History of Cottingham: Snickets - Bacongarth Lane

[@poshbird600]

Hi Jamie. I am not from Cottingham. Iam an east hull. Cottingham videos were very interesting so much now gone. It's thanks to you that keeps history still alive. I think I have seen all your videos now.... So fascinating. I can start from the beginning and watch again. Thanks so much Jamie..... Glen.... 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

[@hullhistorynerd]

There will be new videos coming soon, watch this space!

[@mick998r]

Slowly working my way through Your history of videos. I must say I'm chuffed I stumbled upon your channel. Many thanks 👍

[@cottinghamMB]

Thanks for another interesting history lesson about the village i grew up in! Looking forward to the next one, hopefully with a suitable amout of humour mixed in as usual!

[@Charlie-wood]

Excellent! Brings back so many memories. Walking,as a lad, to Willerby Carr, riding my bike from west bulls to priory road and my life beneath the shadow of the St Mary’s

[@paullakin7777]

Fascinating and well presented. So enjoyable to learn something about where we live. Thank you.

[@lynnwise5726]

Don’t wait until tomorrow to watch like I said in my comment on Cottingham Community! Really enjoyed this video, as I have walked Bacongarth lane many times and have walked across Southwood land a fair few, past the old priory site and on to the golf course on Willerby Road. Looking forward to your next one on Snuff Mill!

[@brianlutkin2085]

A very interesting and informative video there hull history nerd. I've subbed now, I'm from hull but I live in Cottingham now.... it's all great to see. You present very well and a touch of humour here and there is great. Keep up your content mate, hopefully one day will meet you. Watching your older videos as well. Bri and frei east Yorkshire.

[@syborgbabe2788]

Please please do more videos. Absolutely brilliant stuff!!

[@hullhistorynerd]

Don't worry, I'm working on plenty of videos at the moment!

[@orville3816]

Wittiest video yet!! Most enjoyable, thankyou!!

[@NickB_Yorkshire]

Fascinating 😊. And the humour mixed in had us laughing out loud 😂😂. It’s amazing what you can do with the old ‘magic of video’ trick 👍🏼😁

[@hullhistorynerd]

Wait till I do the next bloopers video and you realise how long it took me just to say "Hi, I'm Hull History Nerd" at the beginning...

[@NickB_Yorkshire]

@@hullhistorynerd Look forward to that 👍🏼😁

[@SimonPJohnson]

Great video HHN and loved the reference to students :)

[@PeteMaddra]

Another enjoyable and entertaining watch. "The Ghost of Food Poisoning." "The money was resting in their account." "Definitely not rented to students." Hilarious! I'm looking forward to the upcoming Snuffmill Lane video. As a kid, I lived on Bricknell for several years from '63 onwards and Snuffmill was part of my old stomping ground.

[@johnraggett7147]

Super programme, Mr. Nerd, thank you. Looking forward to something about Beverley. Did you know that, in 1377, Beverley was the 11th largest town in England when hull was only the 25th? Merry Christmas and stay safe.

[@hullhistorynerd]

Oh yes, Beverley will certainly be getting a series of it's own in the future! So much history in such a small place.

[@johnraggett7147]

@@hullhistorynerd Thank you.

[@paulabutler7910]

Brilliant. I've walked from Wold Road to Cott many times over the years.

[@bazza5699]

Can't wait for the snuffmill lane video.. my mum walks her dog down there.. always been curious of it's history..

[@cretski67]

Gadzooks - very enjoyable. The first time I've tuned in! Liking the humour, the style and the information. My uncle Russ often talks about his walks from Willerby towards Cottingham but I'd never twigged he was retracing the footsteps of those old monks and those of Hull History Nerd - more power to your elbow... and feet, sir, and the next time our wet weather tries to bog you down - send one of those modern style drone confabulations to film from above! Looking forward to more, more, more...

