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Market Place Market Place
Note the new building in the photo on the corner.
Regent Street Regent Street
Note the 'Old Red Lion Hotel'
Chapmangate Chapmangate
Note the independent chapel built in 1807 to the left.
Cricket
Cricket has been played in Pocklington since early times. The Grammar School has played the game back to the eighteenth century. The earliest reference found for Pocklington Cricket Club is in 1850. An earlier reference to cricket in Pocklington was found in 1843 (See below).
1850
From the 'Hull Packet' newspaper for 27 September 1850
 
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Pocklington Cricket Team taken around 1905
1843
From the 'Hull Packet' newspaper for 15 September 1843