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
Drax, North Yorkshire in 1441 when witnesses to her age gave depositions at York Castle, and she recovered her property out of wardship. It may be that those who held the land while she was a minor neglected it, so that there was little for her husband to pass on to their heirs. The survival of the priory until the Reformation might suggest that the area continued to be farmed. The main crops were wheat, grain, and metalcore. In 1667 Charles Read (1604–1669) founded Drax Grammar (now called The Read School) as a grammar school: It is an independent boarding school. Read was