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The General index of the book
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Harry Speight
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- ABERDEEN (2)
- Aberford.(4)
- Acaster,
- Acton,
- Addingham.
- Ainderby Steeple
- Aldburgh, Aldborough (16)
- Alexander's Hill,
- Allerton Mauleverer, (6)
- Alnwick.(3)
- Altar tables, stone.
- Altofts.(2)
- Alwoodley.
- Ambleside.
- America, (9)
- Amunderby,
- Anecdotes, (9)
- Animals, wild, (6)
- Angram.(6)
- Appletrewick, (11)
- Architectural curiosities(9)
- Arkenden.(3)
- Armagh,
- Arms, grant of.
- Arncliffe,
- Askham Richard.(2)
- Australia, (2)
- Austwick.
- Axholme, Isle of.
- Azerley.
- BABTHORPE,
- Babworth,
- Babylon,
- Backstone Gill, (3)
- Baildon,
- Balaclava, (2)
- Balne,
- Banger House, (2)
- Bangor,
- Bannockburn,
- Barnard Castle, (2)
- Barnoldswick, (2)
- Barony, oldest, (2)
- Barrowby,
- Barton, (2)
- Barwick in Elmet,
- Bath, (2)
- Beckwith,
- Beckwithshaw (2)
- Bedale,
- Bellingham,
- Benedictines, (3)
- Benefactions,
- Beningburgh, (2)
- Benjy Guide, (2)
- Bennington,
- Berkshire, (3)
- Berwick, (2)
- Beverley, (6)
- Bewerley (13)
- Bickerton (2)
- Bilbrough, (2)
- Bilsdale,
- Bilton.(10)
- Bingley.(14)
- Birdale.
- Birds, rare.(4)
- Birmingham,
- Birstwith.(9)
- Birthwaite.(2)
- Bishop
- Middleham.
- Monkton.(3)
- Thornton.(2)
- Bishopside, (4)
- Bishopthorpe.
- Blackburn.(5)
- Black Death.
- Blayshaw Gill.(3)
- Blubberhouses, (2)
- Bodingelai.
- Bollershaw.(6)
- Bolton by Bolland.
- Bolton Percy,
- Bolton Priory.(5)
- Bonn.(2)
- Boroughbridge.(3)
- Botany.(5)
- Boulogne.(3)
- Bouthwaite.(13)
- Bradford (Yorks.), (22)
- Bradford Mass.(2)
- Braham.Brame.(5)
- Braisty Woods, (6)
- Braithwaite.
- Bramham, (5)
- Bramhope,
- Brearton.(4)
- Bricks early use of
- Bridlington.(4)
- Brimham.(5)
- Bristol.(2)
- Brough Hill.
- Broughton (Craven)(2)
- Broxholme.(3)
- Brussels,
- Bubwith,
- Buckinghamshire,
- Bugthorpe,
- Burnsall, (7)
- Burley (Wharfedale)
- Burton Leonard, (3)
- Burton Lonsdale.
- Burials, strange, (4)
- Bustardthorpe.
- Byland Abbey.(9)
- CALFAL, COVILL HOUSE(8)
- Cambridge.(3)
- Canterbury,
- CarlesmoorCarleton.(4)
- Carlisle, (3)
- Castlestead.(6)
- Castley.(2)
- Cathale.
- Catstones (2)
- Cattal (8)
- Catterick.
- Catterton.
- Cave dwellings
- Caverns.(3)
- Cayton.(5)
- Chatsworth
- Chemist's shop, oldest
- Cheshire,
- Chester, (4)
- Christianity, early.(5)
- Churches, smallest
- Civil War.(15)
- Clapham Green, (2)
- Claro Hill, (3)
- Cleveland, (3)
- Clifton.(2)
- Clint, (8)
- Coffins, stone.
- Coins, ancient.(4)
- Collingham.
- Colthouse (3)
- Commons, House of(5)
- Coneythorpe,
- Coniston
- Cononley,
- Consecration crosses
- Conyngham Hall.
- Copgrove
- Corn growing.(4)
- Cotton spinning,
- Cote Syke.(2)
- Coventry.(2)
- Coverdale, (3)
- Cowthorpe, Coltorp(11)
- Coxwold.
