Forest of Galtres

[6] The king's foresters collected fees for pannage rights in a typical year, 1319, from pig farmers, at least one of whom was a pork butcher of York.

[7] Some appointments were for a lifetime: on 14 June 1626 Charles I granted footfostership, the keepership of the king's deer in Galtres, to James Rosse, with 4d per diem.

[11] The poet John Skelton set his musing dream in "The Garlande of Laurell" (1523), "studyously dyuysed at Sheryfhotton Castell, in the Forest of Galtres", where[12] That me to reste, I lent me to a stump Of an oke, that sometyme grew full streyghte...

Whylis I stode musynge in this medytatyon In slumbringe I fell and halfe in a slepe... From the poem the reader learns that Elizabeth, Countess of Surrey,[13] with the ladies of her household, was living at Sheriff Hutton.

But by tradition and by apparent ancient buildings and ancient ways for horse and cart visibly discerned and leading unto the place where the town stood within Sheriff Hutton park, it hath been a hamlet of some capacity, though now utterly demolished"[18]The house known as Sheriff Hutton Park, south-east of the village, was built in 1621 for Sir Arthur Ingram, whose main seat was Temple Newsam; it was recased in more up-to-date style in 1732 for a member of the Thompson family.