Darlington: A Potted History

by Colin Wilkinson

Darlington's history is popularly seen as the story of Quakers and railways but there is much more to the town's past than this. From its beginnings as a Saxon settlement, it became the southern stronghold of the land of the Prince Bishops, a market town, had its own Great Fire long before London, provided inns for travellers along the Great North Road, became an industrial centre and faced the twenty-first century with a diversified economy as the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398109932
• ISBN13: 9781398109933
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages