Northallerton — which had been the muster point for the English army at the Battle of the Standard in 1138 — was burned by the Black Douglas in 1318. The irony that the site of a great English victory over the Scots was now being devastated by Scots was not lost on contemporaries. Northallerton was the principal market town of the North Riding and its burning affected the entire agricultural economy of the Vale of Mowbray. The community would have taken years to recover.
Scottish raiders (Douglas): c. 500–1,500. Town militia: c. 100–400.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near North Yorkshire