Northern Notes and Queries: Devoted to the Antiquities of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, and Durham - Softcover

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Antiquities, puzzles, and half-forgotten customs from England's far North gather in these pages, preserving a world between moor, coast, and cathedral close. The North speaks here. Edited by Henry Reginald Leighton, Northern Notes and Queries is a Victorian local history periodical devoted to the antiquities of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham. In brief, vivid entries it records local notes on churches and manors, roads and landmarks, legends, dialect and British folklore and traditions. As an antiquarian journal collection, it captures the texture of nineteenth century northern England and Victorian north east England, bringing Northumberland antiquities and folklore into conversation with Cumberland and Westmorland history and Durham county local history. To researchers of northern England and family historians north east, it is a rich British genealogy reference book, preserving surnames, local families, parish glimpses and topographical detail that illuminate lost communities. It also belongs naturally within any English county history series, appealing equally to casual readers of local lore and serious students of regional identity and change. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, Northern Notes and Queries offers a rare, authentic voice from a landscape where history, memory and story are inseparable.

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