Yorkshire folk are a hardy species with a long and fascinating historical past these are just some indicative seminal times.
- Jurassic period 140 million years ago between the Mesozoic era, Triassic and the Cretaceous period with marine conditions in Yorkshire but no human life.
- Paleolithic man 10000 BC some indications in Victoria caves Settle
- Mesolithic man 7500 BC Stone-age possibly spreading around Pickering
- Neolithic man 3000 BC farming in the Wolds and potentially elsewhere
- Bronze age 1800 BC ‘beaker folk’ nicknamed for the first pottery. Baildon Grassington and henges near Boroughbridge
- Iron Age 500 BC Celts around the coast at Hunmanby and near Scarborough
- Romans 80 AD came north to quell the local Brigantes and Parisi tribes fighting on North York moors, Stanwick, & Scotch Corner as a protection from the Scots. Constantine 306 AD Emperor of York during the development of many religions and the introduction of Christianity. Withdrawal of Romans to defend Rome
- Synod of Whitby 664 AD. Saxons and Angles arriving from Germany and Denmark named villages with suffixes ham, ton, ley.
- Viking Invasion 866 AD York and villages in the dales with names ending in thorpe, kirk, wick and by.
- Stamford bridge 1066 AD King Harold Godwinson led English army in a battle against invading Vikings whilst William was conquering.