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All Saints' Church, Pocklington. Pocklington gets its name via the Old English "Poclintun" from the Anglian settlement of Pocel's (or Pocela's) people and the Old English word "tun" meaning farm or settlement, [3] but though the town's name can only be traced back to around 650 AD, the inhabitation of Pocklington as a site is thought to extend back a further 1,000 years or more to the Bronze Age.
Peter Hugh Pocklington (born November 18, 1941) is a Canadian entrepreneur. Peter Pocklington was known among North American hockey fans as "Peter Puck", an entrepreneur from oil-rich Alberta who was also the owner of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Edmonton Oilers. He earned the enmity of many Canadians when he sold hockey's greatest player ...
- Bronze Age Pocklington
- Iron Age Pocklington
- Romano-British Pocklington
- Anglo-Saxon and Viking Era
- High Middle Ages in Pocklington
- Late Middle Ages – Medieval Pocklington
- Early Modern Period in Pocklington
- Early Industrial Pocklington
- 19th Century Pocklington
- 20th Century Pocklington
It is not known exactly when there was first a settlement at Pocklington – archaeologists have found Iron Ageremains in and around the town and many Bronze Age burials and other finds have been discovered in the neighbourhood. More recently in 2016 builders uncovered an earlier, Bronze Age, settlement, dating to around 800 BC. In 1937, wooden plank...
Ptolemy relates that the Parisii, an ancient Briton tribe (with branches in France, and after which Paris itself is named) inhabited a large part of what is now the East Riding of Yorkshire in the late Iron Age (50 BC) [Ptolemy, Geography]. They were probably displaced to Britain by population movements on the continent. It is possible that Pocklin...
It is during the era of the Roman occupation that Pocklington suffered something of a reversal in its development. It was eclipsed by York as the prominent settlement within the Yorkshire region, with the City of York effectively beginning its life during this era and swiftly eclipsing Pocklignton in size and importance. Despite Pocklington's exist...
It was some time before 650 AD that Pocklington gained its current name, meaning "farmstead belonging to Pocela's people". It is not known what name Pocklington was known by before that date. It is reputed that the ancient kingdom of Deira has its capital nearby.[citation needed] It is likely that the missionary Paulinus established the first Chris...
Many English towns are able to find mention of themselves in the Domesday Book of 1086, William the Conqueror's catalogue of the country. Even before the Norman Conquest, however, records of Pocklington are found in taxation censuses of Anglo Saxonkings. Pocklington steadily evolved from Anglo Saxon times as the centre of the surrounding agricultur...
The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought just 4 miles from Pocklington, and was the first of two major battles in that year for control of the country (the other being the Battle of Hastings. The former marked the end of Viking rule in England and the latter ushered in a period of Normanrule. After the Norman conquest the manor at Pocklington becam...
Pocklington has one of the few Cromwellian charters in the country. The town charter was granted on 8 September 1656, one of the few during Oliver Cromwell's 11 years in power. Pocklington also lays claim to being the last place in England to hold a witch burning. In 1630 the parish register for that year records Old Wife Green burnt in Market for ...
William Wilberforce wrote his first public letter against the slave trade while at Pocklington School from 1771 to 1776 and went on to be the driving force behind the abolition of slaveryin the early 19th century. This is celebrated by the broken linked chain in the present town coat of arms. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, was a frequent vi...
Steady further growth continued during the 19th century which saw much of the town completely rebuilt. In 1814, an act of parliament was passed for making a navigable canal from East Cottingwith to Street Bridge (about a mile from Pocklington). An early draft of this Parliamentary act was recently discovered in the attic of a Pocklington house. By ...
The group of five airfields based in and around Pocklington played an active role in the Second World War. Pocklington Airfield was completed in April 1941. The first operational unit to occupy Pocklington was the Canadian No. 405 Squadron with Wellington aircraft, but in 1942 the RAF's 102 (Ceylon) Squadrontook over the airfield, flying night sort...
The People and Places of Old Pocklington. Launched in 2010. Written and edited by Andrew Sefton, Archivist of the Pocklington and District Local History Group. This book of Pocklington old photographs is the first to be published in the town’s history. The photographs have been sourced from the archives of the Pocklington and District Local ...
In the '80s, Pocklington ran a $1-billion empire consisting of Fidelity Trust Co., meat-packer Gainers Inc., car dealerships, real estate and oil and gas interests. But it was his ownership of the ...
Oct 9, 2014 · Pocklington said the difference between the arena going through now as opposed to 15 years ago is all about timing and the cost of money now compared to what it used to be. “In the old days, the ...
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Apr 18, 2024 · Our photograph, circa 1900s also encompasses old and modern Pocklington. On the left is the timber-framed, Three Horse Shoes Inn, with rings on the front to tether pigs on market day. In the centre background is the mill on Brass Castle Hill, and on the right, in front of Conyers gunmakers, is a gas lamp – in 1834 Pocklington was one of the first small towns in the country to be lit by gas.
