Northallerton
the capital of the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, 30 miles N. N. W. of York. It has a fine cruciform church, Norman to Perpendicular in style; and sites of a Roman camp and a Norman castle of the bishops of Durham. At Standard Hill, 3 miles N., was fought, on Aug. 22, 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 St. Peter, John of Beverly, and Wilfrid, hung out from a car in the English host. Pop. about 5,000.
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