Go with the flow: Did the River Ure give York its name?
A COUPLE of weeks ago I talked about the Vikings changing the name of York from the Anglo-Saxon Eoforwic to Jorvik, supposedly because it was easier for the invaders to pronounce. I was contacted by the Reverend Canon Bill Ankers who recounted a discussion he’d had with his friend, Lord Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, third earl of Swinton, who very sadly passed away last month. Lord Swinton had an alternative theory about the name Jorvik. The Swinton estate has fishing rights for a large stretch of the River Ure around Masham and further upstream. In Wensleydale it used to be called the Yo...
Source: darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk
