North and South Cave Historical data (Any word/ name that 'Highlights' on mouse rollover - click for Profile) Visit Handbags of Fashion Co UK today  Click here for old photographs Other Villages within the Parish of 'Caves North and South'  Hotham, Everthorpe and Drewton           This parish now consists of the villages  of North Cave, Everthorpe, Drewon, South Cliffe, North Cliffe and Hotham.          Hotham is a picturesque village five and a half miles south by east from Market Weighton and six miles from Brough.  Prior to the Norman Conquest the Saxon owners of this parish appears to have been Grim, Ingrede, Turchil, Orme, Basin  and the Bishop of Durham who held three carucates of land.  The king owned one carucate, The Earl of Moreton had five carucates and Robert Malet three carucates.         According to the pedigree of the Hotham Families Sir John de Trehous who fought with William at the Battle of Hastings had a grant of the manor at Hotham.   His descendant Peter de Trehous married Isabella de Turnham by who he had two sons.  Peter and John.   Peter inherited his mothers estate at Mulgrave, John received the estate of Hotham - from that time the name of Trehous was abandoned.   Peter took the name of Maulay and John became known as, John de Hotham, he married and had three sons..  However the Hotham direct line ceased in 1691.      Hotham family papers      The Hotham family papers contain a wealth of religious manuscripts and printed materials. The pamphlet literature collected by Sir John Hotham (1589-1645) and his son, Captain John Hotham (1610-1645) includes several anti-Catholic tracts such as John Bastwick's A learned useful and seasonable discourse concerning the Church of England and the Church of Rome (1643) and four tracts by William Prynne including Romes master-peece (1643) and The popish royall favourite (1643).       Some of these papers are quite rare such as, John Taylor's Mad verse, sad verse, glad verse and bad verse (1644) and the anonymous tract Sampsons foxes agreed to fire a kingdom: or the Jesuit and the Puritan (1644).  There is also the Westminster Assembly's Directory of public worship (1644) [DDHO/2]. Sir John Hotham (1632-1689) was involved in the anti-Catholic politics of the 1670s and 1680s and was forced to flee England during the Exclusion Crisis.       His letters and papers throw light on the religious politics of the period and include letters sent when he returned to England with the Protestant successors to the throne, William and Mary of Orange [DDHO/13/1-2]. There are also notes about the external and internal fabric of several East Riding churches [DDHO(3)51/5].  (Source Archives and Special Collections, Brynmor Jones Library Hull University)      Hotham Hall, long identified with the ancient family of Hotham,  is a handsome mansion, standing in a park of 150 acres, about one mile north of the village.  A west wing was added to the house in 1871.  By 1881 Hotham Hall was occupied by Edward J. Clithers born at  Great Maryleborn, London in c.1820.   He was the local Justice of the Peace.  He was married to Harriet b.c.1820. (source Census Place: North Cave Drewton & Everthorpe, York, England  PRO Ref RG11 Piece 4738 Folio 123 Page 7)      Thomas Claud Clitheroe believed to be the son of John Bourchier Stracey-Clitheroe, acquired the property (his occupation declared as a Colonel in Her Majesty's Army) Conveyance documentation states that he was involved with a company, namely: The Bostonian Land & Investment Company of London.   At an extraordinary General meeting held on the 22nd July 1954, a special resolution was passed that the company would be wound up voluntarily.   On 25th March 1955, the property of Hotham estates were passed to the liquidators of the company as trustees, in order to pay of the debts incurred by Thomas Clitheroe..        A summary of the assets passed to the liquidators as "Trustees", according to documents were:  2158 acres of Farmlands, Smallholdings Cottages, gardens and shops amounting to 22 acres.  Woods and plantations amounting to 108 acres.   A total of approx, 2240 acres in the Parish of North Cave - Drewton - Everthorpe.      On the 30th July 1959 a deed of appointment of trustees was drawn up between:  Thomas Claud Clitheroe and (1) Arthur James Robert Collins, (2) Alfred Hughes Wilkinson, (3)  Sir Edward William Brooksbank Baronet of Menethorpe Hall, Malton, Yorkshire to administer the estates at Hotham - North Cave and Drewton..  (Source Epitome of Title, East Riding Registry of Deeds.(1956/9)      Thomas Claud Clitheroe died at Hotham 1st May 1963.   The executors of his will Arthur James Robert Collins, of London (Solicitor) and Sir Edward William Brooksbank, Baronet of Menethorpe Hall, certified on an Inland Revenue Affidavit  in the High Court of Justices, the principal probate registry, that the gross value of the estate amounted to £7135.9s.3p and that the net value of the estate was  £2421.6s.1p and that estate duty and interest of £1225.18s.7p. had been paid. (Document signed 1st August 1963)      On  21st November 1973 a conveyance document shows that a parcel of land on the East side of Blossom Lane North Cave was sold to a building company for residential housing in Nordham for the sum of £106,600. (Source East Riding Registry of deeds 9th March 1956 Vol 1032 page 149 number 139) Drewon and Everthorpe      In the Doomsday book the following references to Drewton are found:  "In Drowetone, Chetel and Norman had four carucates of land to be taxed, where there may be two ploughs. Robert (Mallet) has now there two ploughs and six villanes and five borders with two ploughs.   