Walkergate House and William Crosskill black plaque

This black commemorative plaque records: Walkergate House. Built c.1780 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 the mechanised farming in East Yorkshire' and founder of the iron works in Mill Lane which, in the 1850's, employed 800 men. Recorded plaque organisation: Beverley and District Civic Society.

William Crosskill, residing at Walkergate House from 1855, is remembered as 'the father of mechanised farming in East Yorkshire' and was the founder of a significant iron works that employed 800 men in the 1850s.