Drewton
| Drewton | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 A farmhouse in Drewton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE917327 |
| Location: | 53°46’59"N, 0°36’33"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Brough |
| Postcode: | HU15 |
| Dialling code: | 01430 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Haltemprice and Howden |
Drewton is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in the Harthill Wapentake. It sis to be found on the A1034 road, six miles south-east of Market Weighton and eleven miles west of Kingston upon Hull’s city centre.
History
In the 1086 Domesday Book Drewton appears as "Drowetone". The manor comprised 11 households, 6 villagers and 5 smallholders, with 2 ploughlands. Lordship of the manor of Drewton had passed to Robert Malet, who also became Tenant-in-chief.[1]
The settlement at Drewton which Domesday recorded became partly deserted, possibly at the time of the 14th-century Black Death. There was a further decline in the second half of the 17th century to leave only Drewton Manor and a farmhouse. Four houses were added in the mid-20th century.[2]
A later Drewton Manor, built in stone about 1850, is the centre of the Drewton Estate, which includes residential buildings, gardens, a lake, and a farm of 1,138 acres. The Estate, which today holds game shoots, was valued at £6 million when offered for sale in 2004.[3]
In 1823 Drewton was noted as having a population of 177, six of wom were farmers and another a 'gentlewoman'.[4] In 1892 Drewton was recorded as a joint township with Everthorpe of 2,114 acres, and described as being on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds with views of York Minster, Goole, Howden, Selby Abbey, the Humber, and the Lincolnshire coast. South Cave railway station was built in the village, on the Hull and Barnsley Railway.[5]
About the village
At Drewton is a naturally formed stone monolith called St Austin's Stone.[3][6] Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire repeats what it says is a commonly held view that Drewton's name might derive from 'Druids' town', and mentions the "huge monolith" of "St Augustine's Stone" that was supposed to be connected with Druid worship, and as the place where St Augustine preached to the Saxons, although stating that no record of the saint exists of his ever visiting Yorkshire.
A Roman road which crossed the Humber at Brough passed through or near Drewton, the Roman occupation leaving many remains in the settlement.[5]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Drewton in the Domesday Book
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 910625 – Drewton
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mark, Dave (9 May 2004). "Trawler tycoon's estate up for sale and it's a spectacular catch at £6m". The Yorkshire Post. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/local-stories/trawler-tycoon-s-estate-up-for-sale-and-it-s-a-spectacular-catch-at-163-6m-1-2543893. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ↑ Baines, Edward (1823): History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York, p. 193
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private & Commercial) of East Yorkshire 1823
- ↑ Morris, Joseph E. (1906): The East Riding of Yorkshire, Methuen & Co. Ltd., (second edition 1919), p. 24
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 5.
