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not find that there is any such place as ‘‘ Hackston ;” 
but Staxton adjoins the other places named, and is 
in the parish of Willerby. The Vicar of Willerby, 
the Rev. G. Day, at our request most obligingly 
instituted a search, but could not succeed in finding 
any parish books of any kind to throw light on the 
subject. He writes : ‘‘ There are no gentry resident in 
this parish, and the churchwardens have been tenant- 
farmers for generations. Of course great changes 
have occurred within the last, say, fifty years, amongst 
these tenant-farmers. Many names have altogether 
disappeared from the parish roll, and it is thought 
probable by some of the old farmers here that church- 
wardens in past days having left their farms and 
gone to other parishes took the parish books with 
them, and that these have either been destroyed or 
are lying hid in some descendant’s lumber-room.” 
In a Paper “ On Druidical Remains in the Parish 
of Halifax, Yorkshire,” by the Rev. John Watson, 
M.A., F.S.A.,* the author says that “in the township 
of Barkisland is a small ring of stones, now called 
(1771) by the name of the wo/f-fold. It is but a 
few yards in diameter, but the exact measurement of 
it I have lost or mislaid. 
“The stones of which it consists are not erect, but 
lie in a confused heap like the ruins of a building. 
This place I took at first, from its name, to have been 
either a decoy for the taking of wolves, or a place to 
secure them in for the purpose of hunting; but 
observing that Mr. Borlase (p. 198) has attributed 
* “Archeologia,” vol. i. p. 355. 
