Walden Stubbs Walden Stubbs Walden Stubbs is a small, rural village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Womersley. Situated close to the border with South Yorkshire, and north of Doncaster. It lies close to the River Went, which starts at Featherstone. The Askern Branch Line runs through this village, which has two level crossings. This rail line now carries freight to and from the three power stations of Ferrybridge, Eggborough and Drax and passenger trains from London Kings Cross
James Drax 1662, and was buried in the parish of St. John Zachary, London. After his death, his son Henry continued to own and manage the family estate in Barbados. T James Drax Sir James Drax (d. 1662) was a Barbados plantation owner who accumulated extraordinary wealth as a pioneer of the sugar trade in the English colonies. The Caribbean sugar plantations established by James Drax and those who followed his example would be at the epicenter of the growing British and French empires, helping to fuel economic growth and imperial expansion. James Drax was the son of William Drax, a gentleman