Winter in the Highest Village on the Yorkshire Wolds | HUGGATE, ENGLAND.

Join me on this Winter's day as we walk on snow and ice through the village of Huggate in England. If you enjoy this video please consider subscribing to the channel    / @walktheworldaway  

Huggate is a small village nestled into a fold of the Yorkshire Wolds, a range of low hills in north-eastern England, and is situated approximately 558ft (170m) above sea level.

When researching the village for this video it appears that there may be some debate about which is the highest village in the Wolds, Huggate or neighbouring village Fridaythorpe. The Huggate village information board claims that Huggate is the highest at 170 metres above sea level, while residents of Fridaythorpe claim their village is at the same height. Maybe we can call it a draw?

'Huggate' is derived possibly from 'road to' or 'near the mounds' from the Old Norse haugr and gata.

The well on Huggate village green is reputedly the second deepest in the entire country. According to a sign on a millstone at the site of the well, which is now capped, it is 339 feet (103 metres) deep. It took two men about half an hour to wind up a single bucket of water, though the water was very pure, having been filtered through hundreds of feet of chalk.

Across the road from the site of the well are some old clay workings. A belt of clay runs through the middle of the village, and chalk in the clay lends it a characteristic yellow colour. Bricks baked from the local clay were used in many of the village's more substantial buildings, including Kirkdale House, which was formerly the vicarage.

Downhill from the green is the village pond. In the days of horse power, ponds were vitally important, and every village on the Wolds had one; all the animals drank here, and it also provided water for domestic purposes. The one at Huggate, dug out of the local clay, is now left mostly to the ducks.

Huggate was once part of a large estate, and has many farm buildings from before the turn of the century. Date stones can still be seen in those constructed by William Jessop, owner of the estate in the late Victorian period, when the village was a thriving farming community.

St Mary's church, also known as All Saints, is at the north end of the village. It is a Grade I listed building which has been in situ since, at least, the 11th century and unique for the High Wolds, it has an imposing 14th century spire which can be seen for miles around. Historic England records suggest the south side aisles were installed around 1190 which in turn suggest the nave must be earlier even if by only a few years. The nave aisles with their pointed arches suggest that they were added in the 13th century along with the chancel.

Filmed on 7.1.2025

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