{"id":68791,"date":"2010-11-03T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68791"},"modified":"2024-12-19T16:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T16:07:55","slug":"gathering-round-the-catch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=68791","title":{"rendered":"Cock Mill, Whitby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img011-d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53339\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img011-d.jpg 509w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img011-d-191x300.jpg 191w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img011-d-305x480.jpg 305w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img011-d-95x150.jpg 95w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/img011-d-400x629.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Cock Mill so-called as the mill had an angled or &#8216;cock-shot&#8217; water race, a farmhouse with a cock fighting pit was also situated here, giving an alternative reason for the name. Cock Mill, a secluded place in the woods, was used for gambling and cock fighting in the old days, as well as a hide-out for home-coming sailors eluding the press gangs. Strange, ghostly tales were told of &#8216;The Gentleman in Black&#8217; who frequently took his seat at the gambling tables. &#8216;Pigot&#8217;s Directory of 1834&#8217; states that John Coulson was the miller at Cock Mill. 1822 supplement of Genuki for Whitby lists: &#8220;COCK MILL, a farm house and Mill, in the township of Hawsker-with-Stainsacre, and parish of Whitby; 1\u00bd mile S. from Whitby&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of Iris Place.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cock Mill so-called as the mill had an angled or &#8216;cock-shot&#8217; water race, a farmhouse with a cock fighting pit was also situated here, giving an alternative reason for the name. Cock Mill, a secluded place in the woods, was used for gambling and cock fighting in the old days, as well as a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whitby","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79002,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791\/revisions\/79002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}