The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast And Other Chapters Bearing Upon the Geogra
The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast And Other Chapters Bearing Upon the Geogra
Thomas Sheppard
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Land to two ploughs. Six villanes have there three ploughs, and they pay ten shillings. " In 17 Edward III. Wm. Ross de Hamlake held one wind-mill and divers free rentals in Monkwike, of the Provost of Beverley. Other early references to Monkwike are given by Poulson, who records that in his time (1841) " the manor lies along the sea-cliff. . . . It has suffered materially from the devastations of the sea, and not many years hence will be entirely gone " ; a prophecy which has since been fulfil...led. Hilston is called Heldoveston in the Domesday Survey, 156 LOST TOWNS OF THE YORKSHIRE COAST where we learn that " In Heldoveston and Hostewic (Owstwick) Murdoc has seven carucates of land to be taxed, and there may be seven ploughs there. Drogo now has it and it is waste. Valued in King Edward's time fifty-five shillings. " In a charter of 1272 it is called Hildofston ; later, in the reign of Richard II. , " Hildes- ton, " which is a near approach to the present name. Hilston Church was rebuilt in quite recent years ; though the doorways, etc.
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