An account of Askern and its mineral springs / [Edwin Lankester].

  • Lankester, Edwin, 1814-1874
Date:
1842
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of Askern and its mineral springs / [Edwin Lankester]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORY OF ASKERN AND ITS VICINITY. SECTION I. HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF ASKERN. Askern is a village in the Parish of Campsall, situated about seven miles north of Doncaster, and nine miles south of Pontefract; it is built on the edge of a rocky declivity, and borders on a plain, which spreads extensively to the north and east. The houses mostly front the plain, and are protected backwards from the prevailing westerly winds by the abrupt elevation of the limestone rock, and from the same cause, the easterly gales are arrested in their course, and modified in their effects. Though not perhaps so favourably situated as many of the more celebrated watering places of this kingdom and the Continent, Askern possesses advantages to which, it is the object of this work to direct attention. B