The other good residences in the village are occupied by Mrs. Binnington, Mr. Wm. Binnington, jun., and Mr. John Hudson. There are two Granges in this parish; one of which is the residence of Mr. James Grubb, and the other is in the occupation of Mr. John Staveley. Wold House is occupied by Mr. William Binnington, and Shiptondale House is the property and residence of Mr. William Leak.

GREAT DRIFFIELD.

This parish contains the township of Emswell with Kelleythorpe, and the chapelry of Little Driffield, besides the town of Great Driffield. The area of Great and Little Driffield is 5,058 acres, and the chief proprietors of the soil are Lord Londesborough, Viscount Downe (Lord of the Manor), E. D. Conyers, Esq., and Mr. Robert Hornby. The parish is situated in the heart of a fertile district, the soil is well adapted to the growth of corn, the pastures are luxuriant, and the cattle bred here are of very superior quality. The famous short horned bull Patriot, bred by the late Mr. George Coates, was fed here about 35 years ago, and was sold for 500 guineas; and Mr. Coates afterwards bred a cow from the same stock, for which he is said to have refused the offer of 1,000 guineas. This neighbourhood is remarkable for the breeding of Leicester sheep, and there is, perhaps, no part of the world in which they arrive at greater perfection, or where the breeding of them is better understood. There is also here an excellent breed of carriage horses, and good waggon horses.

Several thousand acres of land in this district were formerly occupied as rabbit warrens. The air is pure and salubrious, and the locality is remarkably pleasant, and abounds with varied scenery.

The Market Town of Great Driffield is situated at the foot of the Wolds, and near the confluence of several fine trout streams, which, uniting their waters, flow south-eastward to Frodingham, where, receiving numerous tributaries, they form the river Hull. It is distant from Hull 22 miles N. by E., 13 N. of Beverley, 12 S.W. of Bridlington, and 196 miles N. from London. The assessed property in the parish, in 1815, amounted to £15,271. The population of Great Driffield in 1851 was 3,963 souls, viz:-1,894 males, and 2,069 females. The population of the same place in 1801 was 1,329 persons. Rateable value of Great Driffield town and township, £14,285. The town consists of one spacious street, extending nearly north and south, in a direction parallel with the principal stream, and of two or three small streets of inferior houses. The streets are lighted with gas, from works 3 s

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established in 1835, at an expense of £1,800., raised in shares of £10. each. These works were erected by Mr. John Malam, and have since been much enlarged. The inhabitants have an ample supply of excellent water. The Market is held every Thursday, and for corn it is said to be the best market in the East Riding. A market for fat cattle is held on every alternate Wednesday. There are Fairs for horses, cattle, and sheep, at Little Driffield, on Easter Monday, Whit Monday, August 26th, and September 19th.

There are branches of the York Union, the East Riding, and the Bridlington and Driffield Banks; as well as a branch of the Hull Savings' Bank, opened in 1831. The amount deposited in the latter during the year 1854 was £7,491.; and the amount paid to depositors is £6,514. The total amount deposited since the opening of the bank, is £103,412.; and the amount paid to depositors, is £78,588.

The principal trade is in corn, of which the surrounding district affords an abundant supply. There are several extensive steam and water corn mills on the various streams in the town and neighbourhood, viz:-Poundsworth Mill (in Hutton Cranswick parish) about 1 mile from the town, now occupied by Mr. Thomas Dawson; River Head Corn and Bone Mill, the property and in the occupation of Messrs. Harrison; King's Mill, worked by Mr. William Witty; the Albion Steam Mill, the property of Mr. Chambers Sproxton; and the Bell Corn and Bone Mills, situated in Skerne parish, and formerly a flax spinning and dressing mill. The corn mill is worked by Mr. W. Wrigglesworth, and the bone mill by Mr. Brigham, of Beverley. There are likewise two wind mills in the town, one of which is worked by steam.

