Excerpt from The Evolution of an English Town: Being the Story of the Ancient Town of Pickering in Yorkshire, From Prehistoric Times Up to the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Five Local histories are yearly becoming more numerous. In few places is there more justification for one than here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.