Octon
| 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
- ↑ Octon in the Domesday Book
- ↑ Lawton, George (1840), Collectio rerum ecclesiasticarum de Dioecesi Eboracensi: or, Collections relative to churches and chapels within the Diocese of York. To which are added, Collections relative to churches and chapels within the Diocese of Ripon, 2, J. G. F & J. Rivington, Octon, p.314, https://books.google.com/books?id=4wUyAQAAMAAJ
- ↑ Jennings, Bernard (2002), "A Longer View of the Wolds", in Thirsk, Joan, Rural England: A history of the landscape, Oxford University Press, p. 68, ISBN 978-0-19-860619-2, https://books.google.com/books?id=6qd2eORvEB4C&dq=Octon%20domesday&pg=PA68
- ↑ Baines, Edward: 'History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York' (1823); page 374
- ↑ National Heritage List 1309563: The Old farmhouse, Glebe Farm (Grade II* listing)
- Gazetteer — A–Z of Towns Villages and Hamlets. East Riding of Yorkshire Council. 2006. p. 9.