Walkergate House and William Crosskill black plaque

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Walkergate House. Built c.1780 in a period when Beverley was becoming a fashionable town of elegant houses and imposing public buildings. From 1855 it was the home of William Crosskill, 'the father of the mechanised farming in East Yorkshire' and founder of the iron works in Mill Lane which, in the

1850's, employed 800 men.

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