[@hullhistorynerd]

Thankyou, and very glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully it won't be too much longer before I can add drone footage to these videos!

[@truthonwheels8652]

I had no idea this snicket even had a history to it! Very interesting. I take this path often but now will see it through new eyes - thank you!

[@hullhistorynerd]

Them I am doing this right, because that's exactly my aim; to make people see the familiar things they walk or drive by every day in a new light!

[@truthonwheels8652]

@@hullhistorynerd you certainly are doing it right, thank you! I love history and keep passing on to others what I’m learning from you whenever we walk by an area or building you have covered. I always say I found out from Hull History Nerd on KZbin 🙂 Have you covered Beverley Beck on any of your episodes?

[@hullhistorynerd]

@@truthonwheels8652 Not yet, though I am planning to start on a series about the history of Beverley this year!

[@truthonwheels8652]

@@hullhistorynerd oh that’s great! Beverley history is fantastic :)

[@stevemartin43]

It was always my understanding that the monks controlled the spring at Spring Bank and it was this that caused the fisticuffs with Hull. If this is so, the lane would have carried on directly to the site of the spring. BTW great content, keep it up.

[@aBugBlog]

Love the snickets series! Fascinating to hear the history of Bacongarth lane. On visiting Oak Road Lake I found an information panel on Green Lane, just to the side of Oak Road itself, it connects to Beverley Rd, but there is another Green Lane in Hull at Wincolmlee, I wonder if both were connected? I found little online to explain this, although a lane appears in an old map suggesting they were connected though Sculcoates. I'd love to hear about Hull's green lane history!

[@hullhistorynerd]

Interesting that Green Lane runs alongside the Beverley and Barmston drain near Oak Road Park, and the other stretch of Green Lane is... right next to the Beverley and Barmston drain near its junction with the river Hull. That does certainly suggest a connection! I will no doubt find more when I start researching my episode on the Barmston drain!

[@aBugBlog]

@@hullhistorynerd Oooh, can't wait for that one, very close to my heart! I spotted a Kingfisher sitting by the drain today near Fountain rd, I think it has settled there!

[@llttf]

Very interesting. I grew up in rhe area and was not aware of the history. Would be interested in future videos on the small local villages such as Skidby, Swanland, Little Weighton etc.

[@hullhistorynerd]

Videos on those villages, especially Skidby, are certainly on the cards!

[@Steve_Wardley_G6JEF]

Very enjoyable and as always, well presented.

[@rosemcintyre7791]

Southwood house is still standing. The estate was built around it. It is situated down Burton Road. It stands back from the road by a large garden and tall hedge.

[@hullhistorynerd]

You're thinking of Southwood Hall, the stunning 17th century building. Southwood House was a different one that was further east and a little north of the Hall. If it was around today, it's grounds would be along the east side of Parkway, just after the mini roundabout.

[@rosemcintyre7791]

@@hullhistorynerd thanks for the info, thinking back, it does say southwood hall now if I remember.

[@rosemcintyre7791]

Having grown up in Wake Avenue, and now the Garth, have you any idea how Bacon Garth Lane got its nickname of 'Witty's Lane' .

[@hullhistorynerd]

@@rosemcintyre7791 I don't know, but a good guess would be that the Witty family probably owned property around there. Similar to Longmans Lane, which was named after the family who owned the dairy farm at the bottom of it from the 1920s.

[@sameyers2670]

Thank you for another interesting video Hull History Nerd. I look forward to future videos. To be honest I hadn't realised there was a monastery at Haltemprice

[@slw0599]

Have you/ or are you going to do a video of millhouse woods lane? I only ask because as you go past hull city's training ground it then is a private road leading to a couple of houses & the old water pumping station, which unfortunately, as I can see is sadly fenced off. I have walked through the king George park then continued onto the nature reserve at the back of the park, which leads to a off- the beaten track to a footpath opposite the pumping station....which is a nice pleasant walk to be fair...give it a go, if you haven't already...also just out of interest am I correct in saying that at some point in the late 70' early 80's that round the edge/footpath of king George park there use to be a assault course?... I'm sure there was one, but I may be wrong.

