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Bishop Dike
Hob Uid: 974990
Location : North Yorkshire Selby Cawood
Grid Ref : SE5722537540
Summary : Section of artificial water channel - probably a C15th canal surviving as an earthwork. Now re-cut and used solely as a drainage ditch.
More information : (SE 5700 3727 - SE 5745 3781. Only the section of Bishop Dike adjoining Cawood Castle (SE 53 NE 2) and Castle Garth (SE 53 NE 20) was examined during the RCHME Cawood Survey. It is now re-cut, V-shaped, and about 3.5 m below the surrounding ground (near Cawood); within the village itself is has been piped underground. According to Bell (a), before 1385 it was widened and straightened to make the canal, and it also provided power to drive the water wheels in the village for which there are written records dating to 1650. (1)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Keith Blood and Philip Sinton/29-NOV-1989/RCHME: Cawood Survey
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Source Number : 1a
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Source details : Bell M. 1987. Cawood, the History of a Yorkshire Village 18
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Monument Period Name : Medieval
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Monument Start Date : 1500
Monument Type : Canal
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Drainage Ditch
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SE 53 NE 22
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1989-11-22
End Date : 1989-11-29

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Bishop Dike