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south-eastern Scotland is attributed to immigration (or
rather the captivity of great numbers—see Symeon,
Hist. Regum, s.a. 1070) from the East and North
Ridings in the eleventh century. The "wastes" mentioned
in Domesday, when plotted on the map, show
that the area of devastation extended from Armley to
Gargrave and from Holmfirth to Adel, including all
Upper Airedale and Upper Calderdale ; Upper Teesdale
and the districts of Northallerton and Driffield
also suffered. But there were areas of safety around
Conisborough, Elmsall, Sherburn, Beverley and Bedale.
These areas of devastation are not due only to William
the Conqueror; mischief was also caused by the
ravages of Malcolm Canmore ; but Dr. Beddoe infers
from the map that William moved at first north and
north-east, destroying the eastern parts of the West
and North Ridings, and nearly all the East Riding
except Beverley. Then crossing the Tees, and finding
the natives prepared for his attack, he moved south
and south-west, crossing the Upper Aire, and so into
Amounderness. Malcolm following him crossed
Stainmoor, ravaged Teesdale, Cleveland and South
Durham ; and Odo subsequently ravaged Durham, as
we have noticed. But there was evidently a discrimination
in William’s ravaging, whether he had a
reason for sparing certain places, like Beverley, or
whether he merely swept the country in his line of
march, without "going into the corners." Of about two
hundred or more landowners in the West Riding mentioned
in Domesday, most of them with Scandinavian
names, about a quarter survived the devastation ;
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