# Spofforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

locality · gb · 53.9539, -1.4475

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spofforth,_North_Yorkshire
Wikidata: `Q686823` (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q686823)

## Also known as
- All Saints' Church, Spofforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England _(duplicate: search_places('Spofforth') shows #11265 'Spofforth, West Riding of Yorkshire, England' already geocoded (53.95388889,-1.4475), same status 'current'. Our row is the parish church of the same village (burial of John Metcalf, cited to the Spofforth All Saints parish register) -- a church qualifier, not a second place.)_

## People
- [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md)
- [Ellen Metcalf](/p/ellen-metcalf-70738.md)
- [Thomas Ingleson](/p/thomas-ingleson-70740.md)

## Events
- 1792 — **Retired**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md) — "In the year 1792 he returned into Yorkshire" and settled on a small farm at Spofforth, near Wetherby; "his house is kept by a daughter and son-in-law" (Ellen and Thomas Ingleson). In January 1795, aged 77, walked from York to Spofforth via Knaresborough to have his life written down.
- EST 9 FEB 1807 — **Died**: [Thomas Ingleson](/p/thomas-ingleson-70740.md)
- 26 APR 1810 — **Died**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md)
- 30 APR 1810 — **Buried**: [John Metcalf](/p/john-metcalf-70734.md) — Buried in the churchyard of All Saints', Spofforth, under a stone erected at the cost of Lord Dundas. Epitaph: "Here lies John Metcalf, one whose infant sight / Felt the dark pressure of an endless night; / Yet such the fervour of his dauntless mind, / His limbs full strung, his spirits unconfined, / That, long ere yet life's bolder years began, / The sightless efforts mark'd th' aspiring man; / Nor mark'd in vain—high deeds his manhood dared, / And commerce, travel, both his ardour shared. / 'Twas his a guide's unerring aid to lend— / O'er trackless wastes to bid new roads extend; / And, when rebellion reared her giant size, / 'Twas his to burn with patriot enterprise; / For parting wife and babes, a pang to feel, / Then welcome danger for his country's weal. / Reader, like him, exert thy utmost talent given! / Reader, like him, adore the bounteous hand of Heaven. / He died on the 26th of April 1810 in the 93rd year of his life."
- 9 DEC 1830 — **Died**: [Ellen Metcalf](/p/ellen-metcalf-70738.md)