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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 England's principal export in the Middle Ages.
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 that it was a local centre for the trading of wool [10] and 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 ...
The Company of Merchants of the Staple of England, the Merchants of the Staple, also known as the Merchant Staplers, is an English company incorporated by Royal Charter in 1319 (and so the oldest mercantile corporation in England) dealing in wool, skins, lead and tin which controlled the export of wool to the continent during the late medieval period.
John Dolman was the son of William Dowman of Pocklington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was educated at the University of Cambridge , graduating B.Civ.L. in 1488 and D.Civ.L. in 1494. [ 1 ] From 1507 until his death he was archdeacon of Suffolk .
Cloth-making was, apart from iron-making, the other large-scale industry carried out on the Weald of Kent and Sussex in medieval times. The ready availability of wool from the sheep of the Romney Marsh, and the immigration from Flanders in the fourteenth century of cloth-workers – places like Cranbrook attracted hundreds of such skilled workers – ensured its place in Kentish industrial ...
The district surrounded but did not originally include Pocklington, which formed a separate urban district. The district was created by the Local Government Act 1894 . [ 1 ] It picked up all of Pocklington Urban District and a small part of Escrick Rural District when they were abolished in 1935 by a County Review Order made under the Local ...
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