 Driffield Chronology |
DRIFFIELD AND WOLDS GENEALOGY |
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Trade Directories Parish Registers Driffield Parish Church Baptisms 1836-1850 (incomplete) A - L Driffield Parish Church Baptisms 1836-1850 (incomplete) M - Z Flamborough Marriages by Banns 1754-1779 North Burton (Burton Fleming) Parish Registers Wesleyan Baptisms 1837-1867 A-H only Monumental Inscriptions North Frodingham & North Dalton Cemetery MIs BMD Announcements &c from the Driffield Times Religion List of Priors etc of Monastic Establishments on the Yorkshire Wolds Driffield Congregational Church Religious Meeting Houses Licenced 1708-1808 WW1 Soldiers who died in WW1 with a connection to Driffield WW2 Social History History of the Driffield Post Office Trevor Malkin on the Driffield Railway Biographies &c They left Nafferton in 1863 - Where are they now? Some Old Driffield Schoolmasters Thomas Saulsbury Wright- one of yours? Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds Miscellaneous Useful links & Online family trees
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705 Spelt Drifilda in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - King Aldfrith buried at Little Driffield 1086 - Drifelt/ Drifeld/ Drifel - Domesday Book 1100 - Drifild - Yorkshire Charters 1100-8 1165 - Driffield - Pipe Roll 1200 - King John visits Driffield 1210 - All Saints Church built 1227 - King Henry III visits Driffield 1560 - Estimated population of 930 1577 - First map of county by Saxton 1590 - Estimated popluation of 1,000 1672 - Population of 770 (hearth tax) 1700 - Estimated population of 830 1730 - Estimated population of 840 1742 - Enclosure Act 1751 - Slemere House built 1760 - Estimated population of 930 1769 - Royal Assent to Driffield Navigation Co 1772 - John Wesley visits Driffield - Canal opened - 'post office' established 1786 - Baptist Church formed 1788 - Baptist Chapel erected in Chapel Lane (now King street) 1795 - Wesleyan Church erected in Westgate 1798 - Volunteer armed Association formed 1801 - Population of 1,483 (census returns) 1802 - Congregational Church built in Exchange Street 1802 - Spread Eagle public house built for 'The Barrow witch' 1808 - Little Driffield Church restored 1811 - Population 1,857 1818 - National School established on Crosshill 1821 - Primitive Methodist Chapel built on Mill Street 1821 - Population 2,303 1826 - Susannah Goer, 'The Barrow Witch.' Dies 1828 - Wesleyan Chapel built in Middle Street North 1831 - Population 2,660 1833 - Anglers Club established 1834 - New Clock put in All Saints Church 1835 - Gas introduced into Driffield - Driffield made head of Buckrose Division 1837 - Mechanics Institute formed - Union Workhouse built in Middle Street North 1841 - Corn exchange built 1841 - Population 3,223 1843 - Lock up built on Eastgate North (now private house) - previously in yard of Red Lion 1846 - Railway Station opened - Cattle Market established by William Jarrett 1847 - Cattle Market opened 1851 - First Driffield Show 1851 - Population 3,963 1855 - Malton and Driffield Railway Line opened 1856 - Driffield Petty sessions moved to the Mechanics' Institute 1860 - Start of Driffield Times 1861 - Population 4,404 1862 - Baptist Chapel opened in Middle Street (on site of Michael Roberts, jewellers) 1865 - First burial in Driffield Cemetery, Bridlington Road 1866 - New Workhouse built 1869 - Birth of J.T. Brown, Yorkshire and England cricketer 1869 - Joseph Barnett died aged 79 - last of the handloom weavers in Yorkshire, and the oldest 1870 - Driffield Hunt 1871 - Population 5,067 1873 - Primitive Methodist Chapel built in George Street (now Pocklington carpets) 1875 - Cottage Hospital built on Bridlington Road (now Ten Gables Nursing Home) 1880 - Parish Church re-opened after restoration. Trintity Chapel built (now the Methodist Church) 1881 - St John's Church opened 1881 - Population 5,937 1886 - Catholic Church opened Nov 15th 1887 - Fire at the Cake Mill 1888 - Visit of the Prince of Wales to Driffield Show 1891 - Population 5,701 1897 - New purpose built Police station built on Wansford Road with own courthouse. 1901 - Population 5,690 1906 - King's Mill burns down 1910 - Great Flood of Driffield 1911 - Fire at Sledmere house (rebuilt during WW1) 1911 - Population 5,676 1912 - Victoria Cinema opened (now Iceland) 1915 - German Zeppelin drops bomb on town 1921 - Population 5,674 1926 - East Yorkshire Motor Services commenced 1931 - Opening of Alfred Bean hospital - Electricity comes to Driffield. Population 5,916 1934 - Australian test cricketers visit Driffield 1936 - Opening of RAF station 1937 - Majestic cinema opened (on site of the now Viking centre) 1939 - Library opened on Cross Hill 1940 - RAF station bombed 1945 - VE day and VJ day celebrated 1946 - Northfield Road housing estate occupied 1948 - Population 6,766 1950 - Dewhirsts’ established in Exchange Street - new sewage works 1951 - Traffic ceased on Canal 1952 - Garden of remembrance dedicated 1953 - Driffield Show moved to Kellythorpe site 1954 - Driffield - Malton railway line closed to passengers 1957 - County secondary school completed 1958 - Driffield - Malton railway line closed permanently 1962 - Victoria Cinema closes 1964 - Driffield - Market Weighton railway line closed - Corn Market ceased 1965 Swimming pool opened. Cross Hill enclosed and stalls moved to Market Place 1966 - Black Swan hotel becomes Yorkshire Bank 1967 - Methodist Church (formerly Trinity Chapel) re-built 1969 - St John's church demolished (organ removed to Parish Church). Twydale Turkeys take over Glaxo factory. New Zealand cricket team play at Driffield. Deira Court opened 10th December 1972 - Extended market opens on Cross Hill. Extensions to County Secondary School (upper school block built) 1979 - The Majestic Cinema closes 2001 - Driffield Magistrates court closes permanently 2001 - Driffield market moved Middle Street on Thursdays. Still held on Cross Hill on Saturdays 2003 - Driffield court rooms taken over by the Driffield Junior School 2004 - Closure of the Skerne Road turkey factory known locally as Twydales (latterly Grampian) with the loss of the remaining 220 jobs 2005 - Driffield Heritage Committee founded
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