Little Weighton
| Little Weighton | |
| Yorkshire East Riding | |
|---|---|
 Old Village Road, Little Weighton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE985337 |
| Location: | 53°47’28"N, 0°30’19"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Cottingham |
| Postcode: | HU20 |
| Dialling code: | 01482 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Haltemprice and Howden |
Little Weighton is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, sitting five miles south-west of Beverley and four miles west of Cottingham.
The village contains a small shop (which acts as a post office), a Church of England primary school, a church, a retirement home, village hall, playing fields, a garage and the Black Horse public house.
History
Little Weighton was a settlement recorded in the Domesday Book, in the hundred of Welton. It had a recorded population of (a statistically estimated) 8½ households in 1086, putting it in the smallest 40% of settlements recorded in Domesday. It is recorded with:
- 16 villagers and 1 priest, 3 ploughlands, 2 lord's plough teams, 4 men's plough teams, 2 mills (value 16 shillings), 1 church. Annual value to lord was 2 pounds 10 shillings in 1086 and 2 pounds in 1066. The tenant-in-chief in 1086 was Hugh son of Baldric. The Lord in 1066 was Gamal, son of Osbert.
Little Weighton is supposed by some to have been the site of the famous battle of Brunanburh:[1][2] one of many proposed sites.
On 14 April 1702 Jeremiah Northend was buried, aged 78, in Rowley. Aged 14, he had emigrated to Massachusetts with his Uncle Robert and cousin Ezekiel, with the dissenting community led by Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, but returned to live in Little Weighton after nine years or so.
In 1823 Little Weighton was recorded as being in the parish of Rowley and the Wapentake of Harthill. Occupations at the time included six farmers and yeomen, a shoemaker, a blacksmith, a tailor, a shopkeeper and the landlord of The Black Horse public house. A carrier operated between the village and Beverley and Hull once a week.[3]
The village was served by the Little Weighton railway station on the Hull and Barnsley Railway between 1885 and 1955.[4]
Outside links
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References
- ↑ Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892).
- ↑ Old Yorkshire. Hamilton, Adams. 9 November 1885. pp. 65–67. http://archive.org/details/oldyorkshire01wheagoog.
- ↑ Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); page 363
- ↑ Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 8.
