Little Driffield
| Little Driffield | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 St Mary's Church, Little Driffield | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TA009577 |
| Location: | 54°0’23"N, 0°27’41"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Driffield |
| Postcode: | YO25 |
| Dialling code: | 01377 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
East Yorkshire |
Little Driffield is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, standing on the western outskirts of Great Driffield, to the west of the A614 road and south of the A166 road.
History
The village once had a large pond and green. The pond was reduced to about half its size when Brendan Green was built in the 1960s. The majority of the green is now walled in and privately owned, belonging to one of the most prominent houses in the village – Springfield House, (now Church House) which lost its iron railings, together with those from the churchyard, to help the war effort. A chapel built in 1878 was demolished recently and replaced by a house. The village school was demolished about 40 years ago.
Horsefair Lane was for many years the home and factory of clothing manufacturers, Dewhirst's. The factory later became Arcadia Clothing which closed some years ago. The site is now occupied by an industrial unit and 6 new houses. The last horse fair was held in 1918.[citation needed]
The A166 previously ran through the village until the construction of the town bypass (part of the A614), about 1982. Through traffic runs to the nearby Kelleythorpe Industrial Estate about half a mile south.
Parish church
The Church of St Mary is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
Aldfrith King of the Northumbrians (685 – 705) is supposedly buried in the church. However, no evidence of this was found when the nave and chancel were rebuilt and the floor excavated in 1807 (the 14th-century tower remained untouched). The church was restored in the 1890s by architect Temple Moor.[2]
About the village
The village previously contained two public houses: The Rose & Crown and The Downe Arms, (named after the lady of the manor). The Downe Arms became a restaurant and is now a private house. The Rose and Crown remains in use.
Elmswell Beck runs through the southern edge of the village and joins with Little Driffield Beck (from the pond). These are tributaries of the River Hull.
New housing has been built since the 1990s, particularly Londsborough Court, which was a milk tanker storage yard and before that a slaughterhouse which adjoined Brendan Green, previously the site tannery. There were two tanneries in the village in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Another development from the 1990s comprises nine homes on Church Walk. Six new houses were built in 2006 on Horsefair Lane.
Outside links
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1083376: Church of St Mary (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ "Little Driffield Church". Individual web pages at Eclipse Networking Limited. http://www.blaven.eclipse.co.uk/church/history.html. Retrieved 13 April 2014.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 7.
