pocklington

{{Main|History of Pocklington}}

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Pocklington gets its name via the Old English "Poclintun" from the Anglian settlement of Pocel's (or Pocela's) people and the Old English word "tun" meaning farm or settlement,{{cite book|first=A. D. |last=Mills|title=The Popular Dictionary of English Place-Names|publisher= Parragon|year= 1996 |isbn=0-7525-1851-8}} (based on A Dictionary of English Place-Names, Oxford University Press, 1991). but though the town's name can only be traced back to around 650 AD, the inhabitation of Pocklington as a site is thought to extend back a further 1,000 years or more to the Bronze Age. Pocklington appears on the 14th-century Gough Map, the oldest route map in Great Britain.{{cite web|title=Gough Map |url= http://www.goughmap.org/settlements/7868/ |website=Gough Map |access-date=14 July 2015}}

In the Iron Age Pocklington was a major town of the Parisi tribe.{{cite book |author-link=Ptolemy|first=Claudius |last=Ptolemaeus |title=Geography |chapter=Book 2, Part 2 – "The Tribes and Cities of Mainland Britain}} In 2017, a Celtic warrior's grave, dated to about BC 320 to 174, was discovered at a housing development under construction. After archeologists had completed a very long excavation project, the site was found to include a bronze shield, remains of a chariot and the skeletons of ponies. The shield's boss bears a resemblance to the Wandsworth shield boss (circa BC 350 to 150), in the British Museum. One design element on the extremely well preserved Pocklington shield, a scalloped border, "is not comparable to any other Iron Age finds across Europe, adding to its valuable uniqueness", commented Paula Ware, managing director at MAP Archaeological Practice Ltd, in late 2019.{{cite news|title=Celtic warrior from 2,000 years ago buried in chariot with weapons and ponies hailed as most important find of its kind in UK |date=6 December 2019|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/celtic-warrior-grave-important-find-uk-archaeology-shield-yorkshire-a9234571.html |work=The Independent|access-date=10 December 2019}}{{cite news|title=Iron Age shield found in Pocklington is "one of most important ancient finds this millennium" |date=5 December 2019|url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage/iron-age-shield-found-in-pocklington-is-one-of-most-important-ancient-finds-this-millennium-1-10137418 |work=Yorkshire Post|access-date=8 December 2019}} Horses were rarely included in Iron Age burials, making the find particularly significant. "The discoveries are set to widen our understanding of the Arras (Middle Iron Age) culture and the dating of artefacts to secure contexts is exceptional," according to Paula Ware.{{cite news|title=Iron Age shield found in Pocklington is "one of most important ancient finds this millennium" |date=5 December 2019|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/30/iron-age-chariot-horse-found-buried-together-yorkshire/amp/ |work=The Telegraph|access-date=10 December 2019}}

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By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, it was the second largest settlement in Yorkshire after York itself.{{cite news |title=Steeped in history |url=http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/steeped-history/story-11943144-detail/story.html |access-date=15 September 2016 |newspaper=Hull Daily Mail |publisher=Trinity Mirror |date=28 September 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Pocklington developed through the Middle Ages while many similar places fell into dramatic decline. Pocklington owed much of its prosperity in the Middle Ages to the fact that it was a local centre for the trading of wool{{cite web |url=http://www.yorkshiretoday.net/pocklington.html |title=In Praise of Pocklington |work=Yorkshire Today |publisher=Business Link Magazine Group |access-date=20 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724140038/http://www.yorkshiretoday.net/pocklington.html |archive-date=24 July 2011 |url-status=usurped }} and lay on the main road to York, an important national centre for the export of wool to the continent. Wool was England's main export in the earlier Middle Ages.

The town's coat of arms shield is based on that of the Dolman family, founders of Pocklington School. The arms were granted to the town council in 1980. The crown at the base of the shield is the emblem of the saints, and along with the gold cross, symbolises the town's historic connection with Paulinus of York and the Archbishop of York.

