Cattle at Black Mill

We went for a walk on Beverley Westwood the other evening the hot dry weather has transformed the Westwood into dry Prairie . I was amused to see so many cattle around the Black Mill I think they had been having a team meeting . The Westwood is common land and the cattle who are not fenced in and will belong to many owners.

 

Beverley might be best known for its splendid Medieval minster, but the town also has one of the best areas of common land in the country.The Westwood was given to the townspeople by the Lord of the Manor way back in 1380, and today locals still hold rights to graze cattle and sheep, an activity controlled by a committee known as the pasture masters .The wellbeing of these pastures is overseen by the pasture masters, a group of men elected from the Freemen of Beverley each March. Its a complicated system but it seems to work fairly well. Occasionally the cattle decide to walk into the town and one of the pasture masters who lives on the Westwood has to drive them back . The Black Mill was constructed in the early eighteenth century

 

 

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