Uncleby

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Uncleby
Yorkshire
East Riding

Uncleby Wold, east of Uncleby
Location
Grid reference: SE812591
Location: 54°1’18"N, -0°45’44"W
Data
Post town: York
Postcode: YO41
Dialling code: 01759
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
East Yorkshire

Uncleby is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, close by Kirby Underdale and six and a half miles north of Pocklington.

History

Uncleby is the site of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Canon William Greenwell excavated 76 inhumation burials in 1868, which date from the 7th and 8th centuries AD. The objects from these excavations are held in the Yorkshire Museum and the British Museum.[1]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Uncleby)

References

  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 11.