The town's motto is "Service with Freedom".{{cite web|title=The Armorial Bearings of Pocklington Town Council |url= http://www.pocklington.gov.uk/town-council/the-armorial-bearings-of-pocklington-town-council/ |website=Pocklington.gov |publisher=Pocklington Town Council |access-date=15 September 2016}}

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| meeting_place = Old Courthouse, Pocklington

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File:Old Courthouse, Pocklington - geograph.org.uk - 1568834.jpgPocklington is under East Riding of Yorkshire Council, a unitary authority. The town is part of the Pocklington Provincial Ward and returns three councillors to the council.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}

From 2001 to 2024 Pocklington was part of the East Yorkshire Parliamentary Constituency. It became part of the Goole and Pocklington constituency from 2024 onwards.{{cite web |date=23 May 2024 |title=The new Hull and East Riding constituencies for the general election following boundary shake-up |url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hull-east-riding-constituencies-general-150618373.html |access-date=13 July 2024 |website=Yahoo News }}

Pocklington's Town Council consists of thirteen elected councillors and is responsible for the cemetery, allotments, the Croft play-park and the Arts Centre.{{cite web |url= http://www.pocklington.gov.uk/towncouncil.htm |title=Pocklington Town Council |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061014060612/http://www.pocklington.gov.uk/towncouncil.htm |archive-date=14 October 2006 |publisher=Pocklington Town Council |access-date=12 June 2016}} The Mayor of Pocklington is elected annually by the members of the town council.

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The town council has a policy of naming all new streets using the surnames of the war dead who served at RAF Pocklington. This has given rise to the names Strother Close, Waite Close, Garrick Drive, Turnbull Close and Harper Close. There is some controversy surrounding the policy as a local resident believes that war heroes from Pocklington and nearby Barmby Moor should also be honoured in this way.{{cite news |title=War heroes not forgotten |url=http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/war-heroes-not-forgotten-1-4493861 |access-date=15 September 2016 |newspaper=Pocklington Post |publisher=Johnston Press |date=27 April 2012 |archive-date=11 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011181410/http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/war-heroes-not-forgotten-1-4493861 |url-status=dead }}

Pocklington is twinned with:

• Le Pays de Racan, France (Official)
• Trendelburg, Germany (unofficial){{cite web|url=http://www.pocklingtontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=996&ArticleID=996141 |title=unofficial|access-date=31 October 2006}}{{dead link|date=February 2018}}

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Pocklington is a spring line settlement at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds. The rocks underlying this area were deposited on the bed of a tropical ocean. When the land rose, the chalk wolds were formed from the exoskeletons of micro-organisms covering the sea floor. The landscape around Pocklington therefore varies from flat arable land primarily devoted to agriculture to the south and west, and grassy, chalk hills and dry valleys to the north and east. A lot of the more level farming country was, from the Middle Ages onwards, reclaimed from marshland.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}}

Pocklington is bisected by the largely culverted Pocklington Beck,{{cite web |url=http://apps.environment-agency.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels/riverstation.aspx?StationId=8279&RegionId=3&AreaId=8&CatchmentId=35 |work=Environment Agency |title=Pocklington Beck at Pocklington |access-date=3 June 2015 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306092206/http://apps.environment-agency.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels/riverstation.aspx?StationId=8279&RegionId=3&AreaId=8&CatchmentId=35 |url-status=dead }} a small brook that feeds into the Pocklington Canal. The beck and canal are usually good fishing grounds but a sewerage overflow in 2003 killed thousands of fish and severely damaged the ecosystem, from which it is now recovered.{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,3604,970026,00.html |newspaper=The Guardian |place=London |publisher=Guardian Media Group |title=Pollution kills fish in waterways |first=Martin |last=Wainwright |date=4 June 2003 |access-date=22 May 2010}}

According to the 2011 UK census, Pocklington parish had a population of 8,337,{{NOMIS2011 |id = 1170211239 |title = Pocklington Parish | access-date = 23 February 2018}} an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 7,632.

The civil parish is not very ethnically diverse, with the 2001 UK census reporting 98.4% of the 7,632 inhabitants being white.{{NOMIS2001 |id = 1543504282 |title = Pocklington Parish | access-date = 7 January 2019 }}

The East Riding of Yorkshire has a higher than average level of Christian belief and a much lower rate of observance for other faiths and those of no faith.{{cite web |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=7&b=276822&c=East+Riding&d=13&g=390682&i=1001x1003&m=0&r=1&s=1254585845453&enc=1&domainId=13 |title=2001 Census: Census Area Statistics: Key Figures: Area: East Riding of Yorkshire (Local Authority) |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=22 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614190450/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadDatasetList.do?a=7&b=276822&c=East+Riding&d=13&g=390682&i=1001x1003&m=0&r=1&s=1254585845453&enc=1&domainId=13 |archive-date=14 June 2012 }} This can be attributed to the aforementioned lack of ethnic diversity in the area.

