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Note the new building in the photo on the corner.
Regent Street Regent Street
Note the 'Old Red Lion Hotel'
Chapmangate Chapmangate
Note the independent chapel built in 1807 to the left.
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"A History of Woldgate School"

* 60 pages
* Fully illustrated
* Only £5.00
epp Exploring Pocklington's Past

* Peter Halkon
* Summary of
Pocklington Archaeology
* Only £5.00
Heritage Trail Heritage Trail

"A Pock History & Heritage Trail"

* 2nd edition
* 27 pages
* Old photos
* Only £4.99

People and Places Thumb Old Pock

"People and Places of Old Pocklington"

* 40 pages
* Old photos
* Only £5.99
Adieu WW1 Book

"Adieu to dear old Pock"

  * ww1 diary
  * 53 profiles
  * Local News
  * 299 soldiers
  * 246 pages
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PDLHG Newsletters
#1 Oct 2020
#2 Dec 2020
#3 May 2021

Earl Morcar of Pocklington?
Did Earl Morcar have a castle in or near Pocklington? His home is thought to be at Casterton near Stamford in Lincolnshire. Earl Morcar fought with his brother Edwin against the viking invaders of Harold Hardrada and the treacherous brother of King Harold, Earl Tostig. However, Morcar was defeated at Fulford in 1066 . It is thought that after the defeat, Morcar could have pulled back to Pocklington and awaited Harold's army to arrive. In pursuit of Morcar, the Vikings took the route to Pocklington via Stamford Bridge, which was the only crossing point of the Derwent at that time*. Two slender pieces of evidence have emerged in support of this. An early letter to the 'Hull Packet' newspaper on March 15th 1831, and the discovery of an old poem in a book called "The Days of Harold" published in 1816 by John Benjamin Rogers, which describes Morcar marching his troops from Pocklington to the Bridge (Stamford). Was 'Tute Hill', near the church, the site of the early castle of Earl Morcar mentioned in the letter?

* There may have been an early crossing at Sutton on Derwent and it is possible that there had been a wooden bridge at Kexby at the time of the Norman Conqest but there was, according to the VCH, a ferry there before the stone bridge was built in the late 1420s.See the article on Turnpike's by Roger Bellingham.
Morcar
An early letter to the 'Hull Packet' newspaper on March 15th 1831
1811 Poem
An old poem in a book called "The Days of Harold"
published in 1816 by John Benjamin Rogers