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Bishopthorpe Palace
York
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Bishopthorpe Palace is a Grade I listed building and home to the archbishop of York. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, Bishopthorpe has a long history and was known as Thorpe on Ouse in 1194. The first church was built by the Prior in 1202 a Manor House and Chapel was built by the river in 1240 and the name changed to around 1275. In 1323 Bishopthorpe played host to a truce between Edward-II and Robert the Bruce. Rioters tried to invade the Palace after the 1832 Reform Bill and today it is mainly a dormitory village.
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