Pocklington Arts Centre (formerly the Oak House Cinema) opened in 2000 and offers "a mixed programme of film, music, drama, dance, lectures, workshops and exhibitions".{{cite web |url= http://www.pocklingtonartscentre.co.uk/ |title=About Pocklington Arts Centre |publisher=Pocklington Arts Centre |access-date=15 September 2016}} Previous performers at the arts centre include the comedians Jenny Eclair, Clive James, Dave Gorman and Barry Cryer and the musicians Midge Ure and Steve Harley (in 2-man (2002), 3-man (2010, 2012, 2014 (twice), 2018–2019) and 4-man (2003) electro-acoustic sets only, no full rock band (i.e. Cockney Rebel shows). The centre also puts on "second screenings" of recently released films. The TV presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell used the name of the Pocklington Arts Centre for her Ormerod hoax.

In a tribute to Munich's traditional Oktoberfest, Pocklington hosts its own annual Pocktoberfest. Unlike the original on which it is based, Pocktoberfest is pared down to a single-issue event: beer. In the 2006 event, 19 casks (or about 452 litres) of ale were consumed.{{cite web |url= http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/local/raise-a-glass-to-success-1-1192289 |title=Raise a glass to success |work=Pocklington Post |date=5 October 2006 |access-date=15 September 2016}} Organiser of the 2012 Pocktoberfest, Clare Saunders, arranged for brewers from Germany. Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands to attend the festival, which is sponsored by C & N Wines and Swirlz Ice Cream Emporium.

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Pocklington celebrates an annual Flying Man Festival{{cite web |title=Flying Man Festival |url= http://www.pockflyingman.org.uk/ |website=Flying Man Festival |access-date=3 June 2015}} with a multitude of themed events from 12 to 14 May, in memory of the showman Thomas Pelling, the "Flying Man of Pocklington", who, with a pair of homemade wings, tried to fly from the top of the local church, and was killed when he hit one of the church's buttresses.{{cite web |title=Thomas Pelling – 'The Flying Man' |url= http://www.pockflyingman.org.uk/history.html |website=Pocklington History |access-date=15 September 2016}}

Pocklington RUFC rugby team is based on Burnby Lane. The first rugby game in Pocklington was held on West Green on Wednesday 12 November 1879 between Pocklington Town and District and Pocklington Grammar School.

The first Pocklington rugby club Pocklington F.C. was formed in 1885.{{cite web|url=http://www.pocklingtonrufc.co.uk/theclub/history.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030831090246/http://www.pocklingtonrufc.co.uk/theclub/history.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 August 2003|title=Pocklington FC|access-date=31 October 2006}} The current club, formed in 1928, plays in Counties 1 Yorkshire and also hosts the traditional "Good Friday Sevens" tournament, which is Yorkshire's longest-established sevens tournament launched in 1958 and Pocklington's premier sporting event, which sees local, county-based and even international teams compete.

The town has a council-run Francis Scaife Sports Centre, which includes a 20-metre swimming pool and gym.{{cite web|url=http://www.francisscaifesportscentre.co.uk/ |title=Francis Scaife Sports Centre|access-date=8 March 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eastridingleisure.co.uk/francisscaife/ |title=Francis Scaife Sports Centre|publisher=East Riding Leisure|access-date=24 July 2016}} The town has swimming, football and cricket clubs.

Kilnwick Percy Golf Club – locally known as the KP – lies just outside of Pocklington and offers luxury hotel rooms and lodges in addition to its championship golf course.{{cite web|url=http://www.thekp.co.uk/ |title=Kilnwick Percy Golf Club|access-date=24 July 2016}}

Pocklington's football club, Pocklington Town A.F.C., competes in the Humber Premier League. The club operates three other Saturday football teams alongside an U19s team and girls' team. In the 2012–13 season the club's 1st team won the highest level trophy in the club's history by winning the Whitehead's Fish & Chips Humber League Cup at North Ferriby United's Rapid Solicitors Stadium, a da decade later, the club were champions of the Humber Premier League. The club had floodlights installed during July 2008, allowing the club to make progress in the football league pyramid.

In 2007, Michael Woods, a Pocklingtonian, made his debut for Chelsea.

