THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The typical North Riding countryman is a hard-working, clear-thinking man.  He is keen at a bargain but is generous in his hospitality; he delights in his dogs and horses; he is fond of sport, healthy, long-lived, and is independent even to aggression.  Shrewd and keen-witted he is, he has a voluminous folk-lore, and some strange notions still linger in the lonely farms, perhaps age-old traditions of “the little men” driven out by the Celts.

Weston/Cambridge