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Wetherby is a market town and civil parish within the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, in West Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Wharfe, and has been for centuries a crossing place and staging post on the A1 Great North Road, being mid-way between London and Edinburgh. It has a population of 11,155.〔(Office for National Statistics : ''Census 25001 : Parish headcounts : Leeds'' ) Retrieved 10 September 2009〕 Historically a part of the Wapentake of Skyrack within the West Riding of Yorkshire, Wetherby is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as ''Wedrebi'', thought to derive from ''wether-'' or ''ram-farm'' or else meaning "settlement on the bend of a river". Wetherby Bridge, which spans the River Wharfe, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed structure.〔West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service. ''Wetherby Conservation Area'', () retrieved on 4 August 2007.〕 The course of the Old Great North Road passes through the town and, as result of its situation on the road, a large number of coaching inns were established in Wetherby which are still used by travellers today. == History == (詳細はKnights Templar and later the Knights Hospitallers were granted land and properties in Yorkshire. The local preceptory founded in 1217 was at Ribston Park. In 1240 the Knights Templar were granted by Royal Charter of Henry III the right to hold a market in Wetherby〔Wetherby & District Historical Society (1995). ''Wetherby. The Archive Photographs Series''. Stroud: The Chalfont Publishing Company.〕 (known then as Werreby). on Thursdays and a yearly fair was permitted lasting three days over the day of St James the Apostle. From 1318 to 1319 the North of England suffered many raids from the Scots. After the Battle of Bannockburn Wetherby was burned and many people taken and killed. According to the blue plaque at the entrance to the lane, ''Scott Lane'' could be named after the Scottish raiders in 1318 or the 18th-century drovers who used Wetherby as a watering place.〔()〕 In the English Civil War in 1644, before marching to Tadcaster and on to Marston Moor, the Parliamentarians spent two days in Wetherby joining forces with the Scots. In the heyday of the coaching era, Wetherby had up to forty inns and alehouses. The first recorded mail coach arrived in Wetherby in 1786.〔 In 1824, William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire sold the town of Wetherby (except one house) to finance work at Chatsworth.〔 Wetherby provides the setting for the novel ''Oldbury'' (1869) by Annie Keary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wetherby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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