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- 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
- 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 la dolce vita on the North York Moors
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