A History of the County of York: East Riding: Volume IX: Harthill Wapentake, Bainton Beacon Division. Great Driffield and its Townships (Victoria County History)

Great Driffield, a thriving market town serving an extensive agricultural hinterland, stands at the junction of the Yorkshire Wolds and Holderness. The centre of an important Anglo-Saxon manor, in royal hands in the early middle ages, the main settlement was transformed from a large village into a boom town following the opening of a canal in 1770 that linked it to the expanding markets of Hull and the West Riding; its social, religious and political life flourished in the Victorian period particularly. This volume covers its history and that of its adjoining rural townships of Little Driffield, Elmswell and Kelleythorpe, from the Neolithic period to the beginning of the twenty-first century. The editors are former staff of the University of Hull.David Neave is the author of 'A History of the County of York: East Riding: Volume IX: Harthill Wapentake, Bainton Beacon Division. Great Driffield and its Townships (Victoria County History)', published 2012 under ISBN 9781904356110 and ISBN 1904356117.