The above extract from Hargrave’s ‘Map of the County of Kingston-upon-Hull’, 1791, includes a slightly bigger area of south Sculcoates (see above) than Thew’s map (s.p.b.) and so includes the open quadrangle of Charterhouse alms-houses. To the south of the master’s house (surviving) a planted orchard/woodland is shown. Although this doesn’t extend south to Princes Row it could suggest that the formal parterres shown on Thew’s map (s.p.b.) were part of the grounds of Charterhouse.
The built-up area north of ‘The Dock’ had extended to Princes Row in the seven years since Thew’s map was compiled but north of this post-Enclosure fields survived still in 1791. The linear development immediately adjacent to the River Hull may well have been early industrial development.
Incidentally, the ‘County’ section of Hargrave’s map is shown below the detailed map of Hull. This Hullshire map includes a rare representation of the church at North Ferriby which preceded the existing one. Although the symbol is tiny it clearly shows a three-storey west tower. There is reason to suppose that this is reasonably accurate as Hessle church, for example, is shown as having a needle spire. Again incidentally, Hargrave’s ‘County map’ shows the site of ‘Haltonpies priory’, although it is not clear if any buildings are represented.
Coming forward 26 years Cragg’s map of Hull, 1817, shows that the southern quarter of Sculcoates parish had become much more urbanised (s.n.b.).
(to be continued)
Point of View 6 – As last Friday’s edition of Gardener’s World (B.B.C. 1) was an hour long it included some ‘clips’ from recent year’s editions including one where a presenter spent a day with an elderly couple looking for wild native gladioli in a mountain range in South Africa. It seems the couple had spent much of their lives pursuing this interest. At the end of the clip it stated ‘in memory of Rod and Rachel Saunders’, seemingly they had both died in the last two years.
In fact a hurried Internet query showed they had both been murdered while plant-hunting in remote countryside, allegedly by religious extremists. How appauling that such a thing should happen. The only thing worse than active murderous religious extremists is the group of shadowy figures who groom hapless individuals to such behaviour.