1 On an early 19th century sketch map of the estate of Eathorpe, two fields comprising an area centered on the above NGR are called Marlpit Hill and Gravel Pit ...
The site of a possible quarry which dates to the Imperial period. Two fields are marked on a 19th century map as 'Marlpit Hill' and 'Gravel Pit Hill'. It was located 800m west of Eathorpe.
More extracts from Julie’s account of her wartime childhood1.
‘During the war…the ‘black market’ and the racketeers who ran it, in big towns and cities, were known as spivs. Eathorpe was ...