Pocklington Tennis Club, which has 6 astro-turf style courts and plays in both the York & District Tennis League{{cite web|url=http://www.yorktennisleague.co.uk/ |title=York & District Tennis League|access-date=24 July 2016}} and the Driffield & District Lawn Tennis League, is located on West Green.{{cite web|url=http://pocklingtontennis.com/ |title=Pocklington Tennis Club|access-date=24 July 2016}}

Pocklington is a control point at the quadrennial London-Edinburgh-London long-distance bicycle event.{{cite web |title=Route Overview |url=https://londonedinburghlondon.com/route/ |website=London Edinburgh London |access-date=15 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531134319/https://londonedinburghlondon.com/route/ |archive-date=31 May 2016 |url-status=dead }}

Pocklington has a local weekly newspaper, the Pocklington Post, owned by Johnston Press. Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Belmont TV transmitter.{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Emley_Moor|title=Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) Full Freeview transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=22 October 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Belmont|title=Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=22 October 2023}} The town is covered by both BBC Radio York and BBC Radio Humberside. A full-time community radio station, Vixen FM, based in nearby Market Weighton, broadcasts to the town. Also in the area is Beverley FM which serves Beverley and all of its surrounding areas, including Pocklington. A Pocklington-based community radio station, West Wolds Radio, went on air in November 2015 but closed in September 2016.{{cite web |title=West Wolds Radio |url= http://www.westwoldsradio.co.uk/ |website=West Wolds Radio |access-date=3 June 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160806022959/http://www.westwoldsradio.co.uk/ |archive-date=6 August 2016}}{{cite web |url= http://radiotoday.co.uk/2016/09/west-wolds-radio-closes-due-to-lack-of-staff/ |title=West Wolds Radio closes due to lack of staff |publisher=Radio Today |date=30 September 2016 |access-date=5 February 2017}}

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• Pocklington School
• Woldgate School and Sixth Form College

Churches in Pocklington include:

• The Church of England parish church of All Saints, nicknamed the Cathedral of the Wolds. The Grade I listed building is 12th- and 13th-century and has a 15th-century west tower.{{NHLE |num=1162006 |grade=I |desc=Church of All Saints |access-date=5 February 2018}}
• Pocklington Christian Fellowship, formerly Pocklington Pentecostal Church,{{cite web |title=Welcome |url= http://www.p-c-f.co.uk/ |website=Pocklington Christian Fellowship |access-date=15 September 2016}} meets in the former Ebenezer Independent Chapel built for Dissenters in 1807.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}
• Pocklington Methodist Church, whose red brick Neoclassical building was completed in 1864 as a Wesleyan Methodist Church.{{cite web |title=Pocklington and Methodism |url= http://www.pocklingtonmethodistchurch.org/pmvision.html |work=Pocklington Methodist Church |access-date=15 September 2016}}

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• The Roman Catholic church of SS Mary and Joseph, whose Gothic Revival brick building was completed in 1863 to replace a chapel dating from 1807.{{cite web |url= http://www.taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Middlesbrough/Pocklington-St-Mary-and-St-Joseph/(language)/eng-GB |title=Pocklington – St Mary & St Joseph |work=Taking Stock |access-date=5 February 2018}}

There are no non-Christian houses of worship in Pocklington, but Kilnwick Percy Hall, just outside Pocklington, is now a large residential Buddhist Centre called Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Centre. It runs regular Buddhist meditation classes.

Pocklington has its own Masonic Hall which is situated on the Mile. It is home to several lodges and orders including:

• Beacon Lodge No. 4362
• Old Pocklingtonian Lodge No. 7867 – formed by former pupils of Pocklington School but membership is no longer restricted to those with a connection to the school.
• Beacon Chapter No. 4362

Pocklington lies near the A1079 road, the main arterial route between the cities of York and Hull.

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Pocklington is served by a number of bus routes provided by East Yorkshire Motor Services who have a depot in the town centre. Their X46 and X47 routes branded "EastRider" operate hourly through the town between York and Hull. York Pullman also serve the town with their route X36 service 6 days a week.{{CN|date=December 2023}}

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Pocklington Airfield has three concrete and tarmac runways of {{convert|1600|yd}}, sufficient in length to take RAF bombers during the Second World War, but in September 1946 the airfield was closed. Although the site remains in use with gliders – and occasionally hot air balloonists – a lot of the concrete runway surface has gone, and the control tower is not in operation. It is therefore classified as "limited flying". The airfield is now wholly owned by the Wolds Gliding Club.{{CN|date=December 2023}}

The nearest commercial airport is Humberside Airport, another former RAF airfield.

