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There was once a ferry here linking to Stillingfleet, on the opposite bank. On Boxing Day 1833 the ferry sank whilst carrying Stilligfleet church choir and eleven people were drowned, mostly teenage girls and a disaster for a small village which is still remembered today. Subsequently the ferry, which took an oblique course across the river, was moved to a more direct course slightly further upstream and is now no more. The Ouse is tidal at this point and a navigation demanding some care; before the coming of railways, and indeed for many years after, it was a very busy commercial waterway.
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Acaster Selby is a small riverside village south of York and the Selby part of the name comes from a grange of Selby Abbey having been here before the dissolution. College Farm dates from before 1829 and is a fine building which is currently empty. There are two massive brick barns, one of similar date and one which appears earlier. A few hundred yards away is the site of the college, a pre-reformation school dissolved under the Chantries Act (as it also was one) and now represented by bumps in a field.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking along Acaster Lane between Acaster Selby and Appleton Roebuck. The road across the airfield is the road to the right.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>The field entrance here from Acaster Lane is made even more evident from the lying snow.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Just out of shot on the left is a field entrance.
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Dist:0.4km<br/>Looking towards Appleton Roebuck from close to Acaster Selby.
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Dist:0.6km<br/>Now used for farmland, but the airfield is still fairly evident on the ground.
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Dist:0.7km<br/>Situated on the old airfield north of Acaster Selby.
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Dist:0.8km<br/>Built on the former bomber airfield here at Acaster Selby.
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Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking towards a farm on the old airfield on a frosty january day.
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