Late Centuries

JayDee · JayDee

Anyone out there have any information at all on Scarthingwell? It is next door to Barkston Ash just two miles north of Sherburn-in-Elmet. Finds seem to date it back to at least the 12th century but Admiral Lord Hawke of Towton enparked the area in the 1700's and evidence of what was there previou...

JayDee · JayDee

I was asked if I knew anything about a WWI airfield at Headley. That at the junction of the A1 and the A64 York road. I don't. Asked a bloke in the pub and he said 'Oh yeah. The old hanger is still there behind the closed down petrol station. Wasn't an airfield in my youth though. Must have gone in the 1920's...

Ted2 · Ted2

The town of Selby seems to contain many large 18th & early 19th century houses, has anyone any ideas on which "industry" provided the money to build these houses?

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	Scarthingwell (Preview) Anyone out there have any information at all on Scarthingwell? It is next door to Barkston Ash just two miles north of Sherburn-in-Elmet. Finds seem to date it back to at least the 12th century but Admiral Lord Hawke of Towton enparked the area in the 1700's and evidence of what was there previou...	JayDee	7	6781	Wed Sep 23 14:15:59 2009 by Brierwood
	Headley WWI Airfield (Preview) I was asked if I knew anything about a WWI airfield at Headley. That at the junction of the A1 and the A64 York road. I don't. Asked a bloke in the pub and he said 'Oh yeah. The old hanger is still there behind the closed down petrol station. Wasn't an airfield in my youth though. Must have gone in the 1920's...	JayDee	0	1624	Tue Apr 18 22:52:06 2006 by JayDee
	Selby (Preview) The town of Selby seems to contain many large 18th & early 19th century houses, has anyone any ideas on which "industry" provided the money to build these houses?	Ted2	2	1343	Mon Apr 17 23:10:35 2006 by JayDee
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