This week's Village Focus is on Bishop Wilton - where a dark past includes the 'ghost bus of Garrowby Hill' after a 1947 crash, and a Victorian family whose three sons drowned in a frozen pond
The climb is just shy of two and a half miles and whichever way you tackle it, your car will protest a little.
The Halifax family who reside at Garrowby Hall are behind it and a local history anecdote suggests the cross may have been the work of Edward, Lord Halifax, who was Foreign Secretary in the 1930s and nearly succeeded Neville Chamberlain in May 1940, instead of Winston Churchill. Nestled in the shadows of the hills and centred around a picturesque village green it has all that you would expect and want from traditional village life.
The Garrowby Churches group – made up by the five parishes of St Edith’s, Bishop Wilton; St Andrew’s, Bugthorpe; All Saint’s, Kirby Underdale; St Mary’s, Full Sutton; St Mary’s, Kirpenbeck – can date St Edith’s prior to The Domesday Book.However, back then in the eleventh century there was a village church and a village priest, and at that time the land was in the possession of the Archbishop of York.
Ruth Beckett writes: “Edith’s story is a fascinating one. Wulfthryth, the mother of Edith, was a lay member of the community at Wilton Nunnery. She had a child by King Edgar – this child was Edith – but soon returned to Wilton where Edith grew up. Edith died when just twenty-two years old and was buried at Wilton. She was elevated to sainthood by King Aethelred, her half-brother, and many miracles were recorded at her shrine.
Already having suffered the death of one child three years prior, they were preparing to welcome another child to add to the family that included six sons and three daughters.On this day the three elder boys were playing on a fozen pond and the elder fell through the ice into the freezing water. Both brothers attempted to rescue him but fell into the water and despite the efforts of villagers, they all drowned.
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