Description | The introduction covers landscape and geology, early settlement, Iron Age and Romano-British settlement, medieval parish, manors and estates, medieval villages, population and agriculture, landownership, settlement and agriculture 1550-1750, landownership 1750-1914 including the Sykes family, agriculture 1750-1914, landownership and the Victorian village and includes chapters on Cowlam, Fimber, Fridaythorpe, Helperthorpe, Kirby Grindalythe including Duggleby, Mowthorpe and Thirkleby, Luttons Ambo including East Lutton and West Lutton, Sledmere including Croome, Weaverthorpe and Wetwang
The chapters cover the general history of the development of the parish, settlement, landownership, economic history, social history, religious history, local government, and buildings
Includes illustrations of East Buckrose parishes c.1880, medieval parishes and townships, relief and drainage, Neolithic and Bronze age landscape, Iron Age, Romano-British and Anglian landscape, Sledmere estate in 1913, Croome Farm and estate cottages 2006, Fimber Grange from the air c.1950, New Row, Duggleby, c.1900, West Lutton church c.1878, Sledmere Wesleyan Chapel with trustees 1889, rebuilding Sledmere House c.1914, Cowlam parish c.1850 and c.1910, site of deserted village at Cowlam from the air 1868, Collingwood Farm at Cowlam 2002, Cowlam church 2006-7, Fimber village c.1910, inclosure at Fimber, proposed parsonage at Fimber 1876, Gameslack Farm at Fimber c.1910, Fimber church c.1878, Fridaythorpe village c.1910, Back Street, Fridaythorpe c.1905, inclosure at Fridaythorpe, interior of Fridaythorpe church c.1890, Helperthorpe village c.1910, inclosure at Helperthorpe, Helperthorpe church c.1890, former vicarage at Helperthorpe 2005, barn at Glebe Farm, Helperthorpe 2007, Kirby Grindalythe parish c.1850, Duggleby Howe 2002, Kirby Grindalythe c.1755, Duggleby village c.1910, parts of the Anglo-Scandinavian stone crosses built into the church tower of Kirby Grindalythe, Kirby Grindalythe church c.1878, Low Farm, Kirby Grindalythe 2006, Low Mowthorpe farmhouse c.1897, Luttons Ambo villages c.1910, Luttons Ambo villages inclosure plan, former Wesleyan Methodist chapel at West Lutton 1987, White House, East Lutton 2004, Church Farm, West Lutton 2008, Sledmere parish c.1860, Sledmere village c.1774, and c.1910, medieval lynchets at Croome 2006, Croome pre and post inclosure field patterns, Sledmere school 2006, Sledmere church 1893, Sledmere estate 1990, Sledmere House 2006, Castle Farm c,1890, Sledmere Field former farmhouse 2002, plans for terraced cottages at Sledmere c.1778, Low Row in Sledmere, Sledmere Waggoner's Memorial 2003, Weaverthorpe village c.1910, main street in Weaverthorpe c.1900, Weaverthorpe inclosure, Weaverthorpe church 2006, Weaverthorpe Wesleyan Methodist chapel 1984, Wetwang village c.1910, and c.1806, Wetwang pond c.1910, Wetwang inclosure, Wetwang vicarage formerly school house 1909, and Wetwang church 1900 |