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Fire Training Beverley means beaver stream (beavers were once common in Britain). About 705 a monastery was founded by the stream. In 721 John of Beverley, the Bishop of York died and was buried at the monastery. He was canonised (declared a saint) in 1037. It was said that miracles occurred around his tomb e.g. people were healed from illnesses. Soon pilgrims came to his burial place, some of them hoping for cures, some merely to worship. Soon a little trading settlement grew up around the monastery. Fire Training Bradford began as a Saxon village by a ford. Brad meant broad. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 the village by the broad ford had grown quite large (by the standards of the time) with perhaps 300-350 people. It was turned into town when the villagers were allowed to hold a weekly market. In those days there were no shops and anyone wishing to buy or sell anything had to go to a market. Once the market was up and running craftsmen would come and live in the town and sell their goods at the market. Bradford would seem tiny to us, with a population of no more than several hundred but towns and villages were very small in those days. There were only 3 streets, Kirkgate, Westgate and Ivegate. (The word gate does not mean a gate in a wall it is derived from the old Danish word 'gata' meaning street). Fire Training Doncaster began when the Romans built a fort in the area about 71 AD. The Romans called the fort Danum. However in the 4th century Roman civilisation declined and the last Roman soldiers left Britain in 407 AD. After the Romans left the Saxons invaded Eastern England. The Saxons called a Roman fort a ceaster. When they arrived in South Yorkshire they called this one Don ceaster. In time the name changed to Doncaster and they created a village nearby. In the 12th century Doncaster grew into a busy town. In 1194 King Richard I gave Doncaster a charter (a document granting or confirming certain rights). In the Middle Ages Doncaster was a busy little market town although it would seem tiny to us. In 1204 Doncaster suffered a disastrous fire. In the Middle Ages most buildings were of wood so fire was a constant hazard. On the other hand if buildings did burn they could be easily be replaced. Fire Training Harrogate Until the 17th century Harrogate was just a quiet hamlet. Then in the late 16th century a man named William Slingsby drank from a well. He had travelled to several spas and he realised the well water tasted like spa water. Slingsby discovered Tewit Well, which is a chalybeate well (one containing iron). People believed that drinking water from such a well would heal sicknesses. So Harrogate began to grow into a spa town. It grew more after 1631 when a man named Dr Michael Stanhope discovered a second well, St John's Well also known as the Sweet Spa. During the 17th century Harrogate slowly grew. By the mid 17th century people bathed in a sulphur well (known as the stinking well) as well as drinking water from the chalybeate wells. Furthermore in the late 17th century the first inns were visitors could stay were built. Fire Training Hull The town of Hull was founded late in the 12th century. The monks of Meaux Abbey needed a port where the wool from their estates could be exported. They chose a place at the junction of the rivers Hull and Humber to build a quay. The exact year Hull was founded is not known but it was first mentioned in 1193. It was called Wyke on Hull. In 1279 Hull was granted the right to hold a market and a fair. (A fair was like a market but was held only once a year and lasted for several days). People would come from all over Northeast England to buy and sell at one. The Church of the Holy Trinity was built by 1285. The Church of St Mary was built in the early 14th century. In 1293 the King acquired Hull. It was renamed Kingston (kings town) on Hull. The king wanted a port in Northeast England through which he could supply his army when fighting the Scots. The king set about enlarging Hull. He gave Hull the right to hold 2 weekly markets and an annual fair lasting for 30 days. The king also established a mint in Hull about 1300. The same year he built an exchange where merchants could buy and sell goods. Fire Training Leeds Leeds began as a Saxon village. By the time of the Domesday Book (1086) it had a population of around 200. By the standards of the time it was quite a large village. Many were much smaller. Then in 1207 the Lord of the Manor, Maurice De Gant, founded a new town at Leeds. At that time trade and commerce were increasing in England and many new towns were founded. First the Lord of the Manor created a new street of houses west of the existing village. First he divided the land into plots for building. Then craftsmen built houses and paid rent to the Lord for the land. The new street was called Brigg Gata (gata is an old word for street and brigg is an old word for bridge so it was the bridge street). In Medieval Leeds there were butchers, bakers, carpenters and blacksmiths. However the main industry in Leeds was making wool. In Leeds wool was woven then fulled. That means it was pounded in a mixture of water and clay to clean and thicken it. Wooden hammers worked