Having written 12 blogs between 4/02/’20 and 17/03/’20 on the theme of Myton I thought I would return to the above theme by considering Sculcoates, Newland, Drypool, Southcoates, Marfleet, the ‘groves’ (a term applied to more than one area) and Trippett.
The scan above is from a very feint copy I have of a plan of Sculcoates parish dated 1691 and with handwriting at the bottom reading ‘Copied May 19th 1849 from the original drawing by John Richardson, Surgeon and Dentist, 13 Savile Street, Hull’. I don’t know the location of the original. If we accept it as accurate it provides a good deal of valuable information. At the bottom are three meanders of the River Hull, here labelled ‘The River from Hull to Beverley or Frodingham’, Frodingham Beck then, as now, being a head-water of the River Hull. Clearly the parish of Sculcoates was all on the west bank of the River Hull.
I have added a circle to locate the site of the church serving Sculcoates parish as the symbol was unclear. The then church (see later) stood near the west bank of the River Hull separated from it by linear ‘closes’, these further south labelled the ‘Groves’.
A good orientation point is the ‘Beverley and Cottingham’ road running south-north across the upper middle of the plan, this today being a section of Beverley Road, Hull. The parish land’s extended west of this road, ‘Deringham Bank’ forming its southern edge (roughly Spring Bank today) and ‘The Kings Banckes’ forming its western edge (I don’t know the origin of this term and its route only roughly corresponds to Prince’s Avenue today). Along the northern parish boundary ‘Kings Bancke’ is followed by Clough Road today.
South-east of Beverley Road the parish boundary was named ‘the Kings Stone’ (Kingstown?), roughly corresponding to Prospect Street today while in the south-east corner ‘Trippett’ lay just inside Sculcoates parish. The section of parish boundary between ‘The Kings Stone’ and ‘Trippett’ corresponded to the north wall of the medieval town walls of Hull, still in 1691 mostly intact.