- Cracoe.
- Crakehall.
- Crawhall.
- Creskeld
- Crimea.
- Crosper.
- Crosses,
- corpse.
- consecration,
- preaching.
- wayside, (4)
- weeping.(2)
- Crusades, (6)
- Cumberland.(8)
- Cundall.
- Customs, old (24)
- DACRE, (8)
- Dallowgill.(6)
- Danby.
- Danish settlements(2)
- Darley.(7)
- Darlington,
- Deadman' s Hill, (4)
- Deaneries,
- Denton.
- Derbyshire, (2)
- Deighton.
- Devil's Arrows.
- Devonshire.(2)
- Dioceses.
- Dole Bank Nunnery
- Doncaster.(4)
- Dorset, (4)
- Doubergill, (4)
- Dougill Hall, (5)
- Drax.(2)
- Dropping Well, (2)
- Drypool,
- Dublin,
- Dunkeswick,
- Durham, (5)
- Dutch carving.(2)
- EAGLE HALL, (2)
- Earthworks, ancient(6)
- Easter Sepulchre
- Edinburgh, (3)
- Effigies, cross legged
- Egypt
- Election contest, remarkable
- Electric lighting,
- Elton, (3)
- Ely, (2)
- Isle of.(2)
- Escrick, (2)
- Esholt,
- Essex, (9)
- FARNHAM, (8)
- Farnley.
- Fellbeck, (8)
- Felliscliffe.(6)
- Ferensby
- Fewston, (11)
- Field names.(14)
- Flasby,
- Flaxby.(2)
- Flax trade.(3)
- Flixton.
- Flodden Field,
- Floods great, (6)
- Follifoot.(4)
- Fort Montagu,
- Foss Beck.(3)
- Fountains Abbey.(26)
- Fountains Earth.(7)
- France.(8)
- French invasion.
- Furness
- GARGRAVE.(2)
- Gas introduced,
- Gentleman, title of
- Geology, (8)
- Germany, (2)
- Giggleswick, (7)
- Gillesland.
- Gilling.(4)
- Gilthorn, (2)
- Glasshouses.(6)
- Gledstone.(2)
- Gloucestershire.(6)
- Godmanham,
- Goldsborough.(2)
- Gowthwaite.(14)
- Goyden Pot, (5)
- Grasmere.
- Grassfield House
- Grassington, (3)
- Great Whernside(3)
- Greenhow Hill, (11)
- Grewelthorpe.(7)
- Grimbald Bridge,
- Grimstone,
- Guernsey,
- Guinea.
- Guisbrough.
- Guiseley.(2)
- Guisecliff.(4)
- Gunpowder Plot.(5)
- HALIFAX, (8)
- Hammerton,
- Great,
- Green, (2)
- Kirk, (8)
- Hampsthwaite (14)
- Hants.
- Hardcastle.(3)
- Hardisty Hill.
- Harefield, (9)
- Harewell.(3)
- Harewood.(4)
- Harrogate, (7)
- Harrow.
- Hartwith, (8)
- Hat and Cap trade.
- Haverah Park (5)
- Hawarden.(3)
- Hawes,
- Hawksworth.
- Haworth.(3)
- Hayshaw, (7)
- Hazelwood.(2)
- Heathen Carr.
- Heathfield.(4)
- Hebden.(3)
- Heck.
- Hedge Nook.
- Helagh (3)
- Helmsley.Hamlac, (5)
- Hereford, (2)
- Hertfordshire.
- Hessay,
- Hexham.(2)
- Heysham,
- Highest village.(2)
- Hilton, (3)
- Holderness, (7)
- Holland
- Hollings Hall,
- Holme,
- Houses, (3)
- Holy Land.(3)
- Hopperton.(3)
- Hornby
- Horse Houses.(3)
- Howden.(4)
- How Stean, (7)
- Huddersfield.
- Hudswell.
- Hull.(7)
- Humber.
- Hungerskill,
- Hunmanby
- Hunsingore, (10)
- Huntingdon.
- Hunt a famous,
- Hurst Grove.
- Hutton Wansley.(2)
- Hyderabad.
- ICE AGE (4)
- Iceland, (2)
- Ickleford.
