Also called Askrigg School. Under Askrigg, Gastrell notes, 'A free School viz. at Bainbridge situate in this Chapelry'. The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth century: Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia', The Yorkshire Parishes, 1714-1725, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990), 65. Date of foundation unknown. VCH, Yorks: North Riding, 202, identifies Yorebrige Grammar School as lying in Bainbridge township. The school was founded in 1600 by Anthony Besson, a London lawyer and native of York, whose family had property in Askrigg. From the deed of gift, which endowed the school with properties worth £400 in York, the school had recently been built 'near Owre's Bridge End', W.K. Jordan, The Charities of Rural England, 1480-1660 (1961), 326.