Northallerton

Northallerton, the capital of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 30 miles NNW. of York. It has a town-hall (1874); a fine cruciform church, Norman to Perpendicular in style; a cottage hospital (1877); and sites of a Roman camp and a Norman castle of the bishops of Durham. At Standard Hill, 3 miles N., was fought, on 22d August 1138, the great battle of the Standard, in which Archbishop Thurstan routed David I. of Scotland, and which got its name from the banners of SS. Peter, John of Beverley, and Wilfrid, hung out from a car in the English host (see FLAG, Vol. IV. p. 662). From 1640 to 1832 Northallerton returned two members, and then till 1885 one. Pop. 3802. See the History of Northallerton by Ingledew (1858), and that by Saywell (1886).