two and a-lialf miles
from York, is approached through Micklegate Bar and Holgate
Lane, and is much frequented by invalids. On the way
the pedestrian will pass on his left the house occupied by
Lindley Murray, the grammarian ; to the right Severus' Hill
and further .on to the left the ornamental nursery grounds of
Messrs. Backhouse & Son, which are well worth a visit. They
contain a remarkable piece of landscape gardening in the
shape of an Alpine grotto, with ferneries, orchid house, and
rare exotics of all descriptions.
St. Stephen's Church is a plain semi- Gothic building of
stone, erected in the early part of this
century, consisting of
nave, small chancel with open timbered roof, short transepts,
and three galleries. There are two bells in the low tower,
on which a somewhat stunted spire is built. The principal
attraction of the church is its position; standing on high
ground surrounded by trees, above which its spire rises and
may be seen from a great distance. There are several monuments
in the church, and two ancient carved chairs near the
communion table.
BISHOPTHORPE, about three miles south of the city,
on the right bank of the Ouse, is the residence of the
Archbishops of York. The palace is an irregular building,
purchased originally by Archbishop Walter De Grey in the
13th century, and approached through a gateway with
crocketed turrets, erected by Archbishop Drummond about
1770, out of stone taken from the ruins of Cawood Castle,
another palace. Archbishop Drummond also erected the
central block of buildings in the Debased Gothic of his time
which now forms the most prominent feature of the house.
There are several fine rooms, the principal being the dining
room, on the walls of which are hung portraits of the
prelates who have filled this see since the Reformation.
The Chapel, a good specimen of Early English^ was built
by Walter De Grey. Archbishop Scrope's mock trial took
place here in 1405. A stately row of poplars lines the
village street.