Eastburn Farm, near Driffield, Yorkshire. 399 
^ 2. Easthum Farm, near Driffield, Yorkshire,* occupied by 
Mrs. Jordax. liy H. M. Jenkins. 
The Eastburn Farm was taken by the late Mr. Jordan in 1849 
at an annual rental, subject to a tenant-right agreement, from 
Lord Hotham and Mr. Bosville. It lies about 2 miles west of 
Great Driffield, and is approached from that town by the road 
leading through Kelly thorpe westwards to Kirkburn. Eastburn 
is a hamlet of the parish of Kirkburn, and forms the extreme 
eastern portion of it. The farm extends over the whole area of 
this hamlet, measuring 900 acres, and it includes also about 
400 acres in the hamlet of Battleburn. The junction of Eastburn 
Avith the adjoining parish and farm of Kellythorpe on the east, 
is marked on the Ordnance Map by a dotted line, which, on 
crossing the high road to Kirkburn, undergoes a z-like twist at a 
point marked " Brick-kiln Corner." From here the boundary of 
the farm, which is coincident with the dotted line, proceeds 
northwards for three-quarters of a mile ; it then turns north-west 
towards the Malton and Driffield Junction Railway for about a 
mile, and, just before reaching the railway, takes a due-west course 
for another mile or more, following the bye-road, and crossing 
the high road from Kirkburn to Garton-on-the- Wolds near the 
figure " 100." About half a mile west of this high road the 
farm-boundary makes a sudden turn southwards for about a mile 
and three-quarters, and exactly opposite the fork in the Warren 
roads it turns again as suddenly eastwards until half-way to them, 
then it proceeds again south to join the high road from which 
we at first started, near Kirkburn. South of the high road is an 
area of a triangular form, to which we shall presently refer more 
particularly, as it consists entirely of permanent pasture ; at 
present it is sufficient to mention that the northern side of this 
triangle is formed by the high road, the other side by the East- 
burn beck-drain, or Carr, and the base by the southern con- 
tinuation of the dotted line on the map, with which this description 
commenced. 
The area thus defined is a spur from the Yorkshire Wolds, 
situated at their extreme south-eastern edge, and taking an easterly 
direction. The varieties of soil found on different portions of it 
* I am under considerable obligations to Mr. J. S. Jordan, of Elmswell, 
Di'iflBeld, and Mr. John Staveley, of Dotterill Park, Driffield, both of them the 
executors, and the former also the son of the late Mr. Jordan, for their kindness 
in furnishing me with the information contained in the following pages, and for 
their assistance in subsequently correcting the report. I have also to express my 
thanks to Mr. J. Wheatley, of Neswick, Driffield, for the trouble -which he has 
taken in pointing out to me practical matters whicli would otherwise have escaped 
my notice, and for his disinterested assistance in many other respects. 
