Huggate Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.

HUGGATE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892.

Wapentake of Harthill (Wilton Beacon Division) - County Council Electoral Division of Huggate - Petty Sessional Division of Wilton Beacon - Poor Law Union and County Court District of Pocklington - Rural Deanery of Harthill - Archdeaconry of the East Riding - Diocese of York.

This parish, which is situated on the Wolds, comprises, according to the Ordnance Survey, 7,003 acres, and in the Overseer's books the estimated extent is given as 6,561 acres. The surface is undulated, and interspersed with deep dales; the soil is a chalky loam resting on chalk, occasionally mixed with flint. The farms here are much above the average size, some of them exceeding 1,000 acres, and are all in a high state of cultivation. Large numbers of sheep are reared in the valleys and on the hill sides. The rateable value is £5,280, and time population in 1891 was 463. William Jessop, Esq., of Walling Wells, Worksop, who purchased the manorial estate in 1878, from the representatives of the late James Christie, Esq.; Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart., Sledmere; Sir Charles Henry John Anderson, Bart., Lea, Gainsbro'; and the trustees of Hemsworth Hospital are the principal landowners.

There are several lines of intrenchments extending in a north-easterly direction through the parish, supposed to be the work of the ancient Britons; and scattered about are several sepulchral tumuli. Four of these were opened by the Yorkshire Antiquarian Club in 1849, when portions of three skeletons, fragments of very early British pottery, charcoal mixed with earth, flints, &c., were found. There was reason to believe the mounds had been previously opened.

The village is situated on the Wolds, eight miles north-east from Pocklington, ten miles west from Driffield, and four-and-a-half miles south-west from Wetwang station, on the Malton and Driffield branch of the North-Eastern railway. There is a well on the village green 339 feet deep, said to be the deepest but one in England. It formerly supplied the villagers with water, but is now disused and boarded over. The church of St. Mary is supposed to have been originally erected about the year 1220, by Ralph Paganel, whose ancestor of the same name came over with the Conqueror, and stood high in the royal favour. It was thoroughly restored in 1864, when a large portion of it was rebuilt. The plan comprises chancel, nave, aisles, south porch, and an embattled and decorated tower with a lofty octagonal spire, containing two bells. The nave is divided from the aisles by arcades of three pointed arches, and a very fine arch of the same style divides the nave and chancel. The east window is a memorial of the late Jas. Christie, Esq., erected at the expense of the tenants in 1884. The ancient octagonal font is still in use.

The living is a rectory, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. William Rowe Jolley, M.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, and Deputy Clerk of the Queen's Closet. The tithes were commuted at the inclosure, in 1773, for 332 acres of land, and a yearly modus of £236. Its gross value is returned in the Diocesan Calendar at £580, but this is subject to considerable variation in consequence of the fluctuating value of the glebe land. A close catalogue of the York, and continued to the present time, hangs against the west end.

The churchyard having become too small, an addition of 1,880 square yards was made to it in 1890. The land was given by William Jessop, Esq.

The Primitive Methodist chapel dates from 1849. The Wesicyans erected a new one in 1886, at a cost of £480, capable of accommodatiung 300 worshippers.

The National school (mixed), with teacher's house attached, is situated near the church, and is attended on an average by about 60 children.

Hawold is an estate of 1,050 acres, belonging to Sir Charles Henry Anderson, Bart., and forming a separate manor.

[Description(s) from Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892)]

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