by watermills pounded the wool. Afterwards it was dyed. Fire Training Scarborough The Romans built a signalling station at Scarborough around 370 AD. At that time Saxons from Germany were raiding eastern England. If their fleet was sighted off Scarborough signal torches were lighted to warn the Roman armed forces. However it is believed that the Danes founded the town of Scarborough in the 10th century. The 'borough' part of its name is a corruption of burgh, which meant fort or fortified settlement. Scarborough was devastated in 1066 when the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada invaded England. His men burned Scarborough and killed many of the inhabitants. However Hardrada himself was killed shortly afterwards at the battle of Stamford Bridge. However in the 12th century Scarborough revived. Around 1136 a castle was built there. The keep of Scarborough castle (which still stands) was built in 1158. Soon a little town grew around the castle. In the Middle Ages towns sometimes grew up beside castles because the garrison were a market for craftsmen’s goods. Often a market started in the shadow of the castle. By the 13th century Scarborough was a busy little market town and port. In 1253 the townspeople were granted the right to hold an annual fair. (In the Middle Ages fairs were like markets but they were held only once a year and they attracted buyers and sellers from a wide area. Fire Training Sheffield was founded in the early 12th century by the Lord of the manor, William de Lovetot. He built a castle on the site of Castle Market. It was on an easily defended site as it had a river on the north and east. The castle had a moat on the south and west. In 1266 rebels burned the castle but it was rebuilt in 1270. The Lord also built a church on the site of the cathedral. A little town grew up between the castle and the church. That often happened in the Middle Ages. The garrison of the castle provided a market for the townspeople's goods. Sheffield only had a population of a few hundred. It would seem tiny to us but settlements were very small in those days. A typical village had only 100 or 150 inhabitants. Sheffield would seem more like a village than a town to us. Many of the people in the town were at least part-time farmers. They tilled the fields around the town. Wool was made in Sheffield. After it was woven the wool was fulled. That means it was pounded in a mixture of clay and water to clean and thicken it. Wooden hammers worked by watermills pounded the wool. Afterwards it was dyed. The first cutler in Sheffield was mentioned at the end of the 13th century. Fire Training York York was founded by the Romans. They invaded this part of England in 71 AD and quickly subdued it. The Romans built a fort between the rivers Ouse and Foss. At first northern England was a rough and uncivilised area but gradually it was 'Romanised'. By the mid-2nd century a little town had appeared by the fort. Craftsmen and merchants came to live there because the garrison of the fort provided a market for the townspeople's goods and ships could sail up the Ouse with merchandise. The Romans called the town Eboracum, which may be derived from Celtic words meaning the place with yew trees. By the early 3rd century the town had a stone wall to protect it. Inside there were public buildings such as a baths. Rich people lived in grand houses with mosaic floors The name Halifax is said to be a corruption of the Old English words for Holy and Face, part of the local legend that the head of John the Baptist was buried here after his execution. The legend is almost certainly medieval rather than ancient, though the town's coat of arms still carries an image of the saint. (The oldest written mentions of the town have the spelling Haliflax, apparently meaning "holy flax (field)", the second l having been subsequently lost by dissimilation.[2]) Halifax Parish Church, parts of which go back to the 12th century, has always been dedicated to St John the Baptist. The church's first organist, in 1765, was William Herschel, who later discovered the planet Uranus. Fire Training Halifax was incorporated as a county borough in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Since 1974, Halifax has been the centre of the Metropolitan District of Calderdale, part of the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire. Halifax has given its name to a bank, Halifax plc which started as a building society in the town. Halifax is a twin town with Aachen in Germany. The A58 has a stretch called Aachen Way, with a plaque on the town-bound side of the road. In 1460, during the Wars of the Roses, the Duke of York was defeated near the city (then a town) in the Battle of Wakefield at Sandal Castle. The ruins of the castle can still be visited, and are a popular walking spot for locals. Fire Training Wakefield was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1848 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835. Wakefield Cathedral is a 14th century parish church, which was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century. There is also a 14th century Chantry Chapel, one of only four remaining in England[specify]. The chapel tops a buttress on a bridge over the River Calder. The town