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Octon
Yorkshire
East Riding

Old Octon Farm
Location
Grid reference: TA033698
Location: 54°6’52"N, 0°25’13"W
Data
Post town: Driffield
Postcode: YO25
Dialling code: 01262
Local Government
Council: East Riding of Yorkshire
Parliamentary
constituency:
East Yorkshire

Octon is a hamlet, and shrunken mediæval village in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The hamlet is is in the Yorkshire Wolds, located approximately a mile and a quarter west of Thwing, and accounted part of its parish. Octon is nine and a half miles west of Bridlington and the North Sea coast. The place includes a large house 'Octon Manor'.

History

Octon is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1986 s "Ocheton".[1] The village contained a chapel dedicated to St. Michael (noted in 1327).[2]

After around 1400 no records exist relating to the chapel, and the village is thought likely to have been depopulated as a result of the Black Death.[3]

By the 19th century the village was reduced to a small farming hamlet. In 1823 three farmers and a gamekeeper were recorded as resident in Octon, with a further two farmers at Octon Grange just over a mile to the north.[4] The extent of the hamlet remained unexpanded throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The modern village is at the same location as the reduced mediæval village; earthworks of the mediæval church and village were scheduled as an ancient monument in 1994. The 'Old farmhouse' at Glebe farm, Octon, a cruck framed longhouse dating from the 17th century is a Grade II* listed building.[5]

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References

  • Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 9.