Octon, East Riding of Yorkshire explained

Country:England
Coordinates:54.1143°N -0.4202°W
Label Position:bottom
Official Name:Octon
Civil Parish:Thwing
Unitary England:East Riding of Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Lieutenancy England:East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency Westminster:East Yorkshire
Post Town:DRIFFIELD
Postcode District:YO25
Postcode Area:YO
Dial Code:01262
Os Grid Reference:TA033698
London Distance Mi:180
London Direction:S

Octon is a hamlet and shrunken medieval village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

History

Octon is recorded in the 11th-century Domesday Book as "Ocheton". The village contained a chapel dedicated to St. Michael (noted in 1327). After around 1400 no records exist relating to the chapel, and the village is thought likely to have been depopulated as a result of the Black Death.

By the 19th century the village was reduced to a small farming hamlet. In 1823 three farmers and a gamekeeper were recorded as resident in Octon, with a further two farmers at Octon Grange just over 1miles to the north. The extent of the hamlet remained unexpanded throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.[1]

The modern village is at the same location as the reduced medieval village; earthworks of the medieval church and village were scheduled as an ancient monument in 1994.[2] The 'Old farmhouse' at Glebe farm, Octon, a cruck framed longhouse dating from the 17th century is a Grade II* listed building.

Geography

Octon is located approximately 1.25miles west of Thwing in the civil parish of Thwing. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds at a height of over 330feet above sea level approximately 9.5miles west of Bridlington on the North Sea coast. The village includes a large house 'Octon Manor'.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Ordnance Survey. 1854, 1892, 1912–3, 1952–3, 1972–83. 1:10560 and 1:10000
  2. 79871. Octon shrunken village. 13 January 2013.
  3. Ordnance Survey. 1:25000. 2009
  4. Book: The East Riding of Yorkshire . Cambridge County Geographies. 26. The Roll of Honour. https://books.google.com/books?id=3hU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA149. 149. 29 April 2013. Hobson . Bernard . 1924 .