was a centre for cloth dealing and had its own Piece Hall. For much of the 18th and 19th century, Wakefield had an unusually diverse economy for Yorkshire, but it was a much smaller town during that period. Textile mills grouped around the River Calder. A large glass works in the east of the city was a large employer. There were several collieries around the outskirts of the town, and engineering works in the centre that had strong links to mining. The Eastmoor area was once home to large brickyards. Its position as the seat of local government for the West Riding also provided many local jobs in the councils, courts and prison. In the early 20th century, large areas of council housing were built on the fields that surrounded the town, and the formerly independent villages of Sandal Magna, Belle Vue and Agbrigg became suburbs of Wakefield. As many of the new council estates depended on the expansion of coal-mining for their employment, the National Coal Board eventually became Wakefield's largest employer. The city was also surrounded by pit villages, but also by the old mill towns of Batley, Dewsbury and Ossett to the west. Wakefield is known as the capital of the Rhubarb Triangle, an area famous for its early forced rhubarb. Wakefield is one of the points of the triangular area with the neighbouring towns of Morley and Rothwell as the other two. In July 2005 a statue was erected to celebrate this facet of Wakefield. Fire Training Barnsley The first historical reference to occurs in 1086 in the Domesday Book, in which it is called 'Berneslai' with a total population of around 200. The exact origins of the name Barnsley is still subject to debate, but Barnsley Council claims that its origins lie in the Saxon word Berne, for barn or storehouse, and Lay, for field. Also there is rumour about the founder's being of Danish-Viking origin, and that the founders bloodline is now in Canada with the last name Barnes. In 1249, a Royal Charter was granted to Barnsley permitting it to hold a weekly market and annual fair. Left undisturbed since the 17th century, Barnsley developed into a stop-off point on the route between Leeds, Wakefield, Sheffield and London. The traffic generated as a result of this location fuelled trade with hostelries and related services also prospering. A principal centre for linen weaving during the 18th and 19th century, Barnsley grew into an important manufacturing town. Barnsley also has a long tradition of glass-making, but is most famous for its coalfields. George Orwell briefly mentions the town in The Road to Wigan Pier. Orwell spent a number of days in the town living in the houses of the working-class miners while researching for the book. He wrote very critically of the council's expenditure on the construction of Barnsley Town Hall and claimed that the money should have been spent on improving the housing and living conditions of the local miners. Fire Training Todmorden has a complex geo-administrative history. Todmorden lay within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire. Todmorden is in the Oldham postcode area and the telephone code (01706) is that of Rochdale (both in Greater Manchester). Also, until the border was moved on 1 April 1889, the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary used to run through the centre of Todmorden; thereby making it possible to dance in the Town Hall ballroom, forward and back, across two counties. With the local government reforms of 1974, Todmorden has lay entirely within the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire.Other villages and towns in the Upper Calder Valley include Walsden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd and Sowerby Bridge. Fire Training Wetherby Archaeological evidence suggests that the area was inhabited from at least Neolithic times. Bronze Age finds have also been recorded in villages around Wetherby.In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Knights Templar and later the Knights Hospitallers were granted land and properties in Yorkshire. The local Preceptory founded in 1217 was at Ribston Park. In 1240 the Knights Templar were granted by Royal Charter of Henry III the right to hold a market in Wetherby (known then as Werreby). The Charter stated the market should be held on a Thursday and a yearly fair was permitted lasting three days over the 'day' of St James the Apostle.From 1318 to 1319 the North of England suffered many raids from the Scots. After the Battle of Bannockburn. Wetherby was burned and many people taken and killed. It is said that Scott Lane is so named because it ran with blood.Wetherby had a small part to play in the Civil War in 1644. Before marching to Tadcaster and then to Marston Moor, the Parliamentarians spent two days in Wetherby while joining forces with the Scots. Fire Training Bridlington is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It has a population of over 32,000 (expanding greatly in the summer months) and is twinned with Millau, France and Bad Salzuflen, Germany.Bridlington is a seaside resort and minor seaport on the North Sea. It lies just south of the promontory of Flamborough Head. It is served by Bridlington railway station which is on the Yorkshire Coast Line that runs between Hull and