- Ilkley.(6)
- India (3)
- InglebyIngleton
- Ingmanthorp.(12)
- Inn signs curious (2)
- Inundations of sea.
- Ipswich.
- Ireland.(8)
- Italy,
- JAMAICA, (3)
- Japan
- Jersey,
- KEIGHLEY, (6)
- Kendal,
- Kent.(4)
- Kettlesing, (4)
- Kettlewell,
- Kexborough,
- Kildwick (4)
- Killinghall (14)
- Kilnesse
- Kilnsey.(2)
- King's Lynn
- Kippax (4)
- Kirby Moorside
- Kirkby
- Malham, (7)
- Malzeard.(15)
- Overblow.(8)
- juxta Useburn.(2)
- on the Hill.
- Kirkham.(3)
- Kirklington(2)
- Knapton.
- Knaresborough (18)
- Castle, (4)
- Forest.(12)
- Knights Fees
- Hospitallers.(2)
- Templars, (6)
- LANCASHIRE.
- Lancaster, (7)
- Land, value of.(3)
- Laverton.
- Laxton.(2)
- Leathley.(2)
- Leeds.(20)
- Leicestershire.(3)
- Leigh.
- Levens Hall, (3)
- Lichfield.(3)
- Limley, (2)
- Lincolnshire.(8)
- Lindesey.
- Linen trade.(6)
- Ling Hall.
- Linton.(6)
- Littondale,
- Liverpool.(6)
- Lodge.(3)
- Lofthouse.(5)
- Lolley mine.
- London, (16)
- Longevity.(3)
- Long Preston.
- Longside,
- Low Green
- Laith, (3)
- Loxley,
- MALHAM, (2)
- Man.Isle of
- Manchester.(5)
- Manfield.
- Marrick.
- Marston, (5)
- Marton.(6)
- Mason marks
- Massachusetts
- Masham, (5)
- May Poles.(2)
- Meg Gate.
- Menston.
- Menwith.(6)
- Merryfield (3)
- Methley
- Meugher,
- Middleham.
- Middlesmoor.(13)
- Middlethorpe.
- Middletongue
- Monk Wall.(3)
- Moor Monkton
- Morton
- Mountgrace Priory.
- NESFIELD.
- Newark, (2)
- Newby, (3)
- Newburgh.(2)
- Newcastle.(8)
- Newhouses.(2)
- Newsham (4)
- Newton, (6)
- New York Mills
- Nidd.(5)
- Norfolk.(2)
- Normanton.(2)
- Northallerton (3)
- North Bierley
- North Pasture.(6)
- Northumberland.(4)
- Northwich,
- Northwoods, (3)
- Norton Conyers.(4)
- Norway.
- Norwich,
- Nostell.(2)
- Notts, (5)
- Nun Appleton.(3)
- Monkton.(5)
- Nunneries, (5)
- Nunstanton.
- Nussey House.
- OAK BECK, (2)
- Oddy's Deep.
- Organs, ancient,
- Otley, (2)
- Ouse (4)
- Ouseburn.(3)
- Overborough.
- Oxford Oxfordshire (11)
- Oxton.
- PADIHAM.
- Padside.(7)
- Padworth,
- Pannal, (10)
- Paris.
- Pateley Bridge.(13)
- Pedderthorpe.
- Penrith.
- Percival Hall.(6)
- Percy Badge,
- Beck.
- Petrifying Wells
- Pilgrimage of Grace
- Pit dwellings.supposed
- Place names, etymology of, (27)
- Plagues.
- Plumpton, (4)
- Pocklington.
- Pontefract.(4)
- Pool.(2)
- Poppleton.(2)
- Population, (4)
- Popish recusants, (3)
- Preston,
- Priest Tarn.
- Priories, (8)
- Pudsey.(2)
- QUAKERS
- Quarries, (7)
- Queensland,
- Quorn.
- RAILWAYS, (11)
- Rainstang, (2)
- Ramsgill.(9)
- Ravensgill, (4)
- Ravenspurn.
- Rawden,
- Reading.
