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HUNMANBY
Old animal compound (Pinfold) for stray animals. The
man who collected these animals was called a 'Pindar'.
The owners of the animals had to pay a fine before they
got them back. This particular Pinfold was built next
to thelock up in 1834 to replace an older one that was
originally sited in another part of the village.This
combined Pound and Prison is believed to be the only
one of its kind in the country.
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Village Lock Up. In constant use until
the 1890's when the new police station and courtroom was
built. The lock up was used occasionally in the early
1900's
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Bempton Cliffs Sea Bird Sanctuary
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Filey Museum
Was originally two single storey cottages
with a thatched roof dating back to 1696 (the oldest domestic
building in Filey).
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Filey Brigg
Filey Brigg is a promontory, jutting out 1600 metres
into the sea. At low tide, this rocky point is a haven
for fishermen, naturalists and fossil hunters.
The Wishing Stone
You are not supposed to pass this stone without taking
a pebble from it. Walk round it three times and make
a wish.
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St Oswald's Church Filey
A cruciform church, dedicated to St Oswald, the patron
saint of Northumbrian (or North of the Humber) fishermen,
stands just above the ravine north of the town.
It is believed that there was an earlier church on the
site , or in the field just over the northern boundary
wall. The present church was built over a 50-year period
in a style predominantly Early English with late Norman
elements. The earliest work is dated c1180 and the latest
c1230.
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Monument in St Oswald's grave yard
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Old School House Pickering
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Pickering Castle
Pickering Castle is an 11th century earthwork motte
and bailey fortress, founded by William the Conqueror.
In the late 12th century, King Henry II founded the
stone castle, when crowning the motte with a shell keep
and encasing the inner bailey with a curtain wall, flanked
by the Coleman Tower. The restored chantry chapel of
1227 and the foundations of the early to mid 12th century
Old Hall, also stand in the inner bailey. In 1324-26
King Edward II replaced the timber palisade which encased
the outer bailey with a curtain wall. The wall is flanked
by a gatehouse and three rectangular towers, one having
a small postern gate at its base, with its own drawbridge
to cross the outer ditch.
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Garderobe Pickering Castle
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North Yorkshire Moors Railway Pickering
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Pickering Station NYMR
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Steam Train at Scarborough
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Scarborough Incoming Tide
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Vickers Pattern 13 Pounder Gun Scarborough
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History
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Bridlington Priory
Bridlington Priory was established in 1113AD and became
one of England’s leading monasteries. The surviving
nave of the church is now a thriving parish church,
a centre of worship and outreach.
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Bridlington Priory
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THE ORIGINS OF BRIDLINGTON
Archaeological evidence proves people have been living
in the area for more than 3,000 years. Flint arrowheads
have been excavated and the skeleton of a woman, bearing
the traces of a bronze armlet dating from 2,000 years
ago, were found in the town centre. From earliest times
the area was an important focus.
Chariot burials, tumuli and entrenchments
on the nearby Yorkshire Wolds indicate important prehistoric
occupation.
A Roman urn has been found and traces of Roman roads
have also been uncovered in the town.
In 1933 a farmer’s plough turned
up a number of Roman tiles near Rudston, a few miles
from Bridlington.
They were from three mosaic pavements,
the largest of which, at 20ft by 16ft, features a figure
of Venus leaving her bath and holding an apple won from
her admirer Paris. In the water is a merman holding
a back-scratcher. There are also figures of a leopard,
wounded lion, stag and bull and the surrounds consist
of huntsmen - one with a spear, another holding a net
and another is the image of Mercury with his winged
staff.
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When the Romans left the area the native
Brigantes were attacked by Picts and Scots. They sought
the aid of the Saxons but before long the friends became
foes.
Many Angles then settled in the area.
At the village of Sewerby an important Anglian cemetery
marks the landing of King Ida in 557AD
After the Angles came the seafaring Vikings and the evidence
of place-names shows the significance of their influence.
Some settled at Flamborough, a few miles along the coast
from Bridlington, where many of the present residents
are direct descendants of the Vikings.
So strong was the Viking influence that Flamborough was
often known as Little Denmark.
On the eve of the Norman invasion in 1066 Domesday Book
records show the land at Bridlington was held by three
Anglo-Scandinavians – Morcar, Torchil and Carle.
The most powerful, Morcar, Earl of Northumberland, rebelled
against King William in 1068 but was unsuccessful and
his lands were forfeited, including the manor of Bridlington.
William’s harrying of the North a year later no
doubt ravaged the area but in later centuries it was to
develop as an agricultural and marketing community.
About 1113 the Norman baron Walter de Gant, who by then
held the manor of Bridlington, established the first Augustinian
priory in the North of England.
The parish church of St Mary, now known as Bridlington
Priory, is all that remains of what was, in the late Middle
Ages, the largest and richest Augustinian monastery in
the North of England.
When the monastery was dissolved and destroyed in 1537
by order of Henry VIII, its nave, always used as a parish
church, was allowed to stand.
The development of the two settlements of Bridlington
– the Old Town and Quay – was remarkable and
significant; the former growing around the Priory and
High Street, the latter focussed on the harbour.
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The two towns remained largely separated until the 19th
Century when the railway and its station came in between
them and began to pull them together.
St John of Bridlington (1320-79) was one of the last English
saints to be canonised, in 1401. After his death many
came to worship, including Henry IV and Henry V. At the
Priory a window commemorates some of these important visitors.
For years the Quay remained a small place. In 1672 it
had only 120 houses while the Old Town had 232 houses.
As the Quay developed as a resort, with the town’s
two beaches and harbour, it grew in importance and size.
The Old Town is still surrounded in history.
Market Place has cobbled paving and stocks outside one
of the public houses.