Value in the time of King Edward, forty shillings  (Source Bawdwens translation p.154)     Drewton and Everthorpe form a joint village, comprising some 2K acres,  The Village of Drewton consists of the mansion (Croft House), the South Cave railway station, and numerous scattered farmhouses, situated about two miles east  from North Cave.   The land lies on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, and from the higher points at Mount Airey, on a clear day, an extensive view, embracing York Minster, Goole,  Howden, Selby Abbey, numerous power stations, the river Humber, and the Lincolnshire coast may be obtained.   The original Manor House was formerly the property and residence of the Moncktons, and afterwards of the Barons.      Now established at Everthorpe is the Wolds Prison, which comprises the Manor House built in 1870, Everthorpe Hall.   Originally built for Thomas Whitaker on the site of an earlier property near Mires Beck.   Thomas Whitaker died June 1912 and the estate was sold.  The then local council bought the Manor House and some 500 acres of land.      In 1914 Mr Benjamin Seed, a fruit merchant of Hull, Yorkshire purchased the manor house.  Upon his death in 1928 his son John inherited the property.   He sold the estate In 1947  to Gilbert Baitson of Hull        1949 shows that Mr. Baitson sold Everthorpe Hall to the Home Office, which the prison authorities converted at a cost in excess of  £1,000,000 into a prison.   The foundation stone was laid by the Home Secretary, on Saturday, 21st April 1956.     A considerable area of the parkland was enclosed behind an 18ft. high precast and prestressed concrete wall as a security measure, 55 houses were built to accommodate the prison staff.      In 1989 work began constructing the first privately operated British prison.   After a public outcry over the destruction of some woodlands on the estate, the new Wolds Remand Prison was built adjacent to H.M. Prison Everthorpe.        A feature of the entrance to the prison are the two stone lions (photo above) which guard each side of the gateway on their ashlar plinths.    They were originally installed by former owner Benjamin Shaw Seed in front of the Hall itself, but were later resited by the prison authorities to the main entrance of the prison. Dating from 1875 and made by W.D. Keyworth of London.      A little to the north east of South Cave railway station is the entrance to Drewton Vale, with the beck gently winding its way along the bottom.   The Hull Barnsley railway use to follow the course of this valley.  On turning into this road on the corner field on the left hand side there were once the remains of a church.   Many artifacts have been recovered in this area dating from Roman times.   It is told that a Mr George Baron recovered several articles "a silver ring in the form of a snake, broaches, spear heads, arrow heads, leaden balls and roman pottery.      The name of Drewton is said to be a corruption of Druids' town and at one time up to the late 19th century there was a  huge monolith, which is supposed to have been in some way connected with Druidical worship.   It bore the name of,  "St. Augustine's Stone," and local mythology states that at this spot the holy missionary preached the Gospel to the pagan Saxons.      There is no record that St. Augustine ever visited the north of England, let alone North or South Cave.  However The Roman road, which crossed the Humber at Brough, (close to the site of the Humber Bridge), passed through or near Drewton, and many Roman remains have been found here.  (Source The East Riding Archives)  North Cliffe and South Cliffe       North Cliffe village, now in this parish, was formerly in the parish of Sancton but by an order in the Gazette, dated March 29th 1887, was transferred to the parish of North Cave.   It contains about 1.5K acres of land, the soil, which is naturally a poor peaty sand.  The village is small,  three miles south of Market Weighton.  From records of Doomsday it would appear that the land here was owned by the King and it is stated that, to the Manor of Market Weighton belonged "the soke of one carucate in Cliff which one plough might till" (Source The Barnard Papers Hull University Humad3)      South Cliffe is another village in this parish. It contains about 2K acres,  The soils are a light sand, with some clay, and, like that of North Cliffe, has been much improved over the years. The village is small, and stands two-and-a-half miles north-by-west from North Cave, and about three-and-a-half miles south from Market Weighton.    An Illustration of an old cottage named Eight and Forty which was situated in the Wallingfen parish of Cave in the 1800s. 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