[@hullhistorynerd]

Hi, no plans for Millhouse Woods Lane, I'm afraid, though if I can negotiate access, I'd certainly like to do something about the old water pumping station.

[@leebryant1973]

I use to go on snuff mill as a kid always wondered the history on it looking forward to it

[@itsmikee112]

We always called Bacon garth lane "Whitty's Lane" any idea why ? Also back when we were kids we would walk along that footpath across the fields to that old farm house, it was still a working farm back in those days, ( 1970's ) happy days !

[@hullhistorynerd]

A few people have asked this, and I don't know, although I strongly suspect it was probably named after someone from the Witty family who were prominent in Cottingham.

[@eekamoose]

Another fascinating video. Have you researched the name 'Bacongarth'? Garth comes from the Norse name for farm, and my guess is that the rest of the name has nothing to do with bacon but comes from bakken, the Norse name for hill (the hill possibly being Castle Hill in Cottingham) So my guess is that Bacongarth = Hill Farm.

[@hullhistorynerd]

I haven't, no, I really should have thought about the etymology of the name! When Hull History Centre is open again I'll pop in and look it up.

[@angelinegrows7765]

Great content

[@jslonisch]

Really interesting. And here’s me thinking that Wetwang was just a marshy area near where Entwash met Anduin. 😀

[@hullhistorynerd]

Interestingly Tolkien actually lived on East Yorkshire for a while, and he clearly took away some inspiration for middle earth!

[@slw0599]

You're certainly not a nerd, great fascinating stuff as per usual.

[@rwalker9644]

A very long time ago a girlfriend’s mother advised me to Cut through the bacon garth snicket but in leeds they seem to be called ginnels - ? Is there s difference Cheers Rob

[@hullhistorynerd]

They're basically the same thing, just different names in different places. Some places call them snickleways!

[@brynsadler564]

One of my favourite walks. As you say, currently virtually impassable. Would have been great in the summer when you could have walked the whole length on rock hard ground.

[@hullhistorynerd]

I'll certainly be back when the weather dries up, it looks to be a really nice walk!

[@WILD35]

Wow I didn't know it went that far out of cottingham

[@misskittysmith]

Abbey? Priory? Friary? Why is it all so confusing?

[@johnpearson6474]

Been an ex cott lad from the Garth this interested me but the name of the lane when I was there was wittys lane , any answers to why ? And also any ideas on the origin of granddad's park .

[@hullhistorynerd]

Probably much the same reason as Longman's Lane, it was likely named after a well known family who lived there. The Witty's were quite a well known local family so it's very possible that some of them lived down there at some point, giving rise to the name. Not sure about grandad's park, is that the one near the junction if King Street and South Street that has a curiously large number of benches clustered together along its path?

[@johnpearson6474]

@@hullhistorynerd thanks for replying , I watch all of your episodes , love em . Liked the one down beck bank , brought back loads of memories of stickleback fishing , especially the under the bridge behind the school , look forward to seeing more. Thank you .

[@1973thebigd]

hi Mr nerd is there any written evidence of the snickets and church/priory's as i am investigating the history of Holderness and east ridings church and all the good and bad things that may have happened please and thank you

[@hullhistorynerd]

The priories are well documented in papal communications and records, and the paths of the snickets mentioned can be seen in the first Ordnance survey maps of the 1850s, as well as earlier maps of the area. I would recommend getting in touch with Cottingham Local History Society as they've been an absolute gold mine of information for me, hence their credits in these videos.

[@1973thebigd]

@@hullhistorynerd thank yo so much will do

[@wetdogFBK]

Interesting stuff as usual, however, the walk at the beginning - a blatant display of charlatanism

[@hullhistorynerd]

Indeed!