Askrigg in Wensleydale.

It is not known exactly how Fox ‘Came vpp wensydale’, but it seems likely that this, rather than Hawes or Aysgarth, was the ‘markett toune’ to which he came ‘on ye markett day’ (a Thursday), and where he spoke after the lecture in the steeplehouse and ‘had not much persecution’. Hawes was less important, and was not granted a market charter till 1700.¹

From Bainbridge he could have followed Cam High Road, the old Roman Road (purple line), then a drove road, but also the main route across to Ribblehead and thence to the head of Dentdale. (On the far side of Dodd Fell it joins and becomes the Pennine Way and then the Dales Way.) In 1751 it became part of the turnpike road from Richmond to Lancaster. On roads, see http://www.outofoblivion.org.uk/roads.asp.

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1.    On the effect on Askrigg of the granting of the market charter to Hawes in 1700, see http://www.outofoblivion.org.uk/markets.asp.

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