Pocklington, a market-town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 16 miles ESE. of York. It has a good Early English church (restored 1850) and a grammar-school (1514; reconstituted 1876), where Wilberforce was educated. Pop. 2733.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 256
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