Note 214 — HOWELL WOOD;[214] OR, THE RABY HUNT, IN YORKSHIRE,

Howell Wood is situated about ten miles westward from Doncaster. Amongst the possessions of the priory of St. Oswald at Nostel that passed to Dr. Leigh, the original grantee from the crown, on the 22nd March, 31 H. viii., 1540, were a capital messuage called Holewell or Hovel hall, in the parish of Thurnscoe, with a wood of 160 acres. This wood is now the property of William Aldam, esq., of Frickley.