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 a royalist faction seized control of Barbados in 1650, James and William Drax were exiled from the island, along with other prominent parliamentarians. They returned to London, where they lobbied the House of Commons to send an expedition to retake the island. In 1651, Drax sailed in the fleet designed to re-conquer Barbados, and he was part of the team that went ashore to negotiate the surrender of the island. Restored to his estates and power, Drax once again took up a leading role in the governance of the colony. It is thought that Drax Hall, the impressive seventeenth-century manor