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farm lands, axle-deep in mud, with an unlighted footway, 

 along which women walked in pattens. The keeper of the 

 Holderness toll-bar would stroll round to see if he could 

 catch any unauthorised person driving- that way to Hull to 

 escape the toll. 



Stoneferry. 



Stanferry, Staynfery, Stanefery, or Stoneferrye, may be 

 one of the places made dry by the Embankments, or it may 

 have been one of the small holms always just clear of the 

 tides. I assume it is the same as Stanford-Rak, where, before 

 1269, Johanna de Stuteville of Cottingham and her predeces- 

 sors put a chain across the river at night. At that time it 

 was the place nearest the Humber where road traffic crossed 

 the river and it must then have been a place of some impor- 

 tance. The derivation of the name from " Sutton-ferry " 

 is plausable, but it is more allied to Stanmar or Stainmar, the 

 sheet of water that once lay over a great part of Summer- 

 gangs and Sutton Ings. 



It was a hamlet of small farms with one site that may 

 have been anciently occupied by a residence or a farm of 

 the Lords of the Manor. This is close to the ancient ferry 

 and landing place and to Stoneferry Clough ; the enclosure 

 map of 1767, shows that the paddock between the existing 

 farmstead and the town street was part of the village Green. 

 Its traditional name is the Green garth. 



In the reign of Richard II. a third part of the manor with 

 its fishery was conveyed from Thomas Ughtred to Sir Ralph 

 Hastings, together with "The Ferry of the Water of Hull " 

 then let to William Bulfyne. 



Stoneferry Clough is the most ancient outlet for water 

 from the meadows of Sutton ; it took drainage even from 

 Wawne. The old channel still crosses the fields from near 

 'Tween dikes-lane to Stoneferry-town street, where it widens 

 towards the Clough. The ancient name was Ankdam, it is 

 now called Antholme or Hantom, but in very early times 

 a ' Leda ' or canal was cut along the side of the road from 

 Sutton. This is called in the Enclosure Award, Antholme-dike. 

 Between these two channels was a long narrow Common, 

 called in old charters the "Lede" or "le led"; some adjoining 

 meadows in the Ings were called Ledeholmdaile. At the 

 Enclosure it was called Leads Common. Both the dikes 

 were solemnly fished by owners of shares in the manor in 

 order to keep up their rights. They divided the dikes into 



