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| | Brough to York |
 | | South of Kexby Bridge, a series of flood meadows, pasture and woodland comprises the Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve with sites such as Wheldrake Ings supporting a rich diversity of plant species and outstanding numbers of breeding and wintering birds. |
 | | Urns and vestiges of a Roman pottery have been found here, and in 1763, four human skeletons were discovered in a gravel pit, one of which was enclosed in a stone coffin with an urn at the head. |
 | | Bowen, geographer to the King, published in the latter half of last century, this road is traced from near Stamford Bridge, over Barmby Moor, thence through Hayton, past Thorpe le Street to a point between Goodmanham and Market Weighton, and thence forward to Brough, on the bank of the Humber. |
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