| Description | Includes chapters on the medieval village; the church in the late middle ages; Reformation and the Pilgrimage of Grace; Deighton in the seventeenth century; the Civil War, the Thompsons acquire Escrick, the seventeenth century village, the New Hall, mid eighteenth century village, Bielby Thompson at Escrick and in London, destruction of the old village, Bielby Thompson at Hedon relating to political corruption, building of the new church, the parish and the poor, change of owner from Thompson to Lawley, the first Lord Wenlock, mid-Victorian village, a new church, schooling at Escrick and Deighton, agricultural depression and landlordism under attack, third Baron Wenlock, the Edwardian village, First World War, between the wars, Second World War, expansion of the village in 1960s and 1970s, and the North Selby Mine
Includes a family tree of the Thompsons, Lawleys and Forbe Adams of Escrick |