Burnby Hall lease is signed! Pocklington Town Council has announced the official lease signing for Burnby Hall.​ ​The new facility includes a large main hall available for public hire, along with office spaces and meeting rooms for community and civic use. A long-awaited town museum is now closer.

The Pocela Panel comes home! The rare early medieval gold panel found near Pocklington has finally returned home after it was delivered to Pocklington District Heritage Trust trustee, Alex Harvey. A crowd funding appeal raised £4,000 in just two weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...

On Fri 28 March, Pocklington Heritage Trust is unveiling a new, stunning replica of the Pocklington Shield alongside its 2,500 year-old original. #IronAge #chariot #DiggingForBritain #AliceRoberts www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/revealing-...

Remembering today Market Weighton man and manager at Barclays Bank, Pocklington (East Yorkshire): Captain George Jefferson Scott, killed 25/12/1915. @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre

This is 102 Squadron Halifax RG482 ‘K’ which crashed into the Red House on Yapham Road, Pocklington on 30 July 1945. From the IBCC Archive

Pocklington District Heritage Trust have launched a crowdfunding appeal to save this Anglo Saxon artefact being exported and never seen again. We can bring it home to show our schoolchildren and residents our local heritage in a local museum. www.gofundme.com/f/save-a-poc...

One for the Pocklington people! (cc. @pdht.bsky.social) Did you know that in 1772 a will was proven in the York probate courts written in the form of a poem? It was the will of one William Hickington, Poet of Pocklington and he left his cash and cattle to to Mary F/Taram, the 'Queen of my Haram'.

Today is the feast day of Saint Andrew the patron saint of fishermen, Scotland and Russia. The church of St Andrew, Middleton near Pickering dates to the Anglo-Saxon period, and still contains a good amount of Saxon architecture and early sculpture work.

A ROMAN BRONZE IMAGO CLIPEATA OF THE EMPEROR CLAUDIUS. Found at Stamford Bridge and sold at Christie’s in New York.

Anglo Saxon / Viking bone fragment practice piece found near Pocklington #Museum4Pock #viking #anglian pocklingtondistrictheritagetrust.org

We forget the reason why settlements on the edge of the Wolds like Pocklington have 10,000 years of occupation. When ice sheets melted following the Ice Age, the sea levels rose. York was under water as part of lake Humber and Pocklington & Market Weighton were on the lake edge.

Why Pocklington needs a new museum and heritage centre by Peter Halkon youtu.be/RPTshqyBcvU via @YouTube