Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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Our correspondent states that the Park Trustees have discovered that certain parties have been sending six or seven animals for agistment in the park, the Act only entitling them to send one. During the past week certain inhabitants have been served with demand notices to pay sums reaching up to £12 and £14 for having illegally stocked the park with cattle. It is stated that cattle have been brought from Leeds and other places to pasture for six months in the park, depriving bona fide inhabitants of their just right of agistment.

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• Cattle (26) W/G ·
• Common land (4) W/G ·
• Feudalism (2) W/G ·
• 📌Leeds (248) W/G ·
• Pasture (1) W/G ·
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Monday was the 9th.

Economic circumstances were pretty grim at the time, and I wonder here whether Baines’ Whiggish Mercury is scapegoating the railways to avoid criticising the government of his political ally, Lord Melbourne.

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