A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CRAVEN, an upland territory round the sources and headstreams of the rivers Aire and Wharfe, W. R. Yorkshire. It gives family and peerage name to the Earls Craven. A Roman road traversed it; and Roman coins have been found on the border of it, at Craven Bank, near Giggleswick.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Craven |
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