Download or read book The Great North Road York to Edinburgh written by Charles George Harper and published by C. Tinling & Co., Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook Chapter I At last we are safely arrived at York, perhaps no cause for comment in these days, but a circumstance which “once upon a time” might almost have warranted a special service of prayer and praise in the Minster. One comes to York as the capital of a country, rather than of a county, for it is a city that seems in more than one sense Metropolitan. Indeed, you cannot travel close upon two hundred miles, even in England and in these days of swift communication, without feeling the need of some dominating city, to act partly as a seat of civil and ecclesiastical government, and partly as a distributing centre; and if something of this need is even yet apparent, how much more keenly it must have been felt in those “good old days” which were really so bad! A half-way house, so to speak, between those other capitals of London and Edinburgh, York had all the appearance of a capital in days of old, and has lost but little of it, in these, even though in point of wealth and population it lags behind those rich and dirty neighbours, Leeds and Bradford. For one thing, it has a history to which they cannot lay claim, and keeps a firm hold upon titles and dignities conferred ages ago. We may ransack the pages of historians in vain in attempting to find the beginnings of York. Before history began it existed, and just because it seems a shocking thing to the well-ordered historical mind that the first founding of a city should go back beyond history or tradition, Geoffrey of Monmouth and other equally unveracious chroniclers have obligingly given precise—and quite untrustworthy—accounts of how it arose, at the bidding of kings who never had an existence outside their fertile brains. When the Romans came, under Agricola, in A.D. 70, York was here. We do not know by what name the Brigantes, the warlike tribe who inhabited the northern districts of Britain, called it, but they possessed forts at this strategic point, the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss, where York still stands, and evidently had the military virtues fully developed, because it has seemed good to all who have come after them, from the Romans and the Normans to ourselves, to build and retain castles on the same sites. The Brigantes were a great people, despite the fact that they had no literature, no science, and no clothes with which to cover their nakedness, and were they in existence now, might be useful in teaching our War Office and commanding officers something of strategy and fortification. They have left memorials of their existence in the names of many places beginning with “Brig,” and they are the sponsors of all the brigands that ever existed, for their name was a Brito-Welsh word meaning “hill-men” or “highlanders,” and, as in the old days, to be a highlander was to be a thief and cut-throat, the chain of derivative facts that connects them with the bandits of two thousand years is complete. To be continue in this ebook
Download or read book The Great North Road the Old Mail Road to Scotland York to Edinburgh written by Charles G. Harper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles G. Harper in the book "The Great North Road, the Old Mail Road to Scotland: York to Edinburgh" describes in detail the great north road from York to Edinburgh. This book contains distance information to be covered in miles between these cities – at approximately 389 miles. It describes the sojourn of the author through this incredible distance with fascinating sights on the path to glory.
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Download or read book History and Topography of Yorkshire Volume I 1856 written by Mike Thornton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint in A4 format of Volume I of the History and Topography of Yorkshire by J. J. Sheahan and T. Whellan, a work originally published in 1856. The original was in two volumes; this Volume is about York and the Ainsty Wapentake (now part of the West Riding). Volume II, republished separately, is about the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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