The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal waters : including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood / by E. Hargrove.

  • Ely Hargrove
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal waters : including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood / by E. Hargrove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Tjhe race-ground, at Harrogate, one mile and a quarter in circumference, and sixteen yards in breadth, ■was laid out under the inspection of colonel Clement Wolsley, and finished in the year 1793. One mile from High-Harrogate, is HARLOW-HILL, [Here Low, i. e. The Soldiers Hill*.'] Fiom whence the prospect is exceedingly extensive, and abounds with all the rich variety of landscape, imagination can conceive. About the year 1769, six acres of land were en- closed here, and planted with various sorts of fir-trees, which are now growing apace, and form a very plea- sing object, on the summit of thjg once steril moun- tain. When the ground was dug up, for the planting of these trees, several portable mill-stones, called querns, were found here; and, tradition says, a british prince once encamped here. A cottage, called Pendragon's- castle, was standing, till within these few years, about two hundred yards south of this plantation. Uter Pendragon, gained a complete victory over the saxons, near York, in the year 490. That he might encamp * Xhoresby’s Ducat, Leoct. L 2