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Driffield (Great) in York County England History and GeographyDRIFFIELD (GREAT), a parish partly within the liberty of ST. PETER of YORK, but chiefly in the Bainton-Beacon division of the wapentake of HARTHILL, East riding of the county of YORK, comprising the market town of Great Driffield, the chapelry of Little Driffield, and the township of Emswell with Kelleythorpe, and containing 2471 inhabitants, of which number, 2303 are in the town of Great Driffield, 29 miles (E. by N.) from York, and 193 (N.) from London. The town is agrceably situated at the foot of the Wolds, near the source of one of the streams which being united form the river Hull. It consists principally of a long street, extending from north to south, parallel to which runs the brook, which at the southern extremity of the town is enlarged into a navigable canal, joining the Hull below Frodingham bridge, after a course of three miles. The soil is particularly adapted to the production of corn, the trade in which has greatly increased within the last fifty years, owing partly to the facility for water carriage afforded by the canal. The market is on Thursday, when the quantity of grain brought for sale is often very considerable. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £7. 10. 2½., endowed with £100 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Precentor in the Cathedral Church of York, as Prebendary of Driffield. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient structure, with a steeple in the later English style, built by one of the Hotham family. Here are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. A dispensary is supported by voluntary contributions; also a National school for one hundred children, established in 1816. At Danes Hill, a hamlet in this parish, is a great number of tumuli, called 'Danes' Graves,' supposed to be the monuments of Danish chiefs who fell in some engagement in the vicinity. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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