Yorkshire Almanac 2025

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The copper and lead mines here destroyed most of the fish in the Tees in these parts, and they have had a sute to hinder the water running into the Tees that comes from the washing of the ore, but have been cast.

In Richmondshire they are great breeders of horses, every farmer is a courser, which I believe has greatly corrupted the morals of that rank of people. They have also here, and in the Bishoprick, a very fine race of black cattle. They have short horns like the Alderney kind, but are the largest cattle in Britain, and beautifully marked, most commonly with spots of either red, black, or liver colour on a white ground, and some only mixed with white. They say it was a cross with the Dutch breed. They are far beyond any cattle I ever saw in any part of the world; the Hungarian come the nearest to them.

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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The note says they’re Kirklevington shorthorns, but I haven’t seen the book cited (Bates 1897).

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• Alderney cattle (1) W/G ·
• Cattle (26) W/G ·
• Copper extraction (1) W/G ·
• Copper (1) W/G ·
• County Durham (8) W/G ·
• Horse racing (9) W/G ·
• Horse (72) W/G ·
• Lead (2) W/G ·
• Mining (3) W/G ·
• North Riding of Yorkshire (51) W/G ·
• Pococke, Richard (1704-65) (4), churchman, inveterate traveller and travel writer W/G ·
• Pollution (10) W/G ·
• Richmondshire (5) W/G ·
• River Tees (5) W/G ·

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The note says they’re Kirklevington shorthorns, but I haven’t seen the book cited (Bates 1897).

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To facilitate reading, the spelling and punctuation of elderly excerpts have generally been modernised, and distracting excision scars concealed. My selections, translations, and editions are copyright.

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Frank Stenton (Stenton 2004) and Thomas Forester in his edition of Ordericus Vitalis (Ordericus Vitalis 1854) give the same date for the Durham massacre, but I don’t know where they found it. Orderic is more interesting and complete and should probably replace the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle here.

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