William Grainge

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William Grainge was a Yorkshire historian, antiquarian and poet. He was born in 1818 and died in 1895. Born into a farming family in Kirkby Malzeard, he later set up a bookshop in nearby Harrogate and published numerous books on local history and topography.

[edit] Selected Works

• Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough (1871)
• The Battles and Battle Fields of Yorkshire
• Vale of Mowbray
• Nidderdale
• An Historic and Descriptive account of Swinsty Hall (1857)
• History & Topography of Little Timble, Great Timble & Snowden (1895)

[edit] External links

• Brief biographical notes