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Pocklington District Heritage Trust wishes to create a Museum to showcase the long history of the area dating from Neolithic times. #NewMuseum4Pock https://pocklingtondistrictheritagetrust.org
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Why Pocklington needs a new museum and heritage centre by Peter Halkon youtu.be/RPTshqyBcvU via @YouTube
Why Pocklington needs a Museum and Heritage Centre by Peter Halkon
YouTube video by Andrew Sefton
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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.
August 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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...
July 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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

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Revealing the Pocklington Shield
Join us for the unveiling of the breathtaking replica of the Pocklington Shield made by traditional Iron Age techniques by a leading expert.
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February 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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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
December 25, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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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
January 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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...
Donate to Save a Pocklington Anglo Saxon artefact from export, organized by Andrew Sefton
A temporary export bar has been placed on a rare Anglo-Saxon, Gold a… Andrew Sefton needs your support for Save a Pocklington Anglo Saxon artefact from export
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January 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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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'.
December 2, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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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.
November 30, 2024 at 6:13 AM
A ROMAN BRONZE IMAGO CLIPEATA OF THE EMPEROR CLAUDIUS. Found at Stamford Bridge and sold at Christie’s in New York.
November 30, 2024 at 7:47 AM
Anglo Saxon / Viking bone fragment practice piece found near Pocklington #Museum4Pock #viking #anglian pocklingtondistrictheritagetrust.org
November 30, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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.
November 30, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Why Pocklington needs a new museum and heritage centre by Peter Halkon youtu.be/RPTshqyBcvU via @YouTube
Why Pocklington needs a Museum and Heritage Centre by Peter Halkon
YouTube video by Andrew Sefton
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November 30, 2024 at 6:08 AM