1st-2nd
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Romans lived on the river Wharfe at the junction with the river Ouse. Pottery found in the Caravan Park in 1930 |
937 |
King Athelstan gave Cawood to the See of York as thanks for his victory over the Vikings |
963 |
King Edgar granted an estate at Sherburn to Archbishop Aeslac which included Cawood |
1066 |
Viking boats moored on the River Ouse as far as the river Wharfe. Vikings slaughtered at Riccall on return to boats |
1181 |
Roger de Pont L’Eveque first resident of Cawood Castle |
1201 |
John de Cawoode held land in Cawood at Keesbury Manor |
1235 |
Reference to the Bishopdyke at Rest Park, Biggin |
1235 |
Earliest reference to the medieval garden on the Garth |
1255 |
Henry III visited the Castle |
1271 |
Archbishop Walter Gifford crenellated the Castle |
1299 |
Edward 1 moved his entire court to Cawood for 7 years in order to pursue the Scots |
1302 |
David de Cawood petitioned the King for return of land to his manor in Cawood from the Archbishop of York |
1314 |
Edward III stayed here with his wife Isabella after his defeat by Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn |
1374 |
Cawood Castle transformed into a quadrangular castle |
1385 |
York Minster took out an 80-year lease for stone from Huddleston Quarry, Sherburn. This was transported through Cawood to York along the Bishopdyke waterway |
1426 |
John Kemp became Archbishop of York. During this time he built the Castle Gatehouse and Banqueting Hall |
1466 |
A Great Feast to celebrate the inauguration of Archbishop George Neville brother of the Earl of Warwick who is said to have employed 2000 cooks |
1514 |
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey became Archbishop of York |
1530 |
Cardinal Wolsey visits Cawood and refurbishes the Castle. In November he is summoned to London by the King and dies on the way in Leicester |
1541 |
Henry VIII visits with wife Catherine Howard, and her lover Thomas Culpepper, who a few months later were executed for adultery |
1628 |
Archbishop George Mountain, born in Cawood, became Archbishop of York died soon after and is buried in Cawood Church |
1642 |
Roundheads and Royalist soldiers both held Castle in the Civil war |
1646 |
Destruction of the castle with 6 other northern castles |
1750 |
Payment made to pull down part of Cawood castle |
1765 |
Cawood castle stone used at Bishopthorpe Palace |
1852 |
Flour mill built in the village later became chocolate factory |
1872 |
Bridge over the river Ouse constructed |
1898 |
Selby to Cawood railway opened in the village |
1906 |
Cawood school opened |
1937 |
Planting chestnut trees Gill Green |
1970 |
Gatehouse and Banqueting Hall were sold. |
1981 |
Chocolate factory burns down |
1982 |
Flood wall built |
1984 |
Landmark Trust restored the Gatehouse and Banqueting Hall |
1986 |
Castle Garth saved from development by the Great Crested Newt and bought by the village for community use. |
1987 |
Gill Green in the ownership of Cawood Parish Council |
2000 |
Highest river levels ever recorded in the village luckily was held back by flood wall. |
2003 |
Cawood Castle Garth Group formed to investigate the history of the Garth |
2007 |
Cawood Sword given to the Yorkshire Museum. The Viking sword dated 1100 AD was found in the river Ouse opposite the castle. |