The Driffield Canal was constructed under an act of the 7th of Geo. III. (1767), and extends along the side of the principal stream to the river Hull, a little below the bridge at Frodingham. At the head of the canal are commodious wharfs and warehouses, as well as two mills for crushing bones.

There are several good Breweries. Gibson's Foundry was established in 1826; Johnson's Foundry, in 1848; and Pickering's Foundry, in 1854. These three are likewise agricultural implement manufactories. Harker's Foundry is also a millwright establishment, and it was at it that the fine powerful water wheel of the Wansford Mill was cast. The manufacture of Artificial Manure is carried on here to a considerable extent, by Messrs. F. C. Matthews and Co., manufacturing agricultural chemists. This excellent manure has, in the course of seven years, attained so great a notoriety for its good qualities, that not less than from £5,000. to £6,000. worth of it is annually manufactured and sold here, and during the past season an area of not less than 15,000 acres of crops in this locality were placed under its fertilizing influence.

The Church (All Saints) is a Perpetual Curacy, with that of Little Drif field annexed, valued in the Liber Regis at £7. 10s. 24d., and now returned at £154. nett per annum. It was augmented with £200. of Queen Anne's Bounty, in 1772, and £400. in 1821. The present patron and impropriator is the Precentor in the Cathedral of York, as Prebendary of Driffield, but under the Cathedral Act the Archbishop of York will be the patron, after the termination of the existing interest of the Rev. Dr. Rice, the present Precentor. The Rev. George Allen is the incumbent. There is no Parsonage House, but there is a site for one on the south side of the churchyard, to the rear of the yard of the Red Lion Inn.

The Fabric of the church is a stately and venerable pile of Norman and Early English architecture. Its plan embraces a nave with aisles, a chancel, and a lofty square embattled tower, of the Decorated English style, strengthened by double buttresses at the angles, panelled and enriched with canopied niches, and crowned with an elegant panelled battlement, and eight richly crocketed pinnacles. Tradition states that this elegant tower, which forms a truly magnificent feature in the landscape, was built by one of the Hotham family, in commutation of a vow made during a dangerous illness, to undertake a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. A south porch was erected in 1829. Some of the windows of the church are square-headed, and others pointed. In the wall over the window in the east end of the south aisle is the statuette of a Bishop, mitred and croziered. The chancel has two tall square-headed windows on each side, and a similar window of five lights in the east end of it. There is a circular doorway, resting on attached columns, on the south side of the chancel, and a similar doorway on the north side leads to a modern vestry. The interior is very neat; the aisles are separated from the nave by an arcade of four circular arches, on similar formed columns; and the chancel and tower arches are pointed. The organ is placed within the arch of the tower. There is a piscina in the chancel, and another at the east end of the north aisle. There are several monuments in the church. The present font is modern, the ancient one being placed in the belfry. The ceilings are flat and plastered. The tower contains a clock and three bells. The Baptist Chapel was built in 1788. The Independent Chapel, erected in 1802, is a neat brick building in Exchange Street, containing a good organ, put up in 1847, by Mr. Wm. Shepherdson, of Driffield. At the rear of the chapel is a Sunday School, erected in 1846. The Wesleyan Chapel is

* Bacon styles Great Driffield a Discharged Vicarage, and Little Driffield a Perpetual Curacy.

a large brick building erected in 1828; and the Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in 1821.

There are two good Boarding and Day Schools here for young gentlemen; one at Broomsgrove House, conducted by Mr. Edwin Shaw, and the other in Middle Street, conducted by Mr. Forge.

The National School was established in 1818. The old school has recently been taken down, and near its site a new and beautiful school for boys and girls, with master's residence, play ground, &c., has just been erected, on ground given by Lord Downe. The buildings, which are an ornament to the part of the town where they stand, are in the Pointed style, faced with stock bricks, stone quoins, and mullions, and surmounted with a bell turret and vane, from designs by Mr. C. Broderick, architect, Hull. The cost of the erection was defrayed by voluntary subscription, and a grant from the Committee of Council on Education.

