History of North Yorkshire

Cædmon (; fl. c. 657–684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the 8th-century Christian historian and saint Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism, with a feast day on 11

battle fought on 20 September 1066 near York in England

naval battle fought in the North Sea on 24 January 1915

Eboracum () was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britannia and a provincial capital. The site remained occupied after the decline of the Western Roman Empire and ultimately developed into the present-day city of York, in North Yorkshire, England.

abbey

English church synod in 664

medieval castle overlooking Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

fossilized human feces from the Viking era

1237 treaty between England and Scotland

ruined medieval abbey in Yorkshire, England, UK

Early Mesolithic archaeological site featuring preserved organic remains and the earliest known domestic structure in Britain.

Viking hoard

Roman fort and town at Aldborough in North Yorkshire, England

1995 aviation accident

Roman road that ran from York to the Antonine Wall

Historical English festival

alleged haunted chair in the United Kingdom

third of a historic county in England

medieval sword

menhir

King of the Northern Pennines

hillfort in North Yorkshire, England, UK

1640 treaty between Charles I and the Scottish Covenanters

Cave in North Yorkshire, England