Missing / mystery location near Hatfield Chase / Thorne / Isle of Axholme

[jess5athome]

I can't get my book in the scanner so I have taken a photograph, courtesy of and with full acknowledgement to Martin Taylor and the book "Thorne Mere and the old river Don".

Frank.................... Time for bed.

[jess5athome]

Hi, just to update the thread for the OP I went for a drive out to the Black Bull Inn and down Crow Tree Bank road which runs along the side of the pub, about a mile down the road there is a large farm named "Crow Tree Hall" ...........................................

Just a possibility it is where the original "Crowtree's Hall" was situated which was owned by Mynheer van Valkenbroch.

Frank.

[angust]

This thread came up in a search whilst looking for something else - there are a couple of maps at Kew that show Veruyden's drained areas from 1633 (actually pre-dates the Aerlebout map by 6 years). These maps indicate where houses were built on the levels and I keep meaning to do some more work on them. As you say Abraham' De La Prymes House was where Valkenburgh built his house. I attach an extract from one of the maps showing the levels. Note North is to the left of the map. The Valkenbugh house can be seen just to the right and below the (2) in the middle.