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CRAVEN, an upland territory round the sources and headstreams of the rivers Aire and Wharfe, W. R. Yorkshire. It gives family and peerage name to the Earls Craven. A Roman road traversed it; and Roman coins have been found on the border of it, at Craven Bank, near Giggleswick.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Administrative units: | Yorkshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Craven |
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