Boroughbridge, a small market-town of Yorkshire, on the Ure, 21½ miles NW. of York. Edward II., in 1322, defeated the Earl of Lancaster here. Hard by are three great monoliths, called the 'Devil's Arrows,' 16 to 22 feet high. Pop. 966.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 339
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