Although I have read about it I am yet, personally, to visit St. Martin’s church, Burton Agnes and therefore reproduced above is a view of the church from the north-west copied from p. 15 of Christine Barker’s book Churches of the Yorkshire Wolds, 2 (s.p.b.). Of course Briony McDonagh writes of this church in her […]

Continuing immediately on the last blog, Alice had married into the Griffith family while Agnes the St. Quintin family. Surely both were the descendants of Norman knights and almost certainly in both the households of Alice and Agnes Norman French would normally be spoken, unlike in the households of the surrounding peasantry. The picture above

Bryony’s map from her article (see above) shows the parishes of Harpham and Burton Agnes with the site of their churches and their dedications labelled. It also shows two historic townships to the east of Burton Agnes and a third township Gransmoor to the south, this last entirely on The R. Hull valley floodplain. The

Again apologies for break in service – changing to Windows 10 plus bad bought of sickness followed by chest infection. Following the last blog about Hessle Local History Society another article of interest was printed in the latest edition of Landscape History (the twice yearly journal of the Society for Landscape Studies) – interesting because

Incidentally it is six years to the day that I was flooded-out at South Ferriby – 6-30pm – and now I live on another floodplain! Have for some years been a member of Hessle Local History Soc., Hessle being now a suburb of west Hull but still in the unitary authority of the East Riding

Apologies again for ‘break in transmission’ further problems with laptop. The photo above is of a Croatian sheep. Just over a week ago I had an email from Animals Australia, a worthy charity that I have occasionally donated to, with the awful news that a Romanian ship transporting 14000 live animals to the Middle East