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  • The bridge over the Wharfe at Tadcaster was damaged and the causeway hence to Boroughbridge destroyed.

    Weatherwatch: bridges over troubled waters 2012

  • By six o'clock I was at Boroughbridge and wondering where I should put up for the night.

    Movie Night 2010

  • They have unearthed a coffin containing a remarkably well-preserved skeleton in the village of Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire - once the site of a major Roman town, Isurium Brigantium.

    Archive 2007-11-25 Bill Crider 2007

  • They have unearthed a coffin containing a remarkably well-preserved skeleton in the village of Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, North Yorkshire - once the site of a major Roman town, Isurium Brigantium.

    Lost Lady of Rome Bill Crider 2007

  • Our understanding of the concerns of the county council and English Heritage is that those 14 hectares will not make a great deal of difference to the conservation argument which, taken to its limit, suggests that an even wider area, including the Devil's Arrows at Boroughbridge, is a vast landscape of prehistoric significance.

    Thornborough Henges 2006

  • When the Lords Marcher rose against Despenser, the King himself forced them to back down, and attacked them at Boroughbridge.

    Loaded Questions: "Dispensation of Death" author Michael Jecks 2007

  • I have a series of great events happening - Boroughbridge, the War of St Sardos, the escape of the Queen to France, the invasion of England - and my characters are living through these momentous occasions.

    Loaded Questions: "Dispensation of Death" author Michael Jecks 2007

  • When the Lords Marcher rose against Despenser, the King himself forced them to back down, and attacked them at Boroughbridge.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • One prisoner, and an important one, who was taken at Boroughbridge, made his escape, however, and turned the tide against the King.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • The King encountered them at Boroughbridge, gained the victory, and took a number of distinguished prisoners; among them, the

    A Child's History of England 2007

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