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Adel
Adel, a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, is the site of a scheduled Roman fort and vicus on the Tadcaster-Ilkley road, possibly the Cambodunum of the Antonine Itinerary, first noted by Ralph Thoresby in 1702.
Aintree
Aintree is a village and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside, England, home of Aintree Racecourse, host of the Grand National since 1839. Name means 'one tree'; Molyneux family long owned the land.
Alderley Edge
Alderley Edge: village and civil parish in Cheshire East, England, south of Manchester. Railway village from 1842, formerly Chorlegh; England's oldest known metal-mining site, SSSI escarpment, wizard legend, National Trust woodland.
Bamburgh
Bamburgh, Northumberland: coastal village and site of Bamburgh Castle, also known as Bebbanburg, citadel of the Kings of Bernicia, royal fortress 1095-1603, Grade I listed, repeatedly voted the UK's best seaside destination.
Bramhall
Bramhall, Cheshire: suburban village in Stockport, Greater Manchester, known for timber-framed Bramall Hall, the Davenport manor sold in 1877, and growth after the 1845 railway; population about 22,000.
Deepdale
Deepdale is an area of Preston, Lancashire, home to Deepdale Stadium, Preston North End's ground since 1875, redeveloped to 24,000 seats by 2008; also a Preston conservation area and a Derbyshire dale.
Eaton
Eaton (Eaton-by-Tarporley), Cheshire: village with the only known Roman villa in Cheshire, a winged-corridor villa at SJ 57176341 excavated 1980-82, occupied from about AD 170-200 to the late fourth century.
Farsley
Farsley is a village between Leeds and Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, recorded in the Domesday Book, once a wool-processing center, and the birthplace of missionary Samuel Marsden.
Goole
Goole is an inland port town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded in the 1820s by the Aire and Calder Navigation around its canal and docks; known for Tom Puddings coal hoists, the Grade II Lowther Hotel, and current Siemens Mobility rail manufacturing.
Haworth
Haworth, West Yorkshire: hill village home of the Brontë family from 1820, site of the Brontë Parsonage Museum (1928), Brontë Society (1893), and the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway heritage line.
Holmes Chapel
Holmes Chapel, formerly Church Hulme, is a large Cheshire East village near M6 Junction 18, on the Crewe to Manchester rail line; population 6,669 in 2021, known for its 1753 fire, conservation area, and Harry Styles.
Langton
Langton, North Yorkshire: village in Ryedale near Malton, site of the Langton Roman Villa, a scheduled corridor villa excavated 1899, 1926, and 1930-31, occupied from the mid 2nd to the 5th century.
List of places in Yorkshire
Places in Yorkshire are listed by the historic North, East, and West Ridings, which meet at York, or by the modern counties of North, South, and West Yorkshire and the East Riding.
Murton, County Durham
Murton is a village and civil parish in County Durham, England, between Seaham and Hetton-le-Hole, transformed by Murton Colliery, sunk from 1838 and closed in 1991.
Newbald
Newbald (North and South Newbald), East Riding of Yorkshire village: Old English 'new building'; Domesday manor of the Archbishop of York; Middle Saxon coin site, Roman villa, Norman St Nicholas church.
Piercebridge
Piercebridge is a County Durham village on the River Tees, known for the remains of a Roman bridge and fort where Dere Street crossed the river.
Ravenscar
Ravenscar, formerly Peak, is a North Yorkshire coastal hamlet on a 700-foot headland, known for its late Roman signal station, the RIB 721 inscription, Middle Jurassic Ravenscar Group geology, alum works, and failed Victorian resort.
Robin Hood's Bay
Robin Hood's Bay: historic fishing and smuggling village on the North Yorkshire coast in Fylingdales parish, between Whitby and Scarborough, and eastern terminus of the 192-mile Coast to Coast walk.
Rudston
Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire village near Bridlington, home of the Rudston Monolith, England's largest standing stone, and a Roman villa whose Venus and Charioteer mosaics are in Hull's museum.
Skelmanthorpe
Skelmanthorpe, locally "Shat", a village in Denby Dale parish, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, built on fancy-cloth weaving; Field family mills, the 1819 Chartist Flag, and handlooms working into the 1930s.
Staithes
Staithes, North Yorkshire: a former fishing village on the North York Moors coast, once the largest fishing station north of the Wash, linked to Captain Cook, the Staithes Group artists, and ongoing coastal erosion management.
Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire
Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire: village on the River Derwent about 7 miles east of York, site of the 1066 battle where Harold Godwineson defeated Harald Hardrada and Tostig; also Roman Derventio and a Registered Battlefield.
Upton-by-Chester
Upton-by-Chester is a civil parish and residential suburb about 2 miles north of Chester, Cheshire, including Upton and Upton Heath; Chester Zoo was founded there in 1931.
Wharram-le-Street
Wharram-le-Street: shrunken village on the Yorkshire Wolds, North Yorkshire, on a presumed Roman road; known for a 3rd-4th century Roman villa at the Gypsey Race source and a pre-Conquest church with Norman details.
Worsley
Worsley, a village in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, was the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal (opened 1761) and entrance to the 46-mile Worsley Navigable Levels underground coal canals built for the Duke of Bridgewater.