Scarborough. Fire Training Dewsbury is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, to the west of Wakefield, in the borough of Kirklees. It lies by the River Calder and the Calder and Hebble Navigation. After undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century, Dewsbury went through a period of decline although more recently there has been rapid and ongoing redevelopment of derelict mills into luxury apartments and other projects concerned with regenerating run-down or deprived areas. According to the 2001 census the Dewsbury urban sub-area had a population of 54,341. Fire Training Scunthorpe (popularly known as Scunny and rather optimistically as Sunny Scunny) is a town in North Lincolnshire, England, and the historic county of Lincolnshire. It is the administrative centre of the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire. It is also known as the 'Industrial Garden Town'. The town appears in the Domesday Book (1086) as Escumetorp, which is Old Norse for "Skuma's homestead". The current population is around 72,000. The town is situated at the terminus of the M181. Fire Training Whitby is a historic town in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. Nowadays it is a fishing port and tourist destination. It is situated 47 miles from York, at 54 deg. 29 min. 24 sec. north latitude, and 35 min. 59 sec. west longitude, at the mouth of the River Esk and spreads up the steep sides of the narrow valley carved out by the river's course. At this point the coast curves round, so the town faces more north than east. Fire Training Filey is a small town in North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the borough of Scarborough and is located between Scarborough and Bridlington on the North Sea coast. Although it started out as a fishing village, it has a large beach and is a popular tourist resort, known locally for its quality fish and chip outlets. Until 1974 it was an urban district in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Filey is at the eastern end of the Cleveland Way, a long-distance footpath; this starts at Helmsley and skirts the North Yorkshire Moors. It was the second National Trail to be opened (1969). It is also the northern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way which starts at Hessle and crosses the Yorkshire Wolds.케 Fire Training Hornsea is a small seaside resort town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England at the eastern end of the Trans Pennine Trail. It is well known for its pottery factory, Hornsea Pottery. Along with exhibits of fascinating local history, the largest display of Hornsea Pottery in the world can be seen at the Hornsea Museum, which is located in Newbegin, the main street of Hornsea. It has many coastal defences such as sea walls, groynes and beach nourishment. A sea wall is a wall that is used to absorb waves. Groynes are rock or wooden types that hold material threatened by longshore drift. Beach nourishment is replacing a beach lost by longshore drift. Longshore drift is when waves hit the beach at a certain angle and move material up the beach. Despite these defences, Hornsea's primarily cliff-based shoreline is eroding at the one of the fastest known rates in Europe[1]. Ripon is a small cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England. As a historic Yorkshire city, Ripon had a population of 15,922 at the 2001 census, making it the fourth smallest city in England after Wells, Ely and the City of London (in the rest of the United Kingdom, St David's, Bangor, and Armagh are also smaller). Fire Training Ripon is situated at the confluence of the streams Laver and Skell with the River Ure, which is crossed by a fine bridge of nine arches. The streets are for the most part narrow and irregular, and, although most of the houses are comparatively modern, some of them retain the picturesque gables characteristic of earlier times. Ripon is part of the Skipton and Ripon parliamentary constituency. Ripon was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, and remained a municipal borough of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when under the Local Government Act 1972 it became part of the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire. Ripon became a successor parish, with a parish council called Ripon City Council. Fire Training Keighley (pronounced Keith-ly or [ˈkiːθli]) is a town and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England, northwest of Bradford, on the meeting point of the River Aire and the River Worth. The town has a population of 51,429 (2001 census), making it the third largest civil parish in England. It is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford and part of the Brontë Country. It is located at 53°52′4″N, 1°54′45″W. Fire Training Knaresborough is an historic market town and spa town in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, located four miles east of Harrogate town. Fire Training Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England, built upon the River Don near the confluence of the Don and the Rother. It lies in the Don Valley between Sheffield and Doncaster. The town is six miles from Sheffield city centre. It is the main town in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham. The population of the borough of Rotherham is 248,175, and that of the Rotherham urban sub-area 117,262.