King William's army moved north, burning villages and crops, destroying houses
and murdering locals. This became known as the 'Harrying of the
North'. William was determined to show he would not accept any resistance.
As the
sources tell us, William totally devastated the land as he moved north. Nothing could survive on the bare land that was left. |
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The
harrying was "...so severe [that]
there was no village inhabited between York and Durham." |
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