Yorkshire On This Day, Comprising 365 Historical Extracts, Red-letter Days and Customs, and Astronomical and Meteorological Data
Richard Pococke. 1915. The Northern Journeys of Bishop Richard Pococke. North Country Diaries (Second Series). Ed. John Crawford Hodgson. Durham: Surtees Society. Get it:
.I went on to Guisborough through a very pleasant country, and near the Cleveland hills the foot of which is improved in fields and roads. All this road from Yarm is mostly a clay ground without stones; the roads in winter are excessive bad ; and they have narrow paved cause-ways for one horse… As in these northern parts they draw with oxen and horses before them, two and two, so here, when the roads are bad, they draw with four oxen and two horses before them.
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I went on to Gisborough through a very pleasant country, and near the Cleveland hills the foot of which is improved in fields and roads. All this road from Yarum is mostly a clay ground without stones ; the roads in winter are excessive bad ; and they have narrow paved cause-ways for one horse… As in these northern parts they draw with oxen and horses before them, two and two, so here, when the roads are bad, they draw with four oxen and two horses before them.
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