Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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The first time that waines were seen (this yeare) to goe to Malton with corne was Satterday the 30th of Aprill. On Satterday the 21st of May, there weare sixe that came from Agnes Burton, Lowthorpe and Harpham; they wente all night, sette downe theire corne, and tooke in such thinges as weare bought the Satterday before and left for them, and weare mette out of Malton before seaven of the clocke. It is ill going to Malton with draughts, when the fields adjoyninge to the high-way are most of them fough; when our draughts wente eyther to Malton or Hiddisley-quarrey, looke howe many wente, and they had each of them victualls putte up for three meales; for they wente forth usually on Fryday aboute fower or five of the clocke, and wente usually as farre as Duggleby field, and there loosed and teathered theire cattle; and when the pinder had come they would have given him victualls, and hee would have been well pleased.

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Where were Duggleby field and Hiddisley quarry?

If Elmswell-Malton was 20-25 miles, then the wagons would have travelled at well below walking pace. During the railway boom, the Malton and Driffield Railway set out to solve forever such problems:

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• Best, Henry (approx. 1592-1645) (16) W/G ·
• 📌Burton Agnes (1) W/G ·
• Cattle (26) W/G ·
• Driffield (12) W/G ·
• East Riding of Yorkshire (67) W/G ·
• 📌Elmswell, East Riding of Yorkshire (19) W/G ·
• Freight transport (2) W/G ·
• 📌Harpham (1) W/G ·
• Lowthorpe (1) W/G ·
• 📌Malton, North Yorkshire (11) W/G ·
• Ox (5) W/G ·
• Road transport (14) W/G ·
• Wagon (3) W/G ·
• Wheat (14) W/G ·
• Yorkshire Wolds (23) W/G ·

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Where were Duggleby field and Hiddisley quarry?

If Elmswell-Malton was 20-25 miles, then the wagons would have travelled at well below walking pace. During the railway boom, the Malton and Driffield Railway set out to solve forever such problems:

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5 November 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) lays his wagons up for the winter

20 February 1582: Part of the household inventory made on the death of farmer Richard Best of Elmswell, including his homebrew kit

3 May 1641: On the day of the discovery of the True Cross, Driffield folk start moving their livestock out of town to high summer pasture, endangering crops

18 November 1641: How Henry Best of Elmswell (Wolds) got his straw into optimal condition for the arrival today of the thatcher

7 July 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) starts haymaking

19 August 1641: Henry Best of Elmswell (Driffield) begins to harvest mixed grain, and gleaners wait in the wings

22 November 1641: Snow falls at Elmswell (Driffield), and sheep farmers jostle for low ground and feed

6 June 1641: Under a waning gibbous moon, armed with a penknife and sticky-willy unguent, a shepherd castrates Henry Best’s lambs at Elmswell (Driffield)

11 November 1641: At Martinmas, Henry Best starts cutting willow at Elmswell (Driffield) to make farm implements

6 November 1628: Henry Best agrees rates with threshers at Elmswell (Driffield)

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