Author name: Richard Clarke

Having diligently amassed virtually all the primary source available to him at the beginning of the 18th century (s.p.b.) Abraham (s.p.b.) catalogued the information year by year chronologically. He records that the first record of the area called Myton was in 1150 and Wyke in 1174 but he gives no indication that a trading settlement […]

Abraham de la Pryme was born in 1672 at Hatfield in the Isle of Axholme to a family of Dutch extraction who had come to the Isle in the 1630s bringing their expertise in systems of land drainage to drainage proposals in the Isle. After attending St. John’s College, Cambridge he was briefly curate at

The map above shows the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms existing in England before Danish (Viking) settlement and the creation of the Danelaw, 8th century for example. As can be seen, the Humber Estuary formed a boundary between Deira, the southern region of the Kingdom of Northumbria and Lindsay, the northern region of the Kingdom of Mercia

Above is a photo of a late 17th chair. The issue of to what extent flooding was considered a disaster in the past is an interesting one. For those living on flood plains flooding must have been relatively common, clay bank or no clay bank, river levee or no. Modern houses can very easily be

The photo above shows a section of the Humber Estuary north-bank clay bank between Thorngumbald Marsh and Stone Creek on a particularly cold, grey February morning. I am, for this post, just picking-up on the mention of clay banks in the last post and have probably written about this before. The bank here almost certainly

I have neglected my blogs/posts for a week or two as I needed to focus on preparing various presentations in the diary for this summer. Although I had promised myself I would not embark on any new projects, three of them are! The short list is – 17/5/24 – Barton Civic Society – ‘Early History