Suspected medieval alehouse unearthed in east Yorkshire

[Ldr]

Get a copy of “The making of South Yorkshire” by David Hey

[Sprotyrover]

Stainforth 

Stainforth,Fishlake, Hatfield and Thorne came under the huge Anglo Saxon estate of Conisborough, there was a lake in between Fishlake and Hatfield and another in between Hatfield and Thorne.
Thorne could sustain 200 people, plus they caught 100,000 Eals
A year and the Deer hunt would mean every person mustered onto the moor and beat the brush driving the Deer into the lake where the hunters sat in punts would pick the animals they wanted and spear them in the water.

[Colemans Left Hook]

Stainforth 

Don't knock Stainforth. Folk come every year from there in their droves to Bentley for their annual holiday, especially when the Gyro to Sterling exchange rate is favourable.

....  lest we forget  The Hindu worshippers that can't afford the air fare to flock to the banks of the Ganges in India's West Bengal that are reduced to doing the same at The Stainforth & Keadby Canal ...................... bathing in the water

[Donnywolf]

Stainforth 

Stainforth,Fishlake, Hatfield and Thorne came under the huge Anglo Saxon estate of Conisborough, there was a lake in between Fishlake and Hatfield and another in between Hatfield and Thorne.
Thorne could sustain 200 people, plus they caught 100,000 Eals
A year and the Deer hunt would mean every person mustered onto the moor and beat the brush driving the Deer into the lake where the hunters sat in punts would pick the animals they wanted and spear them in the water.

Going back a bit further " Manuscript in a Red Box" is a belting book. Set around the time of the drainage of Isle of Axholme which the King wanted but residents didn't

Vermuyden came along and off they went but it's great for the look into how they lived with the area being tidal etc