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Yorkshire's image is of hills and dales, desolate moors criss-crossed with ancient stone waalls and a network of drovers' roads - those ancient tracks made by men and their livestock since time immemorial.  But where were the drovers headed on their long, lonely journeys?  Why, to market, of course!

The towns of Yorkshire come in a variety of guises.  There are the elegant resorts of Scarborough and Harrogate, the fishing port of Whitby, the bustling market towns of Hawes, Skipton, Ripon and Beverley, to name but a few - and the city of York itself, the best preserved medieval city in England.

Yorkshire's towns are indeed rich in history - and in folklore.  Why is an ear-splitting horn blown in Ripon each night?  When Agatha Christie mysteriously vanished, to which town did she go?  Where did the murderers of Thomas a Becket seek sanctuary?  What did Scarborough have that England's other spas didn't?  Where were 'all the people a-knitting'?  Why did Dick Turpin live to regret his choice of an inn?  The answers are part of a folklore which is ours to discover and enjoy.

Contents:

Beverley

Pickering

Helmsley

Scarborough

Whitby

Richmond

Settle

Skipton

Ripon

Harrogate

Knaresborough

York

Paperback.