[2] Fire Training Northallerton is a town in North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, and has a population of 15,517 (2001 census). It has served as the county town of the North Riding of Yorkshire and since 1974, of North Yorkshire. Fire Training lkley is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, in the north of England. Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the metropolitan borough of Bradford. It has a resident population of 13,828, as measured by Census 2001,[1] and lies mainly on the south bank of the River Wharfe in Wharfedale, one of the Yorkshire Dales. Fire Training Otley is a town in northern England by the River Wharfe. It is part of the metropolitan borough of Leeds in the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire, and is within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Fire Training Penistone is a small market town in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England, with a population of 8,727 inhabitants (according to 2001 Census). It lies about eight miles west of the town of Barnsley, in the foothills of the Pennines. Mexborough is a town on the north bank of the River Don west of its confluence with the River Dearne, in the Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Fire Training Mexborough was originally a market town, but grew around coal mining and manufacture of ceramics. It was also a busy railway junction.Ā ꠠΤ Fire Training Skipton is a town in North Yorkshire, England that lies along the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It forms part of the Craven district of the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, but is within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire. An open-air market is held four times a week on the high street (Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday). Fire Training Batley is a small town in Kirklees Metropolitan Borough, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It lies north of Dewsbury, just off the M62. After undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century due to the success of the shoddy trade, Batley has more recently undergone a period of decline. Batley is part of a special EU transformation zone.＀ Fire Training Castleford is one of the five towns in the Wakefield borough, in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near to Pontefract, with a population of 37,525 according to the 2001 Census. To the north are the River Calder, the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation. To the west and south is the M62. Fire Training Pontefract is a town in the county of West Yorkshire, England, near the A1 (or Great North Road), the M62 motorway, and Castleford. It is one of the five towns in the borough of Wakefield and has a population of approximately 28,250. Pontefract's motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for "After the death of the father, we support the son", a reference to Civil War Royalist sympathies. Fire Training Shipley is a town in West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, north of Bradford and north-west of Leeds. It is within the City and Metropolitan Borough of Bradford but is generally considered to be outside Bradford itself (it was outside the pre-1974 Bradford county borough boundaries, forming an urban district in its own right), although the town forms a continuous urban area with Bradford. Fire Training Richmond is a market town on the River Swale in North Yorkshire, UK and is the administrative centre of the district of Richmondshire. Situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, it is a popular tourist destination. The town was founded in 1071 by the Norman, Alan Rufus, on lands granted to him by William the Conqueror. Richmond Castle, completed in 1086, consisted of a keep with walls encompassing the area now known as the Market Place. The prosperity of the medieval market town and centre of the Swaledale wool industry greatly increased in the late 17th and 18th centuries with the burgeoning lead mining industry in nearby Arkengarthdale. It is from this period that the town's attractive Georgian architecture originates, the most notable examples of which are to be found on Newbiggin and in Frenchgate. Fire Training Guisborough is a market town within the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire.The civil parish of Guisborough has a population of 18,108 and includes the outlying villages of Upleatham, Dunsdale, and Newton under Roseberry as well as Guisborough itself. Fire Training Redcar is the principal town of the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, England. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is now within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, and is within the region of North East England. The main roads through the town are the A1085 and the A174. Fire Training Huddersfield is a large town near the confluence of the River Colne and the River Holme. It is in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire and is located within the historic borders of the West Riding of Yorkshire.