Month: June 2022

Rector of church accused in Court (in 1308) Members of HVCP have wondered why a Chapel in Kildale upset the Archbishop of York so much that he closed it and made the order there ,The Crutched Friars, leave the village . Could it be that the village church was mired in scandal for years and… Continue reading Scandal in Kildale

I think it is becoming increasingly obvious to all of us that have been excavating and researching the Chapel site at Park Farm, that we are moving out of the shadows of a small amateur excavation into the realms of sub-national importance.As a consequence, we may have to re-evaluate our methods of excavating, recording and… Continue reading Newsletter September 2021

On Sunday we assisted James Lyall to complete a geophysical survey at a Farm in Kildale to see if there was evidence of a chapel identified in the archive research , carried out by members during last year’s covid lockdown. It was occupied between 1215 and 1314 AD somewhere in the dale. The resistivity survey… Continue reading Newsletter May 21