- Rebellion.(2)
- Roman Catholic, (7)
- Red House.(4)
- Ribston.(13)
- Relics, ancient, (35)
- Richmond, (6)
- Rievaulx Abbey.(2)
- Riggs,
- Rigton, (2)
- Rillington, (2)
- Ripley, (17)
- Ripon (23)
- Robin Hood's Well
- Rochdale,
- Rocks, remarkable.(6)
- Roman
- roads.(9)
- pig of lead.(2)
- Rood screens, old.
- Roucliff.
- Rowden, (2)
- Roxby,
- Royal Descents, (4)
- Rudfarlington.(3)
- Rudston.
- Ryedale
- Ryther.
- SADDLEWORTH.
- St.Bees.
- St Robert's
- Sandwathe,
- Sawley, (9)
- Saxon
- architecture, (2)
- crosses, (2)
- Scalaber,
- Scampston, (2)
- Scarborough(5)
- Scotland.(8)
- Scottish invasion, (2)
- Scotton, (2)
- Scriven, (6)
- Scutage.
- Sebastopol.
- Sedbergh.(3)
- Selby, (3)
- Serlby.
- Settle.
- Settrington, (2)
- Shawhall.
- Sheffield.(3)
- Sherburne,
- Shropshire,
- Sigsworth.(5)
- Sikes, (3)
- Silkstone.(2)
- Silverdale.
- Skell Beck.
- Skelton,
- Skerton,
- Skewkirk.(3)
- Skipton.(11)
- Skirethorns.
- Skirpenbeck.(2)
- Slaidburn.(3)
- Sledmere.
- Slingsby.
- Smelthouse.
- Smoothing irons.
- Society of Friends.(4)
- Snape.(2)
- Somerset.
- Sossacres S,
- South Acres
- Sowerby Bridge.
- Spa.meaning of, (2)
- Spain, (2)
- Spofforth.(9)
- Sproatley.
- Spruisty,
- Stafford.(4)
- Stainburn,
- Stainley, S..(2)
- Starbeck.
- Steeton.(2)
- Stockeld, (8)
- Stockholm.(2)
- Stockton,
- Stonebeck
- Storm, great.
- Streatlam Castle
- Stubbs Walden.
- Studfold.(2)
- Studley.(3)
- Stump Cross, (3)
- Suffolk.(3)
- Summerbridge.(3)
- Surrey,
- Sussex, (3)
- Sutton (Craven)
- Swaledale.(5)
- Swarcliffe.(3)
- Sweden.(2)
- Swincliffe, (2)
- Swinden,
- Sykes
- Synningthwaite.(2)
- TADCASTER.(5)
- Tanfield West
- Tang House (2)
- Teesdale.(2)
- Temple
- Thirsk (5)
- Thornhill.
- Thornthwaite, (6)
- Thornton Watlass,
- Thorpe.
- Thorpe Arch, (6)
- Thorpe Green.
- Thorpe (Scotton).
- Thorpe Underwood(2)
- Threshfield.
- Thrope.(2)
- Thruscross.(5)
- Thwaite House.(3)
- Tickhill.
- Timble (4)
- Tockwith
- Topcliffe, (3)
- Toulston,
- Tournay.
- Towton, (2)
- Trades, old, (3)
- Traditions, (6)
- Trees
- remarkable (14)
- ancient value of.
- Tudor architecture.(3)
- Tumuli, (5)
- ULCOTES, (2)
- WAKEFIELD, (3)
- Wales.(3)
- Walkingham, (3)
- Walshford.(5)
- Walton, (3)
- Wapentakes,
- Warsell.
- Warwick, (2)
- Water, non freezing
- Wath.(3)
- Watling Street,
- Weeton, (2)
- Well.(3)
- WelshchamWensleydale, (3)
- West House.
- Westminster, (3)
- Westmorland, (7)
- Westwick.
- Weston, (3)
- West Sike Green.
- Wheeled vehicles.
- Whernside.
- Whitby, (4)
- Whitewall Nook,
- Whipley, (4)
- Whixley, (6)
- Wigan.
- Wighill.(2)
- Wilsill,
- Wilstrop.(2)
- Winchester.
- Winksley.
- Winsley, (8)
- Winterburn,
- Woodale, (3)
- Woodstock.
- Woogill.
- Worcester, (8)
- Worksop,
- Wragby.
- Wreaks.(2)
- YARM.
- Yeadon (2)
- York (16)
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