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- 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
- 31 January 1838: Charles Dickens arrives in heavy snow at Greta Bridge (Startforth, North Riding)
- 7 June 1767: Far from his beloved metropolis, the Rev Laurence Sterne finds the dolce vita on the North York Moors
- 21 August 1774: Emanuel Bowes returns to Captain John Bolton’s house in Bulmer before his master has finished disposing of his pregnant fellow-apprentice, Elizabeth Rainbow (16)
- 10 May 1784: The punishment regime at the waged spinning school for young factory girls launched today at York by the philanthropist Catharine Harrison
- 14 July 1969: A Leeds butcher buys a Ford Escort
- 15 July 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx Abbey and see London-bound Scottish cattle
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