{{Main|Pocklington railway station}}

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Pocklington was once part of the rail network, with a railway station dating back to 1847.{{cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2005/03/22/bev_york_railway_feature.shtml |title=The Beverley to York Railway |last=Arundel |first=Chris |work=Where I Live – Humber |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 December 2011}} This was closed as a result of the Beeching Report in November 1965.{{Butt-Stations|page=187}} There is a small but vocal pressure group that is trying to get the railway station and line re-opened.{{CN|date=December 2023}} The City of York Local Transport Plan for 2006 noted that: "work has recently been undertaken by East Riding of Yorkshire Council to examine the feasibility of reopening the former direct York – Pocklington – Beverley line that closed in 1965... given the unavailability of funding for such a scheme at present and the extensive time required for any reinstatement of a rail line, the scheme remains a longer-term aspiration."{{CN|date=December 2023}}

The Minsters Rail Campaign was campaigning to re-open the railway line between Beverley and York (with stops at Stamford Bridge, Pocklington and Market Weighton). The re-opened railway would skirt the southern edge of the town as the former alignment has since been developed.{{cite web|url=http://www.minstersrail.net/pocklington.html|title=Pocklington|publisher=Minsters Rail Campaign|access-date=17 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103191829/http://minstersrail.net/pocklington.html|archive-date=3 November 2016|url-status=dead}} In 2006, the issue of re-opening the line was raised in Parliament and, although prohibitively expensive, was otherwise considered favourably. However, in 2013, East Riding of Yorkshire Council decided that the line could not be funded.{{cite news |title=No to York railway link |url= http://www.beverleyguardian.co.uk/news/local/no-to-york-railway-link-1-5383658 |access-date=15 September 2016 |work=Beverley Guardian |date=17 February 2013}}

The old railway building, designed by George Townsend Andrews, was saved from demolition due to its interesting architecture. It now serves both as a bus shelter, and as a sports hall for nearby Pocklington School.{{cite web |last=Catford |first=Nick |title=Pocklington |url= http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/p/pocklington/ |website=Disused Stations |access-date=15 September 2016}}

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The Pocklington Canal, in commercial use in the 19th century by barges, is now navigable as far as Bielby Basin. Full restoration of the canal is one of the aims of the Pocklington Canal Amenity Society, which was formed in 1969.{{cite web|title=Pocklington Canal Amenity Society|url=http://www.pocklingtoncanalsociety.org/|website=Pocklington Canal Amenity Society|access-date=15 September 2016}}

Alphabetically:

• Paul Banks, guitarist in Britpop band Shed Seven
• Matt Brash, celebrity vet, Zoo Vet at Large (TV series){{cite news |last=Smith |first=Linsey |title=East Yorkshire vet concerned over rise in exotic pets |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/humberside/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9394000/9394886.stm |access-date=15 September 2016 |work=BBC Humberside|date=11 February 2011}}
• Thomas Cooke, 19th-century scientific instrument maker, born in nearby Allerthorpe{{cite web |title=Cooke Commemoration |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/content/articles/2009/03/31/thomas_cooke.shtml|website=BBC Humberside |publisher=BBC Humberside |access-date=15 September 2016}}
• Adrian Edmondson, comedian, The Young Ones and Bottom
• Richard Herring, comedian, was born in Pocklington{{cite news |url= http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/14504468.The_Great_Yorkshire_Fringe_promises_to_be_bigger__bolder_and_dryer_than_before/ |title=The Great Yorkshire Fringe promises to be bigger, bolder and dryer than before |date=21 May 2016 |work=Gazette & Herald |access-date=17 September 2016}}
• Ralph Ineson, comedian and actor in The Office and Game of Thrones
• Joseph Malet Lambert, 19th-century author and social reformer
• William Richardson (astronomer) (1797–1872), astronomer born in Pocklington{{cite news |url=http://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/on-this-history-trail-pioneers-of-science-and-astronomy-from-the-pocklington-area-1-7630329 |title=On this history trail: Pioneers of science and astronomy from the Pocklington area |newspaper=Pocklington Post |publisher=Johnston Press |date=25 December 2015 |access-date=20 January 2017 |archive-date=15 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515020628/https://www.pocklingtonpost.co.uk/news/on-this-history-trail-pioneers-of-science-and-astronomy-from-the-pocklington-area-1-7630329 |url-status=dead }}
• George Herbert Stancer, cyclist, cycling journalist and administrator
• Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright
• Joseph Terry (1793–1850), founder of Joseph Terry & Sons, confectioner and industrialist{{cite book |title=History of Chocolate in York |first1=Paul |last1=Chrystal |first2=Joe |last2=Dickinson |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2012 |pages=159, 162 |isbn=978-1-84468-123-5}}
• Rob Webber, Sale Sharks and England rugby union player
• William Wilberforce, 18th-century anti-slavery campaigner{{cite web |title=Pocklington: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892 |url= http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ERY/Pocklington/Pocklington92.html |website=GENUKI |access-date=15 September 2016}}
• Michael Woods, footballer, fourth youngest to ever play for Chelsea.

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