PocklingtonHistory.com
News
> 2025 Heritage Festival
> Local airfields in WW2
> Pocklington in 1925
> Wilberfoss walk and talk
> VE Day celebrations
> William Etty
> Revealing the shield
> The 2025 AGM & Talk
> Crime and Punishment
Events

> Pocklington Local History Group
  15th Jan 2026 - Ag Revolution

> Pocklington Local History Group
  19th Feb 2026 - Photo Detective

> Pocklington Local History Group
  19th Mar 2026 - ER Yeomanry

> Pocklington Local History Group
  16th Apr 2026 - AGM and talk

> Pocklington Local History Group
  18th Jun 2026 - BW Walk and Talk

Gallery
Market Place Market Place
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.
Publications
Bills Book Bill's Book

* Peter Halkon
* NEW 2nd Ed.
* 83 pages
* Illustrated
* Only £10.00
Pocklington at war Pocklington at War

* NEW 2nd Ed.
* 62 pages
* Illustrated
* Only £8.00
Woldgate History Woldgate History

"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
llp Ladies book

"Ladies Predominating"

  * Biographies
  * Old photos
  * Only £2
Newsletter

PDLHG Newsletters
#1 Oct 2020
#2 Dec 2020
#3 May 2021

The Sale of Yapham Mill

The sale of Yapham Smock Corn Wind Mill in 1805, 1825 and 1856. In the 1910/11 Land Tax it describes it as a 4 sailed Mill in 1909 and working, but states that since 1909 the sails were blown down and not repaired and now disused. It was turned into a corn store with pigeon cote.

1805 sale
The York Herald, February 23rd, 1805

Yapham Mill sale in 1825
The Leeds Mercury, August 20, 1825
Yapham Mill sale 1856
Yorkshire Gazette - Saturday 27 September 1856
Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Source:http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000266/18560927/070/0001
Image reproduced with kind permission of http://www.thebritishnewspaperarchive.com
Yapham Mill
Yapham Mill taken around 1900.
The sails blew off around 1910 and it became disused.