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  2. History of Pocklington - Wikipedia

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    It is the focal point of an area which has seen significant events through the centuries, many influencing English history. 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 [A D Mills, The Popular Dictionary of English ...

  3. Pocklington - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Arras culture - Wikipedia

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    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. In 2017, the ongoing excavations uncovered a rare chariot burial comprising an Iron Age chariot and two horses dated to about BC 320 to 174.

  5. Pocklington Iron Age burial ground - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. List of mills in North Yorkshire - Wikipedia

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    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in North Yorkshire Arncliffe Name Architect Location Built Demolished Served (Years) Mill Arncliffe, SD 9302 7189 54°08′34″N 2°06′30″W  /  54.14278°N 2.10834°W  / 54.14278 ...

  7. List of cotton mills in Yorkshire - Wikipedia

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    The textile industry of Yorkshire after 1835 was based principally on wool, but many of the early cotton mills were based in the county and the assets and spinning machines often switched from cotton to wool.

  8. Aw, shucks: An inside look at the great American corn-maze ...

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    Kevin Watson, assistant director at Howell Living History Farm in New Jersey, stops at a time clock inside a corn maze. The farm is part of the Mercer County Parks System and offers historical and ...

  9. Heckington Windmill - Wikipedia

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    In 1891 John Pocklington of Wyberton mill had bought the eight-sailed mill cap with gear of the 78-year-old defunct Tuxford's mill (built in 1813 at Skirbeck by the Tuxford millwright family is an example of their fine work) for just £72 at auction in Boston without any plans (N.B. the cost of a tower windmill was £2,000 in 1830). As a ...