This History of the Town of Knaresborough was written by Dr Alyson Jackson. However, very little primary source material was consulted in the preparation of this account - I relied heavily on the books cited in the References and Further Reading (including Historic Knaresborough by Dr Arnold Kellett, and two excellent local histories edited by B.Jennings - A History of Nidderdale and A History of Harrogate and Knaresborough). I am indebted to Dr Arnold Kellett, local historian and former Mayor of Knaresborough who read and commented on the original manuscript. As is the nature of websites, the article has been altered and added to since it first appeared and any errors are entirely my own (or in the consulted texts!).

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• Origins
• The Honour of Knaresborough
• Royal Maundy
• Murder in the Cathedral
• Saint Robert
• 14th Century and Lancastrian Links
• Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag
• Religion, Civil War, Education and Spas
• Mother Shipton and the Dropping Well

• Blind Jack
• The Linen Industry
• Victorian Knaresborough
• The 20th Century - Knaresborough Today
• References and Further Reading