An Infant School, built in 1839, is supported by subscription.

The Mechanics' Institute, founded in 1837, is held in a commodious building in Westgate, which was formerly a Methodist Chapel. It numbers about 250 members; and there are about 600 volumes in the library. The president for the present year is the Rev. Henry Birch, Independent minister; and the secretaries are Messrs. John Browne and C. B. Forest. On the walls of the lecture hall are large paintings, in gilt frames, of the late Mr. J. Harrison and Mr. D. Anderson, friends of the institute; and a lithographed portrait of the Earl of Carlisle, the patron of the institute.

The Farmers' Club was instituted in 1851, for the advancement of practical agriculture in this neighbourhood, and the discussion of political subjects affecting the agricultural interests. The proceedings consisted of lectures and discussions on practical points in husbandry, agricultural chemistry, with experiments, and politics, by amateur and professional lecturers. The club has sent delegates to political meetings, and subscribed to movements for protection to native industry; and it has been the the means of bringing several of the reaping machines and improved agricultural implements into operation in the district, and testing their practical utility. In the harvest of 1852 an important and interesting trial of reaping machines, under the auspices of the club, took place on the farm of the president, Mr. Hopper, of Kelleythorpe. The club originated the Driffield and East Riding Agricultural Society, with which it was amalgamated in the beginning of the present year. This society dates from the 1st of January, 1854, and an annual subscription of 10s. or upwards, constitutes a member. According to its rules an annual show of all sorts of short horned cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, poultry, and

implements, is to be held in the month of July, and to be open for competition to the East Riding of Yorkshire. The first annual show of the Society took place at Driffield, on the 12th of July, 1854, on which occasion the prizes awarded amounted to £282. 17s. 6d. ; and the second was at the same place on the 25th of July in the present year, when the sum of £329. 7s. 6d. was given as premiums. The president for the present year is Lord Hotham; secretary, Mr. Robert Kirby.

The Floral, Horticultural, and Poultry Society was formed in 1852, and held its first show in the autumn of that year. In consequence of the spirit and liberality with which the exhibitions have been conducted, they have proved the most successful and brilliant of anything of the kind in this part of the country; each successive exhibition excelling the previous one in interest, extent, and financial matters. The great number of every variety of beautiful poultry, the extent and excellence of the floral and horticultural produce, have attracted the largest, the gayest, and most fashionable company ever witnessed in Driffield. The society is upheld by voluntary contributions and donations, and is patronized by Lord Hotham, the Hon. Capt. Duncombe, and many of the gentry of the district. President, E. H. Reynard, Esq.; Secretary, Mr. John Browne.

The trout streams afford excellent sport to the angler, and for the protection of the fisheries, an Anglers' Club was established in 1833. This club numbers amongst its members the Duke of Leeds, Viscount Downe, Lord Wenlock, and Sir Tatton Sykes. The subscription of each member is £5. per annum. President, Lord Londesborough; Treasurer and Hon. Sec., E. H. Reynard, Esq. The proprietors of the trout stream are Lord Londesborough, Viscount Downe, and Sir T. Sykes. About 2 miles from Driffield an extraordinary trout was caught in the stream, by J. Dunn, a waterman, on the 24th of Sept., 1832. It measured 32 inches in length, 21 inches in circumference, and weighed 17 pounds. It is now preserved, and in the possession of Mr. Dobson, fishing tackle manufacturer, Driffield. There was another trout, taken in the stream a few years since, weighing 12 pounds, which is now in the Scarborough Museum; and several have been taken of about five and six pounds weight. About twenty miles of water are preserved by this club.

A neat building, containing the Corn Exchange and Public Rooms, was erected in 1841, at an expense of about £2,600., raised in shares of £10. each. It contains two large rooms, each being over 50 feet long and 30 wide, and communicating with each other by sliding partitions; a room in which the magistrates hold Petty Sessions, for the division of Bainton Beacon,