688 HOWDENSHIRE DIVISION.

Farmers. Harrison Robert, farm Drigham John, Totterdown Richardson Albert Oole Thomas (hind for O. H. Wilson, Esq.) Richardson Frederick Frear George (and joiner) Richardson J ames Harrison David (and grocer and carrier to Smith Thomas, Myrtle hall , Saturday) Wilkinson George Brigham, Manor house

PARISH. Wapentake of Harthill (Wilton Beacon Division)-Oounty Oouncil Electoral Division of Pocklington-Petty Sessional Division of Wilton Beacon-Rural Deanery of Pocklington­ Arehdeaeonryof the East Riding-Diocese of . Pocklington is a parish and market town, a county council electoral division, and the head of a poor law union and county court district. The parish includes. the townships of Pocklington, Ousthorpe, and Yapham-cum-Meltonby, comprising a total area, according to the Ordnance Survey, of 4,788 acres. The area of the first-named township is 2,520 acres, the rateable value £10,427, and the population in 1891 was 2,577. Colonel Charles Wilmer Field Duncombe, of KilnwickPercy~ is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The other proprietors are the trustees of Pocklington Grammar School; Mrs. Adeline Bell Lamb, Melbourne House, Rugby; John Houslay, High Catton, and numerous small freeholders. Pocklington, at the time of the Norman Conquest, formed part of the possessions of Morcar, Earl of Northumbria. 1Iorcar at first submitted to the Conqueror, but soon afterwardB he headed the Northumbrians, who rebelled against the Norman usurpation and tyranny, and was dispossessed of all his lands. This manor was then given to Stephen FitllOdo, who had married the Conqueror's sister, and was created Earl of Albemarle and Holderness; and it was held by the successive lords of Holderness till the end of the 13th century, when it was granted by Edward 1. to the Abbot of Melsa or Meaux. The convent retained possession of the manor about six years, and then exchanged it with Henry, Lord Percy, for half-an-acre of land in Nafferton and the advowson of that church. A market, two fairs, and other liberties were granted by patent in 1300, and two additional fairs were granted by Edward 11. in 1325. Subsequently the lands were divided, and the manor passed from the Percys into other hands. In the latter part of the 15th and the early part of the 16th centuries, it was held by the Dolmans or Dowmans, one of whom founded the free grammar school in the town. In 1663, William Sykes, a wealthy merchant of Leeds, died, bequeathing the manors of Pocklington and Osbaldwick to Grace, his wife. The manor was purchased from the Denison family by the late Admiral the Hon. Arthur Dun­ combe, father of the present owner. The town of Pocklington is pleasantly situated in the vale of a considerable stream which rises near Givendale, and in its course through the parish turns. several mills, and empties itself into the Derwent. The York and Market Weigh­ ton branch of the North-Eastern railway also intersects the parish, and skirts the town on its western side, where a station is erected. Pocklington stands in the midst of a rich agricultural district, and is distant 13 miles east-by-south from York, seven miles north-west from ,26 north-west from Hull, 27 south-west from , and 195 north-by-west from LondQn. It is lighted with gas by the New Gas Co., Limited, which was formed in 1886, with a capital of £8,000, in £10 shares, and purchased the rights of the existing company. New works were erected near the railway station, and fitted with the latest and most approved appliances. There is one gasholder, with a capacity of 30,000 cubic feet, which supplies the town, and also Barmby J\ioor and Allerthorpe. The streets. are lighted by 80 lamps. The gas is retailed at 4s. 2d. per 1,000 cubic feet. The Pocklington Water Co., Limited, was recently formed, with a capital of £3,000 in £5 shares, for supplying the town with water. The reservoir, constructed in 1890, on the south side of Chapel Hill, will hold 150,000 gallons. The market is held