Bolton Percy is a township, village, station on the North Eastern railway, and parish, including Appleton Roebuck, Nun Appleton, Colton, Steeton with Streethouses, Hornington and Pallathorp, locally in the Northern division of the Riding, eastern division of the Ainsty wapentake, Tadcaster Union, petty sessional division and county court district, archdeaconry and diocese of York and rural deanery of Bishopthorpe. The parish, being in the Ainsty of York, is included for Parliamentary purposes in the North Riding.

Bolton Percy township is 4 miles south-east from Tadcaster, 8 south from York, 183 from London, on the north bank of the Wharfe. The church of All Saints, dedicated in 1424, rebuilt in the fifteenth century, is a handsome stone building in the Perpendicular style, has chancel, which contains six stained windows, nave, aisles, a tower and 3 bells: the east window is very beautiful, it was restored in 1866 by the Ven. Stephen Creyke, MA the present rector. Here are some ancient monuments of the Milner family, of Nun Appleton; one to Archdeacon Markham who was rector of this parish; and one with Corinthian columns supporting a pediment, in memory of Ferdinand Lord Farifax of Cameron general in the Parliamentary army, and chief commander at Marston Moor, ob. 1647.

The register dates from 1540. The living is a rectory, net income £1,240 yearly, with a parsonage in the gift of the Archbishop, and held by the Ven. Stephen Creyke MA of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, formerly Archdeacon of York; the Rev. Thomas Smith MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Rev. Thomas Henry Hunnings, MA of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, are the curates. Here is a National school, and there are charities of about £25 yearly value. Sir W Mordaunt Milner, bart is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is a strong loam; subsoil clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips. The area of the township is 2,341 acres; rateable value £5,593; area of the parish 7,642 acres; and the population of the township (1891) 288, and the parish 976.

Parish clerk, Thomas Roberts
POST OFFICE, Thomas Roberts, receiver. Letters arrive from Tadcaster at 7.30am; dispatched at 5.15pm week days; on Sundays arrive at 8am; dispatched at 9am only. The nearest money order office is at Tadcaster.
Registrar of Births & deaths for Appleton Roebuck District, Thomas Roberts
National School, Thomas Roberts, master
INSURANCE AGENTS:
County Fire, Thomas Roberts
Scottish Widow’s Fund, Thomas Roberts
Carrier to Tadcaster, John Cooper, Monday
Railway Station, Thomas Ward, station master
Bolton Percy: Creyke, Venerable Archdeacon Stephen MA, Rectory: Hunnings, Rev. Henry MA, (curate) Rectory: Oliver, Capt Richard, Bolton Lodge: Smith, Rev. Thomas MA, (curate) Mill Cottage.
Commercial:  Appleyard, Robert, shoemaker: Barker, Miles, butcher: Head, William, blacksmith: Houseman, Henry, farmer: Jewett, Joseph, farmer: Kilby, Mary, (Mrs) farmer, Brumber Hill: Mollett, William, Crown & farmer: Penty, Robert, farmer: Purdon, Henry, farmer: Roberts, Thomas, schoolmaster, registrar of births deaths & marriages & postmaster: Shilleto, William Edward, farmer.