Geography: Malton
Key points of interest in Malton, North Yorkshire, UK. The name Malton is Old English and appears, as ‘Maltune’, in the Domesday Book, possibly referring to a farmstead where an assembly was held. QUOTATION
The famed Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens, visited Malton many times. In July 1843 he stayed for three weeks at Easthorpe Hall, which was a palatial manor house close to the town. Much admiring the place, he wrote: “I am quite serious in saying that this is the most remarkable place of its size in England, and immeasurably the most beautiful.”.
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Malton. Emmas Journal. Available from http://emmasmaltonjournal.co.uk/?page_id=39 [14 March, 2014].
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