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Pocklington is a small market town and civil parish situated at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. In 2011, its population was 8,337. It is located east of York and north-west of Hull The town's skyline is dominated by the 15th-century tower of All Saints' Church. The town’s architecture is a mixture of old and modern buildings. Pocklington lies at the centre of the ecclesiastical Parish of Pocklington, which also encompasses the small hamlet of Kilnwick Percy as well as a scattering of outlying farms and houses. ==History== (詳細はAnglian settlement of Pocel's (or Pocela's) people and the Old English word "tun" meaning farm or settlement,〔A.D. Mills, ''The Popular Dictionary of English Place-Names'', Parragon, 1996 ISBN 0-7525-1851-8 (based on ''A Dictionary of English Place-Names'', OUP, 1991). Retrieved 1 November 2006.〕 but though the town's name can only be traced back to around 650 AD, the inhabitation of Pocklington as a site is thought to extend back a further 1,000 years or more to the Bronze Age. Pocklington appears on the 14th century Gough Map, the oldest route map in Great Britain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.goughmap.org/settlements/7868/ )〕 In the Iron Age Pocklington was a major town of the Parisi tribe〔(Claudius Ptolemaeus), ''Geography'', Book 2, Part 2 - "The Tribes and Cities of Mainland Britain"〕 and by the time of the ''Domesday Book'' in 1086 it was the second largest settlement in Yorkshire after York itself. Pocklington developed through the Middle Ages while many similar places fell into dramatic decline. Pocklington owed much of its prosperity in the Middle Ages to the fact that it was a local centre for the trading of wool and lay on the main road to York, an important national centre for the export of wool to the continent. Wool was England’s principal export in the earlier Middle Ages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pocklington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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