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A History of the County of York: East Riding - Volume VIII: East Buckrose: Sledmere and the Northern Wolds (Hardcover)
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A History of the County of York: East Riding - Volume VIII: East Buckrose: Sledmere and the Northern Wolds (Hardcover)
Series: Victoria County History
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The latest Yorkshire volume provides an authoritative and
comprehensive account of an important area centred upon Sledmere.
This volume covers seven parishes and some sixteen ancient
settlements on the eastern dip-slope of the Yorkshire Wolds. Its
rich and varied past extends from the important Iron Age
settlements with their well-known chariot burialsto the great
estate - at its high point one of the largest in England - built up
by the Sykes family in the 18th and 19th centuries and centred upon
the village of Sledmere. The volume includes a substantial
introduction coveringthe history and archaeology of the area as a
whole and analysing the impact of the Sledmere estate on local
villages, churches and farmsteads. There are also detailed sections
on the landscape and topography, economic, social andreligious
history of the parishes and their settlements. The villages covered
by the volume are Cowlam, Duggleby, Fimber, Fridaythorpe,
Helperthorpe, Kirby Grindalythe, East and West Lutton, Sledmere,
Weaverthorpe and Wetwang. DAVID and SUSAN NEAVE are former staff of
the University of Hull.
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