The Crown leased the manor of Bridlington to local townspeople
in 1566. By 1630, it was decided to sell it. In 1636 the
Great Town Deed was drawn up between 13 feoffees (purchasers),
and 187 tenants of the manor.
Many premises in the town are still owned by the Lords
Feoffees, as they became known, and the body invests proceeds
in town causes.
The current Bayle Museum, the former gatehouse to Bridlington
Priory, is owned by the Lords Feoffees, which has been
a charitable trust for more than 300 years.
Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, famously took
refuge in Bridlington during the Civil War the king was
fighting against the Parliamentarians.
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On a voyage back from Holland to obtain supplies, she landed in
Burlington Bay in February 1642. Two days later five
ships of war commanded by Parliamentarian Admiral Batten
entered the bay at night and opened fire with their
cannons.
In a letter to the king, the Queen wrote:
“One of their ships did me the favour of flanking
on the house where I slept and before I was out of bed
the balls whished so loud about me that my company pressed
me earnestly to go out of the house.
“So, clothed as well as in haste
I could be, I went on foot to some little distance from
the town of Burlington and got in the shelter of a ditch,
whither before I could get, the cannon balls fell thick
about us, and a servant was killed within seventy paces
of me.
“One dangerous ball grazed the edge
of the ditch and covered us with earth and stones.”
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The Bayle Museum
The word Bayle is derived
from the French Baille meaning ‘enclosure’
or ‘ward’.
Recent archaeological surveys
of the Bayle have concluded that a large proportion
of the building dates to the late 12th Century. The
initial use of the building is unclear although there
is a possibility it may have been a gatehouse to a castle
built by William le Gros after he took control of Bridlington
Priory in 1143.
In the 14th Century the
Bayle was the Gatehouse to Bridlington Priory, a porter
lived inside the Bayle and monitored the comings and
goings of the Priory. An Almoner also lived in the Bayle
and distributed food and ale to the poor of Bridlington.
Since the dissolution of
Bridlington Priory the Bayle has been used for many
different purposes including a Prison, Court, School,
Garrison, Non – Conformist meeting place, Town
Hall and meeting room for the Lords Feoffees.
Today the Bayle is a Grade
I listed Building and scheduled Ancient Monument, which
makes it of great interest historically and architecturally.
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Old Bridlington Anglian Cemetary
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Market Square Old Town Bridlington
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Market Square Old Town Bridlington
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Burton Agnes Hall
Burton Agnes Hall is a Lovely Elizabethan House filled
with treasures collected by the family over a period
of 400 years and a history going back to Norman times
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Burton Agnes Hall House
Burton Agnes Manor House is a 12th century stone fortified
hall house, founded by Roger de Stuteville. The original
vaulted chamber, now supports a 15th century great hall,
built for Sir Walter Griffith. It is the only surviving
part of a much larger defensible complex and is a rare
example of a Norman house. During the 17th and 18th
century, the house was encased in brick and used as
a laundry for Burton Agnes Hall.
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St Martin's Burton Agnes
St Martin’s Church is basically a Norman building
over 800 years old. Its access is under an avenue of
beautiful yew trees. It is believed to be the second
church to stand on this site and has been altered greatly
over the years. There a many curious features within
the church and one of a number of monuments is one in
memory of Robert Wilberforce, son of the reformer William
Wilberforce, who at one time was a rector in the village
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The tomb of the 'Dark Knight' Sir Walter
Griffith
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Robin Hood's Bay
This former smugglers' den owes its reputation to its
strategic position sitting below a steep cliff lapped
by the sea. It was ideal for such nefarious activities.
And its rabbit warren of narrow tumbled streets and
alleyways made it ideal for escaping the law.
Legend has it that secret tunnels and passageways once
existed between the houses. Perhaps they still do.
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Staithes
Was home to Captain Cook. It's quaint narrow streets
give the feeling of going back in time.
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Staithes
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St Leonard's Church Speeton
A tiny Norman Chapel built on the site of an earlier
Saxon church.
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St Leonard's
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St Leonard's
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Sunset at Speeton
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Spooky Mist Speeton
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Spooky Mist Speeton
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Is this the biggest mushroom in the
world?
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Rudstone Church and Monolith
The present church is a Norman building, but the stone
has been dated as being up to 3600 years old. It is
suggested that the early Anglo-Saxon missionaries christianised
an already sacred object.
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of prehistoric life; there are square and round barrows
which show evidence of Neolithic and Bronze Age burials.
The main street of the village is an ancient track, probably
first used in Neolithic times. To the North of the village
are Argam Dikes, prehistoric earth banks. There are also
the strange “Cursus”, believed to be late Neolithic
Earth banks, which may have been track ways or procession
paths. Rudston must have been of great importance as a religious
or perhaps trading site in prehistoric times.
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St John The Evangelist Folkton
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The church of St. Cuthbert is
an ancient edifice, originally erected in the Early English
period, but subsequently restored and partially rebuilt
of brick. It consists of chancel, nave, south porch, and
western tower containing two bells. There was formerly a
south aisle, but this has been taken down, and the arcade
which separated it from the nave filled up with masonry.
The original chancel arch is gone, but the piers remain,
as also do the columns of the Early English doorway, with
capitals once richly carved. The church was repaired in
1887, at a cost of £75, and at the same time a small
turret clock, with two dials, was placed in the tower in
commemoration of Her Majesty's jubilee. The organ was presented
by the vicar and his family in 1883. The font is ancient,
and consists of a circular bowl and shaft, resting on a
base bearing sculptured heads, now scarcely recognisable.
The windows, Gothic on one side and square wooden framed
ones on the other, are filled with plain glass. The interior
is furnished with old-fashioned pews for 150 worshippers.
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St Cuthbert's Burton Fleming
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Whitby Abbey
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Flamborough
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Old Cellars
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