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Volume 1 · 69 words · 1797 Edition

a market-town in the west riding of Yorkshire, stands in a bottom; and is about a mile long, and indifferently well built. It is near a Roman road, which is raised very high, and not far from the river Cock; between which and the town there is the foundation of an old castle still visible. It is 181 miles north-west from London. W. Long. 2. 45. Lat. 55. 52.