Hugall spent an early part of his career in Pontefract, Yorkshire.Poole & Welford, 1848, title page While there he was Secretary of the Yorkshire Architectural Society (now the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society). In 1848 he co-wrote a book, The Churches of Scarborough, Filey, And The Neighbourhood and An Historical and Descriptive Guide to York Cathedral and Its Antiquities.(1850) with the Rev. G.A. Poole.
