Author name: Richard Clarke

Above is the same map extract as on the previous blog. The name Stoneferry would suggest, at first site, a simple origin, taking the two components at face value. Ferry, one of a number across the River Hull centuries ago, necessary as otherwise the River formed a barrier to regional trade between Holderness and the […]

It is hard to find any evidence today of the time when Stoneferry was a rural community separate from the expanding town of Hull. Two sets of terraces of working class (possibly managerial) housing provide an insight into why the rural settlement of Stoneferry began to expand; one a terrace of substantial working class houses

Unlike some other maps of the time Scott’s navigational chart of the Humber Estuary, 1734, highlights churches but does not show them all by a standard symbol, some variations cross-reference with other evidence and Marfleet church is shown by the symbol above (enlarged). Drypool church is shown and none for Southcoates (s.p.b.s). The above symbol

The scan above is from Neave, D. Lost Churches and Chapels of Hull (Hutton Press, 1991, 66). The present day small church on Church Lane (off Marfleet Lane, Hedon Rd. end) was built in 1884 and is the third church to be built on this site or nearby. The present church has a basic nave

Today’s photo is of a bed of lady’s bedstraw, or maybe crosswort. It is said to have been a medieval mattress stuffing or just strewn on the top-sheet as it is soft to the touch and has a mild fragrance, a present from the groom to his bride on their wedding night. Historically Marfleet was

Rose-bat willow herb, known in Tudor times as ‘codlings and cream’. Continued directly from last blog – Book of Inquisitions – transcribed by members of the Yorkshire Archaeological Soc. and printed in their Record Series from 1890s onwards. Yorkshire Deeds – transcribed in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal. Calendar of Patent Rolls (rolls of parchment containing archives