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With Warter having recently been added to PocklingtonHistory.com due to popular request, Mike Silburn and John Nottingham have produced a map and related table dealing with the 1844 Tithe Apportionment. Only the easternmost 25% of the total parish area of 7,880 acres was subject to tithes, but the table shows the landowner of the 72 'closes' (fields, plantations and so on, including close 45a); the 4 public roads; the then occupiers of the closes; and the acreages.
"In 1844, the sole Landowner was Frances Catherine, Baroness Muncaster, the previous owner being her late-husband, The Hon. Lowther Augustus John Pennington, the third Baron Muncaster who had died in 1838 and been buried at Warter. In 1844, the Baroness was acting as Trustee for their 13-year-old son, The Hon. Sir Gamel Augustus Pennington, the fourth Baron Muncaster.
"Especially noteworthy is that the plantation captioned 'Close 20' was the subject of David Hockney's renowned 2007 painting 'Bigger Trees near Warter'.
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