North Elmsall, 2118 acres; South Elmsall, 1424 acres; South Kirkby, 2360 acres ; Hampole, 239 acres ; Skelbrook, 1147 acres. PRE-NORMAN, [SOUTH] KIRKBY Parish, 7280 acres. DOMESDAY. Value. 40s. sidering that Roger had there one plough and that villanes and 2 bordars had another, while its moiety of the mill was worth 40d., there is on the surface no sufficient reason why its value should have fallen, as it did from 40s. to 10s. For the moiety on the north of the stream, in the hands of Ruffus, had, exceptionally, maintained its pre-Norman value. XV.-OWSTON. Burghwallis (part only), 292 acres; Owston, 1815 acres; Skellow, 932 acres. Carleton, 589 acres; East Hardwick, 527 acres; Ferry Fryston (part of), 121 acres ; Knottingley, 1481 acres; Monkhill, 5 acres; Pontefract, 2381 acres; Park District, 1395 acres; Tanshelf, 297 acres. PONTEFRACT Parish, 6796 acres. appears to have been a portion of Darrington, though its name refers it to Ackworth on its west. Monkhill was a small area in which the monks had exclusive jurisdiction; and although it was surrounded by Pontefract, it claimed exemption from the municipal rule of the Borough. It was known as Mons Monachorum as early as the last half of the twelfth century. Pontefract Park was the Pontefract portion of an ancient Field common to Pontefract and Featherston. It was imparked about 1180, the inhabitants of Pontefract and Tanshelf retaining their rights of common, though Tanshelf was not a part of the incorporated borough. It was disparked and the rights of the townships and of the Duchy of Lancaster respectively, partitioned in 1780, when the portion allotted to the town was enclosed as a common Park, the portion allotted to the Duchy being divided into farms, constituting the extra-parochial Pontefract Park District. The Domesday name of Pontefract was Tateshalle [Tada's Hall] which seems to have some relation to Tanshelf [Tada's Cliff] and Edeshale [Edwin's Hall]. Tada [or Ethelburga] being the Queen of Edwin, King of Northumbria. There were in the 12th and 13th centuries many small hamlets in Ponte fract, of which the chief were Monkroyd or Brackenhill (a district given to the Priory at its foundation, but exchanged away about 1220), Marl5 Pits, which gave name to an important 14th century family and Ranker Pits, the stone being of a more friable quality. Foulsnape (see Y. Arch. Journal, x. 543) and Tinkler's Stone (St. Nicholas town) were among those whose name and locality have been preserved; but of West Chepe (Do. I. 169) no more is known than a single charter. The concluding words of the Domesday Report upon Pontefract are "Infra hanc metam continetur elemosina pauperum." without stating their quantity, but in the Recapitulation it is added that there were 2 carucates of alms-land beside the 16 carucates, so that practically it amounted to a tenth of the manor. This was the land belonging to St. Nicholas Hospital, still called 'Spital (or Hospital) Hardwick. It has been in recent times one large farm in the hands of Lord Houghton, and has never attracted population. A well called St. Ive's, a stone's throw from the wayside, seems to connect it with St. Hiva of Hartlepool and with King Edwin of Northumbria, whose establishment of way-side wells is referred to by the Venerable Bede. XVII.-SNAITH. Airmyn, 3707 acres; Balne, 2866 acres; Carltou, 4220 acres ; Goole, 4838 acres ; Gowdall, 1210 acres; Heck, 1677 acres; Hensall, 1177 acres; Hook, 2001 acres ; Pollington, 1920 acres ; Rawcliffe, 4668 acres; Snaith and Cowick, 5862 acres. 5 Marl is the technical name of the hard beds above the coal measures, and beneath the limestone. Edeshale appears twice, the first entry being a marginal addition among the lands still in the hands of the king. The entry gives all the facts except that there was a carucate in demesne. The second entry is among the lands of the king's tenants, but it does not say whether the carucate was in the hands of the king, or of Baret, or of an unnamed tenant, but it reports the manor as in the soke of Snaith. The two manors of Carleton and Camblesford (incorrectly spelt Gamesford) are the last named of the West Riding manors entered in the supplement as having been recently given to Robert de Bruis. In the Recapitulation, Carleton (379; lxxxi) and Edeshale (379; lxxxii) are both said still to belong to the king. Rawcliffe (Selby Chartulary, Nos. 68 and 708) has been the subject of a singular official mystification. The Exchequer correctly furnished a certified copy of an entry with regard to Rawcliffe, taken from 301; vii. This was duly recorded in an inspeximus dated July 10, 1343, and as it there appeared was a statement literally accurate. It is hard to say whether when the monks of Selby made the certificate and this inspeximus to apply to their manor near Selby, they were guilty of a trivial blunder or of an attempted fraud. But the place referred to in those documents was Rawcliffe (near Skelton and near Wigginton), about 3 miles from York. XVIII.-WHITGIFT. Ousefleet, 2885 acres; Reedness, 3083 acres; Swinefleet, 2472 acres; Whitgift, 1501 acres. Neither of the manors in the parish of Whitgift was named in the Survey; but 16 years before its date, a fishery at WHITGIFT Parish, 9941 acres. Whitgift had been given to the Abbey of Selby by the Conqueror himself. XIX.-WOMERSLEY. Cridling Stubbs (part of), 572 acres ; Little Smeaton, 1238 acres; Stubbs Walding, 1272 acres; Womersley, 3991 acres. PRE-NORMAN. WOMERSLEY Parish, 7013 acres. DOMESDAY. XX.-WRAGBY. Foulby, Huntwick, and Nostell (altogether 1141 acres) are extra-parochial; West Hardwick, 487 acres; Hessle, 645 acres; Hill Top, 242 acres; Ryhill, 592 acres ; and Wintersett, 1065 acres. WRAGBY Parish, 3031 acres. Arksey with Bentley, 5133 acres; Adwick le Street, 1638 acres; and Scawsby, 653 acres; were included in Osgoldcross in the Recapitulation; though classed in the Report as belonging to Strafford. 88. Value. |
