Octon, East Riding of Yorkshire

History

Octon is recorded in the 11th-century Domesday Book as "Ocheton". The village contained a chapel dedicated to St. Michael (noted in 1327). After around 1400 no records exist relating to the chapel, and the village is thought likely to have been depopulated as a result of the Black Death.

By the 19th century the village was reduced to a small farming hamlet. In 1823 three farmers and a gamekeeper were recorded as resident in Octon, with a further two farmers at Octon Grange just over 1 mi to the north. The extent of the hamlet remained unexpanded throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The modern village is at the same location as the reduced medieval village; earthworks of the medieval church and village were scheduled as an ancient monument in 1994. The 'Old farmhouse' at Glebe farm, Octon, a cruck framed longhouse dating from the 17th century is a Grade II* listed building.

Geography

Octon is located approximately 1.25 mi west of Thwing in the civil parish of Thwing. It is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds at a height of over 330 ft above sea level approximately 9.5 mi west of Bridlington on the North Sea coast. The village includes a large house 'Octon Manor'.

Notable people

• Thomas Lamplugh, archbishop, was born in Octon in 1614.

References

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