b'and Cave are all mentioned as temporary parks for theit included a park which could be depastured by the kings horses. One gets the impression that wheneverkings horses before the new heir was installed.It is there was a secular wardship or ecclesiasticalpossible that the parkland surrounding the Palace was vacancy, the kings agents moved in quickly to see ifused for horse breeding as well as a deerpark.Ridge & FurrowMike PrattThis article concentrates on the relics of a former farming system, the ridge and furrow features still visible in fields surrounding Bishop Wilton. Although a brief account of open field farming is provided it isnt the focus here. Every individual who studies local history seems to find a topic of interest that becomes an obsession and mine is ridge and furrow and even more specifically why it is the shape it is!Figure 1T he aerial photograph in Figure 1 (courtesy ofthe paddocks and within the fields accessed from the Humber Archaeology Partnership1 ) showsback lane.the north-west section of the village of BishopFigure 1 is annotated to illustrate a number of Wilton. Houses border the main street which runspoints which are summarised here. Some of these alongside the beck. Paddocks at the backs of thepoints are explained further in the body of the article.houses open out onto the back lane. Thorny Lane1.The line running from A to B delineates the is a good example of a straight section of lane thatboundary between the West and the South was newly laid out at enclosure time. A low sunlightFields as it existed at the time of enclosure accentuates the ridge and furrow features both withinin 1772. This is marked on the plan that 1Humber Archaeology Partnership, Ref. No: HAP 91/10/19. Reproduced with permission.BULLETIN 14 257'