ACKLAM                                            

Acklam is 6.5 miles south of Malton in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The red roofed cottages and farms of Acklam  were clustered on the steep sides of a green valley on the north west side of the Wolds. The villagers of Acklam numbered 310 in 1811 and 389 in 1821.

The photograph from 1907 gives some indication of what Acklam would have looked like a century before.

Leading figures in Acklam in 1823 included the Reverend John Simpson, blacksmith Emmanual Gilyard, butcher George Axby, grocer Robert Sanderson, wheelwright Thomas Winter, tailor Charles Hudson, and publican William Goodrick of the Half Moon.  Henry Abson was the schoolmaster at the endowed Acklam school. Four carpenters, two shoemakers, four stonemasons and nine farmers were also named in the Baines directory of that year.

Click on the 1851  Ordnance Survey map to enlarge

Image produced from the www.old-maps.co.uk service with permission of Landmark Information Group Ltd. and Ordnance Survey

Midgleys lived in Acklam for most of the nineteenth century. Thomas Midgley appears to have spent all his 83+ years  there.