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LOW CATTON:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"LOW CATTON, a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire."

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"STAMFORD BRIDGE, in the parish of Low Catton, Yorkshire, E.R., over the Derwent, S. W. of Wilton, is by some writers called Battle-Bridge, because K. Harold gave a signal defeat to the forces of Harold the Norwegian, just before the arrival of William the Conq. to England."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]