Portrait of Charles Green(1785 to 1870) by Hilaire Ledru, 1835
  • Pioneering Aeronaut Lands Aircraft on Osgodby Farmland

    At about 16:00 on Tuesday 27th September 1825, Mr Charles Green launched his coal gas balloon from the Gas Works, close to Monk Bar, York watched by a large paying audience. The balloon landed on fields at Whitemoor Farm, Osgodby at about 17:30 that evening.

    “Mr Green descended on the estate of Mr G Calvert, near Osgodby, in the parish of Hemingbrough, about two miles east of Selby, at half-past five, having a pleasant voyage of about an hour. His descent was made without much difficulty, numbers of people who saw the balloon approaching flocked to Mr Green to lend their assistance in securing and packing up the apparatus. Mr Stringer of Barlby, paid every attention to the aeronaut, inviting him to his house and treating him in the most hospitable manner. A chaise having been procured, Mr Green arrived in this city bringing along with him his balloon betwixt eight and nine in the evening.” – York Herald, Saturday 1st October 1825




  • Respectable Woman Needed in Osgodby
From the Bridlington Free Press 8th November 1898

  • Osgodby a Haunting Place?

    Around Halloween 1910, newspapers across the Country began reporting the apparition of a veiled woman, dressed in black, which had been seen around the village of Osgodby, near Selby. The phantom would appear suddenly in front of terrified residents, then vanish into the darkness, on one occasion wishing a local farmer a ghostly ‘Good Night’. The women of the village were apparently too scared to venture out after dark, until the spectre was finally revealed to be some local lads up to mischief.