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- 16 August 1819: James Lees of Saddleworth (WR/GM) attends a public meeting in favour of male suffrage at St Peter’s Square, Manchester – Peterloo
- 18 July 1973: London-based folk-rock band Steeleye Span (lead singer Maddy Prior) play a Yorkshire-influenced support set for Jethro Tull at the LA Forum
- 3 July 1769: Thomas Pennant goes bird-watching at Flamborough Head
- 30 July 1882: On his way to play with the Muker church band, Richard Guy of Hill Top Farm climbs over a wall to inspect a fertile heifer
- 28 December 1886: James Lonsdale Broderick (45) makes his final journey, from Hawes over Buttertubs Pass to a grave above the family farm near Crackpot (Swaledale)
- 20 July 1858: Walter White visits Mill Gill and Whitfield Gill Force near Askrigg (Wensleydale)
- 27 July 1858: Walter White arrives at Batley
- 12 August 1772: Writing to George Selwyn, Horace Walpole contemplates a living death at Castle Howard
- 27 May 1849: Scarborough on the last evening of Anne Brontë’s life, as told by Ellen Nussey
- 4 July 1858: Incipient water-baby Tom arrives at Malham Cove, discovered today by Charles Kingsley
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