Drewton is a

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in the

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, England. It is situated on the A1034 road, south-east from

Market Weighton Market Weighton ( ) is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is one of the main market towns in the East Yorkshire Wolds and lies midway between Hull and York, about from either one. According to the 2011 UK cen ...

and west from Hull city centre, and forms part of the

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South Cave South Cave is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately to the west of Hull city centre on the A1034 road just to the north of the A63 road. North Cave is approximately to the north-west ...

History

In the 1086 ''

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'' Drewton is written as "Drowetone". The manor, in the East Riding

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of Cave, comprised 11 households, 6 villagers and 5 smallholders, with 2 ploughlands. Lordship of the manor of Drewton had passed to

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, who also became

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. The ''Domesday'' settlement at Drewton became a partly deserted medieval village (DMV), possibly at the time of the 14th-century Black Death. There was a further decline in the second half of the 17th century to leave only Drewton Manor and a farmhouse. Four houses were added in the mid-20th century. A later Drewton Manor, built in stone about 1850, is the centre of the Drewton Estate, which includes residential buildings, gardens, a lake, and a farm of . The Estate, which today holds game shoots, was valued at £6 million when offered for sale in 2004. In 1823 Drewton was in the

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of Harthill, and, with Everthorpe, had a population of 177, six of which were farmers and another a 'gentlewoman'. Baines, Edward (1823): ''History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County of York'', p. 193 In 1892 Drewton was recorded as a joint

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with Everthorpe of , and described as being on the edge of the

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with views of

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, Selby Abbey, the

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, and the

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. The settlement was the location of

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on the

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.''Bulmer's Topography, History and Directory (Private & Commercial) of East Yorkshire 1823'' At Drewton is a naturally formed stone monolith called St Austin's Stone.Morris, Joseph E. (1906): ''The East Riding of Yorkshire'', Methuen & Co. Ltd., (second edition 1919), p. 24 ''Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire'' repeats what it says is a commonly held view that Drewton's name might derive from 'Druids' town', and mentions the "huge monolith" of "St Augustine's Stone" that was supposed to be connected with Druid worship, and as the place where

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preached to the

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, although stating that no record of the saint exists of him ever visiting Yorkshire. A Roman road which crossed the Humber at Brough passed through or near Drewton, the Roman occupation leaving many remains in the settlement.

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