Explore Beverley
Walkergate House
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Walkergate runs NW/SE and bounds the eastern edge of the main shopping area of the town. It is now a quiet street (now a dead-end just beyond the left hand side of this picture) having been bypassed by New Walkergate Road which carries most of the traffic away from the centre of the town. It gives access to various properties backing on to Tollgavel pictured elsewhere in this publication. |
The central text on the plaque erected by the Walkergate House Built c1780 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 MECHANISED FARMING IN EAST YORKSHIRE' and founder of the iron works in Mill Lane which, in the 1850's, employed 800 men One example of a product from his iron works is a cast iron street lamp in Butcher Row |