The above photo. shows a mature blackthorn bush in flower in late February, it is situated alongside Middlegate an ancient (pre-Roman) routeway that linked the Wash with the Humber. This particular point may be found two-thirds of the way up the scarp slope of the Lincolnshire Wolds about halfway between the villages of South Ferriby and Horkstow (North Lincs.). It is sort of relevant, s.p.b.
When Edward I in the 1290s acquired the trading settlement now called Hull he declared it to now be a manor in its own right and thus no longer in Myton berewick. He also declared that Myton was to be a manor in its own right and thus no longer part of Ferriby Manor (s.p.b.s). Soon the influential De la Pole brothers, William and Richard, were to be made lords of the manor of Kings Town upon the River Hull which accounts for alternative names for the later called Suffolk Palace (the largest complex of buildings in later medieval Hull – see study in section 3 of this website) as being King’s Manor or De la Pole Manor.
The question asked last time was did the 13th century (before the 1290s) have a grange building/s in the Myton area? The simple answer is don’t know. A grange was an area of land owned by a monastery but distant from the mother-house and land immediately around it. It seems likely that Meaux Cistercian abbey would have created some building/s as a place for the monks or lay-brothers to stay when tending to the flocks of sheep grazing on Myton pasture as well as a place for the sheep to be sheared.
Also asked was the question was there a chapel of ease in the Myton area. In large parishes, and the parish system whereby each household supported its one church was common across England by the late 13th century, a chapel of ease might be built for distant parishioners to attend. Myton was in the parish of Hessle, three to four miles east of All Saints church.
(to be continued).