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All Saints' Church, Pocklington. Pocklington gets its name via the Old English "Poclintun" from the Anglian settlement of Pocel's (or Pocela's) people and the Old English word "tun" meaning farm or settlement, [3] but though the town's name can only be traced back to around 650 AD, the inhabitation of Pocklington as a site is thought to extend back a further 1,000 years or more to the Bronze Age.
Pocklington developed through the Middle Ages while many similar places fell into dramatic decline. Pocklington owed much of its prosperity in the Middle Ages to the fact it was a local centre for the trading of wool [9] and that it lay on the main road to York, an important national centre for the export of wool to the Continent. Wool was ...
The Pocklington Iron Age burial ground is a prehistoric cemetery discovered in 2014 on the outskirts of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.Excavations carried out on an ongoing basis since then, have uncovered more than 160 skeletons and more than 70 square barrows thought to date to the Middle Iron Age that are attributed to the Arras culture, an ancient British culture of ...
All Saints’ Church, Pocklington is the Anglican parish church for the town of Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is also known locally as the Cathedral of the Wolds, it is an important Grade I listed building, dating mainly from the 12th to the 15th century. It is a constituent parish of the Diocese of York.
Pocklington Beck is a watercourse that flows westwards from Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and empties into the River Derwent at East Cottingwith.The beck is known for being culverted through the town of Pocklington, and for being susceptible to flooding.
Goole and Pocklington is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. [1] Further to the completion of the 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies, it was first contested at the 2024 general election. [2] Its Member of Parliament (MP) is David Davis of the Conservative Party, the former Brexit Secretary.
Pocklington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henry Cabourn Pocklington (1870–1952), English teacher, physicist, and mathematician; Jeremy Pocklington (born 1973), British civil servant; Jim Pocklington (born 1963), British racing driver; Peter Pocklington (born 1941), Canadian entrepreneur
The Pocklington Canal is a broad canal which runs for 9.5 miles (15.3 km) through nine locks from the Canal Head near Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, to the River Derwent which it joins near East Cottingwith. Most of it lies within a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest.