Important Dates

SOME IMPORTANT DATES IN SCROOBY’S HISTORY

958 A/D. King Edgar granted considerable land in Scrooby (then named Scroppenthorpe) to Oscytel Archbishop of York.

1086 Scrooby (Scrobi) recorded in the Domesday survey as a subsidiary manor (berewick) of Sutton (cum Lound) belonging to the Archbishop of York.

1087 First recorded reference to Scrooby Manor House

1088 (28th - 30th August) - King John at Scrooby Manor House

1089 (Nov) - William de Blida, first recorded parish priest, accused of incontinence with three women.

1503 (12th June) - Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII, stayed at Scrooby on her way to Scotland to become the second wife of James IV.

1501-7 Considerable building took place at Scrooby Manor House.

1530 (31st August) - Cardinal Wolsey, powerful statesman of Henry VIII’s court, arrived at Scrooby having fallen from grace. He spent the whole of September here.

1536 (21st October) -The Earls of Shrewsbury, Rutland and Huntingdon, representatives of King Henry VIII, met at Scrooby and sent a proclamation to be read at Pontefract to the rebels assembled there during the Pilgrimage of Grace.

c.1538 John Leland, Henry VIII’s antiquary, visited Scrooby and recorded the church and Manor house.

1541 (16th, 17th August) - Henry VIII stayed at Scrooby Manor House overnight on his northern progress. Held a privy council here on 17th August.

1544/5 (6th - 16th February) - Scrooby Manor House sold by Archbishop Holgate to Henry VIII. Remained in royal possession until 1550.

1560 (Summer) - Sir William Cecil, Secretary of State to Elizabeth I, at Scrooby

1561 (4th January) - William Brewster Snr. Appointed to post of Receiver of Archbishop’s Manor of Scrooby.

c.1588 Brewster Snr. appointed to additional position of ‘Master of the Queen’s Postes’.

1590 Brewster Snr. died. Succeeded some time later by his son, William.

1606-7 Separatist Church organised secretly at the Manor House.

1636 Demolition order on Manor House granted by Charles I.

Most of house demolished in 1636-7

1766 New turnpike road built to bypass village (present A638).

1767 Saracen’s Head Inn (now Pilgrim Fathers) built.

1768 The Scrooby murder. Gibbet set up near scene of crime.

1817, 1831 Lightning bolts seriously damage church spire

1848 Historian Reverend Joseph Hunter establishes Scrooby’s link with the Pilgrim Fathers.

1849 (30th August) - Scrooby Station opened on Great Northern Railway line.

1850 Parish church restored at cost of over £600.

1931 Scrooby station closed.